The Masks of God - Occidental Mythology
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd
Published: April 19, 2001
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780285636071
Subjects: Myths & mythology
First sentence: The artists eye, as Thomas Mann has said, has a mythical slant upon life; therefore, the mythological realm-the world of the gods and demons, the carnival of their masks and the curious game of "as if" in which the festival of the lived myth abrogates all the laws of time, letting the dead swim back to life, and the "once upon a time" become the very present-we must approach and first regard with the artist's eye.