Table of Contents:
I. MESOPOTAMIA
The Enuma Elish
The Myth of Telepinu, Hittite God of Fertility
II. PERSIA
"Avesta, The Bible of Zoroaster"
III. INDIA
From the Matsya Purana ("The Yuga Cycle")
From: Hindu Mythology and Literature as Recorded by Portuguese Missionaries of the Early 17th Century
IV. EGYPT
From Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride ("Of Isis and Osiris")
V. WEST AFRICA
From Myths of Ife, Yoruba Creation Myth
VI. GREECE
From Theogony, by Hesiod
From Works and Days, by Hesiod
“Hymn V” (To Aphrodite) by Homer
“Hymn II (To Demeter)” by Homer
“Hymn IV (To Hermes)” by Homer
VII. CHINA
from Tao, The Great Luminant: Essays from the Huai Nan Tzu, from “Dissertation on The Cosmic Spirit”
from Tao, The Great Luminant: Essays from the Huai Nan Tzu, from “Dissertation on Life and Soul or The Keeper of the Soul"
VIII. JAPAN
from Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697, Vol. 1
Nihongi: Endnotes
IX. NORTHERN EUROPE
Gylfaginning (The Fooling Of Gylfe), from the Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson
X. BRITISH ISLES
from the Lebor Gabala Erenn (The Book of the Takings of Ireland)
Cath Maige Tuired ("The Second Battle of Mag Tuired")
XI. SOUTH AMERICA
from "Sum and Narration of the Incas, which the Indians called Capaccuna, who were lords of the city of Cuzco, and everything on the subject"
from The Royal Commentaries of the Incas, By the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega
XII. MESOAMERICA
from The Popol Vuh
XIII. NORTH AMERICA
The Story of the Emergence, from Navajo Legends
The Story of the Emergence: Endnotes
A Tale of Skyworld, from Seneca fiction, legends and myths
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature and Composition
- Religious Studies
- World Cultures
- World Literature
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Author:
- Jared Aragona
- Date Added:
- 10/18/2021
