Myths Dreams and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities
Author: Mircea Eliade
Desc: The author's purpose is to interpret and to ease an encounter which history has made inevitable. But Professor Eliade is too good a scholar and it too wise in his judgment to fall into syncretist fallacies. He has no argument to offer other than that which is implicit in a penetrating and sympathetic scrutiny of the mythologies that vivify ancient communities and tell us so much of the perennial meaning and destiny of man...