The Masks of God, Vol. 4
Subtitle: Creative Mythology
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: November 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9780140194401
Subjects: Myths & mythology; Mythology; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Folklore & Mythology - Mythology; Fiction / Folklore
First sentence: In the earlier volumes of this survey of the historical transformations of those imagined forms that I am calling the "masks" of God, through which men everywhere have sought to relate themselves to the wonder of existence, the myths and rites of the Primitive, Oriental, and Early Occidental worlds could be discussed in terms of grandiose unitary stages.