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	Encyclopedia Mythica: Mythology
		The mythology area is divided in 6 geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.
		Asia and Asia Minor/Middle East (eastern part of Russia, India, Tibet, Indonesia, China, Korea, Israel, Iran (Persia), Mesopotamia, etc.) It includes major religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, and Islam.
		The region extending from the southeastern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea (including countries in southwest Asia and northeast Africa).
	www.pantheon.org /areas/mythology (177 words)

	Asia (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asia is the central and eastern part of Eurasia.
		Asia District, Peru is a beach district in Peru.
		Asia was in Greek mythology one of the female Oceanids.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asia_(disambiguation) (122 words)

	Asia (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asia or Clymene in Greek mythology, is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
		It is possible that the name Asia became preferred over Hesiod's Clymene to avoid confusion with what must be a different Oceanid named Clymene who was mother of Phaethon by Helios in some accounts.
		Herodotus (4.45.1) records the tradition that the continent Asia was named after Asia whom he calls wife of Prometheus rather than mother of Prometheus, perhaps here a simple error rather than genuine variant tradition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asia_(mythology) (168 words)

	Asia
		The continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia.
		The boundaries are vague: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal.
		The boundary between Asia and Europe runs via the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Hellespont, the Black Sea, the ridges of the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River and the Ural Mountains to Novaya Zemlya.
	www.fastload.org /as/Asia.html (146 words)

	Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The boundaries are vague, especially between Asia and Europe: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal.
		The boundary between Asia and Europe runs via the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus, the Black Sea, the ridges of the Caucasus (according to others, through the Kuma-Manych Depression), the Caspian Sea, the Ural River (according to others, the Emba River) and the Ural Mountains to Novaya Zemlya.
		The region of Asia is the continent of Asia plus nearby islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/a/as/asia.html (554 words)

	Teutonic Mythology by Viktor Rydberg
		And while Odin in the Teutonic mythology is the father and ruler of the gods, Mercury in the Roman has, of course, as the son of Zeus, a high rank, but his dignity does not exempt him from being the very busy messenger of the gods of Olympus.
		The Roman mythology, which from the beginning had but few gods of clear identity with the Greek, was especially during this epoch enlarged, and received gods and goddesses who were worshipped in Greece and in the Greek and Hellenised part of Asia Minor where the Sibylline books originated.
		Dardanus, the founder of Troy, was regarded as the leader of an emigration from Etruria to Asia (Æneid, iii.
	www.boudicca.de /teut.htm (17664 words)

	Mythic Asian Crossroads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Hittite/Hurrian Mythology Reference by Christopher B. Siren presents the history of the Hittites, their deities and their cosmology, along with references to source material on the Hittites.
		Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology FAQ by Christopher B. Siren is an impressive compendium based on John C. Gibson's Canaanite Mythology and S. Hooke's Middle Eastern Mythology.
		Mythology of the Mid-East is an alphabetical list of references to Sumerian, Assyrian, Mesopotamian, and Persian mythological figures.
	www.mythiccrossroads.com /asia.htm (968 words)

	Story-Mythology Progressionism in Asia
		Mythology in this time period paints a picture of a race of gods who are constantly engaged with gamerey, sensual pleasure and aggression.
		Mythology in this time period was orally transmitted through the priesthood and through professional storytellers- who traveled into every realm of the early culture and spread the gospel.
		Japanese mythology is not directed towards a unified cosmological viewpoint that takes into account the composite planet as much as the particular history and progress- ionalism of the Japanese people- in their separate culture.
	www.wesleyan.edu /music/braxton/papers/story-mythology.html (6183 words)

	Io, Greek Mythology Link.
		So when later the Europeans carried off the Phoenician princess Europa, they say, Asia and Europe were then even; for they, accepting again counsel from their wisdom, did not believe in the tale of Zeus the bull conveying the princess Europa to Crete through the sea either.
		According to the book that the Persians kept concerning the abduction of women and the wrongs that Asia and Europe performed against each other, the Europeans (that is the Greeks, in those times) then sent the ARGONAUTS to the city of Aea in Colchis, and carried off the Colchian princess Medea.
		But Hera sent a gadfly to infest and torture it, and so Io, tormented by the gadfly's sting, began her wanderings, coming first to the Ionian sea, which is called after her.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Io.html (1802 words)

	Mythology
		From the ancient Greeks to the Aztecs, people across the world have created a rich tapestry of stories, characters, and beliefs to explain the mysteries of creation and the forces of nature and death.
		Mythology of the World examines both ancient and...
		Rich with classic art and mythology, this quality mirror, in the organic design so indicative of the Art Nouveau era, replicates a coveted period original.
	www.growinglifestyle.co.uk /uk/j165672 (1105 words)

	mythology
		Mythology is alive and well in the modern age through urban legends, scientific mythology, and many other ways.
		Aboriginal mythology (natives of Australia) - Melanesian mythology - Micronesian mythology - Polynesian mythology
		Anglo-Saxon mythology - Celtic mythology - Corsican mythology - German mythology - Greek mythology - English mythology - Etruscan mythology - Finnish mythology - Fjort mythology - Irish mythology - Latvian mythology - Norse mythology - Polish mythology - Roman mythology - Romanian mythology - Sardinian mythology - Slavic mythology
	www.fact-library.com /mythology.html (833 words)

	Myths and Legends - frames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Mythology Notes present descriptions of gods, summaries of myths, and some historical material on the mythologies of the Ancient Near East, Persia, Scandinavia, and the Celts.
		Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology FAQ This page contains a description of the pantheon of the people refered to as Canaanites in the Bible, as recovered from the city of Ugarit in what is now western Syria.
		Hittite Mythology REF This page contains a description of the pantheon, and history of the Hittites, who drew heavily upon the pantheon of their neighbors the Hurrians.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/myth.html (11969 words)

	Mythology at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Myths are generally stories based on tradition and legend designed to explain the universal and local beginnings ("creation myths and "founding myths"), natural phenomena, inexplicable cultural conventions, and anything else for which no simple explanation presents itself.
		In the 1950s Roland Barthes published a series of essays examining modern myths and the process of their creation in his book Mythologies.
		Anglo-Saxon mythology - Catalan mythology - Celtic mythology - Corsican mythology - Germanic mythology - Greek mythology - English mythology - Etruscan mythology - Finnish mythology - Irish mythology - Latvian mythology - Norse mythology - Polish mythology - Roman mythology - Romanian mythology - Sardinian mythology - Slavic mythology
	wiki.tatet.com /Mythology.html (1000 words)

	Greek Mythology, Eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus, Armenian Mythology, Georgian Mythology
		Eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus appear in the myths of two related deities, Prometheus and Hephaestus, who are primarily gods of metallurgy.
		The land of the Arimi and eastern Asia Minor generally is considered the birthplace of a significant number of such multi-headed or hybrid monsters as the Chimera (a fire-breathing goat-lion-snake), the Hydra, the hounds Cerberus and Orthus, the Sphinx, the Nemean lion and the Crommyonian sow.
		There is a definite clustering of the deities, heroes, and heroines relating to eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus into several genealogical lines, all of which derive from the most ancient pre-Olympian gods, the Titans.
	rbedrosian.com /Gmyth.htm (2677 words)

	Mythology (from Buddhism) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Spreading from India to Central and Southeast Asia, China, Korea, and Japan, Buddhism has played a central role in the spiritual, cultural, and social life of the Eastern world and during the 20th century has spread to the West.
		Greek mythology followed the pattern of other mythologies: the forces of nature were given personalities and were worshiped.
		The basic mythology of Rome was borrowed from the Greeks, though later Romans also borrowed from the Egyptians and some of the religions of Asia Minor and the Middle East as the size of the Roman Empire increased.
	0-www.britannica.com.library.unl.edu /eb/article-68742 (926 words)

	Mythology & constellations
		Looking at the sky using these pattern, you can tell the season, the location of the earth, and even the tilt of the earth axis with respect to the sun.
		The bull was a bull, the water dipper a dipper, etc. Around 5 B.C., the constellations become firmly associated with various sections of Greek and Roman mythology.
		The constellations were seen as omens in the sky, and astrological signs such as Virgo, Taurus, etc., were born.
	ohoh.essortment.com /constellationsm_reuz.htm (537 words)

	Indo-Iranian Mythology, Eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus, Armenian Mythology
		The Chinvat bridge of Zoroastrian mythology, over which the souls of the dead had to pass was on or near High Hara.
		The motif of birds dwelling near the summit is shared by Iranian and Indian accounts, as is the theme of the theft of the intoxicating plant haoma/soma from the mountain's summit by a magical bird (Syena/Garuda/Simurgh); and the slaying of a multi-headed, multi-eyed dragon nearby (98).
		The one-eyed cyclops of Greek mythology, and the demon Humbaba of Mesopotamian mythology may descend from the one-eyed T'ork, whose worship was known from areas to the west and southwest of Lake Van.
	rbedrosian.com /Imyth.htm (1745 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythica: mythology, folklore, and religion.
		Please enter the award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion.
		The mythology section is divided to six geographical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania.
		Each region has many clearly defined subdivisions that will ease your search.
	www.pantheon.org (235 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: World Mythology (Henry Holt Reference Book) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Mythology: The Illustrated Anthology of World Myth and Storytelling by C.
		The study of mythology does not suffer from a dearth of fine, scholarly reference books, but until now the general reader lacked a good, illustrated collection of the most important myths.
		The appearance of this mythology title in paper assures that the encyclopedia of facts will reach new audiences, providing maps, charts, family trees and selected mythological episode retellings.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805049134?v=glance (925 words)

	Asian Mythology: Myths and Legends of China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia:Storm, ...
		Mythology of India: Myths and Legends of India, Tibet and Sri Lanka
		Mythology of Asia and the Far East: Myths and Legends of China, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
		Egyptian Mythology: Myths and Legends of Egypt, Persia, Asia Minor, Sumer and Babylon
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0754806049 (170 words)

	Mythology's MythingLinks: Near East -- Anatolia
		Before turning to an examination of the relevant myths, two topics must be discussed briefly for the light they shed on the myths themselves: (1) the ecology of the area in antiquity, and (2) difficulties involved with using mythological material for research in general.
		Because of its favorable cool climate, eastern Asia Minor was home to prized varieties of hardwood trees essential for building, trees which did not grow in the hotter Mesopotamian lands to the south (6).
		In addition to such botanical and biological diversity, eastern Asia Minor and the Caucasus were (and remain) blessed with great mineral wealth.
	www.mythinglinks.org /NearEast~Anatolia.html (6367 words)

	Southeast Asia Program
		THE SOUTHEAST ASIA PROGRAM (SEAP), at Cornell, is recognized as a NATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER (NRC) by the United State Department of Education.
		As such, the Program is nationally prominent in promoting advanced foreign language training, area and international knowledge in the liberal arts and applied disciplines focused on Southeast Asia.
		The Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) at Cornell University not only has a comprehensive academic community, but a social community/culture that encompasses many friends with even more talents, as demonstrated on April 29th, 2005 at the Ithaca Women's Community Building.
	www.einaudi.cornell.edu /SoutheastAsia (257 words)

	Joseph_Campbell_Mythology_Group
		Myths never arise in a vacuum; they are the connective tissue of the social body which enjoys synergistic relations with dreams (private myths) and rituals (the enactment of myth).
		Any mythology worth remembering will be global in scope.
		Mystical watercolor paintings & dreamlike fiction rooted in mythology, archetypes & the divine feminine.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Sparta/9277 (557 words)

	Asia - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Asia : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Asia : US Envirionmental Protection Agency Terminology Reference System [home, info]
		Phrases that include Asia: asia minor, southeast asia, asia pacific economic cooperation, east asia, southeast asia treaty organization, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=Asia (294 words)

	Greek Myths - History for Kids!
		The religious beliefs of Classical Greece can be interpreted in many different ways.
		Pandora's Box: A Three-Dimensional Celebration of the Mythology of Ancient Greece, by Sara Maitland and Christos Kondeatis (1995).
		He has sections on each of the Greek gods, and discusses their deeper meanings, and their function in Greek society.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/greeks/religion/greekrelig.htm (366 words)

	Asia
		Asia is also the origin of many of the most important and ancient world religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
		It is worth noting that many of the Siberian traditions bear more than a passing resemblance to those of the Inuit and the Northwestern Native Americans.
		The Chukchee occupy the extreme north-eastern tip of Asia, adjacent to the Arctic Ocean and the Behring Strait.
	www.sacred-texts.com /asia (252 words)

	Joseph Campbell Foundation - Mythological RoundTables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Greek and Roman Fables Illustrated
		Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Middle and Southern Americas
		Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Northern Americas
	www.jcf.org /works.php?what=print (931 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Khmer Mythology : Secrets Of Angkor Wat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The great temples of Angkor are decorated with beautiful relief carvings that illustrate (mostly) Hindu mythology, with a few Buddhist and historical scenes.
		The sheer number and variety of reliefs is overwhelming; their length would total at least a mile or two, if laid end-to-end.
		This book will by enjoyed by readers who are interested in Khmer art and Hindu mythology; and those fortunate enough to visit Angkor will find this book to be enormously helpful in understanding and appreciating the reliefs that they will see there.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0834804247?v=glance (595 words)

	Asia (2) * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Asia (2) * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Asia was the land east of the Mediterranean Sea and extended to the desert wastes beyond India.
		The historian, Herodotus, speculated that Asia was named after Prometheus’ wife Asia but he is clearly unsure where any of the continents got their names; he also said that the Libyans believed that Asia was named after a man named Asies who was a member of the tribe of Asiads from the city of Sardis.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Asia_2.html (318 words)

	Origins of Greek Mythology * Essays * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Origins of Greek Mythology * Essays * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		About 1200 b.c.e., the residents of, what we would call, Greece and Asia Minor shared a common belief in a group of deities that came to be known as The Olympians.
		andquot;Origins of Greek Mythologyandquot;, Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/neomyth.html (555 words)

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