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RR 2002/231 Encyclopedia of Gods Michael Jordan Kyle Cathie London 2002 ix + 309 pp. ISBN 185626 453 X 14.99
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There have been a lot of gods. If we take into account civilizations from the Sumerian and Hittite, and the Greek and Roman, and the Mayan and Aztec, and the Nordic and Celtic, and the Hindu and Buddhist, gods have played a wide range of roles for mankind. We have looked to gods for, or attributed to them, or metaphorically instantiated in them, all kinds of explanations for creation and fertility, motherhood and healing, war and death, the sea and the weather, fortune and fate. Michael Jordan is a television journalist, whose other works include studies of world myths, witches, and the Virgin Mary. This reference work about the gods first appeared in 1992, and this 2002 impression calls itself an updated edition,...