There are TWO sets of MYTHOLOGY OF ALL RACES.One complete 13-volume set is in the REF. section along with its INDEX which you ought to return to its shelf after using. An incomplete set [missing the all-important vol.12 -- Egypt & Classical]  is in the 3rd floor BL stacks. But its INDEX volume is supposed to be ON RESERVE, so no one can say they could not find an index.  Please return any of these volumes A.S.A.P.

Lowry's FAMILIAR MYSTERIES with two helpful chapters, Images of Chaos (about Monsters) and The Heroic Life Pattern is also ON RESERVE for 2 hours.

The monumental 13-volume, Mythology of All Races is arranged by cultures -- what they called back then, "Races." Each separate volume was edited by a different person, so each needs a separate "ID" card. Here are the volume sub-titles:

1. Greek and Roman   2. Eddic [Icelandic, ie. Norse, Teutonic ie. Germanic]  3. Celtic & Slavic   4. Finno-Ugric & Siberian  Sample MLA Works Cited format follows:

Holmberg, Uno. Mythology of All Races, vol. IV: Finno-Ugric, Siberian. New York:
                        Cooper Square Publishers, 1914/1964.

        5. Semitic [Arab, Hebrew, Phoenician, Syrian ] 6. Indian & Iranian  7. Armenian & African
        8.  Chinese, Japanese 9. Oceanic [Polynesian, Australian]  10. North American  11. Latin American
            [Central & South)  12. Egyptian & Indo-Chinese [Vietnamese, etc.] vol 13. is the Index.

    More definitions of "mythology"

    U. of Texas:

General and Theoretical:

    ASHLIMAN'S myth and folklore texts at University of Pittsburg.

    Astrology: http://www.astrologyguidance.com/articles/mythsun1.shtml

    Bartleby's Search Great Books online: several reference books online for definitions and identifications.

    Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1894 ed.  online

Suggestions for submissions? Visit Byrne's course at Nicolet College.

COSMOGONIES: ch. 2 of Scott Leonard's site: motifs and themes [lots of African refs.]
                        See also sections on Trickster and Sacred Places

Penelope's chart of deities , their 'sex' and what they represent.

Encyclopedia Mythica (pantheon.org) Searchable dictionary of more than 4000 terms from mythology around the world.

Enoch Pratt Free Library: (database for Humanities: Mythology) It contains
            Old Indian Legends (aboriginal American) full-text book by Zitkala-Sa, published in 1901.
           Bulfinch's Mythology:  Illustrated.

           Irish Mythology and Folklore: includes references to Irish literary figures (Yeats, Joyce, Synge, et al.)

           Mythmedia: Mythology in Western Art: art inspired by classical mythology by Ora Zahavi and Sonia Klinger
           University of Haifa library with excellent links. For example, Poseidon entry has 27 images from Bernini and Rubens,
                to the logo of Club Med.

            MythologyWeb: Folklore, Myths, Legends, an online monthly magazine. Back issues, email archive.
           The Mythology of the Constellations:  discussion of 28 major constellations

Fiske, John. Mythmakers ... , on comparative mythology (1869.)

Frazer, Sir James.  The Golden Bough (1922) on line with a SEARCH engine !

See para. re:  a cook in Dehradun concerning source of "customs":  subordination of memory

Probert Encyclopedia of myth -- can you find it?

Pibbums Regional Folklore and Mythology

UCar. mythology site according to topics with links to

Links to Haifa University collection of images#

    High History of the Holy Grail  at BookRags.com
see also Dante's Divine Comedy, Herodotus History of the Egyptians, etc.

motif and symbol in folktales and kid lit. U. of Guelph

Mythology  Pacifica Grad. Institute, K. Jenks links.

Mythology & Folklore Database: GALILEO, Ga., USA

Myths and Legends  one-stop shopping: links according to level, U. of Michigan site,

 Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions  John Fiske (1870.)

mythology lecture images Illinois Wesleyan U.

Good overview at Shannon Thunderbird's site

HotCakes Encyclopedia

• American tribal names and their meanings
• Haudenosaunee or,

• Iroquois Confederacy: Mohawk, Seneca, Onandaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Tuscarora.
• Kanawake today
• cosmogony
• Related by lang. and culture: Huron [Wyandot remain] & Cherokee.  See Native American languages and related information.
• Anishnabe [Cree] or Algonquin speak Ojibway.  [Algonkian is a lang. group including Cheyenne of US]

Cree Cultural Institute
Western Cree = Blackfoot, Stoney and Sarcee (Tsuu T'ina}of Calgary, Alberta
Eastern Cree are Innu [Iynu] incl. Montagnais, Naskapi, Mingan;  largest lang. group - 60, 000 speakers.

• the Were-Rabbit

• Abenaki [Penobscot of New England] and Micmac [Mi'kmoq]
• Manhattan, NY, USA was Delaware [Lenape] territory

 
• Winnebago (Hotchak) mythology (R. Dieterle)

Hopi stone carvings, an interpretation of 4 ages "prophecy"
Ellie, the author, says:  "The stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by the Tibetans, in Tibet. If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation to the other side of the world, you would come out in Tibet. The Tibetan word for "sun" is the Hopi word for "moon" and the Hopi word for "sun" is the Tibetan word for "moon".  -- Is that true?

Zitkala-Sa's (1876-1938) Old Indian Legends, 1901.  full text (Sioux)

McLaughlin's Myths and Legends of the Sioux

Lakota [branch of Sioux] sacred teachings: White-Buffalo-Calf-Woman, tobacco

The evidence is that they are descendants of Iroquois who migrated south.

A Sioux myth: -- Can anyone substantiate its authenticity?  (2 marks with citation)

"The Creator gathered all of creation and said, "I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is the realization that they create their own reality".

The eagle said, "Give it to me, I will take it to the moon".
The Creator said, "No. One day they will go there and find it".

The salmon said, "I will hide it on the bottom of the ocean".
"No. They will go there, too".

The buffalo said, "I will bury it on the great plains".
"They will cut into the skin of the earth and find it even there".

Then Grandmother Mole, who lives in the breast of Mother Earth, and who has no physical eyes but sees with spiritual eyes, said, "Put it inside them".

And the Creator said, "It is done".

Haida, Tsimshian, Tlingit, etc. cf. Japanese, Ainu, Korean ?

Mayan deities#

Lucian's De Dea Syria

Babylonian

FAQs Assyro-Babylonian mythology

FAQs Sumer

Explaining the Epic of Gilgamesh

Gateways to Babylon game? site but with ancient texts

 Inanna's descent to the underworld "From the great above..." transl. of Sumerian

myth and folklore:  Read about Mari.

              Other scriptural traditions have similar reference books.   Find out how  to refer to, or cite various other scriptures.

Apocalypse:  see http://www.audiowebman.org/bbc/books/ba/part_one/Chapter02.htm

Celtic (Irish, Welsh, Breton, etc.)
"The whole nation is war-mad, both high-spirited and ready for battle, but otherwise simple, though not uncultured." ~ geographer Strabo, 1st century CE.

"Golden is their hair and golden their garb. They are resplendent in their striped cloaks, and their milk-white necks are circled with gold." ~  poet Virgil, 1st century BCE.

on pronouncing the word Celtic

Celtic mythology [beginners]

Encyclopedia of the Celts

pronouncing Gaelic [pron. gallic] names (Scots, Irish, Welsh, Brythonic.)

Sheila na Gig, pre-Celtic? goddess

similarities between Old Irish and Akkadian [western Sumerian]

Celtic writing called Ogam   (as a topic? with permission only)

Chinese mythology themes, style, characters avail. in 2 Chinese fonts, too
 

• Message net:  gives exact location in texts and description of deity
• What the names of a Greek deity means conveys the essence of her/his character, eg.
• Athena's epithets.
• Sauromatians and the Amazons: see the grave of a woman warrior
• Cupid & Psyche (Lucius Apuleius, 2nd century CE)
• psy.cheh = "soul" cf. butterfly

• Minoan (Cretan) culture is the earliest Greek

• (Keftiu) "Atlantis":  Greek or African?
• relationships in Greek Mythology (C. Parada)

• Theoi Project : sources for topics in Classical mythology with authentic images from pottery.
• Greek Mythology [see also Classical] at Brown U., places and people search

• Classical Mythology, 6th ed.:  Full text.  Search.  Get a synopsis of Iliad, Odyssey and the Aeneid, too.  This is the text used at Concordia for Greek and Roman mythology.
• Homer's Iliad and also Odyssey full text  on Sacred Texts site  Use your search to find any word.
• Homer's The Iliad   (just cancel the password box) Hum. 110 at Reed U., Prof. Walter Englert.
• Apollodorus' Library summary online at Tufts University with Search.
• Thomas Bullfinch's Mythology part I, The Age of Fable, 1855.  Classical and Norse.

Prof. Mayer's collection of images links from many sites including the Perseus project:

• Page of Links to images on various sites.
• Diotima links:  women in the ancient (classical) world

Egyptian  esp. dualism - conflict between Horus and Set

Duke U. papyrus archives

Egyptian Pantheon with images

Myths of Aset /Isis:  a transformation of deities

Ancient Egypt Kid connection  ideas for projects: Test your knowledge with an on-line quiz.

Ancient Egypt links

Ancient Egypt Search results from Kidsclick
48 sites includes scarabs, Cleopatra, daily life, Rosetta stone, hieroglyphs, Sphinx, Nefertiti, etc.
 

Ancient World Web - Use this site to search for specifics.

EAWC Site Index: Egypt  16 sites from Exploring the Ancient World Cultures Website. Additional search capability through Argos.

The "Eye of Ra" or the Udjat [Wadjet] and its meaning.  It is a numerical symbol that actually represents the cobra goddess.

Guardian's Egypt  frames. Choose from the topics on the left . Kings and Pharaohs, Sites and Monuments, and Mummies.

Life in Ancient Egypt daily life, funerary customs, gods and religion, and a chronology of events.

Pyramids: the Inside Story from Nova   Follow the links to see inside a pyramid.
 

          Legends and Sagas  (ie, pre-Christian mythology in literary form)

More Norse sagas and other European early texts

Herbs in Northern European non-Christian culture

Bullfinch, Part II and III,  Age of Chivalry and Legends of Charlemagne

McLintock.  Song and Legend from the Middle Ages.

Folklore, Fairy tales, Nursery Rhymes, Customs, Beliefs, Superstitions
(This aspect is to be done only AFTER you have tackled 'true' mythology.)

Nursery Rhymes: eg. http://www.quinion.com Pop goes the weasel ...

'Fakelore' 'Disneyfication: Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, etc
"It is a matter of grave importance that Fairy tales should be respected... . Whosoever alters them to suit his own opinions, whatever they are, is guilty, to our thinking, of an act of presumption, and appropriates to himself what does not belong to him." ~ Charles Dickens (1853) Frauds on Fairies quoted in
 Fakelore, Multiculturalism, and the Ethics of Children's Literature  by Eliot A. Singer
"So-called "multicultural folktale" picture books are a popular means for teaching about other cultures, especially in the primary grades. However, almost all these books are "fakelore". Many are based on spurious legends, originally written for popular audiences following a romantic formula that were never told in traditional communities. "

Indian:  Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and other

Exotic India Art (Nitin's.com site) newletters on various topics. Generally high quality, also traditional images.

Indus valley/Saraswati River/Harrapans vs. Aryan invasion "hypothesis" *** Michel Dannino

India:  Devi God in her female form, a Sackler exhibit

Himachal tour of places sacred to Sati, Shakti, Kali, Shiva with assoc. myths

Kamat's Pot-pourri pictures with explanations of Indian mythology

Mahabharata retold by Aneesh Patel with notes.  See also Vishvarupa below.

mythologie bouddhiste fr., world myth, also myth in bandes dessinees

Sanskrit language links

Vishvarupa Project revelation of form of universe by Krishna in Mahabharata

Oneworld: Japanese mythology

Japanese ghosts obake, oni etc.

Samurai comics Usagi Yojimbo with links and faq's about myth and other things Japanese. anime#

• Sumer and Akkad:  myth of Innana and also the Enuma Elish

See also, European, and "Creative Mythology" as Campbell in the Masks of God calls Arthurian legend.
• The Viking Answer-lady
• Norse mythology;  meanings of words
• The Frisians' Oera Linda Bookand the Freya = Minerva theory
• Teutonic & Eddic full texts including Grimm's Teutonic Mythology [You may want to change settings to read easily.]
•  Beowulf  European dragon Grendel and his mum, link to one and only source, ca.1000 CE manuscript,British Museum.
• background with link to a reading of Beowulf
• A prose version of Beowulf , also Gawain and the Green Knight
• Tacitus' Germania  customs of Celt and other tribal people in 1st century CE

• about the19th century 'find' but includes startling [mistaken] phrase "Despite this new leash of [sic] life"

• Risala [Russia ruled by Norse] by Ibn Fadlan 921 CE cf. fiction of Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the Dead.
• D B Shumway. The Nibelungenlied. 1909. All about Siegried and them.

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