Epics
The Tain Beowulf The Kalevala The Book of the Dead The Bible Nihongi The Therigatha The Qur’an Popol Vuh Ovid, Metamorphoses Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings The Decameron The Iliad The Odyssey Theogony Works & Days Enuma Elish: The Epic of Creation Epic of Gilgamesh The Epic of Son-Jara : a West African tradition The Songs of Ullikummi (Hurrian myth) The Ozidi Saga Lianja of the Mongo Jeki la Nzambe in Cameroon Bacchae Medea Descent of Ishtar into the Lower World. “Inana’s Descent to the Nether World.” Hymn to Demeter and other Homeric Hymns Kalidasa. “Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection.” Apuleius, Lucius. "Cupid and Psyche." The Golden Asse. The Tam Lin Version Three: Child 39C Devi-māhātmyam Dudbridge, Glen. The Legend of Miao-shan. London: Ithaca P, 1978. Emerson, N.B. Pele and Hi’iaka: A Myth from Hawaii (New York: AMS Press 1915). Hirschfield, Jane. Women in Praise of the Sacred Zolbrod, Paul G., Diné bahané: The Navaho Creation Story (USA: U of New Mexico P, 1984). Cassuto, U. The Goddess Anat., Translated by Israel Abrahams. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, 1971. Courlander, Harold. The Fourth World of the Hopis. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971. Cameron, Anne. Daughters of Copper Woman. Canada: Press Gang Publishers, 1981. Lord, Karen, Redemption in Indigo
Some of the best mythology databases likewise contain these epics: The Celtic Literature Collective: Containing the Ulster Cycle, Fenian Cycle, and more The CELT Project: Corpus of Electronic Texts The ETCSL Project: The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature The Internet Medieval Sourcebook The Internet Sacred Text Archive The Perseus Digital Library Project European texts (though not in translation) |
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