The Gate of Horn

by Gertrude Rachel Levy

"There are aspects of her book which probably influenced my sense of what it means to be human; once read they were never quite forgotten. That is true, in some way, of the whole thrust of her story...It struck me somewhat as The Golden Bough had done but its argument seemed even more immediate and pertinent, closer to the coherence of a work of art...Levy was also a classicist, and part of her story is concerned with the development--as seen through burial practices, symbols, and maps of return--of the concept of the individual soul, the person or aspect of a person that might be reborn, that suffered and hoped and was remembered in myths." W. S. Merwin

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Religion, Mythology

349 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1963

Reviews

[Thom Dunn]

Title of my paperback edition: Religious Conceptions of the Stone Age and Their Influence Upon European Thought.