The King and the Corpse
Heinrich Zimmer
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical wholeness of this assortment of myth.
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Sir Balan, Sir Balin, Daksha, Round Table, Pergamus, Miser, Veneration of the dead, Necromancy, Exorcism, Chivalry, Pyre, Barabbas, John Chrysostom, She Died, Burial, Admetus, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Death and Life, Podarces, Teucer, Meriones (mythology), The Hanged Man (Tarot card), Censure, Morgan le Fay, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Vyasa, Christianity, In Death, Superiority (short story), Vishnu, Nebuchadnezzar II, Guinevere, Matter of Britain, The Corpse, Vedas, Augury, Epic of Gilgamesh, Puranas, Hunting knife, Dolorous Stroke, Brahma, Knight, Murder, Podalirius, Sir Galahad (poem), Lingam, Babylonian religion, Fisher King, King Ban, Vortigern, Investiture, Seneschal, Paleolithic, Descent into Hell (novel), Vapours (disease), Pellam, Pillory, The Britons, Ordination, Decapitation, Sayd, Erechtheus, Smelting, Mourning, Owain, Cremation, Social death, Lancelot, The Other Hand, Misery (novel)