This Dictionary is devoted to increasing mutual understanding and respect between the many religions of today's world, as well as the many ancient religions which formed the roots from which today's cultures have grown. This is the most complete dictionary of its kind - a highly useful sourcebook for both the academic and the spiritually interested.

Explore Mythology provides a lively introduction to the way myths have been studied, together with discussion of some of the most important "mythic motifs" - such as heroes, national identity, and "central places" - followed by a discussion of how these ideas permeate modern society. These sometimes contentious and profound ideas are presented in an easily readable style of writing.

This book is about the personifications and spiritual beings that describe certain aspects of the world. From the basic structure of time, in the Three Fates, to the Divine Harmony, embodied in the Nine Muses, these spiritual forms speak to us of the powers and forces that make the world what it is. Based on the traditional cosmology that underlies Pagan, Jewish and Christian mystical thought, this book presents an integrated world view that includes Time, Space and Life. Nigel Pennick's text, augmented by new drawings by Helen Field, brings this age-old tradition into the 21st century.

Simon Danser asks us to think of myths as like the lenses in spectacles - we see the world through them, but rarely see them in their own right. He then systematically focuses on the myths at the core of the belief systems which create every aspect of what we take to be reality: religion, politics, commerce, science, knowledge, consciousness, self-identity, and much else that we take as 'given'. This book reveals how reality is culturally constructed in an ever- continuing process from mythic fragments transmitted by the mass media and adapted through face-to-face and Internet conversations.

A classic of modern paganism, and a huge influence on the development of Druidry. Starting from Celtic texts, Graves' whirled mythology makes for a difficult but exhilirating journey.