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“Electrifying. . . . A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis in action. . . . May also be read with pleasure and profit by someone concerned with that aspect of self-discovery that comes through knowledge of the universal and timeless myths that continue to exist in all of us.”—Jonathan Sharp, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle
“A characteristic tour de force. . . . One continues to be awed by him.”—Colin Thubron, Sunday Times
“With all its epistemological depth, the book reads now and then like a Simenon or a Lewis Carroll, fusing concise methodology with mastery of favor.”—Bernadette Bucher, American Ethnologist
“[An] engagingly provocative exploration of mythology within the Americas. . . . At all times a excellent read.”—Choice
“A playful, highly entertaining book, fluently and elegantly translated by Bénédicte Chorier.”—Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty, New York Times Book Review