Myth across cultures
Comparative Mythology Texts
Comparative mythology texts on gods, hero cycles, symbolic patterns, classical myth, Indo-European myth, and cross-cultural mythic structures.
- Texts
- 92
- Authors
- 55
- Range
- 700 BCE to 1920
Overview
The main subjects, texts, and practices represented in this collection.
Comparative Mythology is for works that organize the archive through mythic comparison rather than ritual practice. It covers classical, Germanic, Norse, and cross-cultural myth study where the main subject is mythic structure and transmission.
- Cross-cultural study of mythic figures, cycles, motifs, and symbols.
- Classical, Germanic, and Indo-European mythology scholarship.
- Mythography and myth interpretation where comparison is the organizing frame.
Texts
Key source texts and related works for studying Comparative Mythology.
Theogony & Works and Days
Hesiod700 BCE
PrimaryIntermediate
Chips from a German Workshop (Vol 5)
F. Max Müller1881
PrimaryIntermediate
Chips from a German Workshop (Vol 3)
F. Max Müller1870
PrimaryIntermediate
Chips from a German Workshop (Vol 4)
F. Max Müller1875
PrimaryAdvanced
Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man
Albert Churchward1910
PrimaryAdvanced
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
E. Cobham Brewer1870
PrimaryIntermediate
Three Essays
F. Max Müller1873
PrimaryAdvanced
Miti del Medio Evo Vol 2
Arturo Graf1893
Primary
Encyclopaedia of Antiquities
Thomas Dudley Fosbroke1825
PrimaryAdvanced
Demonologia
J. S. Forsyth1827
PrimaryIntermediate
Chips from a German Workshop (Vol 1)
F. Max Müller1867
PrimaryAdvanced
The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen1894
PrimaryIntermediate
More Comparative Mythology Texts
Book of the Damned
Charles Fort1919
PrimaryIntermediate
Bulfinch's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch1855
Student's Mythology
Catherine Ann White1873
Intermediate
Heathen Mythology
Anonymous1842
Intermediate
Myths of Greece and Rome
H. A. Guerber1897
Intermediate
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
Anonymous Compiler1900
Intermediate
Modern Mythology
Charles Kingsley1873
Intermediate
The Dawn of History
Charles Francis Keary1878
Intermediate
Mythology of Greece and Rome
Otto Seemann1881
Intermediate
Bulfinch's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch1881
Introductory
A Book of Myths
Andrew Lang1889
Introductory
Metamorphoses (Books I-VII)
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)8
Intermediate
Antient Mythology (Vol 1)
Jacob Bryant1774
Advanced
The Age of Fable
Thomas Bulfinch1855
Introductory
An Introduction to Mythology
George W. Cox1873
Introductory
Custom and Myth
Andrew Lang1884
Intermediate
Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 2
Viktor Rydberg1889
Intermediate
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson1220
Antient Mythology Vol 2
Jacob Bryant1774
Advanced
Tradition and Mythology
Lord Arundell of Wardour (John Francis Arundell)1872
Advanced
Myths and Myth-Makers
John Fiske1873
Intermediate
Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1
Viktor Rydberg1889
Intermediate
Metamorphoses (Books VIII-XV)
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)8
Intermediate
Argonautica
Apollonius Rhodius250
Intermediate
The Christian Mythology
Charles François Dupuis1794
Intermediate
Custom and Myth
Andrew Lang1884
Intermediate
Myths and Dreams
Edward Clodd1885
Intermediate
Teutonic Mythology (Vol 3)
Viktor Rydberg1889
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1890
Myths of the Norsemen
H. A. Guerber1908
Introductory
Mythology of All Races (Vol 11)
Hartley Burr Alexander1920
Intermediate
Myths of the Norsemen
Anonymous1200
Intermediate
The Mabinogion
Anonymous (Medieval Welsh authors)1300
Intermediate
Myth, Ritual and Religion Vol. 1
Andrew Lang1887
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1890
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1890
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1906
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1906
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1907
Advanced
Young Folks' Treasury Vol. 2
Hamilton Wright Mabie1909
Introductory
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1911
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1913
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1913
Advanced
Myths and Legends of All Nations
Logan Marshall1914
Introductory
Myth, Ritual and Religion Vol. 2
Andrew Lang1887
Advanced
Strange Survivals
Sabine Baring-Gould1892
Intermediate
Miti, leggende e superstizioni (Vol 1)
Arturo Graf1892
Advanced
Myths of the Cherokee
James Mooney1900
Intermediate
Fundamental Principles
Zelia Nuttall1901
Advanced
Magic and Religion
Andrew Lang1901
Intermediate
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1906
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1907
Advanced
Psyche's Task
James George Frazer1909
Intermediate
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1912
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1912
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1913
Advanced
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer1915
The Epic of Gilgamish
Stephen Langdon1917
Advanced
The Evolution of the Dragon
G. Elliot Smith1919
Advanced
Pagan and Christian Creeds
Edward Carpenter1920
Intermediate
Old Babylonian Gilgamesh
Morris Jastrow Jr. and Albert T. Clay1920
Advanced
The Elder Eddas and Younger Eddas
Anonymous1200
Advanced
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles Mackay1841
Intermediate
Primitive Culture Vol 1
Edward B. Tylor1871
Intermediate
Primitive Culture, Vol. 2
Edward B. Tylor1871
Advanced
Demonology and Devil-lore
Moncure Daniel Conway1879
Intermediate
Primitive Manners & Customs
James Anson Farrer1879
Advanced
British Goblins
Wirt Sikes1880
Intermediate
Bible Myths
Thomas William Doane1882
Intermediate
Error's Chains
Frank S. Dobbins1883
Intermediate
The Blood Covenant
H. Clay Trumbull1885
Intermediate
Migration of Symbols
Goblet d'Alviella1891
Advanced
Celtic Fairy Tales
Joseph Jacobs (collector/editor)1892
Introductory
More Celtic Fairy Tales
Joseph Jacobs (collector/editor)1894
Introductory
The Evil Eye
Frederick Thomas Elworthy1895
Intermediate
Religions of Primitive Peoples
Daniel Garrison Brinton1897
Intermediate
Myths and Fables of To-Day
Samuel Adams Drake1900
Introductory
Magic and Fetishism
Alfred Cruikshank Haddon1906
Intermediate
Balder the Beautiful, Volume I
James George Frazer1913
Advanced
Origin of Man and Superstitions
Carveth Read1920
Advanced
James George Frazer1854 to 1941 | 17 textsAndrew Lang1844 to 1912 | 6 textsF. Max Müller1823 to 1900 | 5 texts
Anonymous3 texts
Thomas Bulfinch1796 to 1867 | 3 textsViktor Rydberg1828 to 1895 | 3 textsArturo Graf1848 to 1913 | 2 textsEdward B. Tylor1832 to 1917 | 2 textsH. A. Guerber1859 to 1929 | 2 textsJacob Bryant1715 to 1804 | 2 textsJoseph Jacobs (collector/editor)1854 to 1916 | 2 textsOvid (Publius Ovidius Naso)43 BCE to 17 | 2 textsAlbert Churchward1852 to 1925 | 1 textAlfred Cruikshank Haddon1855 to 1940 | 1 textAnonymous (Medieval Welsh authors)1 text
Anonymous Compiler1 text
Apollonius Rhodiusb. 295 BCE | 1 textArthur Machen1863 to 1947 | 1 textCarveth Read1848 to 1931 | 1 textCatherine Ann White1 textRelated Topics
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Comparative religion texts on ritual, myth, sacrifice, belief, ancient religion, and cross-cultural theories of sacred practice.
Folklore Studies
Folklore studies texts on folk tales, fairy belief, superstition, regional customs, oral tradition, and the collection of vernacular belief.
Anthropology of Religion
Anthropological texts on ritual, animism, totemism, taboo, early religion, culture, and theories of belief formation.
Gnosticism
Gnostic texts and studies on revelation, emanation, demiurgic cosmology, salvation through knowledge, and esoteric readings of Christianity.
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