Of Gods and Men AKLC Crossing the Arctic Circle

Crossing the Arctic Circle

For much of the later twentieth century

emotional abuse is more devastating than physical abuse because victims are more likely to blame themselves

Stephen Muecke

and final escape from a suffocating cult environment is a revealing expose of a secretive contemporary sect

Of Gods and Men AKLC Crossing the Arctic CircleWith this volume, Greimas gives voice to the cultural memory of his people. He is both storyteller and explicator, deciphering the symbolic world of Lithuanian mythology. This first English translation of Apie Dievus ir zmones is a brilliant convergence of Greimas's historical and folkloric studies. Greimas examines the origins of ancient deities; discusses the concepts of life and death, fate and fortune; looks at codes used by farmers to organize