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Out of the ark : stories from the world's religions
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Publication Information
San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1996.
Physical Description
96 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Summary
Retells stories from religions around the world, arranged in such categories as "Creation Stories," "Flood Stories," and "Animal Stories."
Contents
- (CREATION STORIES) Baiame, the Great Spirit
- The churning of the Sea of Milk
- How Shiva got his blue throat
- Izanagi and Izanami
- In the beginning
- Old Spider and the giant clamshell
- Men, monkeys, and Mukula
- The earth diver
- Yin, Yang, and the cosmic egg
- Inca ancestors. (FLOOD STORIES) Ea, Ziusdra, and the great flood
- How the fish saved Manu
- The Lie and evil enter the ark
- Fire, ice, and flood. (ANIMAL STORIES) The great bronze buddha and the whale
- The valley of the ants
- Hunuman, and the search for Sita
- The hare and the earthquake.
- (cont. continued) (BIRTH, COURTSHIP, AND MARRIAGE) The story of Maryam's son
- The first christmas
- How dayamanti chose her husband
- The blue God's birth
- How ganesh got his elephant head. (WAR, PESTILENCE, AND PERSECUTION) The Golem of Prague
- The prince and the Guru's Cloak
- How Rama defeated Ravana
- The battles of Badr and Uhud
- The ten plagues of Egypt. (LIVES OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS) The life of the Buddha
- Muhamad escapes from Mecca
- Abraham and the idols
- The life of Guru Nanak
- The merchant and the five hundred gold coins
- Jesus' last days.