Author Description

The Unicorn (A Mythological Investigation) was written by English author, mythologer and historian Robert Brown, being originally published in 1881. The work is a rounded astro-mythological view of the unicornic myth. Brown, an accomplished scholar of ancient mythology, astrolatry, and history in his own day, takes a detailed look at the unicorn as embedded within ancient motif of the lion and the unicorn as solar and lunar figures, which according to him exhibit concepts and narratives of diurnal time and cosmic order. Brown believed this work also to be a serious contribution to the field of psychology due to its reflection of a complex and enchanted worldview developed by the genius of archaic man that is not easily unpicked by the quantitative scientific worldview.