Most Connected Traditions
The Navel of the World: Axis Mundi Across World Mythology
Norse / Germanic Hindu / Buddhist Greek / Delphic Islamic Lakota / Native American Mesoamerican
The Gift That Costs Everything: Blood Sacrifice Across World Religion
Mesoamerican / Aztec Vedic / Hindu Greek / Hellenic Hebrew / Biblical Norse / Germanic Islamic / Abrahamic
The Night Under the Bodhi Tree
Christian Christian Norse Persian Jewish Mesopotamian
The Golden Age Is Gone: World Ages and the Myth of Decline
Hindu Greek / Hesiod Mesoamerican / Aztec Platonic / Greek Philosophical Norse Zoroastrian
The Monster at the Heart of Creation: Chaos vs Order in World Mythology
Mesopotamian (Babylonian) Greek / Hellenic Vedic / Hindu Egyptian Hebrew / Biblical Norse / Germanic
In the Beginning Was the Word: Creation by Speech Across World Mythology
Hebrew / Biblical Greek / Johannine Christian Egyptian (Memphite) Hindu Maya (K'iche') Egyptian (Heliopolitan)
The Sympathy for Devils: Evil Spirits Across World Mythology
Hindu Christian Islamic Japanese Jewish Mesopotamian
The God Who Breaks Your Mind: Divine Madness and the Sacred Fool
Greek / Dionysian Sufi / Islamic Russian Orthodox Medieval European Hindu Prophetic / Hebrew
The Night the God Spoke: Dreams as Divine Communication Across World Religion
Hebrew / Biblical Mesopotamian Greek / Homeric Greek / Asclepian Aboriginal Australian Christian / Daniel and Joseph
The World Will End: Ragnarok, Revelation, and the Myth of the Last Day
Norse / Germanic Christian / Jewish Apocalyptic Hindu — Kali Yuga and Pralaya Zoroastrian Maya Buddhist
The First Ones: Giants, Titans, and the Pre-Divine Order
Greek / Hellenic Norse / Germanic Hebrew / Biblical Irish Celtic Hindu Mesopotamian
Where the Good Go: Visions of Paradise Across Six Traditions
Greek / Hellenic Norse / Germanic Hindu / Vedic Islamic Chinese / Confucian-Taoist Native American (various nations)
Under the World: How Every Culture Built a Kingdom of the Dead
Greek / Hellenic Hebrew / Biblical Hindu / Buddhist Maya Norse / Germanic Jewish (Second Temple / Rabbinic)
You Must Die Before You Can Begin: Initiation Rites Across World Religion
Greek / Eleusinian Native American (Plains) Haitian Vodou Shamanic (Cross-Cultural) Christian Australian Aboriginal
The Dangerous Sacred Feminine: Aphrodite, Ishtar, Freyja, Rati, and Xochiquetzal
Greek / Hellenic Mesopotamian / Sumerian Norse / Germanic Hindu / Vedic Aztec / Mesoamerican Egyptian
The One Thing the Heroes Could Not Find: The Quest for Immortality
Mesopotamian Greek / Heracles Chinese / Daoist European / Alchemical Hindu Abrahamic
The King Is the God: Sacred Kingship and Divine Right Across World Religion
Egyptian Chinese Hindu / Buddhist Medieval European Japanese Hebrew / Prophetic
The Axis of Heaven: Sacred Mountains Across Six Traditions
Greek / Hellenic Hindu / Buddhist / Jain Hebrew / Abrahamic Hindu / Buddhist / Jain (pilgrimage) Japanese / Shinto Armenian / Abrahamic
Three Is the Shape of the Divine: The Sacred Number Across World Religion
Hindu Christian Norse / Germanic Celtic Egyptian Buddhist
The World Serpent: Apophis, Jormungandr, Naga, Leviathan, Quetzalcoatl, and Vritra
Egyptian Norse / Germanic Hindu / Buddhist Hebrew / Abrahamic Aztec / Mesoamerican Hindu / Vedic
The Door You Must Not Open: The Sacred Taboo Across World Mythology
Greek / Orphic Hebrew / Biblical Greek / Adamic (Garden of Eden) Greek / Pandora Hebrew / Lot's Wife Cross-Cultural / Fairy Tale
Thunder Kings: Zeus, Thor, Indra, Jupiter, Susanoo, and Tlaloc
Greek / Hellenic Norse / Germanic Hindu / Vedic Roman Aztec / Mesoamerican Japanese / Shinto
Lords of the Dead: Hades, Osiris, Yama, Ereshkigal, Hel, and Mictlantecuhtli
Greek / Hellenic Egyptian Hindu / Buddhist Mesopotamian / Sumerian Norse / Germanic Aztec / Mesoamerican
Abulafia and the Letters of Fire
Hindu Buddhist Sufi Islam Christian Taoist
Shankara and the Cave of Non-Duality
Buddhist Christian Greek / Neoplatonic Sufi / Islamic Western philosophy
Aeneas Flees Troy
Hebrew Hebrew Hebrew Confucian Christian
Agamemnon: Ten Years Abroad, One Night at Home
English Renaissance Greek / Hellenic Hindu Hebrew Hebrew
Agwe and the Kingdom Below the Sea
Yoruba Greek Norse Polynesian Hindu
Aino Walks Into the Sea
Greek / Hellenic Greek / Hellenic Celtic / Irish Norse Hindu
Akhenaten and the Sun
Hebrew / Abrahamic Persian / Zoroastrian Islamic Bahá'í Greek
The Scholar in the Army
Greek Buddhist Hindu Christian Jewish
The Scholar Who Could Not Speak
Christian Jewish Hindu Buddhist Sufi (Islamic mystical)
Ghadir Khumm: The Sermon That Split Islam
Christian Christian Christian Hindu Jewish
Amaterasu and the Rock Cave of Heaven
Greek Mesopotamian Norse Hindu Biblical
Amaterasu Emerges
Greek Mesopotamian Christian Mesoamerican Greek
Ambedkar at Nagpur: Half a Million Conversions
Christian (Roman Empire) Buddhist (Mauryan) Hebrew Bible Islamic / African American Christian (Quaker / abolitionist)
The Nine Saints Who Tamed the Serpents
Irish / Celtic Christian / Martyrological Tibetan Buddhist Japanese / Shinto Hindu
The New Jerusalem at Münster
Jewish / Sabbatean American New Religious Christian / Hussite English / Puritan Mormon
Anansi Buys All the Stories
Greek Norse Hebrew Hindu Aztec
Anansi Buys All the Stories in the World
Norse / Germanic Greek / Hellenic Polynesian / Maori Hebrew Hindu
Anat Defeats Mot
Egyptian Greek Mesopotamian Norse Christian
Wings and Words: Divine Messengers Across Five Traditions
Abrahamic (Jewish / Christian / Islamic) Greek / Roman Egyptian Zoroastrian / Avestan Hindu / Vedic
Suryavarman Dedicates Angkor Wat
Egyptian Mahayana Buddhist Christian Roman Mesopotamian
Antigone: The Unwritten Laws
Christian Christian / Reformation American Civil Rights Greek / Hellenic Christian / Civil Rights
Antony in the Desert
Tibetan Buddhist Jewish Buddhist Islamic / Sufi Norse
The Weighing of the Heart
Christian Islamic Zoroastrian Tibetan Buddhist Greek
Thomas Aquinas Puts Down the Pen
Hebrew Western philosophy / 20th century Sufi / Islamic Chan / Zen Buddhist Buddhist
Ariadne on Naxos
Hebrew Hebrew Roman Sumerian Japanese
Arjuna Doubts on Kurukshetra
Christian Hebrew Buddhist Greek Norse
The Golden Stool Descends
Hebrew Greek / Trojan Scottish / British coronation Lakota Arthurian
Ashoka After Kalinga
Christian Hebrew Bible Christian / Roman Egyptian Christian / English
Athena from the Skull
Abrahamic Hindu Egyptian Norse Greek / Mesopotamian
Augustine and the Voice in the Garden
Christian (Desert) Sufi Buddhist Jewish Hindu
The Commentator
Christian (Scholastic) Jewish Greek Hindu Buddhist
The Floating Man
Christian (Scholastic) Greek Jewish Hindu Buddhist
The Baal Shem Tov and the Sparks in Every Thing
Christian (medieval) Hindu Sufi Islam English Romanticism Christian (patristic)
The Volley That Cut the Ropes
Christian Sikh Shia Islamic Manichaean Bábí / Bahá'í internal
Twelve Days in the Garden of Ridván
Christian Islamic Buddhist Jewish Bábí
The Baloma: The Dead Who Live on Tuma Island
Hindu / Buddhist Greek Egyptian Tibetan Buddhist Jewish / Kabbalistic
Baron Samedi Will Not Dig the Grave
Egyptian Greek Mexican Catholic Norse
Basilides and the 365 Heavens
Greek / Neoplatonist Hindu Tibetan Buddhist Christian Modern / Depth Psychology
The Bhagavad Gita: God Speaking on a Battlefield
Greek / Hellenic Hebrew Christian Stoic / Greek philosophical Buddhist
Bhagiratha's Thousand-Year Penance
Hebrew Hebrew Christian Buddhist Mesopotamian
The Binding of Isaac
Greek Aztec Hindu Israelite Christian
The Birth of Athena: Wisdom from the Mind of God
Hindu Hindu Egyptian Norse / Germanic Roman
Black Elk's Great Vision
Jewish Christian Siberian / Mongolian Hindu Norse
Bodhidharma Meets the Emperor
Christian Hindu Taoist Sufi Jewish
Skin, Flesh, Bone, Marrow
Christian Christian Hindu Sufi Jewish
Bois Caïman: The Pact at the Alligator Wood
Hebrew Christian Jewish Indigenous Yoruba
This Is the End — For Me the Beginning
Christian Christian (early martyrs) Christian Jewish Sufi Islamic
The Borobudur Ascent
Hindu Christian Mesopotamian Christian Hindu
The Lamb at Mount Carmel
Hebrew (Maccabean) Jewish (Roman period) Islamic Christian (Anabaptist) Christian (apocalyptic)
Brigid: The Keeper of the Perpetual Flame
Roman Greek / Roman Hebrew Yoruba Christian
The First Sermon at Deer Park
Christian Jewish Hindu Confucian Islamic
Buddha's Parinirvana
Christian Greek Hindu Taoist Confucian
The Great Departure
Daoist Christian Islamic Jain Christian / Italian
Cain and Abel
Roman Egyptian Hindu Greek Sumerian
The Orishas Hidden in the Saints: Candomblé in Bahia
Haitian Vodou Yoruba Catholic Greek Indigenous Brazilian
The Pyre at Montségur
Gnostic Manichaean Christian (Protestant) Jewish Buddhist
Catherine and the Wedding Ring of Flesh
Hindu Sufi Hindu Jewish Buddhist
The Princess on the Threshold
Buddhist Christian Hindu Jewish Sufi
Uktena: The Great Horned Serpent
Biblical / Hebrew Shinto / Japanese Norse / Germanic Hindu Mesoamerican / Aztec
Child of the Water Slays the Monsters
Greek / Hellenic Hindu Anglo-Saxon / Germanic Mesopotamian Navajo / Diné
Christ on the Cross
Norse Mesopotamian Persian / Roman Greek Sumerian / Canaanite
Walking on the Water
Hindu Buddhist Hebrew Hindu Greek
Chunhyang: The Love That Would Not Bend
Greek Greek Hindu Hebrew Bible Christian
Confucius at the River
Greek Buddhist Christian Daoist Greek
Confucius Meets Lao Tzu
Christian Greek Jewish Hindu Buddhist
Confucius Teaches the Way
Greek Buddhist Sufi Christian Hebrew
Constantine at the Milvian Bridge
Hebrew Islamic Hindu Aztec Islamic / Ottoman
Cortés Meets Moctezuma
Christian Islamic Buddhist Zoroastrian Jewish
The World That Hatched: Cosmic Egg Creation Myths Across Five Traditions
Greek / Orphic Hindu / Vedic Chinese / Taoist Finnish / Kalevala Egyptian
The Council of Nicaea: The Vote That Made Christ God
Spanish Catholic Buddhist Jewish Christian / Reformation Christian / Counter-Reformation
Coyote Creates Death
Greek Hebrew Mesopotamian Hindu Norse
Coyote Steals Fire
Greek Vedic Polynesian Cherokee Yoruba
The Vision of Crazy Horse
Hindu Christian Siberian / Mongolian Islamic Jewish
How the World Was Made from a Giant's Body
Mesopotamian Hindu Chinese Hebrew Aztec
The City of God, Taken in Blood
Hebrew / Roman Islamic / Medieval Christian / Early Modern Modern Islamic / Foundational
Cú Chulainn at the Ford
Norse Mesopotamian Greek Hindu Persian
Cú Chulainn: The Warp-Spasm and the Death of Ulster's Hero
Greek / Hellenic Norse / Germanic Hindu Japanese Hebrew
Cú Chulainn: The Distortion
Greek Hindu Hebrew Greek Norse
Damballah Mounts the Serviteur
Hebrew Egyptian Hindu Greek Yoruba
Dangun Founds Korea
Japanese Roman Greek Hebrew Bible Chinese
Daniel in the Lions' Pit
Jewish Hindu Christian Persian / Zoroastrian Jewish / Egyptian
David and Goliath
Hindu Hindu Greek Germanic Mesopotamian
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Gnostic / Egyptian Mesopotamian Greek / Trojan Egyptian Tibetan Buddhist
The Death of Baldur
Christian Egyptian Mesopotamian Greek Greek
Deborah Under the Palm
Greek Hindu Celtic Islamic Christian
Amma Syncletica: The Desert Mothers
Hindu / Bhakti Islamic / Sufi Christian / Medieval Tibetan Buddhist European / Persecution
No Future Without Forgiveness
Christian Jewish Hindu / Indian Independence Christian (Civil Rights) African Traditional
Durga Slays the Buffalo Demon
Greek Mesopotamian Canaanite / Phoenician Egyptian Christian
Dhruva and the Pole Star
Christian Buddhist Greek Norse Islamic / Sufi
The Cost of Conspiracy
Christian Jewish Christian (martyrdom) Islamic Christian (Lutheran)
Nhialic and the First Separation
Hebrew / Biblical Maori / Polynesian Polynesian Chinese Hindu
Diogenes and the Lamp
Zen Sufi Buddhist Taoist Christian
The God Who Cannot Be Refused
Hebrew Sufi Christian Christian Yoruba
The Divine Twins: Castor and Pollux, the Ashvins, Romulus and Remus, Hunahpu and Xbalanque
Greek / Roman Hindu / Vedic Roman Maya Norse / Germanic
Eyes Horizontal, Nose Vertical
Christian Hindu Sufi Taoist Christian (Orthodox)
The Nommo Descend in an Ark of Fire
Babylonian Sumerian Mesoamerican Christian Hebrew
The Dokkaebi and the Club That Turned Regret to Gold
Greek Shinto / Japanese Akan / West African Universal Hebrew Bible
Don't Call Me a Saint
Christian Jewish Buddhist Christian (early church) Hindu
The Ancestors Walk Out of the Earth
Hebrew Vedic Mesopotamian Egyptian Christian
Dumuzi the Substitute
Christian Greek Norse Egyptian Persian / Levantine
Durga Slays Mahishasura
Greek Mesopotamian Canaanite Egyptian Christian
The Gods Who Die and Return: Osiris, Dionysus, Tammuz, Baldr, and the Scholarly Debate About Jesus
Egyptian Greek / Hellenic Mesopotamian / Sumerian-Akkadian Phoenician / Syncretic Greek Norse / Germanic
Egyptian Mythology: Ma'at, the Gods, and Three Thousand Years of the Dead
Greek Christian Babylonian Hebrew Zoroastrian
El and Asherah at the Source of the Rivers
Hebrew / Jewish Mesopotamian Greek Norse Vedic / Hindu
An Ear of Wheat in Silence
Mesopotamian Egyptian Christian Mithraic Norse
Elijah and the Chariot of Fire
Jewish Jewish (extracanonical) Buddhist Christian Greek / Roman
Elijah on Mount Carmel
Israelite / Mosaic Hindu Christian Buddhist Islamic
Enheduanna, the First Author
Hebrew Greek Egyptian Sanskrit Christian / Confessional
Enkidu Dies, Gilgamesh Refuses
Greek Hebrew Norse Egyptian Christian
Enuma Elish: Marduk Makes the World
Hebrew Greek Vedic Norse Christian / Roman
Eros and Psyche: The Impossible Tasks
Mesopotamian Hebrew Christian Hindu Egyptian
Eshu at the Crossroads
Greek Norse Roman West African Hindu
Esther's Two Banquets
Greek / Modern Jewish Jewish (deuterocanonical) Persian Christian
The River That Remembers Jordan
Hindu Islamic Jewish / Hebrew Catholic / Christian Rastafari
Eve and the Serpent
Greek Greek Mesopotamian Hindu Mesopotamian
Exu: The God Who Opens Every Door
Yoruba Haitian Vodou Greek / Hellenic Roman West African / Fon
The Valley of Dry Bones
Christian Islamic Zoroastrian Hindu Vodou
The Woven, the Weighed, and the Accumulated: Fate Across Five Traditions
Greek / Hellenic Norse / Germanic Hindu / Buddhist Egyptian Anglo-Saxon / Germanic
The Old Monk Who Walked to the Buddha's Homeland
Islamic Greek (Homeric) Medieval European Hebrew Bible Christian
Feeding the Five Thousand: Twelve Baskets Left Over
Jewish Jewish Hindu Buddhist Indigenous / Lakota
Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge
Norse Hebrew Hebrew Buddhist Egyptian
Fire Stolen and Fire Born: Prometheus, Agni, Pele, Hephaestus, and Kagutsuchi
Greek / Hellenic Hindu / Vedic Hawaiian Greek / Hellenic (smith) Japanese / Shinto
The Flood That Covered the World: Why Every Culture Has the Same Story
Mesopotamian / Sumerian-Akkadian Hebrew / Biblical Hindu Greek / Hellenic Hawaiian / Pacific
The Wounds of La Verna
Buddhist Sufi Hindu Jain Greek
Freya and the Four Dwarves of Svartalfheim
Greek Hebrew Hebrew Hindu Chinese
Fumo Liongo: The Warrior-Poet Who Could Not Be Killed
Greek / Hellenic Hebrew / Biblical Germanic / Norse Hindu Irish / Celtic
Gajendra Moksha: The Elephant's Liberation
Christian Islamic / Sufi Buddhist Greek Egyptian
A Fistful of Salt
Christian Buddhist Christian (Civil Rights) Jewish Christian (early)
Ganesha and the Elephant Head
Christian Egyptian Greek Hebrew Sumerian
Ganga Through Shiva's Hair
Hebrew / Christian Greek Greek Islamic Egyptian
Gikuyu and Mumbi at the Mountain of Brightness
Hebrew / Biblical Hindu Greek / Hellenic Chinese Maori / Polynesian
Gilgamesh and Enkidu: The First Great Friendship
Greek / Hellenic Greek / Hellenic Hebrew Hindu Christian
Gilgamesh and Enkidu Slay Humbaba
Hebrew Greek Anglo-Saxon Vedic Hindu
The Pool of Nectar
Islamic Jewish Buddhist Christian Hindu
The Golem of Prague
Greek Christian Hindu Islamic Taoist
The Good Samaritan: Who Is My Neighbor?
Jewish Buddhist Confucian Stoic Sufi
Greek Mythology: The Olympians, the Heroes, and the Architecture of Fate
Norse Babylonian Norse Mesopotamian Roman
Gregory Palamas and the Uncreated Light
Sufi Hindu Pure Land Buddhist Catholic Tibetan Buddhist
Guru Amar Das and the Meal Before the Meeting
Christian Buddhist African Islamic Jewish
The Burning Plate
Christian Islamic Jewish Buddhist Zoroastrian
Five Heads, One Sword, the Khalsa
Christian Jewish Hindu Islamic Roman
Who Will Give Me His Head
Christian Jewish Islamic Hindu Roman
The Book That Became the Guru
Jewish Islamic Buddhist Taoist Christian
The Accountant Who Did Not Return
Christian Jewish Islamic Buddhist Hindu
Three Days in the Bein
Christian Jewish Islamic Hindu Buddhist
The Head That Bought Another Faith's Survival
Christian Jewish Shia Islamic Bahá'í Buddhist
Gutiérrez and the Poor Who Read the Bible
Christian (early church) Hebrew Bible Hindu (Bhakti movement) Marxist (secular) Christian (Quaker)
Hafiz and the Wine That Is Not Wine
Hebrew Sufi Hindu (Bhakti) Hebrew Greek
Hainuwele: The Girl Made of Coconut
Balinese / Indonesian Egyptian Native American Greek Christian
Hannah at Shiloh
Christian Islamic Hindu Greek Sufi / Islamic mysticism
Hanuman Burns Lanka
Hebrew Norse Chinese Persian Israelite
Hanuman Finds Sita in the Ashoka Grove
Christian Christian Hebrew Greek Mesopotamian
The Peacemaker and the Great Law
Christian Buddhist Norse Egyptian Hindu
The Comet and the Gate
Gnostic Christian Persian / Roman Manichaean Christian (apocalyptic) Hindu / Jain
Heraclitus and the River
Daoist Buddhist Christian Hindu Stoic
The Poimandres Speaks and the Cosmos Unfolds
Gnostic Neoplatonist Jewish (Merkavah) Islamic (Sufi) Alchemical
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker's Great Law
Biblical / Hebrew Greek / Hellenic Buddhist Hindu Norse / Germanic
Hiʻiaka Walks Through Fire for Her Sister
Greek Mesopotamian Norse Hindu Celtic
A Feather on the Breath of God
Jewish Kabbalah Sufi Hindu Buddhist Greek
Honen and the Name That Saves Everyone
Christian (Protestant) Christian Hindu (Bhakti) Christian (Protestant) Confucian
The Emergence: Rising through the Worlds
Mesoamerican / Aztec Norse / Germanic Hindu Buddhist Gnostic / Christian
When the Kachinas Return
Shinto / Japanese Theravada Buddhist / Burmese Catholic / Christian Japanese Buddhist Yoruba / West African
Spider Grandmother Sings the World
Māori Hindu Egyptian Christian Sumerian
The Round City's Library
Greek Christian Jewish Hindu Chinese
Huangbo Slaps the Emperor
Christian Hindu Hebrew Sufi Greek
Huayna Cápac and the Prophecy of the Sea
Hebrew Greek Aztec Zoroastrian Hindu
The Kitchen Worker Who Became the Sixth Patriarch
Hebrew Bible Greek philosophy Christian Hebrew Bible Sufi
The Illiterate Patriarch
Christian Sufi Hindu Jewish Christian (Catholic)
Huitzilopochtli Born on Coatepec
Greek Hindu Egyptian Norse Christian
Husayn at Karbala
Christian Jewish Christian (Medieval) Tibetan Buddhist Sikh
The Hwarang: Flower Boys of Silla
Japanese European / Christian Greek Sufi / Islamic Buddhist
The Youth at the Ka'ba
Christian Jewish Hermetic / Greek Persian (Zoroastrian / Suhrawardian) Christian (mystical)
The Rihla: Twenty-Nine Years and 75,000 Miles
Buddhist Greek Jewish Greek Christian
Ibn Khaldun and the Science That Did Not Exist Yet
Greek European (Renaissance) European (Enlightenment) European (Marxism) European (20th century)
Iceland Converts by Vote
Roman Slavic Buddhist / Tibetan Mughal Buddhist / Mauryan
Ilmarinen Forges the Sampo
Norse Greek / Hellenic Hindu Celtic / Irish Christian
Inanna's Descent
Christian Norse Greek Persian Canaanite
Inanna Descends and the World Goes Still
Christian Greek Egyptian Norse Canaanite
Inanna's Descent: The Queen Who Chose to Die
Greek / Hellenic Egyptian Christian Hindu Norse / Germanic
Inara and the Mortal: How the Goddess Trapped the Dragon
Greek / Hellenic Hebrew / Biblical Irish / Celtic Japanese Greek / Hellenic (second parallel)
Inti Raymi — The Sun Returns
Egyptian Aztec Hindu Norse Greek
The Shaman Descends to Sedna
Greek Sumerian Norse Buddhist Siberian / Tungus
The Ari in Safed
Christian Hindu Gnostic Buddhist Islamic (Sufi)
Ishtar's Descent into the Underworld
Sumerian Greek Christian Egyptian Canaanite
Isis Reassembles Osiris
Christian Mesopotamian Persian Norse Greek
Izanagi and Izanami: The Islands Born from a Spear
Greek / Hellenic Hebrew Mesopotamian / Sumerian Egyptian Polynesian
The Divine Couple Stir the Ocean
Hindu Mesopotamian Greek Norse Biblical
Jacob at the Jabbok
Greek Greek Hindu Sufi Biblical
The Jain Universe: Concentric Rings of the World
Buddhist Hindu Norse Christian Mesopotamian
Sallekhana: The Chosen Death
Greek Roman Buddhist Stoic Christian
James Cone and the Theology of the Lynching Tree
Christian (Latin American) Anticolonial / secular Hebrew prophets African American (slave Christianity) Islamic / Black nationalist
The Goose and the Swan
Early Christian Catholic / French Christian Hussite / Bohemian Lutheran
Joan of Arc
Hebrew Bible Hebrew Bible Hindu Greek / Late Roman Colonial American
Job in the Ash
Buddhist Greek Hindu Mesopotamian Persian
John of the Ladder
Hebrew Islamic Greek philosophical Sufi Hindu
John Frum and the Coming of the Cargo
Lakota / Native American Christian Buddhist Islamic Hebrew Bible / Jewish
John of the Cross in the Toledo Closet
Christian (modern) Sufi Christian (ancient) Buddhist Jewish
Jonah in the Belly
Islamic Christian Greek Modern / Italian Mesopotamian
The Last Tape at Jonestown
Hebrew / Roman Christian (Cathar) Russian Orthodox (Old Believer) Buddhist Christian (early martyr)
The Coat and the Pit
Islamic Greek Hindu Christian Jungian / Depth Psychology
Joseph Smith and the Grove
Christian Islamic Hebrew Christian Buddhist
Joshu's Mu
Christian Hindu Western Philosophy Sufi Jewish
The Judgment of Paris: One Apple, One City, One War
Norse / Germanic Hebrew Hindu Chinese Roman
All Shall Be Well
Sufi Buddhist Hindu (Shaiva) Jewish Kabbalah Taoist
Kabir: Neither Hindu Nor Muslim
Sufi / Persian Christian Buddhist / Madhyamaka American / Transcendentalist Indian / Dalit
The Teal's Egg and the Making of the World
Hindu Egyptian Greek / Hellenic Polynesian Chinese
Kali on the Battlefield
Egyptian Greek Norse Mesopotamian Christian / Gnostic
The Queen of Sheba and the Seed of Solomon
Hebrew Greek Hebrew (Ruth) Arthurian Roman
Kintu and Nambi: The First Journey of the Living
Greek / Hellenic Hebrew / Biblical Japanese / Shinto Greek / Hellenic Hebrew / Biblical
The Epic of Kirta
Hebrew / Jewish Greek Mesopotamian Hebrew / Jewish Irish / Celtic
Kūkai Throws the Vajra Across the Sea
Tibetan Buddhist Christian Jewish Hindu Christian (Catholic)
Krishna Lifts Govardhan
Abrahamic Christian Buddhist Mesopotamian Norse
Krishna Shows Yashoda the Universe
Christian Hebrew Bible Hindu Hebrew Bible Hebrew Bible / Jewish
Krishna Reveals Himself
Abrahamic / Hebrew Christian Hebrew / Wisdom Hebrew / Prophetic Christian / Pauline
Kūkai and the Mountain
Christian Tibetan Buddhist Christian (Catholic) Hindu Jewish
Kullervo and the Sword That Agreed
Greek / Hellenic Norse Hebrew Christian Hindu
Kumarbi Swallows the Storm: The Hurrian Song of Emergence
Greek / Hellenic Phoenician / Canaanite Egyptian Norse Babylonian / Mesopotamian
The Labors of Heracles: Twelve Impossible Tasks
Hindu Mesopotamian / Sumerian Norse / Germanic Christian Hebrew
Crying for a Vision: The Hanbleceyapi
Biblical / Hebrew Hindu Norse / Germanic Christian / Desert Tradition Buddhist
Lalibela's Dream: A Jerusalem in Stone
Islamic Jewish / Hebrew Catholic / Christian Hindu Christian / Visionary
Lalita Tripura Sundari — She Who Plays
Neoplatonic Gnostic Daoist Jewish Kabbalist Christian Mystical
Lao Tzu at the Pass
Confucian Buddhist Greek Manichaean Christian
Laozi at the Western Pass
Confucian Greek Buddhist Christian Sufi
The Last Supper: Bread, Cup, and Betrayal
Jewish Hindu Persian / Roman Sikh Buddhist
Lazarus: Come Out
Jewish Egyptian Hindu Sufi Greek
Papa Legba Opens the Gate
Yoruba Greek Roman Catholic Hindu
Lemminkäinen's Mother Gathers Him from the River
Egyptian Greek / Hellenic Norse Buddhist Mesopotamian
Loki Bound in the Cave
Greek Christian Caucasian Persian Hebrew / Apocalyptic
Louhi Hides the Sun and Moon
Greek / Hellenic Japanese / Shinto Native American / Pacific Northwest Norse Egyptian
Lugh and the Eye of Balor
Greek Hindu Persian Hebrew Norse
Luther at Wittenberg
Sikh Bahá'í Jewish Buddhist Christian
Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed, in the Underworld
Greek Japanese / Shinto Buddhist Greek Hebrew
The Maccabean Revolt
Jewish (Roman period) Sikh Bábí-Bahá'í Christian (Polish) Tibetan Buddhist
Twelve Years of Burning Off the World
Buddhist Christian Hindu Sufi Indigenous
Mahavira's Five Fistfuls
Buddhist Christian Hindu Sufi Christian
The Twelve Years of Silence
Biblical Christian Tibetan Buddhist Indian Political Stoic
Maimonides and the God Who Cannot Be Described
Hindu Christian Islamic Jewish (precedent) Early modern philosophy
The Queen of Sheba's Visit to Solomon
Hebrew / Biblical Hebrew / Biblical Islamic Rastafari Islamic / Ethiopian
Maman Brigitte and the First Grave
Celtic / Irish Catholic Roman Norse Yoruba
Manco Cápac and the Golden Staff
Hebrew Greek Roman Hindu Aztec
The Mandaeans: Keepers of the Living Water
Christian Jewish Hindu Zoroastrian Egyptian / Hermetic
The Twin Appears to Mani
Christian Zoroastrian Buddhist Islamic Gnostic
The Hajj That Crashed the Gold Market
Jewish Christian Islamic Roman Islamic
Al-Hallaj on the Gibbet
Christian Greek Hindu Jewish Christian (medieval)
Marduk Slays Tiamat
Hebrew / Jewish Vedic / Hindu Greek Norse Christian / Jewish Apocalyptic
Margery Kempe and the Gift of Tears
Christian / Spanish Gospel Christian / Modern Sufi Hindu / Bhakti
Markandeya and the Lord of Death
Greek Christian Norse Mesopotamian Buddhist
Maui: The Demigod Who Almost Defeated Death
Greek / Hellenic Mesopotamian / Sumerian Norse / Germanic Hindu Celtic / Irish
Māui Fishes Up the Islands
Norse Mesopotamian Greek Hindu Hebrew
Medea: What Love Made and What Rage Unmade
Roman Greek / Hellenic European folklore Hindu Hebrew
The Last Emperor Walks into the Battle
Jewish Christian Christian Jewish Hindu
The Spark That Was Never Made
Hindu (Advaita Vedanta) Sufi Buddhist (Zen) Jewish Kabbalah Greek (Neoplatonism)
Mencius Before the King
Greek Christian Sufi Hebrew Buddhist
Menelik Brings the Ark to Ethiopia
Hebrew / Biblical Hebrew / Biblical Islamic Popular / Modern Jewish / Rabbinic
Milarepa and the Black Magic
Christian Sufi Hindu Greek Christian / Catholic
Milarepa in the Cave
Christian / Desert Fathers Hindu Sufi Greek Indigenous / Lakota
Milarepa and the Four Towers
Sufi Christian / Desert Fathers Hindu Greek Zen Buddhist
Mirabai Walks Out of the Palace
Christian Mystical Sufi Jewish Greek Buddhist
The Missing God: How the Hittites Prayed When Things Went Wrong
Hebrew / Biblical Babylonian / Mesopotamian Greek / Hellenic Egyptian Roman
Mithras Kills the Bull and the World Is Born
Vedic Zoroastrian Christian Norse Astronomical
The Bull in the Cave
Christian Persian (Zoroastrian) Greek (Orphic / Eleusinian) Norse Vedic
The Letter from Birmingham Jail
Greek tragedy Christian (apostolic) Christian (twentieth century) Catholic (English Reformation) South African (anti-apartheid)
I've Been to the Mountaintop
Hebrew Christian Christian (Lutheran) Hindu Sikh
The Lunar Cycle: Selene, Thoth, Chandra, Tsukuyomi, and Ix Chel
Greek / Hellenic Egyptian Hindu / Vedic Japanese / Shinto Maya
The Morrigan: Crow on the Shoulder
Norse Hindu Greek Greek Japanese / Shinto
The Burning Bush
Christian Islamic Buddhist Persian / Zoroastrian Hindu
Moses Parts the Sea
Christian Hindu Mesopotamian Arthurian Modern secular
The Great Mother: Gaia, Isis, Durga, Pachamama, Nut, and Cybele
Greek / Hellenic Egyptian Hindu / Vedic Andean / Inca Phrygian / Anatolian
The Dark Night of Calcutta
Catholic mystical Hebrew Christian Carmelite Hindu
Mozi and the Doctrine of Universal Love
Christian Buddhist Stoic Hebrew Sufi
Mwindo and the Cave Beneath the World
Mesopotamian Greek Christian Aztec Norse
The Jar at Nag Hammadi
Jewish Manichaean Christian (orthodox) Buddhist Cathar
Nagarjuna and the Logic of Emptiness
Greek philosophy Taoist Greek philosophy Hindu Western philosophy
Nanabozho and the Earth-Diver
Biblical / Hebrew Haudenosaunee / Iroquois Hindu Greek / Hellenic Siberian / Buryat
Narasimha Tears Hiranyakashipu
Norse Greek Hebrew Mesopotamian Christian
Nergal and Ereshkigal
Greek Norse Sumerian Egyptian Hindu
Nestor and the Tale of Bygone Years
Christian Christian Hebrew Islamic Confucian
The Sword that Shattered at Tatsunokuchi
Christian Jewish Islamic Hindu Christian (Catholic)
The Night Journey
Jewish (Merkavah / Hekhalot) Christian Zoroastrian Mesopotamian Christian (Latin)
The Night of Power
Jewish Christian Christian Mormon Zoroastrian
Noah and the Ark
Mesopotamian Greek Hindu Aztec Aboriginal Australian
Norse Mythology: The Nine Worlds, the Gods, and the End That Isn't
Greek Vedic Babylonian Christian Zoroastrian
Numa and the Nymph
Hebrew Islamic Norse Sumerian Celtic
Aakulujjuusi and Uumarnituq Rise from the Earth
Hebrew Norse Mesopotamian Aboriginal Australian Taoist
Nzambi Creates and Becomes Silent
Jewish Gnostic Christian Hindu Islamic
Obatala Shapes Humanity
Mesopotamian Hebrew Greek Chinese Christian
Odin on the Tree
Christian Mesopotamian Persian / Roman Greek Sumerian / Canaanite
Odin on Yggdrasil: The God Who Sacrificed Himself to Himself
Christian Sumerian / Mesopotamian Hindu Tibetan Buddhist Shaman traditions (Siberian / Central Asian)
Oedipus at Thebes
Hebrew Hebrew Hindu Hebrew Hindu
Ogun and the First Blade
Greek Norse Mesopotamian Hebrew Hindu
The Seven Grandfather Teachings
Biblical / Hebrew Confucian / Chinese Buddhist Christian Hindu
Old Man Coyote Makes the World
Ojibwe / Anishinaabe Plains Tribes / Various West African / Akan Norse / Germanic Greek / Hellenic
Origen: The Theologian Who Was Too Brilliant
Buddhist Christian / Gnostic Christian / Medieval Jewish Islamic
Orpheus and Eurydice
Mesopotamian Japanese Greek Hebrew Christian
Orpheus: The Song That Almost Worked
Shinto / Japanese Hebrew Hebrew Tibetan Buddhist Hindu
Romero at the Altar
Christian (medieval) Christian (Reformation) Christian (Protestant, twentieth century) Christian (early church) Hebrew prophets
The Coffin, the Cedar, and the Fourteen Pieces
Christian Mesopotamian Greek Canaanite Persian / Roman
Pachamama Shrugs
Greek Hindu Shinto Celtic Yoruba
Pachomius and the Voice at Tabennisi
Buddhist Jewish Christian / Western Sikh Secular / Modern
Padmasambhava Arrives in Tibet
Christian Hindu Japanese Bön Mesopotamian
Padmasambhava on the Roof of the World
Christian Buddhist Hindu Japanese Norse / Christian
Pandora's Jar
Hebrew / Christian Hebrew / Kabbalistic Greek Mesopotamian Norse
Parshvanatha and the Serpent King
Buddhist Hebrew Christian Hindu Egyptian
Paul on the Damascus Road
Jewish Islamic Zoroastrian Hindu Latter-day Saint
Pele and Poliʻahu: Fire Against Snow
Norse Greek Japanese Aztec Hindu
Pentecost in Jerusalem
Jewish Jewish / Mesopotamian Hindu / Vedic Zoroastrian Sufi / Islamic
The Long Rise of Reverend Jones
Christian (American Black church) Christian (Methodist) Christian (Anabaptist) Christian (Liberation Theology) Hebrew (prophetic)
Persephone in the Pomegranate
Mesopotamian Christian Aztec Japanese Greek
Persephone and the Pomegranate: What She Chose
Sumerian / Mesopotamian Ugaritic / Canaanite Egyptian Norse / Germanic Christian
Perun and Veles: The Storm Forever
Hindu Norse Hittite Greek Hebrew / Canaanite
Plato's Allegory of the Cave
Buddhist Hindu Sufi Christian Daoist
The Hero Twins in Xibalba
Greek Sumerian Egyptian Christian Norse
The Hero Twins Defeat the Lords of Death
Sumerian Egyptian Christian Norse Greek
Prahlada and Narasimha: The Pillar Splits
Christian Norse Greek Buddhist Aztec
Prince Shōtoku and the Seventeen Articles
Buddhist Confucian Christian Islamic Biblical
The Prodigal Son: The Father Who Ran
Jewish Sufi Buddhist Hindu Confucian
Prometheus Bound: The Price of Stolen Fire
Norse / Germanic Hebrew Christian Hindu Polynesian
Prometheus Chained
Norse Christian Persian / Zoroastrian Mesopotamian Judaism / Kabbalah
Pythagoras and the Music of the Spheres
Hindu Jewish / Kabbalistic Islamic Christian Zen
Quetzalcoatl in the Bone-Pit
Mesopotamian Greek Hebrew Christian Yoruba
Quetzalcoatl Looks in the Mirror and Leaves Tula
Christian Norse Greek Buddhist Zoroastrian
Ra and the Nightly Serpent
Mesopotamian Christian Norse Hindu Aztec
Rabbi Akiva and the Shema
Greek Christian Christian (medieval) Christian (Reformation) Christian (modern)
Rabia: The Woman Who Loved God Without Reason
Hindu (Bhakti) Hebrew Christian Hindu (Tamil Bhakti) Christian (Catholic Worker)
Rabi'a Extinguishes Hell
Christian Hindu (Bhakti) Jewish Buddhist Christian (Spanish mystic)
Ragnarök: The Twilight of the Gods
Christian Hindu Zoroastrian Mesoamerican Stoic
Rama Slays Ravana
Hindu Mesopotamian Hebrew Greek Christian
Ramakrishna Sees the Mother of the Universe
Christian Christian Islamic Christian Lakota
Rata and the Canoe That Would Not Stay Cut
Greek Norse Hindu North American Indigenous Biblical
Raven Steals the Box of Light
Greek Hebrew Hindu Egyptian Polynesian
The First King Who Walked Away
Hindu Buddhist Christian Taoist Islamic
Romulus and the Furrow
Hebrew Egyptian Greek Hindu Norse
Rishabha: The First Teacher
Biblical Hindu Chinese Greek Taoist
Rumi Meets Shams
Greek Christian Hindu Zen Buddhist Jewish (Hasidic)
Ruth and Naomi
Islamic Buddhist Christian Mesopotamian Greek
Saladin at the Gates of Jerusalem
Persian Roman Christian Islamic Christian
The Theft of the Sampo and the Eagle on the Sea
Greek / Hellenic Norse Egyptian Hindu Celtic / Welsh
The Churning of the Ocean: Poison Before Nectar
Greek / Hellenic Norse / Germanic Mesopotamian / Sumerian Alchemical / Hermetic Christian
Samudra Manthan: The Churning of the Cosmic Ocean
Greek Norse Christian Aztec Alchemical / Hermetic
The Mantis Who Created the Eland
Akan / West African Native American Norse / Germanic Japanese Greek / Hellenic
Sango Hangs Himself and Becomes the Storm
Hebrew Roman Hindu Greek Hebrew / Christian
Sati and the Yajna of Daksha
Greek Mesopotamian Christian Norse Buddhist
Saul on the Damascus Road
Hebrew Islamic Zoroastrian Hebrew Latter-day Saint
Sedna Falls Into the Sea
Mesopotamian Norse Greek Hindu Aboriginal Australian
Seraphim of Sarov and the Bear
Catholic Theravada Buddhist Catholic Hindu Desert Christian
Sermon on the Mount
Buddhist Jewish Hindu Taoist Sufi / Islamic
Shango Does Not Hang
Greek Norse Hindu Hebrew Aztec
Shango: Thunder in Exile
Greek Norse Hindu Hebrew Aztec
Tagore and the Religion of Man
American Transcendentalist Christian / Medieval Jewish / Existentialist American / Whitman French / Catholic
The Shape That Isn't Fixed: Proteus, Loki, Coyote, Vishnu, and Circe
Greek / Hellenic Norse / Germanic Native American (various) Hindu / Vedic Greek / Hellenic (sorcerer)
Shimon bar Yochai in the Cave
Christian Hindu Buddhist Zoroastrian Islamic
Shiva Drinks the Halahala
Christian Mahayana Buddhist Mesopotamian Norse Greek
Shiva's Tandava — The Cosmic Dance
Greek Buddhist Christian Daoist Pythagorean / Platonic
Sigurd Kills the Dragon and Learns to Hear the Birds
Greek Greek Arthurian Anglo-Saxon Buddhist
Sim Cheong: The Daughter Who Bought Her Father's Eyes
Greek Greek Hebrew Bible Hindu Universal
Simeon bar Yochai in the Cave
Christian Buddhist Jewish (biblical) Tibetan Buddhist Roman
The Hammer and the Void
Christian Buddhist Jewish Hindu Christian (monastic)
Sinai and the Two Tablets
Mesopotamian Chinese Islamic Zoroastrian Hindu
Sisyphus and the Stone
Hebrew Buddhist Hindu Christian Mesopotamian
Sita's Fire Trial
Hebrew / Apocrypha Christian Christian / Historical American Literature Hindu
Sky Woman Falls onto the Turtle's Back
Greek / Hellenic Shinto / Japanese Ojibwe / Anishinaabe Maori Hindu
The Historian Who Saved the Gods
Confucian Christian Islamic Andalusi-Islamic Jewish
Socrates Drinks the Hemlock
Christian Buddhist Confucian Sufi Stoic
We Owe a Cock to Asclepius
Buddhist Christian Sufi Confucian Stoic
The Sword and the Living Child
Egyptian Hindu / Indian Mesopotamian Buddhist Chinese
The Song of Ullikummi: Stone Born to Destroy Heaven
Greek / Hellenic Norse Hebrew / Biblical Babylonian / Mesopotamian Japanese
Sophia's Desire and the Birth of the World
Jewish (Kabbalistic) Hindu Manichaean Cathar Christian (orthodox)
Sophia's Fall from the Pleroma
Christian (orthodox) Jewish (Kabbalistic) Hindu Manichaean Cathar
Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio
Hebrew Buddhist Russian Orthodox Hebrew prophetic Christian / Franciscan
The Philosopher of Light, Killed at Thirty-Eight
European Greek Sufi Buddhist Christian
The Solar Pantheon: Ra, Apollo, Surya, Inti, and Amaterasu
Egyptian Greek / Hellenic Hindu / Vedic Andean / Inca Japanese / Shinto
Sun Wukong Storms Heaven
Norse Greek Hindu Islamic Christian
Sundiata Keita Rises
Hebrew Greek Norse Hindu Arthurian
Sundiata: The Lion Who Could Not Walk
Greek / Hellenic Hebrew Norse / Germanic Hindu Christian
The Cripple's Mother and the Baobab
Arthurian Hebrew Buddhist (Tibetan) Roman Hebrew (Moses)
Susanoo and the Eight-Headed Serpent
Mesopotamian Greek Vedic Christian Norse
Susanoo Slays the Eight-Headed Serpent
Christian Mesopotamian Vedic Norse Greek
Tagaro and Qasavara: The Two Who Divided the World
Zoroastrian Chinese / Taoist Native American Jewish Hindu
Tangaroa Breaks His Shell
Hindu Mesopotamian Norse Gnostic Biblical
Telepinu Vanishes: When the God of Spring Left the World
Greek / Hellenic Sumerian / Mesopotamian Norse Japanese Egyptian
The Dedication of the Templo Mayor
Roman / Mithraic Vedic Hindu Yoruba Carthaginian Roman
The Dalai Lama Flees Lhasa
Jewish Christian Hindu Sufi Bön
Tepeu and Gucumatz Speak the World Into Being
Babylonian Christian / Hebrew Hindu Norse Gnostic
Teresa and the Golden Spear
Sufi Greek Hindu Buddhist Jewish
Teshub and Illuyanka: The Dragon Who Swallowed the Storm
Norse Babylonian / Mesopotamian Greek / Hellenic Slavic Hebrew / Biblical
The Annunciation
Hebrew Hebrew Hebrew Hindu Buddhist
The Empty Tomb
Mesopotamian Egyptian Greek Aztec Hindu
The Hijra
Jewish Christian Hebrew Bible Hindu Buddhist
Theseus in the Labyrinth
Mesopotamian Hebrew Anglo-Saxon Hindu / Vedic Hindu / Puranic
The Boat and the Shore
Christian Hindu Christian Taoist Jewish
Becket in the Cathedral
Christian / Bohemian Hebrew / Gospel Christian / Modern Early Christian Early Christian
Thomas Sold into India
Buddhist Jewish Sufi Hindu Christian
I Loved All Those People
Buddhist Jewish Christian Hindu Christian (mystical)
Thor in Utgard: The Competitions That Were Lies
Hindu Greek / Hellenic Hebrew Chinese / Daoist Christian
Thor at the Court of Utgard-Loki
Taoist Hebrew Hindu Buddhist Zen
Thunder, Perfect Mind: The Voice That Contradicts Itself
Hindu Christian mysticism Sumerian Biblical African / Yoruba
Toussaint Louverture: The Revolution He Did Not Start and Could Not Stop
Vodou Hebrew Stoic / Classical Christian African / Pan-African
The Tower of Babel and the Scattering
Mesopotamian Greek Hindu Norse African
The Tower
Greek Aztec Norse Hindu Modern
Transfiguration on the Mountain
Jewish Jewish Hindu Buddhist Zoroastrian
The Trickster Across Traditions: Loki, Anansi, Coyote, Hermes, and Eshu
Norse / Germanic West African / Akan Native American (Navajo, Crow, Chinook, many others) Greek / Hellenic Yoruba / West African
The Trung Sisters Ride
Christian / French Celtic Hebrew Bible Roman Japanese
Tsongkhapa Reforms the Dharma
Christian (Protestant) Christian (Catholic) Christian (Catholic) Hindu Confucian
Tulsidas and the Poem That Became Scripture
Christian / Reformation Christian / Lutheran Buddhist / Pure Land Italian Catholic Hellenistic Jewish
Lord, Open the King of England's Eyes
Sufi / Islamic Christian / Czech Lollard / English Jewish Christian / Anglican
Väinämöinen's Last Voyage in the Copper Boat
Celtic / Welsh Buddhist Hindu Christian Norse
The Song-Duel of Väinämöinen and Joukahainen
Norse Greek / Hellenic Greek / Hellenic Celtic / Irish Hindu
Valentinus Almost Becomes Bishop of Rome
Buddhist Jewish (Kabbalistic) Sufi Hindu Christian (orthodox)
Valmiki Becomes the First Poet
Greek Hebrew Sumerian Japanese Christian
Viracocha Rises from the Lake
Hebrew Greek Babylonian Hindu Egyptian
Vivekananda at the Parliament
Christian Buddhist Bahá'í Buddhist (Zen) Theosophical
Vladimir Chooses a God
Christian Christian Christian Norse Mongol-Tibetan
Gods of War: Ares, Odin, Skanda, Huitzilopochtli, and Sekhmet
Greek / Hellenic Norse / Germanic Hindu / Vedic Aztec / Mesoamerican Egyptian
The Reclining Buddha of Wat Pho
Christian Egyptian Hindu Mahayana Buddhist Christian
The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: The Party That Started a War
Norse / Germanic Hindu Hebrew Mesopotamian / Sumerian Celtic / Irish
The Feather of Maat
Islamic Christian Zoroastrian Tibetan Buddhist Greek
My Heart Strangely Warmed
Catholic / North African Catholic / French Sufi / Islamic Buddhist / Pure Land Jewish / Hasidic
The Turn: How the Dervishes Learned to Spin
Greek Jewish (Hasidic) Hindu (Bhakti) Christian (Shaker) Native American (Paiute)
White Buffalo Calf Woman and the Sacred Pipe
Hindu Christian Egyptian Zoroastrian Buddhist
The Mind of the Divine: Athena, Thoth, Odin, Saraswati, and Ganesh
Greek / Hellenic Egyptian Norse / Germanic Hindu / Vedic Hindu / Vedic
The Wolf Teaches Humans to Hunt
Greek Norse Hindu Aboriginal Australian Mesopotamian
The Woman at the Well: Living Water
Jewish Hindu Sufi Taoist Samaritan
Wovoka and the Ghost Dance
Jewish Christian Melanesian Chinese Zoroastrian
Zeus's Twofold Revenge
Hebrew Norse Christian / Apocryphal Mesopotamian Buddhist
Zhuangzi Drums on a Bowl
Buddhist Stoic Greek Christian Hebrew
Moses de León and the Ancient Book
Tibetan Buddhist Hellenistic Jewish (precedent) Christian Renaissance European
Zarathushtra at the River
Hebrew Christian Islamic Manichaean Greek
Zoroaster at the River
Jewish Christian Islamic Mormon Buddhist
Abaddon and the Fifth Trumpet: The Locusts from the Pit
Jewish Zoroastrian Mesopotamian Greek
Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani and the Cloak
Christian Buddhist Jewish Hindu
Abhimanyu in the Wheel
Greek Norse Christian Buddhist
The Wrath of Achilles: When Patroclus Falls
Hebrew Bible Mesopotamian Hindu Christian
The Bread of Life: Adapa Before Anu
Hebrew Greek Christian Hindu
Aeneas in the Underworld
Greek Hebrew Hindu Christian
The Dream of Aengus Og: A Year in Search of the Swan-Maiden
Greek Norse Hindu Japanese
Agni: The Fire That Carries the Offerings
Greek Roman Persian Christian
How Ahriman Made the Lie
Christian Gnostic Hindu Norse
Ahti of the Deep: The Finnish God Who Lives Below the Net
Norse Greek Celtic Polynesian
Ahura Mazda Speaks the First Word
Christian Islamic Hebrew Hindu
Ajahn Chah and the Snake That Was Always Going to Bite
Zen Sufi Socratic Greek Christian
The Sunsum That Did Not Come Back
Siberian Shamanic Tibetan Buddhist Ancient Egyptian Medieval European
Akhenaten Faces East: The Great Hymn to the Aten
Jewish Christian Islamic Zoroastrian
Ana al-Haqq: I Am the Truth
Christian Hindu Jewish Greek
Al-Khidr: The Green One
Jewish Arthurian Greek Hindu
Iskander at the Threshold of Darkness
Greek Mesopotamian Hebrew Islamic
Ali at the Mosque of Kufa
Christian Jewish Buddhist Sikh
Erlik's Court at the Bottom of the World
Mesopotamian Egyptian Christian Buddhist
Amaterasu Withdraws from the World
Greek Mesopotamian Norse Egyptian
The Six Bounteous Immortals
Christian Jewish/Kabbalistic Hindu Neoplatonist
Amirani: The Man Who Stole Fire
Greek / Hellenic Norse / Germanic Greek / Hellenic Persian / Zoroastrian
Anāhitā and the River of Stars
Greek Mesopotamian Hindu Celtic
Anansi Steals Fire from the Sky
Greek Native American Norse Hindu
Anansi Pays the Impossible Price
Greek Norse Hebrew Hindu
Anat Threshes the Dead
Egyptian Greek Mesopotamian Norse
The Song That Holds the Land
Vedic Norse Islamic Pythagorean
The Woman Who Corrected Her Scribe
Hindu (Bhakti) Buddhist Sufi Jewish
Angra Mainyu: The Lie That Chose Itself
Christian Hebrew Manichaean Gnostic
Angra Mainyu Strikes the First Bull: The Zoroastrian Fall
Christian Gnostic Norse Hindu
Angulimala: Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Fingers
Christian Hindu Sufi Greek
Anna Perenna by the Stream
Hebrew Greek Hindu Christian
Anzu Steals the Tablet of Destinies
Greek Norse Egyptian Hebrew Bible
Apollo and Daphne: The God Who Cannot Catch the Girl Who Becomes a Tree
Hebrew Bible Hindu Japanese Christian
Every Night, the Serpent Tries to Swallow the Sun
Norse Hindu Christian Babylonian
Lucius and the Goddess Who Restored Him
Greek / Hellenic Greek / Hellenic Buddhist Siberian / Shamanic
Ara the Beautiful
Greek / Hellenic Egyptian Sumerian / Mesopotamian European / Folklore
Arachne and the Tapestry of the Gods' Crimes
Hebrew Bible Christian Buddhist Hindu
Arash: The Arrow That Was a Life
Greek / Hellenic Japanese / Shinto Norse / Germanic Hebrew / Biblical
Arjuna's Solitary Meditation
Biblical / Hebrew Mesopotamian Greek Buddhist / Tibetan
Camlann: The Battle That Should Not Have Been
Hindu Norse Greek Greek / Historical
The Hill That Is Shiva's Body
Jewish Christian Buddhist Greek
The Ashvins Restore Chyavana to Youth
Greek Roman Christian Greek
Asmodeus: The Demon Who Knew the Answer
Greek Norse Islamic Christian
Atalanta and the Golden Apples
Hebrew Bible Hindu Norse Christian
The Noise Below Heaven: The Flood of Atrahasis
Hebrew Greek Hindu Christian
The Conference of the Birds
Greek Hindu Christian Zen Buddhist
The Seven Valleys of the Seeking Soul
Christian Hindu Jewish/Kabbalistic Buddhist
The Bodhisattva Who Could Not Leave: Avalokiteshvara's Vow
Christian Jewish Hindu Norse
Averroes and the Burning
Christian Jewish Buddhist Hindu
Ayida Wedo: The Rainbow That Holds Up the Sky
West African Australian Aboriginal Hindu Aztec
Azrael: The Angel Who Has Never Refused
Jewish Greek Zoroastrian Egyptian
The Gods Who Threw Themselves into the Fire
Greek Christian Hindu Norse
Baal Defeats Yam: The Storm God Earns His Palace
Hebrew / Jewish Mesopotamian Greek Norse
Baal Descends into the Mouth of Death
Greek Mesopotamian Hebrew Bible Egyptian
The Baal Shem Tov Finds the Sparks in the Market
Christian Sufi Hindu Buddhist
Baba Yaga Tests the Hero
Greek Norse Hindu Christian
Bachué Walks Out of the Lake
Greek Mesopotamian Hindu Celtic
Bahrām Gūr: The Hunter-King
Greek Celtic Hindu European
The Meditator Stopped by His Own Victory
Buddhist Christian Hindu Greek
The Death of Baldr
Greek Christian Egyptian Hindu
Banda Singh Bahadur: The Ascetic Who Became an Army
Roman Jewish Lakota Christian
The Unborn Has No Name
Christian Hindu (Advaita) Taoist Sufi
The Banshee: She Is Heard, Not Seen
Greek Norse Slavic Christian
Baridegi, the First Shaman
Greek Sumerian Hindu Siberian
Baron Samedi at the Cemetery Gate
Aztec Greek Hindu Tibetan Buddhist
Barong and Rangda: The Battle That Never Ends
Hindu Zoroastrian Tibetan Buddhist Norse
Barong and Rangda: The Dance That Never Ends
Hindu Zoroastrian Egyptian Hindu
Bayazid Bastami and the Annihilation
Hindu Christian Jewish Buddhist
Bedivere and the Sword He Could Not Throw
Universal Greek Hebrew / Biblical Japanese
Benzaiten and the Dragon King
Hindu Greek Christian Buddhist
The Man Who Emptied Towns
Sufi Hindu (Bhakti) Buddhist (Pure Land) Jewish
Bochica Breaks the Rock at Tequendama
Greek Hindu Norse Christian
The Bridge of the Separator
Islamic Egyptian Hindu Christian
Brynhildr's Cursed Sleep
Greek Christian Hindu Germanic
The 37 Nats of Burma
Shinto / Japanese West African / Vodou Korean Catholic / Christian
The Blacksmith Who Became a Shaman
Norse Greek West African Hindu
Calvin's Geneva
Islamic Jewish Buddhist Greek
Cernunnos at the Hinge of Winter
Norse Hindu Greek Shamanic
Chandanbala: The Princess Who Became the First Nun
Biblical Christian Buddhist Sufi
Chi: The Self You Were Before You Were Born
Hindu Greek Gnostic Norse
Chukwu Breathes the Chi
Greek Hindu Norse Gnostic
Cihuacoatl Weeping Through Tenochtitlan
Greek Hebrew Hindu Christian
The Cihuateteo: Women Who Died in Childbirth
Greek Norse Slavic Japanese
Cincinnatus from the Plow
Hebrew Hebrew Chinese Christian
Cipactli: The Earth-Monster Whose Body Is the World
Mesopotamian Norse Hindu Chinese
The Cloud Between You and God
Sufi Buddhist (Zen) Hindu (Advaita Vedanta) Jewish
Coatlicue at Coatepec
Greek Hindu Egyptian Christian
Coatlicue Swept the Temple
Greek Hindu Norse Egyptian
The Maize God Inside the Turtle
Egyptian Greek Mesopotamian Christian
Cú Chulainn Earns His Name
Hebrew Bible Greek Roman Hindu
Cu Chulainn Holds the Ford
Greek Mesopotamian Norse Persian
The Black Stone of the Great Mother
Christian Greek Mesopotamian Egyptian
Daedalus and Icarus: The Wax, the Sun, the Falling Boy
Hebrew Bible Mesopotamian Christian Hindu
The Dagda's Cauldron That Left No One Unsatisfied
Norse Hindu Greek Christian
The Goddess Who Stopped the World
Mesopotamian Japanese Norse Christian
The Memory of the Priests
Jewish Buddhist Irish/Celtic Hindu
Dewi Sri: The Goddess Who Became Rice
Egyptian Japanese Native American Greek
Dido and the Founding of Carthage
Hebrew Greek Hindu Norse
Born Twice
Christian Egyptian Hindu Mesopotamian
What the Titans Left Inside Us
Hindu Mesopotamian Egyptian Christian
The Orphic Gold Tablets: Instructions for the Dead
Egyptian Tibetan Buddhist Christian Greek / Platonic
Dobrynya and the Serpent
Greek Norse Hindu Christian
Ogotemmeli Speaks the Star
Babylonian Mesoamerican Christian Hebrew
The Pale Fox and the Disorder of the World
Norse Greek West African (Akan) Native American (Navajo)
Amma Speaks the World into Being
Hebrew Hindu Christian (Johannine) Egyptian
The Palace of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea
Chinese Japanese Greek Celtic
Draupadi's Disrobing
Greek Hebrew Christian Norse
Egungun: When the Ancestors Return
Greek Christian Chinese Norse
Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea
Greek Norse Hindu Christian
Elegba and the Road That Exists Only When He Walks It
Greek Norse Christian Daoist
The Sacred Way
Christian Egyptian Hindu Norse
The Seeing
Jewish Buddhist Hindu Christian
Fire on Carmel
Canaanite Greek Islamic Buddhist
The Contest on Mount Carmel
Hindu Buddhist Greek Islamic
Elijah at Horeb: The Wind, the Earthquake, the Fire, and the Still Small Voice
Buddhist Hindu Christian Sufi
The Emerald Tablet: As Above, So Below
Hindu Taoist Jewish / Kabbalistic Neoplatonic
Empedocles at the Rim of Etna
Hindu Buddhist Christian Norse
Endymion, the Sleeping Shepherd
Christian Hindu Norse Buddhist
Enheduanna and the Hymn She Had to Write Twice
Hebrew Greek Christian Islamic
Inanna Steals the Divine Decrees from Enki
Greek Hebrew Bible Norse Polynesian
Enlil Sends the Flood: The Atrahasis Tablet
Hebrew Greek Hindu Mesoamerican
Epicurus and the Garden
Buddhist Taoist Sufi Christian
Erlik: The Lord of the Dark World Below
Greek Hindu / Buddhist Egyptian Norse
The God of Necessary Violence: Erra Unmoors
Hebrew Greek Christian Hindu
Erzulie Freda: She Who Always Weeps
Yoruba Greek Buddhist / Chinese Christian
Esau Sells His Birthright for a Bowl of Stew
Greek Buddhist Christian Hindu
Etana and the Eagle: The Flight to Heaven
Greek Hebrew Hindu Christian
Etugen Holds the Ground
Hindu Greek Roman Slavic
Excalibur: The Sword in the Stone, the Lady in the Lake
Hebrew Bible Greek Hindu Japanese
The Chariot-Throne of God
Christian Islamic Hindu Zoroastrian
Fatima al-Zahra: The Grieving Lady
Christian Jewish Hindu Greek
Ferdowsi and the Sultan's Silver
Greek Christian Jewish Hindu
Fereydun and the Serpent King
Mesopotamian Greek / Hellenic Norse / Germanic Hindu / Vedic
Ferīdūn and the Serpent on Zahhāk's Shoulders
Greek Hebrew Norse Christian
The Fire That Has Never Gone Out
Hebrew Roman Christian Hindu
Frashokereti: The Making Wonderful
Jewish Christian Norse Hindu
Frashokereti: The Final Renovation
Christian Hebrew Islamic Hindu
The Fravashis Who Guide the Living
Greek Jewish/Kabbalistic Christian Hindu
Freyr and Gerðr: The Price of Desire
Greek Hindu Mesopotamian Christian
Galahad: The Knight Who Was Not of This World
Christian / Biblical Hindu Tibetan Buddhist Christian / Operatic
Garshasb and the Horned Dragon
Norse Greek Hebrew Christian
Garuda's Impossible Task
Greek Greek Siberian Shamanic Aztec
Gawain and the Green Knight's Bargain
Celtic / Irish Hebrew / Biblical Hindu Norse
Gayōmard: The Primordial Man
Norse Hindu Hebrew/Kabbalistic Manichaean
Temüjin Prays to the Eternal Blue Sky
Christian Norse Mesopotamian Islamic
Genghis Khan and the Eternal Blue Sky
Chinese European Christian Zoroastrian Hebrew / Biblical
Gesar Rides the Wind Horse
Hindu Greek Norse Arthurian / Christian
The Birth of Gesar of Ling
Hindu Christian Celtic Persian
Gilgamesh at the End of the World
Greek Egyptian Hebrew Norse
Siduri at the End of the World
Hebrew Greek Roman Buddhist
Guan Yu Becomes a God
Greek Christian Norse Japanese
The Gumiho at the Mountain Road
Japanese Greek Christian Siberian
Guru Angad and the Letters That Made a People
Christian Cherokee Jewish Korean
Hafez Before Tamerlane
Greek Zen Buddhist Jewish Sufi
Mansur al-Hallaj and the Gallows
Christian Hindu Jewish Greek
Haoma: The Plant That Touches the Divine
Hindu Christian Greek Norse
Hasan al-Basri and the Weeping Merchant
Christian Buddhist Jewish Hindu
Kapo and the Return from Death's House
Greek Siberian Shamanic Tibetan Buddhist Norse
Hayk and the Fall of Bel
Hebrew / Biblical Roman Egyptian Persian / Zoroastrian
Hecate at the Crossroads
Hindu Hebrew Christian Buddhist
The Ball Game at the Heart of Xibalba
Greek Egyptian Norse Hindu
Hina and the Moon
Greek Chinese Norse Hindu
Hine-nui-te-po and the Death of Maui
Greek Mesopotamian Egyptian Christian
Hiranyagarbha: The Golden Embryo on the Cosmic Waters
Egyptian Orphic Chinese Hebrew
The Eighty-Year Lawsuit
Greek Norse Mesopotamian Jewish
Huginn and Muninn: The Eyes of Odin
Greek Hindu Christian Egyptian
The Eagle on the Cactus: Huitzilopochtli's Long Walk
Hebrew Roman Mongol Polynesian
Hwanung Descends to Earth
Hindu Greek Siberian Japanese
Iblis: The One Who Refused
Christian Jewish Greek Gnostic
Ibn Arabi and the Ring of Solomon
Jewish (Kabbalah) Christian (scholastic) Hindu (Shaiva) Greek (Neoplatonist)
Iemanjá and the Sea That Receives
Yoruba Haitian Vodou Hindu Polynesian
Ifa Divination Comes to Earth
Greek Hebrew Hindu Sufi
Chi: The God You Carry With You
Roman Greek Egyptian Yoruba
The Ijiraq and the Child Who Walked Too Far
Celtic Greek Shinto Christian
Inanna's Tree and the Snake That Refused to Leave
Hebrew Norse Mesopotamian Kabbalistic
The Holy Churn: The Sacred Marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi
Hebrew Greek Hindu Christian
Inanna Steals the Me from Enki
Greek Norse Hindu Hebrew
The Fox Who Keeps the Account
Greek Hindu Norse Christian
Indra Smashes Vritra and Releases the Waters
Greek Norse Hittite Hebrew
Inkarri's Head Is Still Growing
Christian Norse Arthurian Islamic
The Angakkuq Learns to See in the Dark
Hindu Buddhist Christian Norse
Io's Long Wandering
Hebrew Egyptian Hindu Christian
No Name, No Temple, No Destination
Christian Hindu (Bhakti) Sufi Christian
Isfandiyār and the Seven Trials
Greek Mesopotamian Christian Norse
Isis in Rome: The Goddess Who Conquered Her Conquerors
Catholic / Christian Roman Buddhist Universal
Itzamna Begins the Count
Mesopotamian Hindu Norse Greek
The Healer Crosses to Cozumel
Greek Egyptian Hindu Norse
Ixion on the Wheel
Hebrew Christian Hindu Buddhist
Izanagi Washes Himself Clean
Egyptian Greek Norse Hindu
Izanami in the Land of the Dead
Greek Mesopotamian Biblical Norse
Izanami: The Goddess Who Was Seen
Greek Greek Sumerian Hebrew
Kannazuki: The Month Without Gods
Greek Norse Celtic Hindu
The Jade Emperor's Complaint Department
Christian Islamic Hindu Norse
Seven Ways of Being True
Buddhist Greek Hindu Western Philosophy
Jamshid and the Four-Hundred-Year Summer
Hebrew Hindu Christian Norse
Jamshid's Pride and the Loss of Royal Glory
Hebrew Greek Christian Mesopotamian
Jason and the Golden Fleece: The Argo, the Dragon, the Witch Who Loved Him
Hebrew Bible Hindu Mesopotamian Christian
Jezebel and Naboth's Vineyard
Greek Mesopotamian Christian Hindu
Job and the Voice from the Whirlwind
Greek Buddhist Hindu Mesopotamian
Yahia the True Prophet Baptizes in the Jordan
Christian Jewish (Qumran) Zoroastrian Gnostic (broader)
Jumong Founds Goguryeo
Greek Hebrew Bible Hindu Japanese
The Kachina Return to the San Francisco Peaks
Shinto Greek Catholic Hindu
Kali and the Demon Who Bled Armies
Greek Norse Christian Buddhist
Karna: Death in the Mud
Greek Norse Christian Buddhist
Kaveh the Blacksmith Raises His Apron
Hebrew French/European Greek Christian
Key Khusrow and the Cup of the World
Arthurian / Celtic Hebrew / Biblical Hebrew / Jewish Egyptian
Al-Khiḍr and the Water of Life
Hebrew Christian Celtic Hindu
Khusrow and Shīrīn: The King and the Milk-White Horse
Greek Hebrew European Hindu
Kibuka Falls From the Trees
Greek Hebrew Norse Hindu
Kiều: A Hundred Years, Everything
Buddhist Greek Christian Hindu
The Kikimora Behind the Stove
Celtic Roman Japanese Christian
The Kinnara: Half-Human, Half-Bird
European / Fairy Tale Japanese Hindu Celtic
Kisā Gotamī and the House With No Death
Jewish Sufi Greek Christian
Koschei the Deathless: The Needle at the End of Everything
Norse Greek Hindu Christian
The Nine-Tailed Fox Chooses
Japanese Greek Christian Norse
Kupe Voyages to Aotearoa
Greek Norse Hebrew Hindu
Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ: The Hundred Eggs
Chinese Hindu Greek Norse
Lady Meng Jiang Weeps Down the Wall
Greek Hebrew Hindu Celtic
The Lady of the Lake and What She Gave
Greek Norse Universal / Folkloric Arthurian (internal)
Lancelot and the Kingdom He Could Not Serve
Celtic / Irish Hindu Roman / Greco-Roman Islamic / Persian
Majnūn in the Desert
Greek European Sufi/Islamic Hindu
Longchenpa Writes the Treasury in Exile
Christian Jewish Hindu Greek
Lucretia and the Birth of the Republic
Greek Hebrew Norse Christian
Lugalbanda and the Anzu Bird
Greek Hindu Persian Norse
The Lupercalia and Caesar's Last Refusal
Greek Norse Hindu Christian
The Contraction: Isaac Luria and the Space God Made
Hindu Gnostic Buddhist Christian
Luther at the Diet of Worms
Jewish Buddhist Islamic Greek
What the Mountain Gave Back
Hindu African Traditional Sufi Siberian Shamanic
Manasa and the Merchant Who Would Not Bow
Greek Christian Norse Mesopotamian
The Book of Giants and the Watchers
Hebrew Christian Islamic Norse
Mani Receives the Final Revelation
Zoroastrian Buddhist Christian (Gnostic) Islamic
Mani's Vision of the Two Principles
Zoroastrian Gnostic Christian Buddhist
Mani's Crucifixion of Light
Christian Islamic Zoroastrian Buddhist
Mani and the Twin Who Taught Him
Christian Islamic Zoroastrian Gnostic
Mani and His Twin Angel
Christian Islamic Mormon / Latter-day Saint Jewish
The Elect and the Hearers
Buddhist Christian Hindu Zoroastrian
Kai Kai and Treng Treng — The Serpents' War
Hebrew Greek Mesopotamian Hindu
The Marasa: The Divine Twins Who Must Eat First
Yoruba Greek Roman Hindu
Marcus Aurelius on the Danube
Buddhist Sufi Jewish Christian
Marduk Splits Tiamat in Half
Hebrew Vedic Greek Norse
Marinette Bois-Chêche and the Night of August 22
Jewish Greek Christian Aztec
Marpa Throws the Gold into the Air
Christian Jewish Sufi Hindu
Marzanna: The Burning of Winter
Greek Norse Hindu Christian
Mašyā and Mašyānag: The First Lie
Hebrew Hindu Manichaean Gnostic
Maui Lassoes the Sun
Greek Mesopotamian Egyptian Norse
Māui Seeks Immortality
Greek Norse Mesopotamian Christian
Mawu-Lisa and the Laughter That Made the World
Hindu Norse Mesopotamian Gnostic
Mawu-Lisa and the Weight of the World
Hindu Norse Gnostic Mesopotamian
Mazu Enters the Storm
Greek Christian Norse Hindu
The Naga Fireballs of the Mekong
European Chinese Hindu Celtic / Speculative
Merlin, Vortigern, and the Dragons Beneath the Tower
Hebrew Bible Norse Hindu Greek
The Four-Year Journey Through Mictlan
Egyptian Greek Tibetan Zoroastrian
Midas and the Golden Touch
Hebrew Bible Christian Buddhist Norse
Milarepa Calls Down the Hailstorm
Christian Hindu Greek Sufi
King Milinda and the Chariot That Has No Self
Greek Hindu Daoist Christian
Mithras: The God of the Barracks
Masonic / Western Esoteric Greek / Eleusinian Zoroastrian / Persian Universal / Warrior Brotherhood
Mokosh: The Goddess Who Would Not Die
Greek Hindu Norse Christian
The Spirits Disassemble the Shaman
Inuit Christian Hindu Greek
The White Old Man and the Measure of Years
Egyptian Hindu Greek Christian
Sun Wukong Declares War on Heaven
Greek Islamic Hindu Buddhist
Morgan le Fay: The Queen of the Other World
Greek Greek European / Historical Hindu
The Morrigan Offers Herself at the Ford
Greek Norse Hindu Mesopotamian
Baal Descends into Mot's Throat
Mesopotamian Greek Norse Christian
Mot is Scattered; the Grain Rises
Greek Mesopotamian Christian Egyptian
The Night Journey and the Ascent
Jewish (Merkavah / Hekhalot) Christian Zoroastrian Mesopotamian
The Border Between Waking and Dreaming
Christian Taoist Hindu Christian (Catholic)
The Naga Princess and the Birth of Cambodia
European Japanese Hindu Welsh / Celtic
Ñamandú Speaks the World Into Being
Christian Egyptian Hindu Kabbalistic
The Boat of Heaven: Nanna-Sin's Monthly Journey
Hebrew Egyptian Greek Christian
The Brotherhood of Silent Breath
Christian (Eastern Orthodox) Buddhist Hindu (Yoga) Jewish (Hasidic)
Narcissus and Echo: The Voice That Cannot Begin, The Face That Cannot Leave
Hebrew Bible Buddhist Christian Hindu
Naropa Follows the Madman South
Sufi Christian Hindu Greek
Batradz the Iron Nart
Arthurian / Celtic Greek / Hellenic Norse / Germanic Hindu / Epic
The Nasadiya Hymn: Before Being and Non-Being
Hebrew Greek Egyptian Buddhist
The Neak Ta Speaks: A Territory Remembers
Shinto Celtic Indigenous American Hindu
The Wedding That Became a Double Renunciation
Buddhist Christian Hindu Greek
The First Lament
Mesopotamian Greek Christian Norse
Nergal's Second Descent
Greek Egyptian Sumerian Norse
Newton's Secret Work
Jewish / Kabbalistic Arthurian / European Alchemical / Hermetic Mesopotamian
Nicolas Flamel and the Book He Could Not Read
Arthurian Mesopotamian Biblical Islamic Golden Age
Nimue and the Trap of Merlin's Own Teaching
Greek Norse Universal / Folkloric Mesopotamian
Nowrūz and the Cosmic New Year
Mesopotamian Jewish Christian Hindu
Nü Wa Repairs the Broken Sky
Norse Mesopotamian Hindu Greek
Raven Steals the Light from the Box
Greek Norse Hindu Egyptian
Odin at Mimir's Well: The Eye Given for Wisdom
Greek Hebrew Bible Buddhist Hindu
Oduduwa Descends the Iron Chain
Mesopotamian Norse Greek Igbo
Odysseus and the Cyclops: The Sharpened Stake and the Name 'Nobody'
Hebrew Bible Hindu Norse Mesopotamian
Odysseus and the Sirens: The Wax in the Ears, the Rope on the Mast
Hebrew Bible Christian Buddhist Hindu
Ogou: The Spirit Who Lives in Iron
Yoruba Greek / Roman Norse Greek
Ogun and the City He Cannot Live In
Greek Norse Hindu Christian
The Weight That Leaves the Body
Biblical Hindu Greek Christian
Okuninushi Surrenders the Visible World
Greek Norse Hindu Christian
Ondal the Fool
European Mesopotamian Greek Hebrew Bible
The Shaman Recovers the Child's Soul
Greek Inuit Hindu Siberian / Evenki
The Head That Would Not Stop Singing
Egyptian Hindu Norse Christian
The Directions for the Dead
Egyptian Tibetan Buddhist Gnostic Hindu
Orunmila and the Destiny You Chose
Greek Hindu Calvinist Christian Tibetan Buddhist
Oshun Saves the Cosmos
Hindu Greek Sumerian Sufi
Ovid in Tomis
Hebrew Greek Christian Sufi
Oxossi: The Hunter Who Never Misses
Greek / Hellenic Roman Shinto / Japanese Celtic
Oxum and the Mirror She Will Not Put Down
Greek Gnostic Hindu Christian
Oya Storms Over Niger
Greek Norse Hindu Sufi
Padmasambhava Binds the Mountain
Christian Hindu Japanese Greek
The Lid of Pakal's Sarcophagus
Egyptian Christian Hindu Mesopotamian
Pangu Holds Up the Sky
Norse Hindu Mesopotamian Egyptian
Papa Legba: The Old Man at the Gate
Yoruba / Santería Greek Roman American folk / Blues
Paracelsus and the Beings of the Four Elements
Greek / Hellenic Islamic Celtic Shinto / Japanese
Pairidaeza: The First Walled Garden
Hebrew Islamic Christian Hindu
Patacarā: What the Water Takes
Greek Jewish Christian Hindu
Pele Flees Namaka Across the Pacific
Greek Norse Mesopotamian Aboriginal Australian
Percival and the Fisher King: The Question Not Asked
Greek Hebrew Bible Buddhist Sufi
The Seeds That Bound Her
Mesopotamian Christian Norse Hindu
Perseus Slays Medusa: The Mirror, the Sickle, and the Severed Head
Hebrew Bible Hindu Japanese Mesopotamian
The Seven S's and the Renewal Table
Jewish Hindu Christian Japanese
Phaethon and the Chariot of the Sun
Hebrew Bible Hindu Christian Mesopotamian
Phra Aphai Mani and the Sea Ogress
Greek Japanese European Hindu
Phra Phrom and the Fulfilled Contract
Hindu Catholic Chinese Greek
Plotinus and the One
Sufi Hindu Buddhist Jewish
Pomba Gira: The Spirit They Could Not Tame
Haitian Vodou Jewish Hindu Mesopotamian / Sumerian
Preto Velho: The Elder Who Survived Everything
West African Buddhist Catholic Spiritualist
The Sacrifice of Purusha: The Cosmos Made from a Body
Norse Mesopotamian Chinese Christian
Pygmalion's Ivory Prayer
Hebrew Jewish Christian Hindu
The Brotherhood at Croton
Buddhist Jewish Christian Hindu
Qat: The Spirit Born from Stone
Northwest Coast Indigenous Norse Akan / West African Polynesian
George Fox and the Inner Light
Buddhist Hindu Jewish Sufi
Quetzalcoatl Walks Into the Sea
Christian Arthurian Buddhist Norse
The Twelve Hours of Night
Mesopotamian Norse Christian Zoroastrian
Rabia al-Adawiyya and the Two Buckets
Christian Hindu (Bhakti) Jewish Buddhist
Rachel Weeping for Her Children
Christian Islamic Greek Hindu
The Rainbow Serpent Makes the Rivers
Hindu Mesopotamian Norse West African
Hanuman in the Thai Ramakien
Hindu / Sanskrit Javanese Chinese Greek
Roro Jonggrang and the Thousand Temples
Greek Norse Hindu Celtic
The Separation of Rangi and Papa
Greek Mesopotamian Norse Hindu
Rangi and Papa: The World Made from a Grief
Egyptian Greek Hindu Mesopotamian
Rashnu Weighs the Soul
Egyptian Islamic Christian Hebrew
The Heat in the Chest
Hindu (Kundalini) Sufi Buddhist Jewish (Merkabah)
The Rosicrucian Manifestos: The Brotherhood That May Not Exist
Masonic Protestant / Christian Islamic Jewish / Kabbalistic
Two Invincible Men Must Fight
Greek Norse Irish/Celtic Japanese
The Oath of the Round Table
Buddhist / Historical Haudenosaunee Greek / Historical Christian
The Man Who Had to Invent Renunciation
Buddhist Hindu Christian Greek
Rumi Loses Shams of Tabriz
Christian Jewish Greek Hindu (Bhakti)
Rustam and Sohrab
Greek Celtic Hindu Norse
The Birth of Rostam
Greek Hindu Celtic Mesopotamian
Rostam's Seven Labors Across the Wilderness
Greek Mesopotamian Hindu Celtic
The Thief Left It Behind
Christian Sufi Hindu Taoist
The Sabine Women Between the Armies
Hebrew Greek Hebrew Buddhist
Sam on the Mountain of the Sīmorgh
Hebrew Greek Hindu Roman
Samsin Halmoni and the Bargaining Mother
Roman Hindu Greek Japanese
Samson and Delilah: The Strength in the Hair, the Knife in the Lap
Greek Mesopotamian Norse Christian
The Eland Dance and the Trance
Siberian Shamanic Greek Hindu Christian
The Birth of the Saoshyant
Christian Hebrew Islamic Hindu
Savitri and Satyavan
Greek Norse Christian Buddhist
Sekhmet and the Eye of Ra: The Slaughter That Almost Ended Humanity
Hindu Norse Mesopotamian Greek
The God That Was Invented
Roman Christian Afro-Caribbean Modern / Political
The Coffin Built for One
Norse Mesopotamian Greek Christian
The Seven Sisters Run
Greek Japanese Lakota Mesopotamian
The Messiah Who Converted
Christian Islamic Gnostic Buddhist
Siyāvash and the False Accusation
Hebrew Greek Christian Mesopotamian
Shakuntala and the Lost Ring
Greek Norse Christian Buddhist
The Man Who Had Everything and Gave It Up in an Afternoon
Buddhist Christian Hindu Sufi
Hammurabi Before Shamash: The Code from the Sun
Hebrew Greek Hindu Egyptian
The Descent from Mount Hiei
Christian (Protestant) Christian Sufi Hindu (Bhakti)
Sati Dies at Her Father's Sacrifice
Egyptian Greek Norse Mesopotamian
The Sibylline Books
Hebrew Greek Christian Norse
Sila: The Intelligence the Wind Is Made Of
Hindu Daoist Stoic Shinto
Simon Magus Prepares to Fly
Jewish Greek Christian (orthodox) Manichaean
The Sīmorgh's Last Gift
Greek Norse Irish/Celtic Christian
The Sīmorgh Raises a Human Child
Greek Roman Hindu Norse
The Conference of the Birds
Hindu Sufi/Islamic Christian Buddhist
The Simurgh's Child
Roman Hindu / Vedic Egyptian Hebrew / Biblical
Rostam Kills His Son
Irish / Celtic Greek / Hellenic Hindu / Epic Shakespearean / Western
Sohrab: The Son His Father Killed
Greek Irish/Celtic Hebrew Norse
The Queen of Sheba Tests Solomon
Islamic Ethiopian Greek Christian
Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh: The War That Never Ends
Greek Hindu Norse Mesopotamian
Sophia Falls and the Demiurge Is Born
Christian (orthodox) Jewish (Kabbalistic) Neoplatonist Hindu
Spider Woman and the First Loom
Greek Norse Hindu Egyptian
Sraosha: The Ear That Hears the Cosmic Song
Christian Hindu Islamic Jewish
The Sun Dance: What It Costs to Ask
Christian Hindu Norse Buddhist
The Monkey King Demands Heaven's Acknowledgment
Norse Greek Islamic Christian
Tāne Shapes the First Woman
Hebrew Greek Hindu Mesopotamian
Tangaroa Expands Himself into the World
Hindu Norse Gnostic Biblical
Tantalus and the Divine Banquet
Hebrew Christian Hindu Hebrew
Tengri and Erlik Divide the World
Gnostic Norse Hindu Zoroastrian
The Three Worlds of the Shaman's Cosmos
Norse Universal / Comparative Norse Tibetan Buddhist
What the Tengu Teach on the Mountain
Daoist Zen Greek Celtic
The Interior Castle
Sufi Jewish Buddhist Hindu
The Smoking Mirror and the Feathered Serpent
Egyptian Norse Christian Greek
Tezcatlipoca and the Mirror That Shows Everything
Norse Hebrew Hindu Buddhist
The Gospel of Thomas: 114 Sayings of the Living Jesus
Buddhist / Zen Taoist Hindu Greek / Hellenic
The Smallest Book
Buddhist Sufi Hindu (Bhakti) Jewish
Thor in a Wedding Dress: The Theft of Mjölnir
Greek Hebrew Bible Hindu Japanese
Thoth and the Five Days He Won from the Moon
Norse Greek Mesopotamian Hindu
The Gift That Destroys Memory
Greek Hindu Christian Buddhist
Tlaloc Demands Children
Hebrew Greek Canaanite Christian
Tlaloc's Children of Rain
Hebrew Greek Hindu Christian
Tlazolteotl, Eater of Filth
Christian Hindu Jewish Egyptian
The Day-Sign at Birth: Reading the Tonalpohualli
Greek Chinese Norse Yoruba
Tripura Sundari and the Geometry of the Universe
Jewish Greek Buddhist Christian
Tristan and Isolde: The Cup, the Wound, the Sail
Greek Hindu Persian Christian
The Tuatha Dé Danann Arrive in Ireland
Greek Hindu Norse Christian
The Shaman Retrieves a Soul from the Lower World
Greek Mesopotamian Egyptian Celtic
The Tuvan Shaman's Descent
Norse Tibetan Buddhist Hebrew / Biblical Universal / Comparative
William Tyndale and the English Bible
Jewish Islamic Buddhist Greek
Uluru: The Living Record
Jewish Tibetan Buddhist Hindu Celtic
Umai: The Divine Mother Who Guards Children
Egyptian Norse Hindu Celtic
Ushas: The Dawn That Has Always Already Come
Greek Roman Norse Christian
The Night Uther Became Arthur's Father
Greek Norse Hebrew / Biblical Universal / Folkloric
Vahagn Is Born from Fire
Norse / Germanic Hindu / Vedic Babylonian / Mesopotamian Greek / Hellenic
Väinämöinen and the Kantele of Pike-Bone
Greek / Hellenic Greek / Hellenic Hindu Norse
The Choosers of the Slain
Greek Islamic Christian Hindu
Varuna's Noose: The God Who Sees Every Sin
Hebrew Persian Greek Egyptian
Verethragna in His Ten Forms
Greek Hindu Norse Egyptian
The Vestal Virgins and the Eternal Fire
Hebrew Greek Christian Persian
The Hanbleceya: Crying for a Vision
Christian Buddhist Jewish Islamic
The Weighing of the Heart Against the Feather
Christian Zoroastrian Buddhist Jewish
Blodeuwedd Made of Flowers
Greek Mesopotamian Norse Christian
The White Snake and the Monk Who Would Save Her
Greek Hindu Christian Japanese
Madam White and the Monk Who Would Save the World from Her
Greek Hindu Japanese Christian
Xipe Totec: The Flayed One
Greek Christian Hindu Egyptian
Xipe Totec and the Wearing of Skins
Greek Hindu Christian Norse
Xochiquetzal, the Precious Flower
Greek Mesopotamian Egyptian Norse
The Yakut Shaman Descends to Abasy
Norse Mesopotamian Greek Hindu
Yamato Takeru and the Grass-Cutting Sword
Greek Celtic Christian Hindu
The Yazatas: Servants of the Flame
Christian Hebrew Roman Hindu
The Fire of Ādur Burzēn-Mihr
Hebrew Roman Buddhist Christian
The Yellow Emperor Defeats Chi You
Norse Greek Hindu Mesopotamian
Yemoja at the Bottom of the Atlantic
Greek Egyptian Catholic Norse
Yemoja and the Middle Passage
Christian Hindu Norse Greek
Yeshe Tsogyal Sits with the Dead
Hindu Christian Greek Indigenous / Lakota
The Djang'kawu Sisters Arrive Singing
Hindu Sumerian Greek Māori
Zarathustra Crosses the River
Hebrew Islamic Christian Hindu
Zeno's Arrow in the Agora
Buddhist Hindu Sufi Jewish
Zhuangzi Dreams He Is a Butterfly
Hindu Buddhist Greek Christian
How the Earth and Sky Separated
Maori Egyptian Greek Mesopotamian
Zurvan: Before Good and Evil Were Born
Christian Kabbalistic Greek Hindu
The Golden Bough and the Gates of the Underworld
Mesopotamian Norse Celtic
Aeneas Leaves Dido at Dawn
Greek Mesopotamian Celtic
Aeneas Sees the Souls Waiting to Be Born
Greek Hindu Christian
Ah Puch: The Smell That Warns of Death
Aztec European Egyptian
Anansi Pays the Price for All Stories
African American Caribbean (Jamaican) Haitian
The Golden Stool Falls from Heaven
Hebrew Irish Hindu
Nyame Hides the Stories in a Box
Greek Norse Native American
The Linguist Who Speaks for the King
Japanese Biblical Medieval European
The Sunsum: The Soul Underneath the Soul
Hindu Christian Yoruba
Al-Khiḍr Makes Three Inexplicable Choices
Christian Jewish Buddhist
Al-Khiḍr and the River That Gives Eternal Life
Jewish Mesopotamian Hindu
How Erlik Made the Mountains by Cheating
Indigenous North American Hindu Genesis
Amaterasu Retreats and the World Goes Dark
Greek Mesopotamian Norse
The Dance That Brings Back the Sun
Greek Norse Hindu
Brother and Sister: The Contest of Creation
Norse Greek Hindu
The Anaconda Who Is the River Itself
Australian Aboriginal Hindu Mesoamerican
The Vine That Lets You See What Spirits See
Hindu Greek Indigenous North American
The Harpy Eagle Who Carries Messages to the Sky
Greek Aztec Norse
The Shaman Who Becomes a Jaguar at Night
Mesoamerican African Siberian
The Kuarup: The Festival That Brings Back the Dead
Japanese Aztec Greek
Amida's Forty-Eight Vows
Christian Sufi Hindu
Amitābha's Forty-Eight Vows for the Pure Land
Christian Hindu (Bhakti) Islamic
The Apus: The Mountains Are Persons Who Listen
Japanese Shinto Tibetan Greek
The Despacho: A Prayer You Cook and Burn
Hindu Buddhist Christian
The Apache Sunrise Ceremony
Navajo Hindu Greek
The Alcheringa: The Dream Time That Is Still Now
Platonic Greek Hindu Christian Mystical
The Arctic Shaman's Map of the Starlit Road
Egyptian Greek Hindu
The ʻArioi: God-Actors of Tahiti
Greek Hindu Norse
The Conference of Birds: Thirty Find the Simurgh
Christian Jewish Hindu
The Shaikh Who Died at the Winehouse Door
Christian Hindu Jewish
Augustus Rebuilds the Gods of Rome
Hebrew Egyptian Modern
The Songlines: Every Feature of the Land Has a Song
Tuvan Hindu Pythagorean
The Dark Constellation: The Emu in the Milky Way
Greek Polynesian Babylonian
How Fire Was Taken from the Crow
Greek Polynesian Norse
The Mimi Spirits Who Taught the First Humans to Dance
Greek Norse Mesopotamian
The Rainbow Serpent Shapes the River Country
Amazon Hindu Norse
The Four Bacabs Who Hold Up the Sky
Greek Hindu Norse
The Bamboo Cutter's Impossible Tasks
Greek Norse Hebrew
Niapirikuli and the Flood That Came from Music
Greek Hebrew Mesoamerican
Navigating the Forty-Nine Days Between Death and Birth
Egyptian Greek Hindu
Bayāzīd Bastāmī: Nothing Left But God
Hindu Christian Buddhist
Bayāzīd Turns Back Before Reaching Mecca
Christian Hindu Jewish
The Bear Who Taught Healing
Greek Celtic Daoist
The Bektāshī: Between Islam and the Mysteries
Christian Hindu Indigenous
The Oba: Sacred King Who Cannot Touch the Ground
Egyptian Japanese Akan/Asante
Benkei Standing Dead at the Bridge
Norse Arthurian Greek
Benzaiten Plays the Biwa for the Dragon King
Greek Hindu Christian
Beowulf and Grendel: The Hand on the Lintel
Sumerian / Babylonian Greek / Hellenic Hebrew
Black Elk's Vision at Nine Years Old
Hebrew / Jewish Tibetan Buddhist Christian
Xquic: The Blood Maiden Who Carried the Twins
Hebrew Greek Christian
Bodhidharma Faces the Wall for Nine Years
Sufi Greek Jewish
The Nine Gods Who Preside Over the Underworld
Hindu Egyptian Norse
The Bon World Tree and the Nine Levels
Norse Hindu Siberian shamanic
Bona Dea: The Women's Festival No Man May See
Greek Dionysiac Universal
Gshen-rab Mi-bo: Bon's Founding Teacher
Hindu Zoroastrian Daoist
The Bardö Thödol Read Aloud to the Dying
Egyptian Mesopotamian Christian
The Prayer Before the Buffalo Runs
Hindu Shinto Hebrew
Kintu and the Test That Cost Him Everything
Greek Japanese Hebrew
Gesar: The Hero of the Mongolian World Mountain
Hindu Tibetan Buddhist Greek
Cabrakan Who Moves the Mountains
Greek Norse Hindu
What Was Thrown into the Sacred Cenote
Greek Norse Celtic
Ceres Brings Law to the World with Grain
Greek Mesopotamian Egyptian
Chaac and the Children Thrown into the Cenote
Aztec Hebrew Greek
Chalchiuhtlicue and the Drowning of the Fourth Sun
Hebrew Sumerian / Babylonian Hindu
Chang'e Flies to the Moon
Greek / Hellenic Hindu Norse
Cháng'é Drinks the Elixir and Flies to the Moon
Greek Hebrew Hindu
Changing Woman: The Earth's Own Daughter
Greek Hindu Celtic
Chenrezig Vows to Save Every Being
Christian Bodhisattva Buddhism (Mahayana) Hindu
Selu: The First Corn Woman
Melanesian Aztec / Mexica Greek
Water Beetle Brings Up the Earth
Ojibwe Crow Hindu
The Nunnehi Who Live Inside the Mountains
Irish / Celtic Norse Shinto
The Shadow Serpent on the Equinox
Egyptian Stonehenge Aztec
The Three Sovereigns Who Shaped the World
Greek Mesopotamian Norse
The Chishtī Order and the Power of Qawwali
Hindu Christian Buddhist
Cicero and the Gods of Natural Law
Greek Jewish / Christian Stoic
The Head That Became the Coconut
Samoan Hindu Celtic
The Codex Borgia's Night: The Sun in the Underworld
Egyptian Maya Norse
Confucius and the Danger of Wrong Names
Greek Modern Jewish
Confucius Stands at the River and Weeps
Greek Buddhist Hebrew
The Stelae of Copán: Kings Become Gods in Stone
Egyptian Greek Indian
Veturia Stops Her Son's Army with Words
Greek Hebrew Shakespearean
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: A Bridge of Magpies
Greek / Hellenic Sumerian / Babylonian Japanese
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl Across the Milky Way
Greek Japanese Persian
Coyote Decides Death Must Stay
Hebrew Polynesian Mesopotamian
Coyote Steals Fire from the Mountain Beings
Greek Polynesian Finnish
Coyote Places the Stars
Greek Polynesian Norse
The Crane Wife and the Cloth She Would Not Name
Greek German Celtic
Old Man Coyote Makes the World
Ojibwe Hindu Norse
The Anaconda Canoe of the Ancestors
Norse Egyptian Greek
Daikoku's Lucky Mallet
Norse Hindu Roman
The Ḍākinī Who Appears in Charnel Grounds
Hindu (Shakta) Greek Jungian
Dea Roma: The City as a Goddess
Greek Mesopotamian Modern
The Dervish Who Owns Nothing and Lacks Nothing
Christian Buddhist Hindu
The Sun Disc That Penetrated the Earth
Egyptian Aztec Hindu
Dhū'l-Nūn al-Miṣrī Between Alchemy and Gnosis
Christian Hermetic Hindu
The Di Manes: The Collective Dead
Chinese Shinto African Traditional
The Diaguita Snake Ceremony
Andean Inca Egyptian Aboriginal Australian
Diana at the Crossroads: Threefold Goddess
Greek Celtic Hindu
The Eight Ancestors in the World Egg
Chinese Gnostic Hindu
The Nommo Descend in a Cosmic Ark
Mesopotamian Hebrew Hindu
The Dogon Know About Sirius B
Egyptian Greek Sumerian
The Japanese Oni and the Korean Dokkaebi
European Melanesian African
Mén Shén: The Two Who Guard Every Door
Roman Mesopotamian Jewish
Qū Yuán Falls Into the River
Greek Hebrew Western literary
Asibikaashi and the Web of Protection
Greek Hebrew Tibetan Buddhist
The Butter Lamp Festival at Drepung
Christian Hindu Celtic/Pagan
The Dybbuk: The Soul That Will Not Leave
Christian Greek / Hellenic Hindu
The Master Points Directly at the Nature of Mind
Zen Buddhist Sufi Christian (Quaker)
Tǔdì Gōng: The God of This Specific Piece of Ground
Roman Shinto Celtic
Ebisu and the Fish He Would Not Catch
Buddhist Taoist Christian
The Egungun: When the Dead Walk Among Us
Greek Native American Japanese
The Eight Immortals Cross the Eastern Sea
Greek Hindu Norse
The Eight Trigrams and the Grammar of Change
Greek Kabbalistic Modern
Ek Chuah Carries His Bundle Forever
Greek Aztec West African
Emma-Ō and the Mirror That Shows Your Life
Egyptian Christian Zoroastrian
Nāgārjuna Sees That All Things Are Empty
Greek Daoist Jewish (Kabbalah)
Enki's Loophole: The God Who Told the Wall
Hebrew Bible Greek Norse
Erlang Shén and the Third Eye That Sees Truth
Hindu Norse Egyptian
The Etruscan Creation by Lightning
Hindu Aztec Norse
The Haruspex Reads the Sheep's Liver
Mesopotamian Hindu Chinese
Tuchulcha in the Underworld
Egyptian Mesopotamian Hindu
Vanth: The Winged Death-Guide of the Etruscans
Egyptian Greek Norse
The Master of the Animals Who Lends His Herd
Inuit Amazon Norse
Dying into God, Surviving in God
Christian Hindu Buddhist
Faunus Calls from the Forest at Night
Greek Celtic Norse
Twenty-Four Examples of Perfect Filial Piety
Roman Hebrew Buddhist
Ayizan: The First Priestess of Vodou
Greek Hindu Roman
Da Ayido Hwedo: The Serpent That Holds the World
Norse Hindu Aboriginal Australian
Gū: The God Who Is a Blade
Roman Yoruba Greek
Legba Opens and Closes Every Door
Roman Greek Hindu
Mawu-Lisa: The Twin Gods Who Made the World
Hindu Gnostic Daoist
Sakpata and the Spotted God
Greek Hindu Norse
The Buddha's Teaching Arrives at the Roof of the World
Christian Islamic Hindu
Fuxi and Nüwa: Repopulating the World
Hebrew Greek / Hellenic Hindu
Fúxī Reads the River Tortoise's Back
Hebrew Norse Mesopotamian
Ganesh Writes the Mahabharata: The Tusk That Became a Pen
Hebrew Islamic Egyptian
Genius: The Divine Double Every Roman Carries
Egyptian Greek Persian
Gesar Is Born Onto the Roof of the World
Christian Hindu Greek
King Gesar Rides Against the Demon Kings
Hindu Norse Islamic
Gesar Chooses the Horse No One Can Ride
Christian Norse Greek
Al-Ghazālī Stops Lecturing and Cannot Speak
Christian Jewish Buddhist
Al-Ghazālī Rebuilds Islamic Learning from the Ruins
Christian Jewish Buddhist
Wovoka's Vision: The Earth Swallows the Whites
Hebrew Christian Rastafarian
How Peyote Became a Teacher
Hindu Greek Sufi / Islamic
Guan Yú: The Ghost Who Refused to Leave
Christian Roman Shinto
Guan Yú's Oath in the Peach Garden
Norse Arthurian Japanese
Guānyīn Grows a Thousand Hands
Christian Hindu Greek
The 365-Day Year and the Five Unlucky Days
Egyptian Norse Roman
Ḥāfiẓ and the Paradox That Cannot Be Explained
Jewish Christian Hindu
Ḥāfiẓ: The Wine He Drinks Is Not Wine
Jewish Christian Hindu
The Salmon People Who Are Also Us
Shinto Hindu Hebrew
Hallāj Speaks the Words That Will Hang Him
Christian Hindu Buddhist
Hallāj at the Gallows Forgives His Executioners
Christian Buddhist Hindu
Hallāj in Prison: Still the Light Comes
Christian Jewish Buddhist
Hanuman's Leap: A Monkey Crosses the Sea
Greek / Hellenic Christian Buddhist
Ḥasan al-Baṣrī: The Man Who Wept for Seventy Years
Jewish Christian Buddhist
Haumea Dies and Is Born Again as Her Own Granddaughter
Hindu Egyptian Norse
The Night the Kapu Was Broken
Roman Japanese Hebrew
Kapu: The Sacred Law That Holds Society Together
Roman Aztec Hebrew
Hula: The Body as Living Prayer
Hindu Greek Japanese
The Canoe That Reads the Stars
Norse Aboriginal Australian Greek
Hé Xiāngu and the Spiritual Lotus
Hindu (Bhakti) Christian Buddhist
The Ghosts of the Taira at Dan-no-ura
Greek Norse Irish
The Ten Courts of Hell
Egyptian Christian Zoroastrian
The Ball Game That Decides Who Lives
Aztec Greek Egyptian
The Lords of Xibalbá Challenge the Twins
Greek Mesopotamian Norse
Hunahpú and Xbalanqué Rise Into the Sky
Egyptian Greek Hindu
The House of Cold, the House of Razor Wind
Norse Hindu Christian
The Hero Twins in the House of Darkness
Greek West African / Diaspora Hebrew
How Death Itself Was Tricked
Christian Norse Hindu
The Wrathful Couple at the Heart of Reality
Hindu (Shakta) Alchemical Taoist
The Peacemaker and the Great Law
Greek Hebrew Roman
Hine-tītama Discovers Her Father
Greek Japanese Mesopotamian
Taiowa Creates the First World
Gnostic Hindu Kabbalistic
The Kachinas Return to Their Mountains
Hindu Greek Shinto
Horatius at the Bridge
Greek Hebrew Norse
Horatius Holds the Bridge Alone
Norse Celtic Japanese
Hou Yi Shoots Down the Nine Suns
Greek / Hellenic Hindu Aztec
Hòu Yì Shoots Down Nine Suns
Greek Norse Hindu
The Maize God Is Decapitated and Blooms
Egyptian Mesopotamian Greek
The Hero Twins Are Born from Their Father's Decapitated Head
Greek Egyptian Norse
Hùndùn: The God of Chaos Who Was Killed by Kindness
Greek Biblical Modern
Iblis Refuses to Bow
Christian Hebrew Greek / Hellenic
Ibn ʿArabī: Imagination Is the Only Reality
Hindu Christian Buddhist
Ibn ʿArabī and the Oneness of All Being
Hindu Jewish Christian
Ibn ʿArabī's First Vision: The Three Abrahamic Prophets
Christian Jewish Hindu
Ibn al-Fāriḍ's Great Ode to the Wine of Love
Christian Jewish Hindu
Ala Holds the Dead in Her Womb
Greek Mesopotamian Hindu
Amadioha: Thunder as Justice
Greek Yoruba Norse
Chukwu: The Great God Too Big to See
Gnostic Islamic Hindu
Ikenga: The Right Hand of Achievement
Roman Greek Japanese
Inari: The Fox Who Keeps the Rice
Roman Hindu Egyptian
Indra and the Parade of Ants
Greek / Hellenic Buddhist Hebrew / Christian
The Perfect Human Being: Mirror of God
Jewish Christian Hindu
Inti and Mama Quilla: The Sun, the Moon, and the Origin of the Incas
Hebrew Aztec Roman
The Northern Lights Are the Souls Playing Football
Norse Japanese Celtic
The Polar Bear Who Took Off His Fur
Norse Siberian Selkie traditions (Celtic/Norse)
Sedna's Fingers Become the Seals and Whales
Greek Norse Babylonian
The Tupilak: A Monster Made from Bones and Malice
African Traditional European Hindu Tantric
Sila: The Breath That Holds the World Together
Hindu Chinese Stoic Greek
The Angakkuq Goes Under the Sea to Ask Sedna
Greek Christian Siberian
Iō: The Supreme God Hidden from the Uninitiated
Hebrew Hindu Gnostic
Iron Crutch Li and the Wandering Soul
Hindu Christian Greek
Every Twenty Years Ise Shrine Dies and Is Reborn
Greek Buddhist Hindu
Itzamna: The Iguana Lord Who Invented Writing
Egyptian Mesopotamian Greek
Izanagi Looks Back and Runs
Greek Hebrew Sumerian
The Jeweled Spear Stirs the Ocean
Mesopotamian Hindu Māori
The Three Great Deities Born from Washing
Hindu Christian Greek
Izanami in the Land of the Dead
Sumerian Greek Egyptian
The Absent Month: When All Gods Go to Izumo
Norse Greek Roman
The Jade Emperor's Court Above the Clouds
Christian Mesopotamian Hindu
Janus: The God of Every Beginning
Hindu Greek Egyptian
Emperor Jimmu Follows the Golden Kite
Hebrew Roman Hindu
Jizō at the Riverbank of the Dead Children
Christian Greek Egyptian
Junayd: The Master of the Sober Path
Christian Buddhist Jewish
Juno's Wrath: Why Carthage Must Be Destroyed
Greek Hebrew Norse
Kagura: The Dance That Feeds the Gods
Greek Hindu African
Kaguya-hime Returns to the Moon
Greek Christian Hindu
The Drop of Gold Passed Mouth to Ear
Sufi Confucian Christian
The Kālacakra Mandala: Built and Destroyed
Hindu Japanese Buddhist Christian
Kanaloa in the Depths Below the Depths
Māori Mesopotamian Greek
Kāne Breathes Life Into the Clay Figure
Hebrew Mesopotamian Māori
The Kappa's Bargain: Bow and It Spills
European Irish Slavic
The Kappa: A Promise Sealed by a Bowl of Water
Greek / Hellenic Norse Christian
The Karmapa's Black Crown: Woven from Dakini Hair
Catholic Christian Hindu Islamic
Kashf: The Moment the Veil Lifts
Christian Hindu Buddhist
The Heavenly Horse and the Shaman's Spirit Flight
Norse Hindu Greek
Khidr and the Three Strange Acts
Hindu Buddhist Christian
The Cloak Passed from Sheikh to Student
Christian Jewish Buddhist
Gikuyu and Mumbi: The First Couple
Hebrew Japanese Yoruba
Ngai Lives on the Top of Mount Kenya
Greek Hebrew Japanese
The Dharma King Who Invited the Tantric Masters
Christian Islamic Hindu
Zào Jūn Reports to the Jade Emperor
Hebrew Roman Zoroastrian
The Fox Bride and the Husband Who Looked
Greek Celtic Norse
Kūkai Receives the Mandala in His Hands
Christian Tibetan Buddhist Hindu
Kokopelli's Flute Brings the Rain
Hindu Greek Celtic
Kū Removes His Feathers for War
Aztec Norse Roman
Kukulkán Rises from the Pyramid
Aztec Egyptian Hindu
Manas and the Birth of the Kyrgyz Nation
Greek Indian Germanic
The World on Turtle's Back
Haudenosaunee Hindu Chinese
The Seven Sacred Rites of the Lakota
Christian (Catholic) Hindu Buddhist (Tibetan)
The Sun Dance: Pain as Prayer
Hindu Christian Aztec / Mexica
Lǎozǐ Rides West on a Buffalo
Buddhist Greek Hebrew
The Lapita People Set Out Eastward
Norse Hebrew Greek
The Lares and Penates: Gods of This House
Shinto Hindu Chinese
Lavinia: The Woman Two Nations Fought Over
Greek Celtic Hebrew
Lemuria: When the Dead Come Back Hungry
Chinese Japanese Celtic
Lièzǐ Who Rides the Wind
Buddhist Christian Greek
Lilith: The First Woman Who Said No
Sumerian / Babylonian Greek / Hellenic Christian
Loki Steals Idun's Apples
Greek / Hellenic Hindu Hebrew
The Long Count: What Happens When Time Runs Out
Hindu Jewish Modern scientific
Longchenpa and the Natural State
Christian Daoist Greek
Lono Returns for the Makahiki Festival
Mesopotamian Greek Christian
The Rain Queen Who Must Never Cry
Egyptian Mesopotamian Inca
Lü Dongbin Finds the Peach of Immortality
Hindu Buddhist Greek
The Bambudye Memory Society
Greek Pacific Islander Native American
The Sacred King's Heart Must Never Be Seen
Egyptian Medieval European Japanese
Lucretia: The Woman Whose Death Founded a Republic
Hebrew Greek Chinese
The Lupercalia: When Men Run Naked Through Rome
Greek Hindu Celtic
Tjukurpa: The Law That Runs Through Everything
Chinese Hindu Stoic Greek
Enkai Lowers the Cattle on a Leather Rope
Hebrew Hindu Norse
The God Who Withholds Rain
Hebrew Greek Yoruba
Olapa the Moon and Her Quarrel with the Sun
Greek Norse Japanese
Machig Labdrön Goes to the Charnel Ground
Hindu (Shakta) Sufi Christian
Mafui'e and the Earthquake's Secret Name
Māori Greek Japanese
Mahākāla: The Black Protector Who Loves the Dharma
Hindu Christian Norse
Mami Wata Rising from the River
Greek European Caribbean
The Okipa: Four Days at the Center Pole
Greek Aztec / Mexica Christian
Mañjuśrī Cuts Through Confusion with One Stroke
Greek Christian Hindu
The Heart That Would Not Stop Burning
Christian Jewish Hindu
Te Kore: The Nothing That Was Not Nothing
Hindu Christian Taoist
The Greenstone That Holds the Ancestor's Strength
Irish Hindu Norse
Mana and Tapu: The Force That Cannot Be Profaned
Polynesian Hindu Roman
Rongo and the Gift of the Sweet Potato
Greek Aztec Sumerian
Tangaroa and the Fish That Became the Islands
Hawaiian Mesopotamian Norse
The Tohunga Who Carves the Ancestors into Wood
Hindu Christian Greek
Tū Takes His Brothers as Food
Hebrew Hindu Greek
Whiro Chooses the Path Below
Christian Norse Mesopotamian
The Seven Stations of the Sufi Path
Christian Buddhist Jewish
María Lionza on Her White Tapir
Catholic Yoruba Greek
Marpa Strikes His Student and Weeps
Zen Buddhist Sufi Hindu
Tiki: The First Man
Hebrew Hindu Greek
Mars Before He Was God of War
Greek Hindu Norse
Māui Fishes Up the North Island
Hindu Mesopotamian Norse
Māui Tries to Enter the Body of Hine-nui-te-pō
Hindu Greek Mesopotamian
Māui Lassoes the Sun to Slow the Day
Greek Hawaiian Norse
Māui Pushes Up the Sky
Greek Egyptian Yoruba
Māui's Grandmother's Jawbone: The First Fishhook
Norse Arthurian Greek
The First Fire in Polynesia
Greek Native American (Blackfoot) Vedic
Māui Steals Fire from His Grandmother Mahuika
Greek Hindu Native American (various)
The Rubber Ball Game: A Battle Between Sun and Darkness
Greek Aztec Japanese
The King Opens His Own Flesh to Feed the Gods
Aztec Hindu Christian
The Milpa: How the Maya Clear Forest by Fire
Shinto Australian Aboriginal Hindu
The Maize God Rising from the Turtle's Back
Haudenosaunee / Iroquois Hindu Chinese
The Wayob: The Animal Spirit That Shares Your Soul
Norse Inuit West African / Diaspora
The First Scribe Learns to Trap Time in Glyphs
Mesopotamian Egyptian Chinese
Mazu Stands at the Water's Edge
Christian Greek Shinto
The Medicine Buddha's Lapis Lazuli Glow
Christian Greek Hindu
Mencius's Mother Moves Three Times
Greek Jewish Western
Mercury Leads Souls Down the Long Road
Greek Egyptian Norse
Sultan Walad Founds the Whirling Order
Christian Buddhist Hindu
Milarepa Buys Hailstones to Kill His Enemies
Christian Hindu (Vaishnava) Greek
Milarepa Turns Green from Nettles
Hindu Christian (Desert Fathers) Daoist
Milarepa Sings at the Moment of Death
Greek Buddhist (Theravada) Christian
Milarepa Invites the Demons to Tea
Buddhist (Theravada) Christian Jungian psychology
Milarepa's Faithful Student Rechungpa Rebels
Zen Buddhist Sufi Christian (Desert Fathers)
Marpa Makes Milarepa Build and Tear Down
Sufi Christian (Desert Fathers) Hindu
Yoshitsune Betrayed by His Brother
Greek Hebrew Arthurian
Misogi: The Purification That Makes a Priest
Christian Hindu Jewish
9 Wind and 1 Deer: The Mixtec First Couple
Aztec Hebrew Hindu
Momotarō Born from a Peach
European Hebrew Hindu
The Ongon: The Ancestor Kept in a Felt Bundle
Roman Chinese West African
Sun Wukong Declares Himself Equal to Heaven
Greek Hebrew Western literary
Mount Kūnlún: The Pillar Between Heaven and Earth
Hindu Norse Mesopotamian
Mucius Puts His Hand Into the Fire
Stoic philosophy Celtic Norse
Muḥāsaba: The Nightly Accounting of the Soul
Christian Jewish Buddhist
Murāqaba: Watching the Heart Until God Appears
Christian Buddhist Hindu
Nachiketa at the House of Death
Greek / Hellenic Sumerian Christian
Nafanua: The Samoan War Goddess Who Brought Peace
Hindu Norse Greek
The Soul's Seven Stages from Enemy to Beloved
Christian Buddhist Hindu
Napi the Old Man: How the Blackfoot World Was Made
Hebrew Norse Yoruba
The Naqshbandī Path of Invisible Remembrance
Christian Jewish Buddhist
Nāropa's Twelve Trials
Sufi Greek Christian
The Beauty Way: To Walk in Beauty
Hindu Chinese Greek
The Navajo Emergence Through Four Worlds
Hopi Aztec / Mexica Hindu
First Man and First Woman in the Fourth World
Hebrew Chinese Greek
Monster Slayer and Born for Water
Greek Aztec / Mexica Hindu
Uzimu: The Spirits of the Unremembered Dead
Greek Roman Japanese
Nga and the Women Who Feed the Sea
Inuit Norse Japanese
Neptune Creates the First Horse
Greek Celtic Hindu
Nézha Tears Off His Own Flesh and Bone
Buddhist Greek Christian
The Nganasan Shaman's Drum Is the World
Japanese Norse Inuit
The Nián Monster and the Secret of Red
European Hindu Jewish
Ninigi Descends on the Floating Bridge
Hindu Greek Hebrew
Njord and Skadi: A Marriage Chosen by the Feet
Greek / Hellenic Hindu Japanese
Noh: When the Dead Perform Their Own Story
Greek Christian Tibetan Buddhist
Numa and the Nymph Who Teaches Religion
Greek Hebrew Mesopotamian
Nüwa Shapes the First People from Yellow Clay
Mesopotamian Hebrew/Abrahamic Greek
Nüwa Melts the Stones to Patch the Sky
Norse Hindu Greek
Obon: When the Dead Visit for Three Days
Roman Mexican Celtic
The Manidoog: Persons Who Are Not Human
Shinto Hindu Celtic
The Grand Medicine Society
Egyptian Greek Hindu
Nanabozho and the Origin of Death
Greek Sumerian Plateau / Coyote
Ōkuninushi Builds the World and Gives It Away
Hebrew Hindu Arthurian
The Rabbit of Inaba and the God's Kindness
Buddhist Hebrew Christian
The Olmec Colossal Heads and Who Wears Helmets
Egyptian Easter Island Mesopotamian
The La Venta Buried Offering: Crossed Axes
Norse Celtic Hindu
The Olmec Maize God: The First Human Face
Maya Aztec Egyptian
The Were-Jaguar Born from the Union of Jaguar and Woman
Greek Egyptian Norse
The Olmec Were-Jaguar: Rain God or Ancestor?
Maya Aztec Hindu
The Oni and the Scattering of Beans
Roman European Hindu
The Pā: When the Hill Itself Becomes the Warrior
Greek Japanese Celtic
Guru Rinpoche Subdues the Tibetan Demons
Christian Hindu Shinto
Guru Rinpoche's Body Dissolves into Light
Christian Hindu Arthurian
Pelden Lhamo Rides Her Mule Across the Sea of Blood
Hindu Greek Christian
The Sarcophagus Lid of Pakal: The King as Maize God
Egyptian Norse Aztec
The Nganga: The Cauldron That Holds the Dead
West African Vodou Siberian
Pángǔ Cracks the Cosmic Egg
Norse Mesopotamian Hindu
Papa and Ranginui: The Embrace That Made Darkness
Greek Mesopotamian Chinese
Parentalia: Feeding the Family Dead
Chinese Japanese Mexican / Aztec
The Morning Star Ceremony
Aztec / Mexica Greek Hebrew
The Ara Pacis: Peace as a Goddess
Egyptian Hindu Augustan / Imperial Roman
Pazuzu: The Demon Who Guarded the Door
Egyptian Greek Hindu
Pele Sends Her Sister Hiʻiaka to Fetch a Lover
Greek Mesopotamian Indian
Pele Disguised as an Old Woman Tests a Chief's Heart
Greek Hebrew Norse
The Sisters Wage War: Lava Meets Sea
Norse Hindu Mesopotamian
Pele Is Born from the Mouth of Haumea
Māori Greek Hindu
The Immortal Islands No Ship Can Find
Greek Celtic Arthurian
Proserpina: Six Months of Pomegranate
Greek Mesopotamian Norse
The Chief Priest Who Became Emperor
Hebrew Egyptian Catholic
The First World: Made of Mud, It Dissolved
Mesopotamian Hebrew Yoruba
Heart of Sky and the Word That Made Everything
Hebrew Egyptian Hindu
The People Made of White and Yellow Corn
Hebrew Greek Aztec
The Second World: The Wooden People Who Forgot to Pray
Norse Hebrew Aztec
The Potlatch: Wealth Given Away
Hebrew Hindu Sufi / Islamic
Prince Shōtoku's Death and Resurrection
Christian Tibetan Buddhist Hindu
The Pukumani Poles and the Boundaries of the Dead
Māori Ancient Egyptian Norse
ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī and the Loud Remembrance
Jewish Christian Hindu
The Queen Mother of the West's Peach Banquet
Greek Norse Hebrew
The Quetzal: The Bird That Cannot Live in Cages
Chinese Hindu Norse
Raiatea: The Navel of the Polynesian World
Hebrew Greek Hindu
Raijin and Fujin: Thunder and Wind
Norse Greek Hindu
The Body That Leaves Only Hair and Nails
Christian Hindu Daoist
Rātā and the Tree That Rebuilt Itself
Greek Norse Shinto
Raven Inside the Whale
Hebrew Polynesian Finnish
Raven and the First People in the Clamshell
Greek Polynesian Genesis
The Moment of Recognizing What Was Always There
Zen Buddhist Christian (Meister Eckhart) Hindu (Advaita)
Chief Roi Mata and the Peace That Outlasted Him
Egyptian Chinese Norse
The Night of Initiation into the Mysteries
Greek Jewish / Kabbalistic Masonic
The Triumph: The General Becomes Jupiter for a Day
Egyptian Hindu Greek
Romulus Becomes a God in the Storm
Greek Egyptian Christian
Romulus Kills His Brother at the Wall
Hebrew Mesopotamian Egyptian
The She-Wolf and the Twin Kings
Hebrew Greek Mesopotamian
Romulus Takes the Sabine Women
Greek Hebrew Irish
El Manatí: The Rubber Balls Offered to the Swamp
Celtic Greek Norse
Rumi Calls His Death His Wedding Night
Christian Hindu Buddhist
The Reed Flute's Cry of Longing
Hindu (Bhakti) Christian Jewish
When Shams Disappeared the Second Time
Hindu Christian Jewish
The Moment Rumi Met Shams and Fell Silent
Buddhist Christian Hindu
The Whirling That Rumi Could Not Stop
Hindu Christian Indigenous
Rūzbihān Baqlī and the Scent of the Unseen
Christian Jewish Hindu
The Empty Garden at Ryōan-ji
Daoist Greek Christian (Apophatic)
The Two Women Who Brought Tattooing from Fiji
Māori Japanese Indigenous American
The First Monastery in Tibet Is Consecrated
Christian Hindu Islamic
The Eland: Most Sacred of All Animals
Hindu Native American (Plains) Egyptian
How the Tortoise Stole Fire from the Sun
Greek Native American Aboriginal Australian
Kaggen the Mantis Who Made the Moon
Native American (Crow) Aboriginal Australian Norse
The Trance Dance: Half Dead, Half Alive
Siberian Shamanism Native American Tibetan Buddhist
Saraswati and the Origin of Music
Greek / Hellenic Norse Egyptian
Saturn and the Age When No One Needed Laws
Greek Hebrew Hindu
Saturnalia: When Masters Serve Their Slaves
Hebrew Greek Mesopotamian
Seven Macaw Declares Himself the Sun
Greek Hebrew Mesopotamian
The Kingdom Hidden Behind a Wall of Snow
Christian Celtic Islamic
The Shambhala Warrior: Tenderness and Fearlessness
Christian Hindu Daoist
Shénnóng Tastes the Hundred Herbs
Norse Greek Aztec
The Icaro: The Song That Heals the Body
Tibetan Ancient Greek Islamic
Mwari Speaks from the Rock at Njelele
Greek Hebrew Shinto
Nehanda: The Spirit That Would Not Die
Christian Hindu Celtic
The Yamabushi Who Lives Between Worlds
Christian Hindu Tibetan Buddhist
Erlik Khan: The Lord of the Lower World
Hindu Greek Abrahamic
The First Shaman's Descent into the Lower World
Greek Sumerian Aztec
The World Tree and the Shaman Who Climbs It
Norse Hindu Mayan
The Sibyl's Books: What Rome Paid For
Greek Hebrew Norse
Sina's Eel Becomes the First Coconut
Greek Aztec Hindu
Iktomi Weaves the World
Coyote (Plateau) Anansi (West African / Caribbean) Loki (Norse)
Sita and the Golden Deer: The Trap That Took the World
Hebrew Greek / Hellenic Norse
Sitting Bull's Dream of the Falling Soldiers
Hebrew Greek Islamic
The Six Bardos Include This Very Moment
Buddhist (Theravada) Sufi Greek
Sky Woman Falls Through the Hole in the Sky
Lakota Hindu Greek
Qamata and the Four Giants at Earth's Corners
Hindu Norse Aztec
Spider Woman and the Hopi Emergence
Navajo Egyptian Hindu
Spider Woman Teaches the Loom
Greek Hindu Egyptian
The Spirit Canoe: Healing Through the Underworld
Siberian Norse Greek
The Malāmatī: The Path of Seeking Disgrace
Christian Jewish Hindu
Sohbet: The Conversation That Transmits What Cannot Be Said
Buddhist Jewish Christian
Why Sufi Masters Speak Only in Verse
Christian Buddhist Hindu
The Great Sufi Orders: How the Path Was Preserved
Christian Buddhist Jewish
Is Music Permitted? The Great Sufi Debate
Christian Jewish Hindu
Suhrawardī and the Philosophy of Illumination
Zoroastrian Platonic Christian
The Monkey King Seeks What Cannot Die
Mesopotamian Greek Buddhist
Sun Wukong's Pilgrimage to the West
Hindu Christian Greek / Hellenic
The Stone That Opened Like an Egg
Greek Hindu Norse
The Monkey King Becomes a Pilgrim
Christian Buddhist Greek
Susanoo Is Expelled from Heaven Weeping
Greek Norse Hebrew
Susanoo and the Eight-Headed Dragon
Norse Greek Mesopotamian
The Sweat Lodge Is a Womb
Christian (baptism) Hindu Jewish
Sweet Medicine Brings the Sacred Arrows
Hebrew Norse Aztec / Mexica
Tagaloa Flings the Islands from His Hand
Hebrew Māori Aztec
Takemikazuchi: The God Born from Blood
Norse Greek Hindu
Tāne Pushes His Father Sky from His Mother Earth
Greek Egyptian Sumerian
The Fish That Was Itself the Sea
Hindu Tao Greek
The Tanuki Who Tricked Itself
European Norse Irish
The Tanuki of Morinji Temple: A Tea-Kettle with Legs
Norse Yoruba Chinese
Tārā: She Who Answers Before the Prayer Ends
Catholic Christian Hindu Greek
Tawakkul: Ibrahim ibn Adham Walks into the Desert
Christian Buddhist Hindu
Tengri: The Eternal Blue Sky Above the Steppe
Chinese Greek Hebrew
The Tengu Who Taught Yoshitsune Swordsmanship
Greek Hindu Arthurian
The Texts Hidden in the Rock for the Right Moment
Jewish Christian Arthurian
Terminus: The God Who Would Not Move
Hebrew Hindu Japanese
Thangtong Gyalpo Builds Bridges of Iron Chains
Christian Hindu Daoist
The Three Pure Ones at the Top of the Cosmos
Christian Hindu Buddhist
The Thunderbird and the Whale
Canaanite / Ugaritic Norse Hindu
Father Tiber Speaks to Aeneas in a Dream
Greek Celtic Hindu
The Tijāniyya Order Spreads Across West Africa
Christian Buddhist Indigenous African
The Great Jaguar Temple and the King Inside
Egyptian Mesopotamian Hindu
The Spider Who Weaves Fate
Dogon Greek Native American (Hopi)
Tilopa Grinding Fish: The Hidden Teacher
Daoist Zen Buddhist Christian (Eastern)
The Pukumani Poles: Carved for the Dead
Egyptian Mesoamerican West African
The First Salmon Ceremony
Hindu Greek Shinto
Kava: The Drink Made from the Body of a Chief's Daughter
Christian Hindu Aztec
Raising the Pole: The Family Standing in Wood
Hebrew Greek Chinese
Tsongkhapa's Vision of the Virtuous Order
Christian Islamic Buddhist (Theravada)
Tsukuyomi and the Killing of the Food Goddess
Hindu Norse Aztec
The Inner Fire That Melts Snow from the Body
Hindu Greek Christian
Turnus Dies for the Woman He Never Had
Greek Greek Irish
Khoomei: Singing the Spirit of the Mountain
Hindu Sufi Australian Aboriginal
The 260-Day Calendar and the Day You Were Born
Hindu Chinese Babylonian
The Caboclo Spirit Who Heals With Forest Herbs
Haitian Vodou Amazon Spiritism (Kardecism)
Urashima Tarō Opens the Forbidden Box
Celtic Greek Christian
Vajrapāṇi and the Thunderbolt of Wakefulness
Hindu Norse Christian
Valentinus Beholds the Logos
Jewish (Kabbalistic) Neoplatonist Christian (orthodox)
Vesta and the Fire That Must Not Die
Greek Zoroastrian Hindu
The Vestal Who Carried Water in a Sieve
Hindu Buddhist Christian
Viracocha Paints the Nations into Being
Mesopotamian Greek Hindu
Virginia: The Father Who Killed His Daughter for Her Freedom
Hebrew Greek Universal
The Boy Goes Out Alone
Christian Aboriginal Australian Buddhist
The Houngan Calls the Loa Down the Center Post
Siberian Greek Afro-Brazilian
Vulcan Forges Aeneas' Shield
Greek Norse Hindu
Wajd: The Mystical State That Throws You Down
Christian Hindu Jewish
Wākea and the Origin of the Sacred Taro
Māori Aztec Mesopotamian
Haburi and the Canoe That Crosses the Sky
Egyptian Norse Polynesian
The Sand Story: The Desert as a Living Book
Buddhist Navajo Zen
The Last Words of the Dying Sheikh
Buddhist Christian Jewish
The Hare Who Outsmarted Death
African American Native American Japanese
White Buffalo Calf Woman Brings the Pipe
Hebrew Hindu Christian
Bái Shé: The White Snake's Forbidden Love
Greek European Japanese
The River of Blood You Must Cross to Reach Xibalbá
Greek Egyptian Mesopotamian
The Shaman Who Follows the Soul Back
Inuit Chinese Greek
Yamāntaka Defeats the Lord of Death
Greek Hindu Christian
Yamato Takeru: The Prince Who Became a White Bird
Greek Celtic Norse
The Hekura: The Tiny Spirits That Live in the Chest
Siberian Tibetan European Magical
The Yellow Emperor and Chī Yóu's War
Norse Mesopotamian Indian
The Yellow Millet Dream: A Life in an Instant
Hindu Buddhist Western
Yemoja and the Sacred Twins
Greek / Hellenic Christian Aztec
Yeshe Tsogyal: The Woman Who Completed the Tantras
Christian Hindu (Shakta) Sufi
Djang: When the Ancestors Still Walk as Animals
Shinto Hindu Christian (Celtic)
Èṣù at the Crossroads of Every Transaction
Fon Greek Norse
Obatala Sculpts Humans from White Clay
Greek Mesopotamian Hebrew
Yuki-onna: The Woman Made of Snow
Greek Celtic Norse
Cociyo: The Zapotec Lightning That Walks Like a Man
Maya Aztec Greek
Monte Albán: The City Built on a Leveled Mountain
Maya Mesopotamian Greek
The Sound of One Hand: A Koan
Sufi Daoist Christian (Apophatic)
The Full Cup That Cannot Receive Teaching
Sufi Christian Daoist
Zhāng Guǒlǎo's Donkey That Folds Like Paper
Christian Sufi Hindu
Zhuāngzǐ's Cook: The Ox Already Divided Itself
Greek Japanese Western
Zhuāngzǐ Sings at His Own Wife's Funeral
Stoic Buddhist Greek
Zipacná Holds Up the Mountains Then Shakes Them
Greek Norse Aztec
Ibrahim ibn Adham: The King Who Gave Up His Kingdom
Christian Buddhist Hindu
Inkosazana and the Gift of Grain
Greek Aztec Japanese
The Ancestors Who Live in the House
Roman Chinese Shinto
The Lightning Bird That No One May See
Slavic Native American (Plains) Greek
Unkulunkulu Breaks from the Reed Bed
Swazi / Nguni Egyptian Sumerian
The Shalako Come Back to Zuni
Hopi Shinto Hindu
The Dream of Óengus
Greek Persian
The First Keening: Origin of the Banshee
Greek Norse
Beltane: Walking Through the Fire
Roman Hindu
The Voyage of Bran to the Isle of Women
Greek Christian
The Head of Bendigeidfran Still Speaks
Norse Christian
Branwen: The Sister Sacrificed for Peace
Greek Norse
Brigid's Undying Fire at Kildare
Roman Zoroastrian
Caer Ibormeith: The Swan-Maiden's Bargain
Norse Greek
The Cailleach Shapes the Mountains
Norse Hindu
Ceridwen's Cauldron and the Year of Brewing
Irish Greek
Cernunnos: Lord of Wild Things
Hindu Norse
The Stolen Child
Germanic Norse
King Conaire and the Geasa That Destroyed Him
Greek Norse
The Hound of Culann: How Setanta Became Cú Chulainn
Greek Hindu
Cú Chulainn Tied to the Stone
Norse Christian
The Morrigan Chooses Her Champion
Mesopotamian Norse
The Woman-Warrior's Island
Greek Hindu
The Wooing of Emer
Greek Hebrew
The Dagda's Inexhaustible Gifts
Norse Hindu
Deirdre of the Sorrows
Greek Arthurian
The Flight of Diarmuid and Gráinne
Arthurian / British Greek
The Druids and the Oak Grove
Hindu Greek
The Dullahan: Rider Without a Head
Norse Arthurian / Welsh
How Finn Mac Cool Founded the Fianna
Greek Japanese
The Salmon of Knowledge
Norse Welsh
Fionn and the Giant's Causeway
Greek Norse
Fionn's Thumb: The Taste of Prophecy
Norse Greek
Imbolc: Brigid's Serpent Emerges
Roman Norse
Blodeuwedd: The Woman Made of Flowers
Greek Jewish
Lugh Kills Balor at Mag Tuired
Greek Hebrew
Lugh of the Long Arm Arrives at Tara
Norse Mesopotamian
Lughnasadh: The Games of the God
Roman Greek
The Enchanted Feast of the Otherworld
Greek Christian
Macha's Curse on the Men of Ulster
Greek Hindu
Manannán's Cloak of Invisibility
Greek Norse
Math Son of Mathonwy and the Foot-holder
Greek Norse
Étaín and the King of the Otherworld
Greek Hindu
The Morrigan Over the Battlefield
Norse Hebrew
Nuada of the Silver Hand
Norse Arthurian / British
Oisín in the Land of the Young
Japanese Christian
Pryderi: The Son Twice Lost
Greek Irish
Pwyll, Lord of the Otherworld
Irish Greek
The Birds of Rhiannon
Greek Irish
Rhiannon Falsely Accused
Hebrew Greek
Samhain: The Night the Veil Thins
Mexican / Catholic Chinese
The Seal Wife's Return to the Sea
Norse / Faroese Japanese
Taliesin Swallowed and Reborn
Irish Norse
The Battle of Mag Tuired
Norse Zoroastrian
The Wild Hunt Across Connacht
Norse Germanic
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