HAWM 2:1: The Sacrifice

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Historical Atlas of World Mythology:

Volume 2: The Way of the Seeded Earth

Part 1: The Sacrifice

by Joseph Campbell

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Table of Contents

Prologue

• Of the Will in Nature
• Agricultural Origins and Dispersals
• Map 1: The Three Agricultural Matrices
• Map 2: Southeast Asia and Oceania
• Map 3: The Americas
• Map 4: Southwest Asia and Africa
• Diffusion, Convergence, and Parallelism in the Formation of Cultures
• Map 5: Distribution of the Noun "Hualpa"
• Two Ways to Rapture
• Map 6: Old World: Physical Features and Vegetation

The Sacrifice: The Prime Symbol

• The Myth
• Map 7: The Range of Ritual Cannibalism
• The Festival
• Map 8: New Guinea: Land Area and Local People
• Map 9: Southeast Asian Complex
• Map 10: The Range of Swine Domestication
• The Offering
• The Historical Forms
• Map 11: The Archaic High-Culture Matrices 3500-500 B.C.
• Map 12: The Old Silk Road
• Map 13: Buddhist Cave-Temple Sites
• Map 14: Christendom and Islam to the Sixteenth Century

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[I may have omitted some of the scholarly apparatus from this table of contents, such as Acknowledgements, the Index, etc.]

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