Presents brief entries describing the gods and goddesses from the mythology and religion of a wide variety of cultures throughout history.

This reference book offers a comprehensive survey of gods and goddesses from cultures across the globe, with each entry covering specific cultures, dates of worship, the role the god played, and defining characteristics and symbols.

As the first significant anthropological descriptions of northeastern Siberia, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked not only the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. Jochelson's work The Yakut, for which he draw on results of his earlier fieldwork in that area, was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the northeastern Siberia.

A dictionary of selected forms in classical Japanese literature. Includes examples from identified texts such as Kojiki, Tsurezuregusa, Makura no Soshi, and Genji Monogatari. Specifically explains paradigms of verb and adjective inflexions, conjugations of all inflected forms, principle entries according to the standard Japanese system, honorifics, compound forms by reference to their constituent elements, and differentiating homonyms and other confusing forms.