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Modern Mythology: Contemporary Legends and the Mythmaking Process in Modern Society

Charles Kingsley18730
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Charles Kingsley's analysis of how mythology develops in modern times and contemporary legends emerge. Examines mythmaking as ongoing process not limited to ancient cultures. Shows how modern events transform into legends and myths. Demonstrates that modern society continues to create and transmit mythology.

Also known asKingsley's Mythology
This edition1873
EditionCharles Kingsley's examination of how mythology develops in modern times and contemporary legend creation.
Comparative MythologyMythologyCreation MythsBelief formationModern mythologyritual documentationFolklore StudiesWestern Anthropological / Folklore

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Comparative Mythology

Comparative mythology texts on gods, hero cycles, symbolic patterns, classical myth, Indo-European myth, and cross-cultural mythic structures.

Folklore Studies

Folklore studies texts on folk tales, fairy belief, superstition, regional customs, oral tradition, and the collection of vernacular belief.

Contents173 chapters

  1. 01MODERN MYTHOLOGY
  2. 02DEDICATION
  3. 03INTRODUCTION
  4. 04REGENT MYTHOLOGY
  5. 05Mythology in 1860-1880
  6. 06Autobiographical
  7. 07The Ugly Scars
  8. 08My Criticism of Mr. Max Müller
  9. 09Success of Anthropological Method
  10. 10Mr. Max Müller’s Reply
  11. 11THE STORY OF DAPHNE
  12. 12Mr. Max Müller’s Method in Controversy
  13. 13Tuna and Daphne
  14. 14Criticism of Tuna and Daphne
  15. 15The Explanation
  16. 16Disease of Language and Folk-etymology
  17. 17Mannhardt on Daphne
  18. 18THE QUESTION OF ALLIES
  19. 19Athanasius
  20. 20Italian Critics
  21. 21A Dutch Defender
  22. 22Reply
  23. 23‘Braves Gens’
  24. 24Professor Tiele on Our Merits
  25. 25Destruction and Construction
  26. 26Allies or Not?
  27. 27Our Errors
  28. 28Uses of Philology
  29. 29Personal Controversy
  30. 30The Story of Cronos
  31. 31Professor Tiele on Sunset Myths
  32. 32Our Lack of Scientific Exactness
  33. 33My Lack of Explanation of Cronos
  34. 34My Crime
  35. 35My Reply to Professor Tiele
  36. 36Conclusion as to Professor Tiele
  37. 37MANNHARDT
  38. 38Mannhardt’s Attitude
  39. 39Moral Character Impeached
  40. 40Mannhardt
  41. 41Mannhardt’s Letters
  42. 42How Mannhardt differs from Mr. Max Müller
  43. 43Mannhardt’s Method
  44. 44Another Claim on Mannhardt
  45. 45What Mannhardt said
  46. 46My Relations to Mannhardt
  47. 47Mannhardt’s Return to his old Colours
  48. 48Mannhardt’s Attitude to Philology
  49. 49Irritating Conduct of Mannhardt
  50. 50Mannhardt on Demeter Erinnys
  51. 51Mannhardt’s ‘Mean Argument’
  52. 52Why Mannhardt is Thought to have been Converted
  53. 53Mannhardt’s Final Confession
  54. 54Mannhardt on Solar Myths
  55. 55Mannhardt on Märchen.
  56. 56‘The Two Brothers’
  57. 57The Golden Fleece
  58. 58Mannhardt’s Approach to Mr. Max Müller
  59. 59PHILOLOGY AND DEMETER ERINNYS
  60. 60Mr. Max Müller on Demeter Erinnys.
  61. 61My Theory of the Horse Demeter
  62. 62TOTEMISM
  63. 63Totemism
  64. 64Totemism Defined
  65. 65What a Totem is
  66. 66The Evidence for Sign-boards
  67. 67More about Totems
  68. 68Heraldry and Totems
  69. 69Gods and Totems
  70. 70An Objection
  71. 71A Weak Brother
  72. 72Mr. Frazer and Myself
  73. 73Greek Totemism
  74. 74The Greek Mouse-totem?
  75. 75Philological Theory
  76. 76Mr. Frazer on Animals in Greek Religion
  77. 77Aryan Totems (?)
  78. 78Mr. Frazer and I
  79. 79Mr. Frazer on Origin of Totemism
  80. 80Mr. Frazer’s Theory
  81. 81THE VALIDITY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
  82. 82Anthropological Evidence
  83. 83‘Positions one never held’
  84. 84Positions which I never held
  85. 85Anthropological Evidence
  86. 86Mr. Max Müller’s Method of Controversy
  87. 87Mr. Max Müller on our Evidence
  88. 88The Test of Recurrences
  89. 89Bias of Theory
  90. 90Concerning Missionaries
  91. 91THE PHILOLOGICAL METHOD IN ANTHROPOLOGY
  92. 92Mr. Max Müller as Ethnologist
  93. 93Names of Savage Gods
  94. 94A Hottentot God
  95. 95Cause of our Scepticism
  96. 96Phonetic Bickerings
  97. 97Phonetic Rules
  98. 98Basis of a Science
  99. 99Philology in Action—Indra
  100. 100Obscuring the Veda
  101. 101CRITICISM OF FETISHISM
  102. 102Mischief of Comparisons in Comparative Mythology
  103. 103Dr. Oldenberg
  104. 104Comparisons, when odious
  105. 105A Question of Logic
  106. 106‘Scholars’
  107. 107Anthropology and the Mysteries
  108. 108Abstract Ideas of Savages
  109. 109Perception of the Infinite
  110. 110Fetishism and Anthropological Method
  111. 111Origin of Fetishes
  112. 112‘Telekinetic’ Origin of Fetishism
  113. 113Civilised ‘Fetishism’
  114. 114More Mischiefs of Comparison
  115. 115Still more Nemesis
  116. 116For Us or Against Us?
  117. 117The Fallacy of ‘Admits’
  118. 118Conclusion as to our Method
  119. 119THE RIDDLE THEORY
  120. 120What the Philological Theory Needs
  121. 121The Riddle Theory
  122. 122Mordvinian Mythology
  123. 123Lettish Mythology
  124. 124The Chances of Fancy
  125. 125ARTEMIS
  126. 126Artemis
  127. 127Otfried Müller
  128. 128Beast Dances
  129. 129The View of Classical Scholars
  130. 130Mr. Max Müller’s Explanation
  131. 131Wider Application of the Theory
  132. 132The Bear Dance
  133. 133THE FIRE-WALK
  134. 134The Method of Psychical Research
  135. 135Mount Soracte
  136. 136Hirpi Sorani
  137. 137Mannhardt’s Deficiency
  138. 138The Fire-walk
  139. 139Fijian Fire-walk
  140. 140Kling Fire-walk
  141. 141Tupua’s Incantation used in Walking Over the Uum-Ti.—Translation
  142. 142Corroborative Evidence
  143. 143The Fire-walk in Trinidad.
  144. 144Bulgarian Fire-walk
  145. 145Indian Fire-walk
  146. 146Psychical Parallels
  147. 147Conclusion as to Fire-walk
  148. 148Psychical Research
  149. 149THE ORIGIN OF DEATH
  150. 150Yama
  151. 151The Origin of Death
  152. 152Death, regarded as Unnatural
  153. 153Why Men are Mortal
  154. 154Savage Death-Myths
  155. 155The Greek Myth
  156. 156The Serpent
  157. 157Dualistic Myths
  158. 158Economic Myth
  159. 159Maui and Yama
  160. 160Maui Myths
  161. 161Yama
  162. 162Inferences
  163. 163The Stealing of Fire
  164. 164‘Fire Totems’
  165. 165Prometheus
  166. 166Savage Myths of Fire-stealing
  167. 167Origin of the Myth of Fire-stealing
  168. 168CONCLUSION
  169. 169APPENDIX A: The Fire-walk in Spain
  170. 170APPENDIX B: Mr. Macdonell on Vedic Mythology
  171. 171FOOTNOTES
  172. 172THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
  173. 173"Cover"

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