Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection. (pre-Loved)

In loving memory of our dear friend Arik

Authors: Joseph Lewis Henderson & Maud Oakes

pre-Loved (Second hand): very good condition

The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection:

The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and rebirth into transcendent, “unknowable” life. Henderson and Oakes trace the images and patterns of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, the cycles of nature and universal human responses in art and dreaming. The authors dramatize the metamorphosis from a common experience of death’s inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond the individual’s limitations. 320 pages.