nothing widens one's horizons so well as getting into another culture, and realizing how much of one's own culture is simply arbitrary choices often based on history. These stories are non-Western, from a culture that is very, very non-Western. For that reason alone, they are worth reading. One doesn't understand a culture until one understands its stories. I came to my study of Australian Aboriginal culture from Journey to the Ancestral Self: The Native Lifeway Guide to Living in Harmony With Earth Mother, Book 1 (Bk.1), which was endorsed by an Aborigine, saying, "Yes, this is how we live". Leave behind your Greek mythology, and Western ideas, enter this book with a blank mind, though, as it is just very different, something like the way House of Shattering Light: Life as an American Indian Mystic is different.