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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Credits
Dedication
Preface
Contents
Introduction: The Dimensions of Myth
Select Bibliography
Part I Cosmic Myths
The Creation
The Creation Stories
Egyptian: The Beginnings
Mesopotamian: Enuma Elish
Hebrew: Genesis
Indian: The Rig Veda and the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad
Greek: Hesiod’s Theogony
Christian: John’s Gospel
Hopi: Spider Woman
Boshongo (Bantu): Bumba’s Creation
Modern: The Big Bang
Bibliography
The Flood
The Flood Stories
Mesopotamian: Utnapishtim
Hebrew: Noah
Chinese: Yü
Indian: Manu
Greco-Roman: Deucalion and Pyrrha
Mayan: The Popol-Vuh
Bibliography
The Afterlife
The Afterlife Stories
Egyptian: Osiris
Greco-Roman: Lands of the Dead
Judeo-Christian: Hell, Purgatory, Heaven
Muslim: Hell and Heaven in the Koran
Buddhist: The Pure Land
Hopi: The Kachinas
Bibliography
The Apocalypse
The Apocalypse Stories
Hebrew: The Day of Yahweh
Christian: St. John’s Book of Revelation
Indian: The End of the Kali Age
Hopi: Emergence to the Fifth World
Norse: Ragnarök
Modern: Entropy and Heat Death
Bibliography
Part II Myths of the Gods
The Pantheons
The Pantheonic Stories
Egyptian
The Gods of Heliopolis
The Separation of Geb and Nut
Greek
The Olympians
The Originators
The Children of Kronos and Rhea
The Children of Zeus
Roman: The Renamed Olympians
Norse (Icelandic): The Aesir
Bibliography
The God as Archetype
Stories of Archetypal Gods
The Supreme Being
Indian: Krishna-Vishnu-Brahman
Hebrew: Yahweh
Modern: Immanent Mind
The Great Mother
Mesopotamian: Inanna-Ishtar
Modern: Gaia as Earth
The Dying God
Egyptian: Osiris and Isis
Babylonian-Greco-Roman: Adonis and Aphrodite
Phrygian: Attis
Greek: Dionysos
Aztec/Toltec: Quetzalcoatl
Christian: Jesus
Norse (Icelandic): Odin
The Trickster
Greek: Hermes
Indian: Krishna
Shoshoni: Old Man Coyote
Fon (Dahomey): Legba
Bibliography
Gods, Goddesses, and Lesser Spirits
Stories of Gods, Goddesses, and Lesser Spirits
Greco-Roman
Prometheus
Pandora
Tiresias, Echo, and Narcissus
Hyacinthus
Eros and Psyche
Daphne and Apollo
Pan
The Muses
The Eumenides
Zeus and Io
Zeus and Europa
Non-Greek
Persian: Mithras
Japanese: Amaterasu and Susanowo
Polynesian: Pele and Hiiaka’
Indian: Indra and the Parade of Ants
Bibliography
Part III Hero Myths
The Hero Stories
The Conception, Birth, and Childhood of the Hero
Native American (Tewa): Water Jar Boy
Greek: Theseus
Indian: Krishna
Indian: Karna
Greek: Herakles
Indian: The Buddha
Irish: Cuchulainn
Bantu: Lituolone
The Journey Quest of the Hero
French: Joan of Arc
Greek: Oedipus
Greek: Antigone
Celtic: King Arthur
Greek: Theseus
Hebrew: Moses
Celtic: Parcival
Hebrew: Jonah
Greek: Jason
Roman: Aeneas
Hebrew: Samson and Delilah
Indian: The Buddha
Native American: Wunzh, or Hiawatha
Greek: Herakles
African: Wanjiru
Australian Aboriginal: The Pleiades
Hebrew: Abraham and Isaac
Mesopotamian: Gilgamesh
Greek: Orpheus and Eurydice
Greek: Odysseus
The Rebirth, Return, and Apotheosis of the Hero
Blackfoot: Kutoyis
Christian: Jesus
Greek: Herakles
Aztec/Toltec: Quetzalcoatl
Christian: Mary
Greek: Alcestis
Bibliography
Part IV Place and Object Myths
Stories of Places and Objects
The Mountain
Hebrew: Mount Sinai
The City
Greek: Troy
Hebrew: Jerusalem
Greek: Delphi
The Temple
Judeo-Christian: the Temple at Jerusalem
European: The Chapel Perilous
The Genitals
Greek: Tiresias
Apache: The Vagina Girls
Greek: The Fig Phallus of Dionysos
The Stone
Phrygian: The Agdos Rock
Australian Aboriginal: Erathipa
Hebrew: The Bethel
The Tree
India: The Cosmic Tree
Norse: Yggdrasil
Hebrew: The Tree of Knowledge
The Garden, the Grove, and the Cave
Muslim: Muhammad’s Cave
The Labyrinth
Greek: Daedalus and Icarus
Bibliography
Index
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