Myth Resources: a Database of All Things Mythological
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...
This really needs to be on the list! A collection of folk tales and Greek Myths presented in storyteller format as only Jim Henson was capapble of doing. Truly his highest moment as an...
In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts....
From: Victoria Earll I was delighted to see that “The Jesus Mysteries” and “Jesus and the Lost Goddess” were on the resources list. The authors, Freke and Gandy, now have a third book...
We live in a world devoid of transcendent meaning, and in that abyss we desperately seek a purpose for & the foundations of Life. Many embrace a rigid fundamentalist dogma, whether religious or ideological;...
The complete text of the classic collection by Thomas Bullfinch.
