An Introduction to Mythology

by Lewis Spence

[Books which Mr Spence refers to that are already available at PG are:

Creation Myths of Primitive America by Jeremiah Curtin — http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39106
Folklore as an Historical Science by G. Laurence Gomme — http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21852
The Evolution of the Dragon by George Elliot Smith — http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22038 — mdh]

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CONTENTS

	I	[INTRODUCTORY]
	II	[THE PROGRESS OF MYTHIC SCIENCE]
	III	[THE EVOLUTION OF THE GODS]
	IV	[THE VARIOUS TYPES OF DEITY]
	V	[THE VARIOUS CLASSES OF MYTH]
	VI	[THE MAKING OF THE WORLD AND OF MAN (COSMOGONY)]
	VII	[PARADISE AND THE PLACE OF PUNISHMENT]
	VIII	[FOLKLORE AND MYTH]
	IX	[RITUAL AND MYTH]
	X	[THE WRITTEN SOURCES OF MYTH]
	XI	[THE GREAT MYTHIC SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD]

[INDEX]

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