10 Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 172-8; Wilhelm Schmidt, The Origin of the Idea of God (New York, 1912), passim.
11 Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, 99-108.
12 Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 54-86.
13 Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers, The power of Myth (New York, 1988), 87.
14 Ibid.
15 Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 63.
16 Walter Burkert, Homo Necans, The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth (trans. peter Bing, Los Angeles, Berkeley and London, 1983), 88-93.
17 Ibid., 15-22.
18 Campbell, The Power of Myth, 72-74; Burkert, Homo Necans, 16-22.
19 Joannes Sloek, Devotional Language (trans. Henrik Mossin, Berlin and New York, 1996), 50-52, 68-78, 135.
20 Walter Burkert, Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1980), 90-94; Joseph Campbell, Historical Atlas of World Mythology: Volume 2: The Way of the Animal Powers; Part 1: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers (New York, 1988), 58-80; The Power of Myth, 79-81. 21 Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 194-226; Campbell, The Power of Myth, 81-85. 22 Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 225.
23 Campbell, The Power of Myth, 124-25.
24 Burkert, Homo Necans, 94-5.
25 Homer, The Iliad, 21:470.
26 Burkert, Greek Religion, 149-152.
27 Burkert, Homo Necans, 78-82.
28 Eliade, Patterns of Comparative Religion, 331-343.
29 Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 138-40; Patterns in Comparative Religion, 256-261.
30 Hosea 4:11-19; Ezekiel 8:2-18;2 Kings 23:4-7.
31 Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 161-171; Patterns in Comparative Religion, 242-253.
32 Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 162-65.
33 Ibid., 168-171.
34 Ibid., 188-89.
35 Genesis 3:16-19.
36 Anat_Baal Texts 49:11:5; quoted in E.O. James, The Ancient Gods (London, 1960), 88.
37 ‘Inanna’s Journey to Hell’ in Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia (trans, and ed. N.K. Sanders, London, 1971), 165.
38 Ibid., 163.
39 Campbell, The Power of Myth, 107-11.
40 Ezekiel 8:14; Jeremiah 32:29, 44:15; Isaiah 17:10.
41 Burkert, Structure and History, 109-110.
42 Burkert, Structure and History, 123-28; Homo Necans, 255-297; Greek Religion, 159-161.
43 Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 227-8; Patterns in Comparative Religion, 331.
44 Karl Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History (trans. Michael Bullock, London, 1953), 47.
45 Gwendolyn Leick, Mesopotamia, The Invention of the City (London, 2001), 268. 46 Genesis 4:17.
47 Genesis 4:21-22.
48 Genesis 11:9.
49 Leick, Mesopotamia, 22-23.
50 In other epics, Atnahasis is called Ziusudra and Utrapishtim (‘he who found life’).
51 Thokhild Jacobsen, ‘The Cosmos as State’ in H. and H.A. Frankfort (eds), The Intellectual Adventure of ancient Man, An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East (Chicago, 1946), 186-197.
52 Ibid., 169.
53 Enuma Elish, 1:8-11, in Sandars, Poems of Heaven and Hell, 73.
54 Enuma Elish, VI:19, in Sanders, Poems of Heaven and Hell, 99.
55 Isaiah 27:1 Job 3:12; 26:13; Psalms 74:14.
56 Eliade, Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, 80-81; The Myth of the Eternal Return, 17.
57 The Epic of Gilgamesh, I:iv:6, 13,19, Myths from Mesopotamia, Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (trans. Stephanie Dalley, Oxford, 1989), 55.
58 lbid., I:iv: 30-36, p. 56.
59 Ibid., VI:ii:1-6, p. 78.
60 Ibid., VI:ii: 11-12, p. 78-9.
61 Ibid., XI:vi:4, p. 118.
62 David Damrosch, The Narrative Covenant. Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (san Francisco, 1987), 88-118.
63 Epic of Gilgamesh, XI:ii:6-7 in Dalley, 113.
64 lbid., I:9-12, 25-29, p.50.
65 Ibid., 1:4-7, p.50.
66 Robert A. Segal, ‘Adonis: A Greek Eternal Child’ in Dora C. pozzi and John M. Wickersham (eds), Myth and the polis (Ithaca, New York and London, 1991), 64-86.
67 Karl Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History (trans. Michael Bullock, London 1953), 1-78.
68 The author of the Dao De Jing, which did not become known until the mid-third century, was using the name of the fictitious sage Laozi, who was often thought to have lived in the late seventh or sixth century, as a pseudonym.
