It has perhaps never been more important than it is today to un-derstand the world around us and the world?s religions. It is now well understood that health, climate, and economic issues are truly global. Upon the publication of this volume, in which Campbell delves into the fables and folklore of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Shintoism, Professor Robert Gorham Davis of Columbia Univer-sity wrote, ?It is impossible to read this startling and entertaining book without an enlarged sense of total human possibility.? Orien-tal Mythology remains mesmerizing in its eloquence, its scope, and its tantalizing vision of what may next emerge.
