Ancient Europe. The Titans in Greek mythology ; Complex goddesses : Athena, Aphrodite, Hera ; Gods and humanity in Greek thought ; Herakles and the Greek hero ; Odysseus, master of schemes ; The Golden Fleece and the hero's return -- Romulus, Remus, and Rome's origins ; Roman heroes and traitors ; The Mother Goddess in Rome and beyond ; The Dagda's harp and other Celtic myths ; Norse tales of Odin and Thor ; Hammers, rings, and other Norse magic.
The world's oldest myth : Gilgamesh ; The Babylonian creation story ; Chaos and order in Egypt ; Horus, Osiris, and Ra ; Myths of the Pharaohs ; The Book of Job -- The great Indian epics ; The Bhagavad Gita ; Stories of the Buddha ; Persia's Book of Kings --; One Thousand and One Nights ; Tales of flood and fire.
The beauty of African mythology ;-- African creation stories --; African religious cosmology ; Tricksters of Africa ; Africa's gods and humanity ; Close encounters with African divinities -- Cult of African myth ; The African morality tale ; The Dausi and African epics ; The epic of Bakaridjan Kone ; Death and the afterlife in African myth ; African heroes in the underworld.
Culture and cosmos in Chinese mythology ; Chinese heroes, kings, and destroyers ; Peasant folktales and Chinese scholarship ; Spirits and syncretism in Korean myth ; Korea's warring kingdoms and flying dragons ; Japanese tales of purity and defilement -- Gods, rice, and the Japanese state ; Nature gods and tricksters of Polynesia ; Creation and misbehavior in Micronesia ; Melanesian myths of life and cannibalism ; Origins in Indonesia and the Philippines ; Aboriginal and colonial myths of Australia.
Nature in Native American myth ; Inuit and Northern Forest mythology ; Tales and rituals of the Iroquois League ; Southeast Amerindian origin stories ; Mythology of the Plains peoples ; Amerindian tales from the Northwest -- The Navajo emergence myth ; Stories of the Pueblo ; Native American tricksters ; The Maya and the Popol Vuh ; Aztec myth meets Hernán Cortés ; Inca myth as imperial mandate.
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