Encyclopedia of world mythology, Rex Warner
Rex Warner (9 March 1905 24 June 1986) was an English classicist, writer and translator.
The World's mythological encyclopedia, in ten chapters, deals with: Common mythological themes, Adaptive mythology, Egyptian and Middle Eastern mythology, Iran, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, North and Central Europe, Celtic, as well as myths of animals and plants. This illustrated work with mythological images and images begins with the oldest manifestations of human civilization, namely Sumer (Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia), Babylonia and Mesopotamia, and goes on to: Egypt, Iran, India, China, and East Asia, and Latin America, and all Northern Europe, and the United States. In this encyclopedia, the subject and how to form myths such as: Creation, the first man, heroes, heroes of women, mother goddesses, death, the end of the world, paradise, and even the mythology of plants and animals, have been studied in different parts of the world.