Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of EchoesUniversity of Chicago Press, 1995 - 225 من الصفحات Other People's Myths celebrates the universal art of storytelling, and the rich diversity of stories that people live by. Drawing on Biblical parables, Greek myths, Hindu epics, and the modern mythologies of Woody Allen and soap operas, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty encourages us to feel anew the force of myth and tradition in our lives, and in the lives of other cultures. She shows how the stories of mythology—whether of Greek gods, Chinese sages, or Polish rabbis—enable all cultures to define themselves. She raises critical questions about the way we interpret mythical stories, especially the way different cultures make use of central texts and traditions. And she offers a sophisticated way of looking at the roles myths play in all cultures. |
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Introduction | |
Other Scholars Myths The Hunter and the Sage | 1 |
Scholars and People | 4 |
The Sages Myth | 6 |
Fire and Ice | 9 |
Academic Hardware and Religious Software | 15 |
Other Peoples Lies The Cave of Echoes | 19 |
The Cave of Archetypes | 27 |
Daksha and Shiva | 92 |
Pentheus and Dionysus | 97 |
Myth with Ritual | 105 |
Other Peoples Myths The Place in the Woods | 113 |
The Theater of Myth | 115 |
Ritual without Myth | 119 |
Myth without Ritual | 121 |
The Shock of Recognition | 123 |
Myths and Classics | 31 |
Other Peoples Classics Retelling the Mahabharata | 39 |
Myth as Childs Play | 48 |
Fluid and Fixed Texts in the East | 50 |
Impermanence and Eternity in India | 58 |
Other People as Animals Rudra Lord of Sacrificial Beasts | 69 |
If I Were a Horse | 70 |
Humans as Sacrificial Animals | 76 |
Carnivorous Hunters and Vegetarian Sages | 83 |
Animals as NonOthers | 87 |
Other Peoples Rituals Daksha Pentheus and Jesus | 91 |
Myths about Rituals | 126 |
Other Peoples Lives The Rabbi from Cracow | 129 |
The Rabbi from Cracow | 131 |
Shooting at Pluralistic Ducks | 135 |
The Audience inside the Story | 141 |
The Recognition of Myth in Life | 147 |
The Roundhouse of Myths | 153 |
Notes | 161 |
Bibliography | 191 |
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A. K. Ramanujan ancient archetype argued argument Bacchae become believe body cave chapter Chicago Christian classics Claude Lévi-Strauss context culture Daksha Dionysus divine dream Eliade epic evil experience fact film fish Frits Staal gods Greek happen head Hindu myths Hinduism History of Religions Homer horse hunter hunting Indian inside Jesus Jewish Jews killed king kitsch Lévi-Strauss lion lives Mahabharata meaning metamyth metaphor Mircea Eliade myth of Daksha mythical mythology oral pashus Pentheus perform person Plato play Prajapati Prithu problem Purana Rabbi Rama Ramayana reality regarded relativism religious René Girard rice Rig Veda ritual Rudra sacred sacrificial animals sacrificial beasts sage Sanskrit scholars sense share Shatapatha Brahmana Shiva sort story surrogate survive symbolic tell things told tradition transformation translation true understand variant Vedic Vedic sacrifice victim Wendy Doniger Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty wild animal worship York