Myth Resources: a Database of All Things Mythological
Nature plays a vital role in Joseph Campbell’s approach to mythology. Nature has long supplied the raw material: the sun and moon and stars, wind and clouds, storms and rain, rivers and springs, mountains...
Excerpt: I pen these words barely a week after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, uprooting over a million people, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless, tens of thousands stranded, and unknown hundreds dead....
This video recording of Peter Brook’s stage epic is stunning both in its sweep and its theatrical simplicity. Taking an epic poem–the heart of the Hindu tradition, one chapter of which is the Bhagavad...
Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, Eighth Edition, is the most comprehensive survey of classical mythology available in one volume. Featuring the authors’ clear and extensive translations of original sources,...
An excellent free resource. Easy to navigate, well researched, with thousands of articles covering a substantial number of the deities, heroes, creatures, and other characters from all the ancient mythologies and major world religions....
Time Enough for Love follows Lazarus Long through a vast and magnificent timescape of centuries and worlds. Heinlein’s longest and most ambitious work, it is the story of a man so in love with...
Draws a distinction between hero and savior. Traces the concept of the hero from pre-history to modern day.
Not as extensive a database as Encyclopedia Mythica, but has three excellent add-ons: bibliography, lexicon and forum. Check it out.
Well-known psychologist and author Houston begins this highly adventurous book with a poetic retelling of the Egyptian myth of nature goddess Isis and her brother and husband, Osiris, the legendary ruler and god of...
