Familiar mysteries
Familiar mysteriesBook Review
"Familiar Mysteries"
Familiar Mysteries is a scientific and comprehensive study on mythology,
its appearance,and significance in our lives.The author , Shirley Park Lowry , a former professor of English at the Los Angeles Valley College , teaches mythology to nonspecialists and is a respected authority on the subject.The author's purpose in writing this book is to provide the general reader with an
interesting , hystorically linked , and scientifically based insight into the vast world of mythology and the effects it has on our everyday lives.Shirley Park Lowry's main message brought in this work is that mythology is not an occurance that came into existence from itself , rather than something that we , people created ourselves in order to satisfy our own needs and fill in that empty portion of our understanding of the world that has never been able to be explained or comprehended.Also , according to her , myths , as a whole , occupy a very significant place in our being.They serve as personal guidance in peoples' lives , support or challenge the social order , create a sense of physical order of the surrounding , and help people accept life's mysteries.The book is an extensive analysis on mythology and is structured of four mian
sections.Each section represents a different aspect of the science such as The Symbolic Language of Myth , The Hero , The Complete Home and the Monster at the Door , and Conquering Death . Each section contains subsection that examine different cases or symbols.In The Symbolic Language of Myth , for example , water and milk are refered to as symbols representing sources of life and are separated as two subsections in the subsection Symbolizing the Sources of Life . On the other hand , in The Hero , the author describes the many phases
and distinctive characteristics of heros' life span in chronological subsections . Two typical attributes of the hero , as the author points out , are Slaying Monsters and Winning Maidens and The Triumphant Return .Shirley Park Lowry carefully explains...
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