Edgar Dacqué Knihy

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Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorrede -- Einführung -- Theorie und Wissenschaft -- Wirklichkeitswert der Sagen und Mythen -- Naturhistorie -- Typenkreise und biologischer Zeitcharakter -- Das erdgeschichtliche Alter des Menschenstammes -- Körpermerkmale des sagenhaften Urmenschen -- Urmensch und Sagentiere -- Die Atlantissage -- Die geologische Erklärung der noachitischen Sintflut -- Der Wesenskern des Sintflutereignisses -- Die kosmische Erklärung der noachitischen Sintflut -- Datierung und Raumbegrenzung der noachitischen Sintflut -- Jüngere Fluten und Landuntergänge -- Vagen von Mond und Sonne -- Sternsagen -- Gondwanaland -- Metaphysik -- Das Metaphysische in Natur und Mythus -- Natursichtigkeit als ältester Seelenzustand -- Kulturseele und Urwelt -- Naturdämonie und Paradies -- Die Naturals Abbild des Menschen -- Die Quelle der Weltentstehungs- und Weltuntergangssagen -- Seelenwanderung, Tod und Erlösung -- Anmerkungen -- Backmatter