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The Mammoth Dictionary of Symbols Nadia Julien Translated by Elfreda Powell Robinson, London, 1996, 524 pp., ISBN 1-- 85487-273-7, L5.99
I think I would call this paperback "fat" rather than "mammoth", but "The Fat Dictionary of Symbols" would not do, and it is actually part of a fairly mammoth series that includes The Mammoth Book of Zombies and The Mammoth Book of Killer Women.
It was first published in Belgium in 1989, and contains hundreds of entries on entities of symbolic significance, from "Abyss" to "Zodiac" In her introduction Nadia Julien writes that she has drawn on "the Cabbalah ......