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The Dragon and the Rainbow: Man’s Oldest Story(5 Ancient Languages and Civilizations)

The Dragon and the Rainbow: Man’s Oldest Story(5 Ancient Languages and Civilizations)


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Modernization and conversion to world religions are threatening the survival of traditional belief systems, leaving behind only mysterious traces of their existence. This book, based upon extensive research conducted over a period of nearly four decades, brings scientific rigor to one of the questions that have always attracted human curiosity: that of the origin of the dragon. The author demonstrates that both dragons and rainbows are cultural universals, that many of the traits that are attributed to dragons in widely separated parts of the planet are also attributed to rainbows, and that the number and antiquity of such shared traits cannot be attributed to chance or common inheritance, but rather to common cognitive pathways by which human psychology has responded to the natural environment in a wide array of cultures around the world.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Preface Preface by the Author Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction Prologue: Two Steps from Nature to Culture  1 From Rainbow to Rainbow Serpent  2 From Rainbow Serpent to Dragon Part 1 Dragons 1 What, If Anything, Is a Dragon? 2 Why Dragons? Theories from A to Z  1 Naturalistic Theories of the Dragon: Cryptozoology  2 Symbolic Theories of the Dragon  3 Neo-Lamarckian Theories: The Dragon as Archetype  4 Diffusionist Theories  5 Other Theories 3 Dragons and Waterfalls  1 North America  2 The Caribbean and South America  3 Insular Southeast Asia  4 The Pacific  5 Africa 4 Dragons and Thunder/Lightning 5 The Ethnology of the Dragon  1 Central and East Asia  2 North America and Mexico  3 The Data Part 2 Rainbows 6 What, If Anything, Is a Rainbow?  1 Rainbows: Familiar and Fantastic  2 Portrayals of the Rainbow  3 Distributional Summary 7 The Ethnology of the Rainbow  1 How the Dragon Was Born  2 Mysteries of the Rainbow  3 Sunshowers  4 The Rainbow Taboo 8 A Glimpse of the Glory  1 Europe  2 Ancient Near East Part 3 Summing Up 9 Connecting the Dots 10 Conclusions Appendix: Ethnic Groups Cited References Index

About the Author :
Robert Blust (1940-2022) was a Professor of Linguistics at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He was, and continues to be, the preeminent scholar of Austronesian comparative linguistics. An enormously prolific scholar, Blust had nearly 300 publications. In addition to being a world-famous linguist, he was also an avid writer of poetry.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789004678293
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 340
  • Series Title: 5 Ancient Languages and Civilizations
  • Sub Title: Man’s Oldest Story
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9004678298
  • Publisher Date: 24 Aug 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Weight: 739 gr


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