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Encyclopedia of gods :over 2,500 deities of the world

Michael Jordan

Jordan, Michael;

Encyclopedia of gods :over 2,500 deities of the world

Facts on File 1993-07 Hardcover, 337 pages

ISBN 0816029091

topics:  | reference | religion


blurb:
more than 2,500 deities, from the most ancient gods of polytheistic
societies - Hittite, Sumerian, Mesopotamian - to the most contemporary gods
of the major monotheistic religions - Allah, God, Yahweh. Among the cultures
included are African peoples, Albanian, Pre-Islamic Arabian, Aztec,
Babylonian, Buddhist, Canaanite, Celtic, Egyptian, Native American, Etruscan,
Germanic, Greek, Roman, Hindu, Persian, Polynesian, and Shinto.


amitabha mukerjee (mukerjee [at] gmail.com) 17 Mar 2009