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Asian mythologies

These 130 articles explore mythologies in societies from India to Japan. Among the many topics are Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Indonesian rites of passage, Chinese cosmology and demons, and Japanese conceptions of the afterlife and the "vital spirit."
Print Book, English, 1993
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993
encyklopedie
XXIII, [1], 376 stron : ilustracje ; 29 cm.
9780226064567, 0226064565
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