Contents

About the Author

Dedication

Introduction

Children of the Sun: North and South America

The Spirit of the Yosemite

The Children of the Sun

How Sedna Became a Sea Goddess

How the Si’a Bird Stole the Jewels

The Rainbow Maiden

How the Milky Way Came to Be

A Bride for the Morning Star

And Then There Were Butterflies

Coyote Kills the Giant

The Hero Twins

The Volcano Goddess

Sister Sun and Brother Moon

Br’er Rabbit and the Tar Baby

How the Bears Lost the Fire

Magical Mystery Tour: Myths from the British Isles

A Wife Made of Flowers

King Arthur and Excalibur

The Fairy Flag of the MacLeod

Dagda’s Harp

The Selkie Wife

Finn MacCool, the Wise Warrior

Deirdre of the Sorrows

The Champion’s Portion

Of Pharaohs and Forests: African and Egyptian Legends

Ra the Golden God

What a Little Moonlight Can Do

Osiris, the Pharaoh of Egypt

Isis’s Quest for Osiris’s Remains

Horus Seeks Revenge

The Doomed Prince

Kachirambe

How the Sun and the Moon Came to Be

Lonkundo Traps a Wife

Why Bushmen Fear the Rainbow

Mwindo, the Boy Warrior

European Mosaic: Norse, Swedish and Beyond

How Thor Got His Hammer Back

Vainamoinen

Beowulf, the Monster Slayer

A Mother Seeks Revenge

Pomona Meets Her Match

An Echo and a Flower

How Prometheus Stole Fire

The Girl Who Became a Tree

Theseus and the Minotaur

Those Halcyon Days in Winter

And Then Came the Spider

How Apollo Got His Lyre

Desert Tapestry: West and Central Asian Myths

To Kill a Mighty Serpent

Inanna Goes to the Underworld

The Rescue of Inanna

Someone Else to Take Her Place

Gilgamesh Meets His Match

Gilgamesh and the Cedar Forest

Marduk, the Lord of the Gods

Baal and Yamm—The Final Battle

The Horse-Headed Fiddle

Erkhei Mergen and the Seven Suns

Cold Coming: Russian and Slavic Tales

The Legend of the Firebird

A Golden Horse and a Beautiful Princess

The End . . . and a Beginning

Bright Sunbeam

Akkanidi, the Bright Sunshine

Vasilisa the Fair

In Baba Yaga’s Lair

Death for the Deathless

The Lake that Ran Away

Oriental Odyssey: Stories from South and South East Asia

Grass for Ganesha

Urmila, the Sleeping Princess

A Hunter’s Devotion

Four Dragons

The Lady on the Moon

Go away, Nian

The Dancing Princess

How the Moon Tricked the Sun

The Monkey King Wreaks Havoc

Why the Tides Love the Moon

When the Clouds Kiss the Mountain

The Sun and the Moon: A Tiger Tale

The Cherry Blossom Princess

Hide-and-Seek

Susano-O and the Serpent

Water World: Legends From Oceania

A Serpent in Dreamtime

Legend of the Mirrabooka

And Then Came the Sun: A Bird Story

The Swan Flies to Dreamtime

The Huntsman and the Magic Spear

And the Sky and the Earth Parted

How Maui Tamed the Sun

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