No.13898
Are there any comprehensive books on Chinese mythology? Every book I've come across on the subject apparently doesn't even scratch the surface according to reviews on them. Is there anything like Edith Hamilton's Mythology, but for China?
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No.13903
I've been trying to find Tengriist stuff for awhile
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No.13924
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No.13925
>Are there any comprehensive books on Chinese mythology?
That's a very broad statement and you know it, you're asking for something equivalent to putting all western Pagan religions all in one book.
No.
Go read a basic wiki page on all of the Chinese religions and myths and then come here and tell us which ones you like and we'll give you the books but otherwise we can't help with such a vague statement.
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No.13926
>>13925
>tell us which ones you like and we'll give you the books
Could you recommend some that you're into, anon?
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No.13929
>>13925
I didn't realize Chinese mythology was so broad. I guess something about the very earliest legends. Like the Chinese creation myth.
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No.13934
>>13926
>>13929
I'm not an expert believe it or not, the closest thing I'd know of is the I Ching, but that's not the earliest nor the most influential, I simply stated the logic in OP's statement it flawed.
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No.13942
>>13898
>Creation of the Gods.
King Zhou vs Jiang Taigong and Nezha. Epic War
>White Snake, Green Snake
Commoner's Belief
>Four Great Classics
Has a few paragraphs each about to the Myths.
Chinese mythology are not lost to history unlike the European (Greek, Celtic and Norse) that died to Christianity, so a very comprehensive books is impossible. Better to read literature instead. The link describe some of it well.
http://www.demystifyingconfucianism.info/the-creation-of-lesser-gods
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No.13943
>>13898
http://www.demystifyingconfucianism.info/confucius-laozi-Daoism-and-Buddhism
This link show why books on Chinese Mythology can only scratched the surface because basically:
>"There are usually discrepancies between a religion understood by scholars and the religion practiced by common people."
Asian religions do not have a unified canon like the Abrahamic religions, they have many folk belief, different books, different customs and an important taboo in one area may be considered normal in another.
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