Sun Lore: Myths and Folklore from Around the World

by Gwydion O'Hara

Bask in ancient legends, lore, myths, and stories of solar dignitaries from cultures around the world, when you read "Sun Lore "by Gwydion O'Hara. Just look at some of the deities and their legends... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567183433
• ISBN13: 9781567183436
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Collection of Sun & Moon legends, lore, and myth from cultures around the world (mostly ancient)

This is a broad and unique collection of stories, most of which you probably have never seen before. And this is appropriate for all ages - eac story is presented in 2-4 pages, an easy/quick read for adults, but this would be a perfect text for children 10+. True, the the author does not reprint any original texts here - instead, you get summaries and stories. And there's good reason for this: many of these stories are verbal only (no written texts), and some of these written texts are thousands of pages long. What you get here is a condensed version - I too was yearning for more information on a lot of these. But you must give this book its due credit - this is a pretty amazing accomplishment to fit 53 faith traditions and condense thousands (possibly tens of thousands?) of pages of religious and folklore texts into one, easy-to-read volume. Chapters include stories, mythology, and lore from: Aboriginals, Celtic, Pagan, Pre-history Goddess Religions, Aztec, Mayan, Incan, Ancient European, Korean, Japan, China, Greek, Egyptian, Wiccan, German, Arapaho, Cherokee, India, Norwegian, Baltic, Fiji, Melanesia, Polynesia, & Easter Islands, Greenland, and many more. Time periods covered include: Pre-history, Age of Discovery, Ancient history, Classical antiquity, Early Modern, Enlightenment, Golden ages, Late Antiquity, Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages, Vedic civilizations, Viking eras, Renaissance, and more. I give it 4 out of 5, because I wish there were more. But my suggestion is, if you see something in here that makes you curious, look it up on Wiki or pick up a specialty book on that particular subject.