The Mythology of All Races, volume 5: Semitic mythology

Record summary

Stephen Herbert Langdon’s volume in The Mythology of All Races presents Mesopotamian and related Semitic materials, including demons, divine transformations, monstrous beings, and narrative traditions preserved in cuneiform texts. It offers identifiable ancient sources for comparing shape-changing or hybrid beings such as demons, protective spirits, and divine figures. The lead concerns textual and scholarly transmission, not modern encounters. Langdon’s reconstructions and comparative claims are now dated, so current editions and specialist studies should be consulted before treating his interpretations as consensus.