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Table of Contents
PROLOGUE
The Mythological Dimension
-"Let There Be Light!" (Genesis 1:1 to 2:4)
-Out of One, the Many (Bridhadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.1-5)
-Forbidden Fruit (A Bassari Legend, Togo)
-The Light Within (A Polynesian Chant, Society Islands)
-Song of the World (A Pima Legend, Arizona)
-"Let It Thus Be Done!" (The Popul Vuh, Guatemala)
The Living Ground
-The Universe, The Earth, and
Earth's Life
................Map 01: End of Permian
................Map 02: End of Triassic
................Map 03: End of Jurassic
................Map 04: Mid-Cretaceous
................Map 05: Mid-Cenozoic
-The Primate Connection
-Men and Tools of the Old Stone Age
................Map 06: Distribution of Hand-Ax and Chopper Industries
The Awakening Awe
The Peopling of the Earth
-Africa and Eurasia
................Map 07: Hominization and Dispersal: c.3,800,000 to 7700 B.C.
..........-Cranial Capacity and Tool Manufacture
..........-A Locus for Eden
-Old Melanesia
................Map 08: Old Melanesia, c.20,000 B.C.
..........-The Fossilized Past
-The Americas
................Map 09: Paleolithic Industries: c.38,000 to 33,000 B.C.
................Map 10: Paleolithic Industries: c.26,000 to 24,000 B.C.
................Map 11: Paleolithic Industries: c.18,000 B.C.
................Map 12: Paleolithic Industries: c.1038,000 B.C.
................Map 13: The Presence of Early Man in the New World
................Map 14: Beringland c.80,000 to 7000 B.C.
-The Five Basic Races
................Map 15: Surviving Primitive Cultures
................Map 16: Shifts of the Human Subspecies: Pleistocene Epoch
................Map 17: Shifts of the Human Subspecies: Post-Pleistocene
................Map 18: Shifts of the Human Subspecies: c. A.D. 1492
MYTHOLOGIES OF THE PRIMITIVE HUNTERS AND
GATHERERS
Early Hunters of the Open Plains
................Map 19: Primary Burial and Rock Art Horizons
-The Recognition of Death
................Map 20: Neanderthal Sites: c.100,000 to 40,000 B.C.
-The Master Bear
-The Sentiment of Wonder
-The Temple Caves
................Map 21: Rock Art Sites in Southwestern Europe
-Symbols of the Female Power
................Map 22: Distribution of Venus Figurines
-The Shamans of the Caves
-Advent of the Bow and Arrow
-Culture Tides in Verdant Sahara
................Map 23: European and North African Rock Art Provinces
..........-The Bubalus Period, c.7000 to 4500 B.C.
..........-Period of the Round-Heads, from c.6000 B.C.
..........-The Bovidian or Pastoral Period, c.4000 to 1800 B.C.
..........-A Post-Bovidian Period of Egyptian Influences
................Map 24: North Africa and the Chariot Road
..........-The Chariot and Equestrian Periods, from c.1200 B.C.
..........-The Camel Period, from c.100 B.C. (?)
-South African Painted Rock Shrines
................Map 25: Southern Africa: Rock Art Sites
-The Bushman Trance Dance and Its Mythic Ground
Living Peoples of the Equatorial
Forest
................Map 26: Local Foraging Tribes of the Old
World Tropical Forests
-The Forest Song of the Pygmies
................Map 27: The Rain Forest Domain of
the Pygmies
-Ancestral Caves of the Tasaday
................Map 28: Southeast Asia and Indonesia
-The Andaman Islanders
-Myths and Tales of the Andamanese
..........-In the Beginning
..........-The Wild-Pig Hunt
................Map 29: The Andamanese
..........-The Fire Theft
..........-The Catastrophe
..........-The Landscape Mythologized and the Origin of Death
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(C) 2006 James Baquet.
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