Dragon and the Rainbow

Man’s Oldest Story

AvRobert Blust

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Modernization and conversion to world religions are threatening the survival of traditional belief systems, leaving behind only mysterious traces of their existence. This book, based upon extensive research conducted over a period of nearly four decades, brings scientific rigor to one of the questions that have always attracted human curiosity: that of the origin of the dragon.The author demonstrates that both dragons and rainbows are cultural universals, that many of the traits that are attributed to dragons in widely separated parts of the planet are also attributed to rainbows, and that the number and antiquity of such shared traits cannot be attributed to chance or common inheritance, but rather to common cognitive pathways by which human psychology has responded to the natural environment in a wide array of cultures around the world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-24
Mått:155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt:739 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ancient Languages and Civilizations
Antal sidor:340
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004678293

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Robert Blust (1940-2022) was a Professor of Linguistics at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He was, and continues to be, the preeminent scholar of Austronesian comparative linguistics. An enormously prolific scholar, Blust had nearly 300 publications. In addition to being a world-famous linguist, he was also an avid writer of poetry.

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ForewordPrefacePreface by the AuthorAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesIntroductionPrologue: Two Steps from Nature to Culture1 From Rainbow to Rainbow Serpent2 From Rainbow Serpent to DragonPart 1 Dragons1 What, If Anything, Is a Dragon?2 Why Dragons? Theories from A to Z1 Naturalistic Theories of the Dragon: Cryptozoology2 Symbolic Theories of the Dragon3 Neo-Lamarckian Theories: The Dragon as Archetype4 Diffusionist Theories5 Other Theories3 Dragons and Waterfalls1 North America2 The Caribbean and South America3 Insular Southeast Asia4 The Pacific5 Africa4 Dragons and Thunder/Lightning5 The Ethnology of the Dragon1 Central and East Asia2 North America and Mexico3 The DataPart 2 Rainbows6 What, If Anything, Is a Rainbow?1 Rainbows: Familiar and Fantastic2 Portrayals of the Rainbow3 Distributional Summary7 The Ethnology of the Rainbow1 How the Dragon Was Born2 Mysteries of the Rainbow3 Sunshowers4 The Rainbow Taboo8 A Glimpse of the Glory1 Europe2 Ancient Near EastPart 3 Summing Up9 Connecting the Dots10 ConclusionsAppendix: Ethnic Groups CitedReferencesIndex