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Table of ContentsVolume 1List of Maps and Charts x Preface xi Acastus 1 Achilles 1 Adad 3 Adam and Eve 4 Adonis 5 Aegir 6 Aeneas 6 Aeneid, The 10 Aeolus 13 African Mythology 13 Afterlife 18 Agamemnon 24 Agnes, St 26 Ahriman 26 Ahura Mazda 27 Aiwel 28 Ajax 28 Ala 30 Aladdin 30 Alcestis 31 Alfred 31 Amaterasu 31 Amazons 32 Ambrosia 33 Amma 34 Amphitryon 34 Amun 35 Anansi 36 Anat 36 Androcles 37 Andromache 37 Andromeda 38 Angels 38 Animals in Mythology 41 Antaeus 46 Anthony of Padua, St 47 Antigone 47 Anu 49 Anubis 49 Aphrodite 49 Apollo 51 Arachne 53 Arcadia 53 Ares 54 Argonauts 54 Argus 58 Ariadne 58 Ariel 58 Ark of the Covenant 59 Armageddon 59 Artemis 59 Arthur, King 60 Arthurian Legends 63 Asclepius 66 Ashur 67 Astyanax 67 Atalanta 67 Aten 68 Athena 69 Atlantis 72 Atlas 73 Attis 74 Atum 75 Aurora 75 Australian Mythology 76 Avalon 78 Aztec Mythology 79 Baal 84 Babel, Tower of 85 Badb 86 Balaam 86 Balder 87 Banshee 88 Basilisk 88 Baucis and Philemon 89 Bellerophon 89 Benedict, St 90 Beowulf 91 Berserks 94 Bhagavad Gita 94 Billy the Kid 95 Birds in Mythology 95 Blackbeard 101 Bluebeard 101 Book of the Dead, The 101 Boone, Daniel 102 Boreas 103 Bragi 103 Brahma 104 Brendan, St 105 Brer Rabbit 105 Bruce, Robert 105 Brunhilde 106 Buddhism and Mythology .. . 106 Buffalo Bill 111 Bunyan, Paul 111 Butch Cassidy 113 Cadmus 113 Caduceus 113 Cagn 114 Cain and Abel 114 Calliope 115 Callisto 116 Calypso 116 Camelot 117 Casey Jones 117 Cassandra 118 Cassiopea 119 Castor and Pollux 119 Cecilia, St 121 Celtic Mythology 121 Centaurs 125 Cephalus and Procris 127 Cerberus 127 Changing Woman 127 Charlemagne 128 Cherubim 131 Chinese Mythology 132 Christopher, St 136 Cid, El. .. 136 Circe 138 Clytemnestra 140 Coatlicue 140 Cockaigne, Land of 140 Conaire Mor 141 Coriolanus 141 Names and Places 142 Index 144 Volume 2Corn 1 Creation Stories 3 Crispin, St 9 Crockett, Davy 9 Cronus 10 Cross 10 Cuchulain 12 Cybele 14 Cyclopes 15 Daedalus 15 Dagda 17 Dagon 17 Damocles, Sword of 17 Danaë 18 Danu 18 Daphnis and Chloe 18 Dekanawida 19 Delilah 19 Delphi 19 Demeter 21 Devi 23 Devils and Demons 24 Diana 28 Dido 29 Dionysus 30 Djang'kawu 32 Dracula 33 Dragons 34 Dreamtime 35 Druids 36 Dwarfs and Elves 38 Dybbuk 40 Echo 40 Eden, Garden of 40 Egyptian Mythology 41 El 48 El Dorado 48 Electra 49 Elysium 50 Enkidu 50 Enlil 50 Enuma Elish 51 Eros 52 Eshu 52 Eurydice 53 Excalibur 54 Fates 54 Fatima 56 Faust 56 Fenrir 57 Finn 57 Finnish Mythology 58 Fire 61 Firebird 64 First Man and First Woman 64 Floods 65 Flowers in Mythology 69 Flying Dutchman 73 Freyja 74 Freyr 74 Frigg 74 Fruit in Mythology 75 Furies 78 Gaia 79 Galahad 80 Galatea 80 Ganesha 80 Ganymede 82 Gauna 82 Genies 82 George, St 83 Giants 84 Gilgamesh 86 Gluskap 88 Godiva, Lady 89 Gog and Magog 89 Golden Bough 89 Golden Fleece 90 Golem 91 Gordian Knot 92 Gorgons 92 Graces 93 Greek Mythology 93 Griffins 101 Guinevere 101 Hades 102 Halcyone 103 Hamlet 104 Harpies 105 Hathor 105 Heaven 105 Hecate 107 Hector 108 Hecuba 109 Heimdall 110 Hel 111 Helen of Troy 111 Hell 113 Hera 116 Hercules 118 Hermaphroditus 121 Hermes 121 Hero and Leander 122 Heroes 122 Hiawatha 127 Hinduism and Mythology.... 128 Holy Grail 133 Homer 135 Horatii 136 Horatius 136 Horus 136 Huehueteotl 137 Huitzilopochtli 138 Hunahpú and Xbalanqúe ... . 139 Hydra 140 Hypnos 140 Idun 140 Igaluk 141 Ile-Ife 141 Iliad, The 143 Inanna 145 Inari 145 Inca Mythology 146 Indra 150 Inti 151 Io 151 Names and Places 152 Index 154 Volume 3Iphigenia 1 Ishtar 1 Isis 2 Itzamná 4 Ivan the Terrible 4 Izanagi and Izanami 5 Janus 6 Japanese Mythology 6 Jason 11 Jerome, St 13 Jezebel 14 Job 14 Jocasta 15 John Henry 15 Johnny Appleseed 16 Jonah 17 Juggernaut 17 Julian Hospitaller, St 17 Kachinas 18 Katonda 19 Kibuka 19 Kojiki 19 Kokopelli 20 Krishna 20 Lady of the Lake 22 Lancelot 22 Laocoön 24 Lares and Penates 25 Lear, King 25 Lebe 26 Leprechauns 26 Lethe 26 Leviathan 27 Leza 27 Lilith 28 Loch Ness Monster 28 Loki 28 Lucretia 30 Lug 30 Mahabharata, The 31 Manco Capac 32 Manticore 33 Manu 33 Marduk 34 Mars 35 Masewi and Oyoyewi 35 Maui 36 Mayan Mythology 36 Medea 41 Medusa 42 Melanesian Mythology 43 Menehune 47 Menelaus 48 Merlin 48 Mermaids 50 Metamorphoses, The 51 Mexican Mythology 51 Micronesian Mythology 55 Midas 59 Mimir 59 Minos 60 Minotaur 61 Mithras 62 Mixcoatl 62 Modern Mythology 63 Moloch 65 Monsters 66 Moon 68 Morgan Le Fay 70 Mujaji 71 Mulungu 71 Muses 71 Mwindo 72 Myrmidons 73 Nabu 74 Nagas 74 Nala and Damayanti 75 Narcissus 76 Native American Mythology 76 Nemean Lion 84 Neptune 84 Nibelungenlied 85 Nicholas, St 87 Nihongi 88 Nike 88 Nimrod 89 Noah 89 Norse Mythology 90 Nummo 95 Nut 96 Nu Wa 97 Nyame 97 Nymphs 97 Odin 99 Odysseus 101 Odyssey, The 102 Oedipus 106 Ogun 108 Oisin 108 Old Man 108 Olorun 109 Orestes 110 Orion 111 Oro 112 Orpheus 112 Osiris .. 113 Ovid 114 Paladins 115 Pan 115 Pandora 116 Pan Gu 116 Paris 117 Patrick, St 119 Pecos Bill 119 Pegasus 120 Pele 120 Peleus 121 Penelope 121 Persephone 122 Perseus 123 Persian Mythology 124 Phaedra 127 Phaethon 127 Philomela 128 Phoenix 128 Pied Piper of Hamelin 128 Plants in Mythology 129 Pleiades 133 Polynesian Mythology 134 Popol Vuh 138 Poseidon 140 Prester John 142 Priam 142 Procrustes 143 Prometheus 143 Proteus 145 Psyche 146 Ptah 147 Pygmalion 148 Pyramus and Thisbe 148 Quetzalcoatl 149 Names and Places 152 Index 154 Volume 4Ra (Re) 1 Ragnarok 2 Rama 3 Ramayana 3 Rangi and Papa 5 Reincarnation 6 Rig-Veda 9 Rip van Winkle 10 Robin Hood 10 Roland 12 Roman Mythology 13 Romulus and Remus 17 Round Table 18 Sacrifice 18 Sagas 20 Sages 21 Samson 22 Santa Claus 22 Satan 22 Sati 24 Saturn 25 Satyrs 25 Savitri 25 Scapegoat 26 Scylla and Charybdis 26 Sebastian, St 27 Sedna 27 Seers 28 Semitic Mythology 29 Serpents and Snakes 35 Set 37 Shakuntala 38 Shalott, The Lady of 39 Shamash 39 Sheba, Queen of 40 Sheol 41 Shiva 41 Siberian Mythology 42 Sibyls 43 Sigurd 44 Sinbad the Sailor 45 Sirens 45 Sisyphus 46 Sodom and Gomorrah 47 Sphinx 47 Spider Woman 48 Stars 48 Stonehenge 50 Styx 51 Sun 51 Sunjata 53 Susano-ô 54 Ta'aroa 54 Taliesin 55 Tannhäuser 55 Tantalus 55 Telepinu 56 Tell, William 56 Tezcatlipoca 57 Thanatos 58 Theseus 58 Thetis 61 Thor 61 Thoth 63 Thousand and One Nights ... . 63 Thunderbird 64 Tiamat 64 Tiki 65 Tiresias 65 Titans 66 Tlaloc 66 Trees in Mythology 67 Tricksters 70 Tristan and Isolde 72 Troilus and Cressida 74 Trojan War 74 Trolls 76 Twins 76 Tyr 79 Ulysses 79 Underworld 80 Unicorn 84 Upanishads 85 Uranus 85 Utnapishtim 86 Valentine, St 86 Valhalla 87 Valkyries 87 Vampires 88 Varuna 89 Vedas 89 Venus 90 Vesta 91 Vishnu 91 Vulcan 93 Wakan Tanka 94 Wandjina 94 Wayland 95 Werewolves 95 White Shell Woman 96 Whittington, Dick 97 Witches and Wizards 97 Woman Who Fell From the Sky 100 Xian 100 Xibalba 102 Xiuhtecuhtli 103 Yellow Emperor 103 Yggdrasill 104 Yin and Yang 105 Ymir 106 Yu 106 Zeus 107 Glossary 111 Names and Places 115 Family Trees 117 Suggested Readings 121 Photo Credits 125 Cultures Index 127 Index 131 |
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