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The King and the Corpse
Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
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Heinrich Zimmer
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Edited by:
Joseph Campbell
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English
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1956
About this book
Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical wholeness of this assortment of myth.
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The noted Indologist Heinrich Zimmer, born in Germany in 1890, came to the United States in 1940, at the height of his career, and was lecturing at Columbia University when he died in 1943. His other works in the Bollingen series include Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization and Philosophies of India.
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"This handsome volume of essays . . . is the yield of what can be called an Indologist's holiday. . . . Expertly edited by Joseph Campbell, these essays rest upon Zimmer's belief--a belief which he shares with Jung and others--that the spiritual heritage of archaic man still survives in "the deeper unconscious layers of our soul.'"
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June 5, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9780691187525
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352
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Keywords for this book
Daksha; Lancelot; Pellam; The Corpse; Decapitation; King Ban; Burial; Brahma; Necromancy; Death and Life; Chivalry; Guinevere; Mourning; Sir Balin; Sir Balan; Exorcism; Fisher King; Cremation; In Death; Veneration of the dead; Murder; Misery (novel); Sayd; The Other Hand; John Chrysostom; Seneschal; Babylonian religion; Pyre; Vortigern; Sir Galahad (poem); Paleolithic; Dolorous Stroke; Erechtheus; Epic of Gilgamesh; The Hanged Man (Tarot card); Investiture; Pillory; Hunting knife; Pergamus; Descent into Hell (novel); Round Table; Morgan le Fay; Augury; Podarces; Social death; Knight; Superiority (short story); She Died; Owain; Vishnu; Nebuchadnezzar II; Teucer; Barabbas; The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night; Miser; Podalirius; Vapours (disease); Smelting; Lingam; Wolfram von Eschenbach; Puranas; Matter of Britain; Vyasa; Vedas; The Britons; Christianity; Meriones (mythology); Ordination; Admetus; Censure
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;General/trade;
