"Course number 2380."

Each container twelve 30 minute lectures on 6 discs.

In five containers (19 cm.).

Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 447-483).

disc 6. Hammers, rings, and other Norse magic. Complex goddesses: Athena, Aphrodite, Hera -- disc 2. Gods and humanity in Greek thought -- Herakles and the Greek hero -- disc 3. Odysseus, master of schemes -- The Golden Fleece and the hero's return -- disc 4. Romulus, Remus, and Rome's origins -- Roman heroes and traitors -- disc 5. The Mother goddess in Rome and beyond -- The Dagda's harp and other Celtic myths -- disc 6. Norse tales of Odin and Thor -- Hammers, rings, and other Norse magic.

disc 12. Tales of flood and fire. The Babylonian creation story -- disc 8. Chaos and order in Egypt -- Horus, Osiris, and Ra -- disc 9. Myths of the Pharaohs -- The book of Job -- disc 10. The great Indian epics -- The Bhagavad Gita -- disc 11. Stories of the Buddha -- Persia's Book of Kings -- disc 12. One thousand and one nights -- Tales of flood and fire.

disc 18. African heroes in the underworld. African creation stories -- disc 14. African religious cosmology -- Tricksters of Africa -- disc 15. Africa's gods and humanity -- Close encounters with African divinities -- disc 16. Culture heroes of African myth -- The African morality tale -- disc 17. The Dausi and African epics -- The epic of Bakaridjan Kone -- disc 18. Death and the afterlife in African myth -- African heroes in the underworld.

disc 17. Aboriginal and Colonial myths of Australia. Chinese heroes, kings, and destroyers -- disc 20. Peasant folktales and Chinese scholarship -- Spirits and syncretism in Korean myth -- disc 21. Korea's warring kingdoms and flying dragons -- Japanese tales of purity and defilement -- disc 22. Gods, rice, and the Japanese state -- Nature gods and tricksters of Polynesia -- disc 23. Creation and misbehavior in Micronesia -- Melanesian myths of life and cannibalism -- disc 17. Origins in Indonesia and the Philippines -- Aboriginal and Colonial myths of Australia.

disc 30. Inca myth as imperial mandate. Inuit and Northern Forest mythology -- disc 26. Tales and rituals of the Iroquois league -- Southeast Amerindian origin stories -- disc 27. Mythology of the Plains peoples -- Amerindian tales from the Northwest -- disc 28. The Navajo emergence myth -- Stories of the Pueblo -- disc 29. Native American tricksters -- The Maya and the Popol Vuh -- disc 30. Aztec myth meets Hernán Cortés -- Inca myth as imperial mandate.

Lecturers: Kathryn McClymond (Ancient Europe, The Middle East and South Asia), Georgia State University ; Julius H. Bailey (Africa), University of Redlands ; Robert André LaFleur (Asia and the Pacific), Beloit College ; Grant L. Voth (The Americas), Monterey Peninsula College.