The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
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In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the nature of myth. Acknowledging the persuasive power of myth to create and inform culture, he weaves the human ability to create life with and communicate through symbols with myths based on male and female forms of power.
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