The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the nature of myth. Acknowledging the persuasive power of myth to create and inform culture, he weaves the human ability to create life with and communicate through symbols with myths based on male and female forms of power.
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In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the nature of myth. Acknowledging the persuasive power of myth to create and inform culture, he weaves the human ability to create life with and communicate through symbols with myths based on male and female forms of power. Booknews Reprint of the 1981 edition with a new preface. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Preface to the 1996 EditionPt. 1The Myth Before HistoryPrologue: The Time Light Bodies Took to Fall3Pt. 2The Transformations of Prehistory1Hominization432Symbolization813Agriculturalization118Pt. 3Western Civilization and the Displacement of the Feminine4Civilization and Alienation in Ancient Sumer1595Civilization and Initiation in Ancient Egypt209Pt. 4The Myth Beyond HistoryEpilogue: The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light247Notes255Index273
\ From the Publisher"This is an abundant, powerful book. Much of its power flows from Thompson's increasing ability to read images, a complicated process. Scholars and thinkers over the last 70 years have slowly rediscovered the stages of this lost ability; and in this book William Irwin Thompson climbs one more step." —Robert Bly\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsReprint of the 1981 edition with a new preface. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
