This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "pub

“Our main object will be to describe one of the most incomparably beautiful myths that has ever flowered from the mind of man, or from the unconscious process

"Myth, Ritual and Religion" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by a Scottish author Andrew Lang first published in 1887, in which he explained the "irr

Volume 1 of Andrew Lang's classic two-part treatise on myth, ritual, and religion. Lang explores the myths of numerous cultures, tracing origins and drawing com

When this book first appeared (1886), the philological school of interpretation of religion and myth, being then still powerful in England, was criticised and o