Tales of Lights and Shadows: Mythology of the Afterlife

by RobertS.Ellwood (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $164.41

  Offers a fresh approach to the traditional mythology and literature of the afterlife, focusing on tensions and polarities in the afterlife concepts. This title depicts the many rich mythologies of the afterlife from the ancient Mesopotamians, Japanese, Greeks of the Homeric era, to Christian views of heaven or the Buddhist western paradise.