Daniel Deardorff (1952-2019) was a mythsinger, storyteller, ritualist, composer, and producer. A polio survivor and early teacher about Otherness, he toured extensively with renowned soft-rock band Seals and Crofts and produced award-winning albums for other artists. When post-polio sequelae required change, he became an independent scholar of myth teaching internationally with Robert Bly and others. [...] continues his work restoring myth to culture and community.

Foreword: Thrown Out the Window by Robert Simmons

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The City and the Forest by Robert Bly

Overture
Raven Whispers & Forbidden Doors

PreludeSongs of the Dog-Man
Scapegoat: A Stricken Deer
Aporia: Alexander’s Iron Gate
Wasters, Rhymers, Minstrels & Other Vagabonds
Fire on the Mountain
Mandorla: The Bird-Masked Dog-Toothed Dancers
The Bird with One Leg

Part OneTrickster Wisdom
The Crucible: In the Iron Cradle
Kaleidoscope: The Ten Thousand Things
Chymera: Mirror of the Beast

Part Two
The Leaping Consciousness
Dragon Smoke: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Gnomonica: The Tree of Joyful Difficulty
The Lyre: Where the Callus Meets the String

Coda Masquerade
The Drum: For the Serpent & the Bird
Of the Spirit & the Flesh
The Singer: Throw Yourself Like Seed
The Cauldron: And Each Is the Work of All

Afterword: Danny’s Leap by Martin Shaw

Glossary

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

About the Authors and the Mythsinger Legacy Project