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Out of the ark : stories from the world's religions

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  • J 291 G (CEN)

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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.

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Jackie Morris

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