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MYTHOLOGY This page intentionally left blank MYTHOLOGY The Voyage of the Hero THIRD EDITION DAVID ADAMS LEEMING New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1998 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Bombay Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1998 by David Adams Leeming Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Leeming, David Adams, 1937- Mythology, the voyage of the hero / David Adams Leeming. — 3rd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-19-512153-8. — 0-19-511957-6 (pbk.) 1. Mythology. 2. Heroes—Mythology. I. Title. BL311.L326 1998 291.1'3—dc21 97-40573 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper For Morgan This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Preface xi Acknowledgments xii Introduction: The Meaning of Myth 3 Part 1. THE MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION AND BIRTH AND THE HIDING OF THE CHILD Leda and Helen 13 Aethra and Theseus 13 Maha-Maya and Buddha 14 Chimalman and Quetzalcoatl 18 Dughda and Zoroaster 19 Siegfried 20 Kunti and Karna 21 Changing Woman 22 Maui 23 Moses 23 Cybele 25 Nana and Attis 25 Water Jar Boy 26 Kutoyis 28 Hainuwele 30 Coatlicue and Huitzilopochtli 31 Lituolone 32 Isis and Horus 32 Persephone and Dionysos 33 Myrrha and Adonis 34 Anna and Mary 34 Mary and Jesus 35 The World Child: Commentary on Part 1 39 Part 2. CHILDHOOD, INITIATION, AND DIVINE SIGNS Krishna 43 Heracles 44 Odysseus 45 Theseus 46 vii King Arthur 47 Cuchulainn 48 Siegfried 49 David 51 Buddha 54 Mary 55 Joan of Arc 56 Jesus 58 Draupadi 59 Moses 61 Dionysos 63 Origins and Initiation: Commentary on Part 2 65 Part 3. PREPARATION, MEDITATION, WITHDRAWAL, AND REFUSAL Buddha 69 Milarepa 74 Jesus 76 Moses 78 Isaac Tens 79 Wunzh 82 The Pleiades 85 Percival 88 Mohammad 89 Penelope 91 Endymion 92 The Seven Sleepers 92 Odysseus and Achilles 96 The Unknown Within the Self: Commentary on Part 3 97 Part 4. TRIAL AND QUEST Heracles 101 Sita 106 Prometheus 108 Theseus and Ariadne 112 Kutoyis 115 Kyazimba 118 Gawain and Percival 118 Ananse 122 Gilgamesh 124 Pele, Hiiaka, and Lohiau 128 viii Seth 133 Quetzalcoatl 134 Faust 136 Jesus 140 Dionysos 142 The Summer of Life: Commentary of Part 4 152 Part 5. DEATH AND THE SCAPEGOAT Attis 157 Adonis and Aphrodite 158 Tammuz and Inanna 160 Osiris and Isis 161 Hainuwele 164 Corn Mother 165 Persephone and Demeter 166 Dionysos 171 Orpheus 172 Kutoyis 174 Wanjiru 174 Jesus 175 Odin 179 Death and the Promise of New Life: Commentary on Part 5 180 Part 6. THE DESCENT TO THE UNDERWORLD Inanna 185 Hiiaka and Lohiau 186 Wanjiru 191 Dionysos 192 Jesus 192 Kuan Yin 194 Heracles 196 Kutoyis 197 Orpheus and Eurydice 197 The Young Comanche 201 Hermodr and Balder 202 Izanagi and Izanami 203 Moses 204 Odysseus 206 Aeneas 209 The Night Journey of the Soul: Commentary on Part 6 213 ix
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