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Mythopedia : A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angel, Michele M.
- Series:
- Pedia Bks.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- From acclaimed folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor, an enchanting collection of the ancient myths that emerged out of the wonders--and disasters--of the natural world Mythopedia is a fun, fact-filled A-Z treasury of myths inspired by natural events.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Accursed Mountains
- Budj Bim
- Cameroon Death Lake
- Cantre'r Gwaelod
- Dzud
- Ecodaimon
- Eternal Fires
- Fech Fech
- Fimbulwinter
- Fires of Tamatea
- Frogs and Fish, Rains of
- Gaia Hypothesis
- Geofact
- Geomythology
- Geosmin
- Hydromythology
- Iron from the Sky
- Jishi Gorge
- Jobar
- Kadimakara
- Kamikaze
- Killing Stone
- Laboon
- Lakalanga's Footprints
- Lightning
- Longevity of Orality
- Makin Island Boulders
- Mangaia Island
- Marmite
- Namazu
- Obsidian
- Paleoburrows
- Pele's Hair
- Polydektes Petrified
- Quicksand
- Rama's Bridge
- Rat Hole of Chicago
- Sandstorms
- Shajarat-al-Hayat
- Singing Sand Dunes
- Smong
- Solitary or Dry Tree
- Tree of Ténér
- Tsangpo River Chasm
- Uoke
- Vernagtferner
- Vitaliano, Dorothy
- Whirlpool
- Xhosa Legend of iziKhaleni
- Xing, Lida
- Ymir
- Zambezi River God
- Zooseismology
- Acknowledgments
- Further Reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Angel, Michele M. Mythopedia
- ISBN:
- 9780691247878
- OCLC:
- 1519991608
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