Jan Knappert

Preface This first Encyclopedia of Pacific Mythology covers countries and islands from Thailand to Tahiti, from Japan to Java and from New Zealand to New Britain. As no single person can be an expert in the mythologies of all these nations, nor, supposing such a scholar could be found, would it...

PREFACEIndian Mythology is such a vast subject that I would really need a dozen volumes to give it justice. It is a big subject both in time and in space: in time because our earliest texts, the Hymns of the Rig-Veda, are dated c.1500 BC; in space since India is a large country, much larger than...