Автор: Jeremy Robers
Название: Japanese Mythology A to Z
Издательство: Chelsea House Publishers
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Размер: 6 Мб
Язык: Английский
Страниц: 162
Книга на английском языке, представляющая собой энциклопедию японской мифологии. В издании в алфавитном порядке представлены сведения о персонажах национальных японских мифов, сказок и легенд, буддистских и синтоистких божествах, обрядах и праздниках, религиозных и мифологических понятиях, а также о терминах, относящихся к японской кульутре. Книга содержит красочные иллюстрации, а ее материал будет интересен как студентам, изучающим культуру страны Восходящего солнца, так и просто людям, увлекающимся мифологией.
Where do we come from? What will happen to us when we die? How should we live our lives? We still ask these questions today. In fact, the desire to ask them may be one of the things that makes us human. All societies ask these questions, but not every society answers them in the same way. In most ancient human societies, the means of answering these important questions was religion. One way that ancient religions tried to answer basic questions about life and what it means to be human was through telling stories, specifically myths. A myth, in the original sense of the word, is a story whose truth is unquestioned.
Because myths reflect the culture that produces them, it is often useful to know a bit about that culture when studying them. This is especially true in Japan, where a number of influences came together to produce a rich and complex set of myths, or mythology.
This book lists the major figures in Japanese mythology in alphabetical order, as in an encyclopedia. It also includes information about some of the most popular legends and a few folktales that readers may encounter as they begin to learn about Japan. Finally, a few important terms relating either to Japan or the study of myths are included to help the reader in his or her studies.
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