Had to look up words like henotheistic and cathectic. Didn’t learn anything useful until page 384: “No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.” Etc. And on the next page: “…anyone in exile from the community is a nothing. From the other point of view, however, this exile is the first step of the quest.” Which made me think of my trans friends.
Robert Graves was easier to read, if less plausible.

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Although it has been years since I investigated, at the time I read this, and for decades afterward, this was the most complete compendium of the Greek myths I could find, and the only one that included references to all the sources. I found it an invaluable resource. At least some later editions of the same work seem to have omitted the references. Boo! Hiss! ( )

No better source to ensnare you in the material, and he's thorough. ( )

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