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　　CONTENTS

　　Prologue: Toward a Natural History of the Gods

　　and Heroes 3

　　I. The Lineaments of a New Science 3

　　II. The Well of the Past 5

　　III. The Dialogue of Scholarship and Romance 8

　　PART ONE: T H E PSYCHOLOGY OF M Y T H

　　Introduction: The Lesson of the Mask 21

　　Chapter I. The Enigma of the Inherited Image 30

　　I. The Innate Releasing Mechanism 30

　　II. The Supernormal Sign Stimulus 38

　　Chapter 2. The Imprints of Experience 50

　　I. Suffering and Rapture 50

　　II. The Structuring Force of Life on Earth 57

　　III. The Imprints of Early Infancy 61

　　IV. The Spontaneous Animism of Childhood 78

　　V. The System of Sentiments of the Local Group 88

　　VI. The Impact of Old Age 118

　　PART TWO: T H E MYTHOLOGY OF

　　THE PRIMITIVE PLANTERS

　　Chapter 3. The Culture Province of

　　the High Civilizations 135

　　I. The Proto-Neolithic: c. 7500-5500 B.C. 136

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　　II. The Basal Neolithic: c. 5500-4500 B.c. 138

　　III. The High Neolithic: c. 4500-3500 B.c. 140

　　IV. The Hieratic City-State: c. 3500-2500 B.C. 144

　　Chapter 4. The Province of the Immolated Kings 151

　　I. The Legend of the Destruction of Kash 151

　　II. A Night of Shehrzad 161

　　III. The King, and the Virgin of the Vestal Fire 165

　　Chapter 5. The Ritual Love-Death 170

　　I. The Descent and Return of the Maiden 170

　　II. The Mythological Event 176

　　III. Persephone 183

　　IV. The Monster Eel 190

　　V. Parallelism or Diffusion? 202

　　VI. The Ritual Love-Death in Pre-Columbian America 216

　　P A R T T H R E E : T H E M Y T H O L O G Y O F

　　T H E P R I M I T I V E H U N T E R S

　　Chapter 6. Shamanism 229

　　I. The Shaman and the Priest 229

　　II. Shamanistic Magic 242

　　III. The Shamanistic Vision 251

　　IV. The Fire-Bringer 267

　　Chapter 7. The Animal Master 282

　　I. The Legend of the Buffalo Dance 282

　　II. Paleolithic Mythology 286

　　III. The Ritual of the Returned Blood 295

　　Chapter 8. The Paleolithic Caves 299

　　I. The Shamans of the Great Hunt 299

　　II. Our Lady of the Mammoths 313

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　　III. The Master Bear 334

　　IV. The Mythologies of the Two Worlds 347

　　PART FOUR: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF M Y T H

　　Chapter 9. Mythological Thresholds of

　　the Paleolithic 357

　　I. The Stage of Plesianthropus (<--600,000 B.c.-->) 357

　　II. The Stage of Pithecanthropus (<--400,000 B.C.-->) 360

　　III. The Stage of Neanderthal Man (c. 200,000-

　　75,000/25,000 B.c.) 365

　　IV. The Stage of Crô-Magnon Man (c. 30,000-

　　10,000 B.C.) 374

　　V. The Capsian-Microlithic Style (c. 30,000/10,000-

　　4000 B.C.) 379

　　Chapter 10. Mythological Thresholds of

　　the Neolithic 384

　　I. The Great Serpent of the Earliest Planters

　　(c. 7500 B.C.?) 384

　　II. The Birth of Civilization in the Near East (c. 7500-

　　2500 B.C.) 391

　　III. The Great Diffusion 418

　　Conclusion: The Functioning of Myth 461

　　I. The Local Images and the Universal Way 461

　　II. The Bondages of Love, Power, and Virtue 464

　　III. The Release from Bondage 469

　　Reference Notes 473

　　Index 489