A compendium
♦ Traditional Cosmology: The Global Mythology of Cosmic Creation and Destruction (London: All-Round Publications, 2011) [mythopedia.info] This work, in 4 volumes, is a compendium of traditional cosmologies worldwide. The material includes the global mythology of creation and destruction, but also comprises information drawn from other areas of traditional knowledge, ritual, iconography, shamanism, costume, and dance. Relying on original sources, universal points of agreement are identified, often on counter-intuitive ideas. These suggest a single template, a blueprint for a universal mythology…