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The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
Mircea Eliade
4.11 average rating, · 9.4k ratings
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The Golden Bough
James George Frazer
4.02 average rating, · 8.8k ratings
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Mules and Men
Zora Neale Hurston
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The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
Joseph Campbell
4.27 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Ethan Watters
4.09 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
Mircea Eliade
4.21 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Mircea Eliade
4.21 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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The Masks of God, Volume 2: Oriental Mythology
Joseph Campbell
4.28 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
Lewis Hyde
4.18 average rating, · 2.1k ratings
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Morphology of the Folktale
Vladimir Propp
4.00 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Masks of God, Volume 4: Creative Mythology
Joseph Campbell
4.29 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Top of the World
Hans Ruesch
4.20 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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Myth and Reality
Mircea Eliade
4.10 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Book of the Hopi
Frank Waters
4.07 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character
Samuel Noah Kramer
4.05 average rating, · 1k ratings
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Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth
Giorgio de Santillana
4.22 average rating, · 879 ratings
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Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions
H.R. Ellis Davidson
4.13 average rating, · 914 ratings
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The Celtic World
Jennifer Paxton
4.10 average rating, · 872 ratings
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Patterns in Comparative Religion
Mircea Eliade
4.28 average rating, · 820 ratings
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The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy
Mircea Eliade
4.15 average rating, · 812 ratings
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Images and Symbols
Mircea Eliade
4.15 average rating, · 733 ratings
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The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype
Erich Neumann
4.28 average rating, · 559 ratings
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Dionysus: Myth and Cult
Walter F. Otto
4.18 average rating, · 507 ratings
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The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies
Irving Finkel
4.00 average rating, · 519 ratings
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