AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY AND FOLKLORE. Second Edition

orange, red & gilt decorative spine) full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). no dustwrapper. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean with a bit of minor sunfading. edges clean. contents free of markings. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. facsimile reprint edition. xvi+380p. 5 appendices. index. religion. mythology. folklore. ancient history. ancient literature. vedas. zeus. teutonic gods. urvasi. ahana and sarama. athene. aphrodite. surya. savitar. soma. phoebus apollo. herakles. perseus. balder. vishnu. krishna. hecate. agni. vulcan. loki. the titans. kyklopes. pan. gorgons. dionysus. demeter. saturnus. hades. typhon. ormuzd and ahriman. the volsung tale. poems of the aryan world. nibelungenlied. romance of arthur. the round table and sangreal. the wierd sisters. mordred. merlin. the mahabharata. ramayana. ~ "MY PURPOSE in this volume is to give a general view of the vast mass of popular traditions belonging to the Aryan nations of Asia and Europe, and of other tribes so far as the conditions of the subject may render necessary. Its starting point is the principle that the popular traditions of no one Aryan people can be really understood except in their relation to those of other tribes and nations of the same family, and that the epical and dramatic literature of those races has been constructed from materials common to all branches of the Aryan stock and furnished by popular sayings, stories, and tales, many of which have never had the good fortune to be more than the talk of nurses and children." (from the preface).…