Mythology

Metaphor

function of a mythology

cosmic function

sociological function

psychological function

participation function

hero

boon

paradigm of the hero’s journey

The Goddess of The World

monomyth

first premise of animal life

Kali

maintains itself by destroying life

metaphysics

theology

symbolically

Divine bisexuality

Divine androgyny

magico-religious experience

epic legend, ballad, or romance, or it may survive only as superstitions

the idea of a temple

Initiatory rituals

stages of the initiation ritual

Mircea Eliade

Sorcerer of Trois Freres

Shamanism

the soul

material reality

desacralization

lunar cycle

moon

Nietzche

Water

Freud and Jung

Mother

Father

Willing Victim

two fundamental impulses in Native American mythic thought

Navajo tale of "Where the Two Came to Their Father,"

Spider Woman

atonement stage

Apotheosis and Return with the Boon stage

dual nature of reality

creation stories of the Native American peoples

Southwestern emergence myth

the axis mundi

mandalas

Paleolithic caves

Cretan double-axe motif, sacred bull, and the idea of bull-leaping

Bird Goddess

Deer

story of Inanna

role of the Great Goddess

Ritual

mathematical calculations

astronomy

Prehistoric people

Catal Huyuk

the Virgin Mary

Osiris

Horus

mother of Osiris

Seth

Ra

Henri Frankfort in "The Egyptian Gods"

Nut

unification of opposites

Tools, food, and figurines

human-headed bird

The Pyramid Texts

Hieroglyphics

Feather and heart

Clifford Geertz

Adolph Bastian’s theory

Indo-European invaders

Veda

Vedic thought

Moksha

Katma Upanishad

Hinduism

Yama

Karma

Maya

Shiva

Hindu social caste

Trident & lingam

Jainism and Buddhism

Mahavira

The Jaina theory

Ajiva

Jiva

Guatama

Reincarnation

Roman Catholic

Purgatory

Dukkha

Samsara

Trishna

Dharma

Nirvana

Hudson River