Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know about the Greatest Stories In Human History but Never Learned.DON'T KNOW Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. MUCH ABOUT MYTHOLOGY: Everything You Need to Know about the Greatest Stories In Human History but Never Learned KENNETH C. DAVIS  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . Before science, people used myths to explain the mysteries of life and nature, from the world's creation to a person's death. Davis Davis, city (1990 pop. 46,209), Yolo co., central Calif.; settled in the 1850s, inc. 1917. It is an education center with light industry; machinery, processed foods, and computer equipment are produced. The extensive Univ. offers a glimpse at myths that pervade per·vade tr.v. per·vad·ed, per·vad·ing, per·vades To be present throughout; permeate. See Synonyms at charge. [Latin perv the world's civilizations and ponders what these stories reveal about human nature. In an engaging question-and-answer format, Davis presents a primer on the mythology of Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, the British Isles, India, and a few other places. He examines how tales of gods and other spiritual beings, from Zeus to Odin to Indra, evolved into modern-day religions. He reveals some of the recurring themes in various myths, such as great floods and trickster trickster, a mythic figure common among Native North Americans, South Americans, and Africans. Usually male but occasionally female or disguised in female form, he is notorious for exaggerated biological drives and well-endowed physique; partly divine, partly human, gods, and considers which myths might be based in historical fact. Each chapter includes a who's who of gods in a particular myth-making society and includes passages from famous myths, bringing the stories to life for modern readers. HarperCollins, 2005, 545 p., hardcover, $26.95. |
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