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The Wisdom of the Serpent The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection

Paperback • 1990 • English

The Wisdom of the Serpent The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection

By Joseph Lewis Henderson, Maud Oakes

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About the book

The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations. "This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers ...Show more

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ISBN

9780691020648

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

1990

Language

English

Original title

The Wisdom of the Serpent The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection

Format

Paperback

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