by Lewis Spence · Mateos Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449504051
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«Introducción a la mitología» is an essay on mythology by Lewis Spence, published by Mateos Ediciones in paperback (344 pages, in Spanish).
A work that covers the great traditional narratives that in antiquity functioned as religion and science for our ancestors. Spence brings together stories from many cultures and contrasts the primitive worldview with the modern one, pointing out the persistence of animism in current superstitions and beliefs.
Spanish edition published in 1998, translated by M.ª Victoria Tealdo and Diana Gibson; the original work appeared in 1921.
For readers seeking an overview of world mythology and the beliefs of the ancients.
James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar. Spence was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and vice-president of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society. He founded the Scottish National Movement.
