num_pages: 576
description: An exploration of Eastern mythology as it developed into the distinctive religions of Egypt, India, China, and Japan.It is impossible to read this startling and entertaining book without an enlarged sense of total human possibility and an increased receptivity - 'open-endedness' as Thomas Mann called it - to the still living past. - Robert Gorham DavisCover design by Neil Stuart.Cover Tibetan Wheel of Transmigration.
language: English
title: Oriental Mythology
titlecomplete: Oriental Mythology (The Masks of God)
genres: Anthropology, Writing, Religion, Reference, Philosophy, Spirituality, Psychology, Nonfiction, Mythology, History
ratings_count: 2347
series: The Masks of God
publisher: Souvenier