HERE, in all their wonder and splendor, are the

MythologiesofMankind frompre-Biblical

Egypt and pre-Homeric Greece to the farthest reaches

of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific, and the Americas

all gathered into one mammoth volume of

unprecedented scope and beauty, and illustrated

with an incomparable assemblage of authentic

paintings, sculpture, symbols, idols, ritual and.

sacrificial objects, many rarely seen by modern

Western eyes.

This monumental work is the first complete

encyclopedia of world mythology. Originally

published in France by the famous house of Larousse.

it contains of course all the well-loved myths of

Classical Antiquity. But more than half the book is

devoted to the strange and unfamiliar mythologies

of civilizations other than our own.., from Peru to

Persia, from Tahiti to Togoland.

NEARLY 600 ILLUSTRATIONS. Open the New

Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology and wander

spellbound through a treasure-h0use of ancient,

primitive, prehistoric, and exotic art.

The magnificent illustrations that illumine every

page including thirty-two full-color plates make

it a veritable museum in itself.