Hutton is good and thorough. He takes a delight in debunking assumptions so some folk might have their "faith " shaken. My particular interest lies in the lost mythologies of Britain and Northern Europe. Brian Branston's "Lost Gods of England" is brilliant and covers a much wider field than England - Indo-European roots, "Celtic" and Germanic similarities and divergences, Norse gods paralleling lost English (Anglo-Saxon) gods. Why have we let our native mythologies been overshadowed by those of Greece and Rome?