Latin-American Mythology (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated‪)‬

Latin-American Mythology (Illustrated Edition) surveys the sacred narratives, ritual symbols, and cosmological traditions of Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and South America, moving from Aztec and Maya deities to Inca origin tales and Indigenous hero cycles. Written in the comparative spirit of early twentieth-century mythography, it combines philological learning, ethnographic synthesis, and a lucid literary style. The illustrations deepen its historical texture, situating myth within temple art, codices, sculpture, and colonial records. Hartley Burr Alexander was an American philosopher, educator, poet, and scholar of myth whose wide humanistic training shaped his interest in symbolic systems and cultural memory. His work reflects an era when scholars sought to place the mythologies of the Americas beside those of Greece, India, and the Near East, not as curiosities but as sophisticated expressions of metaphysics, history, and social order. This volume is recommended for readers seeking a learned introduction to Latin American sacred traditions and their interpretation in classic comparative scholarship. While modern readers should approach some terminology and assumptions historically, Alexander's breadth, clarity, and respect for mythic imagination make the book valuable for students of folklore, religion, anthropology, and literary culture.



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