This formidable work of art and scholarship concerns the myths of the first peoples—the hunter-gatherers of our ancestry and of today. Their images, their beliefs, are deeply sophisticated and as troubling and inspiring as the reader will let them be. The medium, arch-mythologist Joseph Campbell, is welcoming you to a long night’s journey. This is Volume I of an Historical Atlas of World Mythology. Maps abound, along with some of the best reproductions yet of mythic creatures both famous and heretofore little known.