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Traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. This book dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations.

The Wisdom of the Serpent

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    A Paperback / softback by Joseph Lewis Henderson, Maud Oakes

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 04/09/1990
      ISBN13: 9780691020648, 978-0691020648
      ISBN10: 0691020647

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. This book dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations.

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