TY  - BOOK
AU  - Henderson,Joseph Lewis
AU  - Henderson,Joseph L.
AU  - Oakes,Maud
TI  - The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection. 
T2  - Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology : 57
SN  - 9780691216171
AV  - BL504 
U1  - 291.2/3 22
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Death
KW  - Mythology
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Comparative studies
KW  - Regeneration (Theology)
KW  - Resurrection
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adonis
KW  - Aphrodite and Adonis
KW  - Balder
KW  - Baptism
KW  - Chuang Tzu
KW  - Compassion in Buddhism
KW  - Drowning
KW  - Eleusinian Mysteries
KW  - Ereshkigal
KW  - Evergreen tree
KW  - Fenris Wolf
KW  - Fertility myths
KW  - Gilgamesh
KW  - Heracles
KW  - Hermes
KW  - Horus
KW  - Initiation
KW  - Izanagi
KW  - Kaliyuga
KW  - Karma
KW  - Magic flight of shamans
KW  - Mistletoe
KW  - Nachiketas and Yama
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - Osiris
KW  - Persephone
KW  - Ragnarok
KW  - Reincarnation
KW  - Shamanism
KW  - Shiva
KW  - Symbols
KW  - Tammuz
KW  - Thoth
KW  - Vishnu
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; LIST OF PLATES --; LIST OF LINE DRAWINGS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; MYTHS OF DEATH, REBIRTH, AND RESURRECTION --; INITIATION AS A SPIRITUAL EDUCATION --; INITIATION AS PSYCHIC LIBERATION --; MYTHS OF RESURRECTION --; APPENDIX: FURTHER EXAMPLES OF THE THEME OF DEATH AND REBIRTH IN POETRY --; NOTES ON THE PLATES --; REFERENCES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations. "This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers crucial insights on the meaning of death symbolism (and its inevitably accompanying rebirth and resurrection symbolism) as part of the great theme of initiation, of which [Henderson] is the world's foremost psychological interpreter. This material is really the next step after the hero myth that Joseph Campbell has made so popular, and provides an understanding of how not to use the hero myth in an inflated way as a psychology of mastery, but as an attainment progressively to be died beyond. [Henderson] is helped by the presence of Maud Oakes, who is a trained anthropologist with exquisite taste in her choice of mythic materials and respect for their original contexts."--John Beebe
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691216171?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691216171
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691216171/original
ER  -