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Myths & Legends (Fact & Fiction)

by Vic Parker

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Gods and spirits, epic heroes and adventures, magic and mystery, life and love, death and destruction - these are just a small selection of the subjects in this book of combined reference and carefully retold myths and legends.
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Our book starts off with “Creation Mythology” with my personal favorites being Aboriginal Myths in Dreamtime and Early Japanese Myths since some of the Gods are jutsus in Naruto which is an Anime. The next portion is “Gods and Spirits” which I have to say Egyptian was my favorite followed by Celtic in this book. Up next is “Epic Heroes and Adventures” though I can’t decide which mythology is the best since those stories were just that good. After that is “Magic and Mystery” which my favorite being the Russian folktale of Baba-Yaga the Witch hands down. “Life and Love” continues the book with this section being very hard to choose from, though I’d say my top choices are The Firebird, Yama-Kumar and the Healing Gift, plus also Fenris the Wolf. Finishing off the book is “Destruction and Death” which my personal favorite is The Pied Piper of Hamelin, closely followed by The Death of Balder and Pandora’s Box.

I absolutely loved this book since mythology is just such an interesting subject to learn about. So I’d consider myself a pretty big mythology buff before I read this book though when I read it I just realized how small my knowledge of mythology actually was. My personal favorite small mythology now is Celtic closely followed by Russian because of their tales and creatures they have. I just love the ideas and all of the things and if I’m being honest I want to make my own country which central religion is a blend of all mythologies. I really wish that mythologies are just more popular than what they are since there just so good and adventurous. I don’t really care how much you consider yourself a massive mythology buff you still need to read this to learn so much more and I just hope you read every story in here. ( )
  LucasW.B3 | Mar 21, 2018 |
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