Nectar and Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World MythologyBloomsbury Academic, 26. 10. 2000. - 285 страница A publishing first, Nectar and Ambrosia presents an encyclopedic treatment of the magic properties and uses of food by mortals and immortals alike, from the pages of myth and legend. |
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... legend tells of a man who had the power to make cherry trees bloom . He believed the spirit of his dead dog lived in the cherry tree , and the dog's spirit helped him perform this miraculous feat . Another legend told of the spirit of a ...
... legend tells of a man who had the power to make cherry trees bloom . He believed the spirit of his dead dog lived in the cherry tree , and the dog's spirit helped him perform this miraculous feat . Another legend told of the spirit of a ...
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... legend , ginseng forms when lightning strikes a mountain stream and the stream disappears into the earth . The plant ... legend , beautiful young women who materi- alized in the forest often turned out to be gin- seng in disguise . In ...
... legend , ginseng forms when lightning strikes a mountain stream and the stream disappears into the earth . The plant ... legend , beautiful young women who materi- alized in the forest often turned out to be gin- seng in disguise . In ...
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... legend from the Solomon Islands in which the first man and the first woman sprouted from two knots of sugarcane and then begot the human race . In a legend from New Brit- ain , two fishermen named To - Kabwana and To - Karvuvu ( to is ...
... legend from the Solomon Islands in which the first man and the first woman sprouted from two knots of sugarcane and then begot the human race . In a legend from New Brit- ain , two fishermen named To - Kabwana and To - Karvuvu ( to is ...
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