num_pages: 396
description: Text book contains numerous myths and legends. Includes index of authors and titles, and author biographiesUnit 1. Some old stories. The making of men / by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen -- Coyote and the origin of death / by George A. Dorsey -- Thor's visit to Utgard / by Roger Lancelyn Green -- Urashima Taro / by Marjory Bruce -- Morte D'Arthur / by Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Myth and history / by The Arthurian Tradition. Unit 2. In the beginning. From the metamorphoses of Ovid / by Rolfe Humphries -- Classical Mythology / by The Olympians -- The war of the gods / by Theodor H. Gaster -- From Book of the Hopi / by Frank Waters -- The great explosion / by Robinson Jeffers -- How flowers changed the world / by Loren Eiseley -- Encounter at dawn / by Arthur C. Clarke. Unit 3. Mischief and invention. Eshu / by Judith Gleason -- How Kwaku Anase won a kingdom with a grain of corn / by Peggy Appiah -- How raven brought fire to the Indians / by Cyrus Macmillian -- Maui-of-a-thousand-tricks / by Anthony Alpers -- Lleu and the flowerface / by Gwyn Jones -- Loki and the giants / by Roger Lancelyn Green -- The trickster -- A poetics for bullies / by Stanley Elkin. Unit 4. Trials and combats. Tesilya, sun's daughter / by Theodora Kroeber -- Jack the giant-killer / by Joseph Jacobs -- The trials of Lemminkainen / by Babette Deutsch -- Finnish folklore / by Elias Lönnrot and the Kalevala -- Long, broad, and quick-eye / by Marjory Bruce -- Joe Magarac, man of steel / by Charlotte Huber -- Anancy / by Andrew Salkey -- The three journeys of Ilya and Murom / by Charles Downing. Unit 5. Visions and the other world. Friends in life and death / by Stith Thompson -- How Orpheus the minstrel went down to the world of the dead / by Padraic Colum -- Forms of things unknown / by C. S. Lewis -- The girl who was sacrificed by her kin and whom her lover brought back from below / by Paul Radin -- The man's wife / by Theodora Kroeber -- The fairy dwelling on Selena Moor / by Katharine M. Briggs -- American Indian religion / by The power vision -- Rite of encounter / by Russell L. Bates. Unit 6. Th end of things. The battle of Gavra / by Rosemary Sutcliff -- The wonder-worker of the plains / by Paul Radin -- The end of the world / by Archibald MacLeish -- Charon / by Lord Dunsany -- Nightfall / by Isaac Asimov -- Ragnarok / by Roger Lancelyn Green -- Norse mythology / by The Nine Worlds -- The horses / by Edwin Muir -- AD 2267 / by John Frederick Nims. Unit 7. Some newer stories. Eve in darkness / by Kattje Hurlbut -- The ultimate threshold / by Herman Maximov -- Idiots first / by Bernard Malamud -- The Apotheosis of Ki / by Miriam Allen DeFord -- A Siberian shepherd's report of the atom bomb / by Dino Buzzati
language: English
title: Myth, Mind, and Monent
titlecomplete: Myth, Mind, and Monent (1)
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Scott, Foresman and Company