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Legends Collection

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What are the oldest books on legends, myths, and folklore?

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I'd like to start a little collection.
I'm looking for all kinds that involve demons, gods, monsters, etc. Maybe the greatest from each country/continent?
I'm not looking for brand new modern books. I want the oldest of the old.

Arguably some of the Greek or Roman works, there are also some Asian texts sometimes mentioned. Can you describe a little bit more about what you are looking for?

Marvel Legends Collection and More

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Tower Legends - Legends about famous towers from the ancient world

The Bible tells of a remote time when men journeyed from the East and found a plain in the land of Shinar. . . . "And they said to one another, 'Come, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach heaven" - and we all know what happened to that tower.

Centuries after the building of the Tower of Babel, an Arab poet, El Deraoui, wrote of another tower, the Pharos, the great lighthouse off the northern coast of Egypt, "On its height a dome enshadowed me and thence I saw my friends the stars. I thought the sea
below me was a cloud and that I had set up my tent in the midst of the heavens."

When travellers from Africa's interior made the journey North down the Nile, at Aswan, the entrance to Egypt, they were greeted by an impressive facade of temples and buildings sitting astride Elephantine island, mid-stream of the Nile. Whereas travellers approaching from the north would only see an island with typical vegetation and habitation. The buildings and temples at the southern end of the island were meant to impress upon those entering Egypt that they were now in the presence of greatness, entering a place of great strength. Indeed the temples and buildings all the way down the Nile only reinforced this belief.

Since ancient times towers have made a poetic appeal if only because their presence spoke of strength, intellegence and power. Towers of many kinds, in all ages and in all countries, have met varying needs. There have been watchtowers, cathedral towers, clock towers, bell towers, towers to commemorate victories, towers to honour the living and towers to celebrate the dead. Around many of the towers, legends have clung - some of these legends are very well known. Towers will always stand midway between awe and fear, fact and poetry, the legends relating to them, more often than not, look in these two directions.

This book has brought together 11 such legends from the ancient world with a desire to record some of the characteristic tales that blend with a few of the noble towers of the earth.

33% of the Publisher's profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charity.

For more information, a table of contents or to sample the contents, go to
http://www.abelapublishing.com/Towers.html

To view the "Anthologies and Collections" collection follow this link http://www.abelapublishing.com/FairyTaleCollections.html

About the Author

Educated at Westville Boys High, Durban, South Africa, between 1970 and 1976, he excelled at middle-distance athletics. A family tragedy prevented him touring the USA and gaining an athletics scholarship.

Following high school he completed two years national service in the South African Air Force and therafter backpacked around Europe for two years.

He has a diploma in Business Computing and an MBA from Bath University and has worked in various industries in South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Since 1999 he has been running his own management consultancy in the UK specialising in running Corporate Transformation and Turnaround programmes.

Following his MBA he wrote an historical novel "Legend of the Last Vikings" which was the catalyst for leading him into publishing. He established Abela Publishing in 2008/9 as a social enterprise. He has been publishing new and old children's stories, fairytales, folklore, myths and legends from which he donates 33% of Abela Publishing's profit to charities around the world.

To see which charities are currently supported, go to http://www.abelapublishing.com/charity.html

To view the entire Fairytales, Folklore, Myths and Legends catalogue, go to
http://www.abelapublishing.com/catalogue.html