¿Qué ocurre cuando entramos en contacto con historias y mitos de otros pueblos? ¿Qué enriquecimiento y qué peligros se perfilan cada vez que encontramos al otro? El mito fundamenta la relación del ser humano con...
Buena parte de los manuscritos del Kamasutra, el tratado sobre el arte erótico compuesto en India en torno al siglo III d. C, estaban miniados; desgraciadamente, ninguno de los ejemplares antiguos ha sobrevivido. Para resarcirnos de esa pérd...
The Kamasutra , composed in the third century CE, is the worldâs most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serio...
In this magisterial volume of essays , Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically importan...
Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods doubling as mortals, whose bodies are split or divided. In Splitting the Difference, the renowned scholar of mythology Wendy...
The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo- European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200 900 BC) is a collection of over 1,000 individual Sanskrit hymns.