Two Hands of God: The Myths of Polarity

Alan Watts explores the myths of polarity in The Two Hands of God. Drawing on traditions from China, Egypt, India, the Middle East and medieval Europe, he considers how opposing qualities are understood through myth, literature and art.

Themes such as light and darkness and the Chinese concepts of yin and yang become ways of examining difference and unity. For readers interested in comparative mythology and Watts’s interpretation of human experience, rather than a collection of practical divination techniques.