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Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
By Gerry Smyth
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By Gerry Smyth
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An entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and in time these stories coalesced into the mythological systems of the world. And the ocean features in every mythological system in history.
To reflect and explore this phenomenon, Gerry Smyth gathers together myths and folktal...
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and in time these stories coalesced into the mythological systems of the world. And the ocean features in every mythological system in history.
To reflect and explore this phenomenon, Gerry Smyth gathers together myths and folktal...