World Mythology: A Very Short Introduction Wien Design is broken

Design is broken

We travel from the origins of Homo sapiens through the agrarian and industrial revolutions

Das hat die Zuhörer immer wieder aus der Fassung gebracht

In diesem Buch verrät er das Geheimnis seines legendären Brots

Julian Yates

World Mythology: A Very Short Introduction Wien Design is brokenThe mythologies of the world are collective cultural dreams, and as such should be analyzed first from cultural perspectives. How do myths of the ancient Egyptians or Greeks, for instance, reflect the realities of the Egyptian and Greek cultures? When compared, however, mythologies reveal certain universal themes or motifs that point to larger trans cultural issues such as the place of the human species in creation or the nature of deity as a concept.