Book of Myths
Jean Land
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Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavor to know their God. And because only through the human was the divine knowable, the old peoples of the earth made gods of their heroes and not infrequently endowed these gods with as many of the vices as of the virtues of their worshipers.
As we read the myths of the East and the West we find ever the same story. That portion of the ancient Aryan race which poured from the central plain of Asia, through the rocky defiles of what we now call “The Frontier,” to populate the fertile lowlands of India, had gods who must once have been wholly heroic, but who came in time to be more degraded than the most vicious of lustful criminals. And the Greeks, Latins, Teutons, Celts, and Slavonians, who came of the same mighty Aryan stock, did even as those with whom they owned a common ancestry...
Author - Jean Land.
Narrator - James K. White.
Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Copyright - © 2018 Booktrack ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Listen to Book of Myths with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavor to know their God. And because only through the human was the divine knowable, the old peoples of the earth made gods of their heroes and not infrequently endowed these gods with as many of the vices as of the virtues of their worshipers. As we read the myths of the East and the West we find ever the same story. That portion of the ancient Aryan race which poured from the central plain of Asia, through the rocky defiles of what we now call “The Frontier,” to populate the fertile lowlands of India, had gods who must once have been wholly heroic, but who came in time to be more degraded than the most vicious of lustful criminals. And the Greeks, Latins, Teutons, Celts, and Slavonians, who came of the same mighty Aryan stock, did even as those with whom they owned a common ancestry... Author - Jean Land. Narrator - James K. White. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023. Copyright - © 2018 Booktrack ©.
Language:
English
Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
Duration:00:20:12
Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
Duration:00:41:31
Chapter 10
Duration:00:15:57
Chapter 11
Duration:00:07:09
Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
Duration:00:18:22
Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
Duration:00:35:25
Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
Duration:00:17:25
Chapter 19
Duration:00:18:37
Chapter 20
Duration:00:12:21
Chapter 21
Duration:00:13:54
Chapter 22
Duration:00:08:44
Chapter 23
Duration:00:12:39
Chapter 24
Duration:00:15:11
Chapter 25
Duration:00:05:17
Chapter 26
Duration:00:07:37
Chapter 27
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Chapter 28
Duration:00:12:10
Chapter 29
Duration:00:19:32
Chapter 30
Duration:00:12:01
Chapter 31
Duration:00:13:23
Chapter 32
Duration:00:18:06
Chapter 33
Duration:00:41:46
Chapter 34
Duration:00:41:21
Chapter 35
Duration:00:31:00
Chapter 36
Duration:00:51:38