The Oxford Companion to World Mythology - David Leeming, Former Professor of English and Comparative Literature David Leeming - Google Books

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Cave paintings at Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain, fraught with expression thousands of years later; point to an early human desire to form a cultural identity. In the Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming explores the role of mythology,…