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The Origins of the World's Mythologies [E.J. Michael Witzel]

The Origins of the World's Mythologies [E.J. Michael Witzel]

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The Origins of the World's Mythologies

E.J. Michael Witzel

Oxford University Press, New York. 2012. Paperback. Some creasing to spine and cover, otherwise unmarked.

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"This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our collective myths, dating back some 100,000 years."

The Origins... is a singularly fascinating attempt to thread all of humanities stories together into one narrative, with a discreet origin. Utterly fascinating for those of us who wondered what life may have been like at the earliest spark of human cognition. Further, the case made here, of a total, almost genetic interconnectedness, has serious implications to the occultist approach to the "great chain of being". Highly recommended, very academic. 

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