Encyclopedia of Ancient Cosmologies – Volume 9 of 9: Australia, Oceania, and Comparative Cosmology
Book 9 of Tony Yustein's global encyclopedia explores Australian and Oceanian cosmologies and concludes the series with a careful comparative synthesis.
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Australia, Oceania, and Comparative Cosmology
Encyclopedia of Ancient Cosmologies, Volume 9 completes Tony Yustein’s nine-volume journey across the ancient world. It is both a regional study of Australia and Oceania and the series’ concluding comparison of how human societies have understood creation, cosmic order, sacred landscape, time, ancestry, death, renewal, ritual, and political authority.
Land, sea, stars, ancestry, and responsibility
The regional chapters move through northern, central, southern, and eastern Australian knowledge systems; Torres Strait sea-sky traditions; Maori whakapapa; the Hawaiian Kumulipo; wider Polynesian genealogies; and Melanesian and Micronesian worlds of origin and navigation.
Country is approached as more than landscape: it joins ancestral action, law, memory, kinship, ceremony, ecological knowledge, and continuing responsibility. The discussion connects stars, winds, tides, reefs, seasonal cycles, sacred routes, mountains, rivers, islands, gardens, navigation, and the living presence of ancestors without collapsing distinct peoples and regions into a single mythology.
A comparative conclusion to the full series
The final chapters compare primordial waters and darkness, creation through speech or sacrifice, emergence and separation, cosmic mountains and world trees, temples and celestial bodies, calendars and world ages, catastrophe and rebirth, personhood and afterlife, liberation, ritual, kingship, transmission, and cultural memory.
The volume treats comparison as useful but hazardous. Similarity is not presented as automatic proof of contact or common origin. Archaeology, ancient texts, oral tradition, later interpretation, and modern speculation remain distinct evidence classes, and the limits of what can responsibly be published are made visible.
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- Author: Tony Yustein
- Series: Encyclopedia of Ancient Cosmologies
- Series position: Book 9 of 9
- Regional and comparative focus: Australia, Oceania, and Comparative Cosmology
- Chapters: 12 substantive chapters, numbered 109-120 across the complete series
- Source manuscript: approximately 138,000 words
- Language: English
- Publication date: September 11, 2026
- Kindle edition: 575 estimated pages; ASIN B0HJJS3Q1R
- Paperback edition: 551 pages; ISBN-13 979-8-17350-404-3
- Hardcover edition: 409 pages; ISBN-13 979-8-17350-555-2
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