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Mythology can refer either to the study of myths (e.g., comparative mythology), or to a body or collection of myths (a mythos, e.g., Inca mythology). In folkloristics, a myth is a sacred narrative usually explaining how the world or humankind came to be in its present form, although, in a very broad sense, the word can refer to any traditional story. Bruce Lincoln defines myth as "ideology in narrative form." Myths typically involve supernatural characters and are endorsed by rulers or priests. They may arise as overelaborated accounts of historical events, as allegory for or personification of natural phenomena, or as an explanation of ritual. They are transmitted to convey religious or idealized experience, to establish behavioral models, and to teach.

Early rival classifications of Greek mythos by Euhemerus, Plato's Phaedrus, and Sallustius were developed by the neo-platonists and revived by Renaissance mythographers as in the Theologia mythologica (1532). Nineteenth-century comparative mythology reinterpreted myth as evolution toward science (E. B. Tylor), "disease of language" (Max Miller), or misinterpretation of magical ritual (James Frazer). Later interpretations rejected opposition between myth and science, such as Jungian archetypes, Joseph Campbell's "metaphor of spiritual potentiality", or Levi-Strauss's fixed mental architecture.

A PDF collection of 189 eBooks about Mythology. eBooks are sorted on publisher's name.

ABC-CLIO Creation Myths of Primitive America (2002).pdf
ABC-CLIO Creation Myths of the World, An Encyclopedia 2nd (2 Vols) (2010).pdf
ABC-CLIO Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (1992).pdf
ABC-CLIO Encyclopedia of Greco-Roman Mythology (1998).pdf
ABC-CLIO Goddesses in World Mythology (1993).pdf
ABC-CLIO Handbook of Chinese Mythology (2005).pdf
ABC-CLIO Handbook of Classical Mythology (2004).pdf
ABC-CLIO Handbook of Egyptian Mythology (2002).pdf
ABC-CLIO Handbook of Hindu Mythology (2003).pdf
ABC-CLIO Handbook of Inca Mythology (2004).pdf
ABC-CLIO Handbook of Japanese Mythology (2003).pdf
ABC-CLIO Handbook of Native American Mythology (2004).pdf
ABC-CLIO Handbook of Norse Mythology (2001).pdf
ABC-CLIO Handbook of Polynesian Mythology (2004).pdf
ABC-CLIO Women of Classical Mythology, A Biographical Dictionary (1991).pdf
Algora Publishing Creatures in the Mist Little People Wild Men and Spirit Beings around the World, A Study in Comparative Mythology (2007).pdf
Algora Publishing Sacred Wells, A Study in the History Meaning and Mythology of Holy Wells and Waters 2nd (2009).pdf
Allen & Unwin Publishing Beyond the Mist, What Irish Mythology Can Teach Us About Ourselves (2001).pdf
Alpha Publishing The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Mythology 2nd (2004).pdf
Anness Publishing The Encyclopedia of Mythology, Norse Classical Celtic (2006) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Anthroposophic Press Ancient Myths, Their Meaning and Connection with Evolution (1971).pdf
Anthroposophic Press Egyptian Myths and Mysteries (1971).pdf
Aquarian Press The Rosy Cross Unveiled, The History Mythology and Rituals of an Occult Order (1980).pdf
Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd The Mythology of Ancient Britain and Ireland (1906) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Arcturus Publishing Myths and Legends from Around the World (2000).pdf
Arcturus Publishing The Dictionary of Mythology, An A-Z of Themes Legends and Heroes (2007).pdf
Avalanche Press Celtic Age, Role-Playing the Myths Heroes and Monsters of the Celts (2002).pdf
Basil Blackwell Ltd A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology (1990).pdf
Blackwell Publishing A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology (1990).pdf
Blackwell Publishing Native American Storytelling, A Reader of Myths and Legends (2004).pdf
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers A Short Guide to Classical Mythology (1995).pdf
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers Classical Mythology and More, A Reader Workbook (2007).pdf
Boydell Press Rewriting Classical Mythology in the Hispanic Baroque (2007).pdf
Brill Publishing Another Seed, Studies in Gnostic Mythology (1984) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Brill Publishing Chukchee Mythology (1910).pdf
Brill Publishing Constructing Tradition, Means and Myths of Transmission in Western Esotericism (2010).pdf
Brill Publishing Seth God of Confusion, A Study of His Role in Egyptian Mythology and Religion (1967) (no OCR).pdf
British Museum Press Aztec and Maya Myths (1993) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Cambridge University Press Companion to Greek Mythology (2007).pdf
Cambridge University Press Myths of the Archaic State, Evolution of the Earliest Cities States and Civilizations (2004).pdf
Cambridge University Press Myths of the Underworld Journey, Plato Aristophanes and the Orphic Gold Tablets (2004).pdf
Cambridge University Press The Mythology of Kingship in Neo-Assyrian Art (2010) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Carcanet Press The Hebrew Myths, The Book of Genesis (2004) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Cassell & Co Publishing Celtic Myths, Celtic Legends (1996) (no OCR).pdf
Cassell & Co Publishing Dictionary of Classical Mythology (1998).pdf
Central European University Press Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology (2006).pdf
Central European University Press Communicating with the Spirits (2005).pdf
Central European University Press Witchcraft, Mythologies and Persecutions (2008).pdf
Chapman and Hall Ltd. The Mythology of Greece and Rome, With Special Reference to Its Use in Art (1896) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Chartwell Books Japanese Gods and Myths (1998).pdf
Constable and Company Ltd The Mythology of Ancient Britain and Ireland (1909) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Continuum International Publishing Tales of Lights and Shadows, Mythology of the Afterlife (2010) (no OCR).pdf
CreateSpace Publishing Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome (2011).pdf
Crescent Books New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology (1987).pdf
DK Print World Ltd A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography History and Literature (1998).pdf
DK Publishing Eyewitness Companions, Mythology (2007).pdf
Drexel Biddle Publishers Mythological Japan, Or the Symbolisms of Mythology in Relation to Japanese Art (1902) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Edward Elgar Publishing Cultural Mythology and Global Leadership (2009).pdf
Enslow Publishers American Indian Mythology (2001).pdf
Enslow Publishers Celtic Mythology (2003).pdf
Enslow Publishers Chinese Mythology (2001).pdf
Enslow Publishers Egyptian Mythology (2001).pdf
Enslow Publishers Gods and Goddesses in Greek Mythology (2001).pdf
Enslow Publishers Inuit Mythology (2001).pdf
Enslow Publishers Mayan and Aztec Mythology (2001).pdf
Enslow Publishers Roman Mythology (2002).pdf
Facts On File African Mythology A to Z (2004).pdf
Facts On File Animals, From Mythology to Zoology (2010).pdf
Facts On File Chinese Mythology A to Z (2004).pdf
Facts On File Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses 2nd (2004).pdf
Facts On File Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology (2010).pdf
Facts On File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend 3rd (2009).pdf
Facts On File Greek and Roman Mythology A to Z (2004).pdf
Facts On File Japanese Mythology A to Z (2004).pdf
Facts On File Native American Mythology A to Z (2004).pdf
Facts On File Norse Mythology A to Z (2004).pdf
Facts On File South and Meso American Mythology A to Z (2004).pdf
Facts On File The Encyclopedia of Celtic Mythology and Folklore (2004).pdf
Findhorn Press Call of the Camino, Myths Legends and Pilgrim Stories on the Way to Santiago de Compostela (2010).pdf
Folk Press A Dictionary of Superstitions and Mythology (1927).pdf
Fulcrum Publishing Earth's Daughters, Stories of Women in Classical Mythology (1999).pdf
Gale Group UXL Encyclopedia of World Mythology (5 Vols) (2009).pdf
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd Asiatic Mythology (1932).pdf
George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race (1910).pdf
Global Oriental Ltd An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology (2008).pdf
Gramercy Books Who's Who in Classical Mythology (1997).pdf
Greenhaven Press Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology (2002).pdf
Greenwood Press Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (1989).pdf
Greenwood Press Gemlore, Ancient Secrets and Modern Myths from the Stone Age to the Rock Age (2008).pdf
Greenwood Press Signs of the Zodiac, A Reference Guide to Historical Mythological and Cultural Associations (1997).pdf
Gresham Publishing Myths of China and Japan (1923) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Hambledon Press Anglo-Saxon Myths, State and Church 400-1066 (2000).pdf
I.B. Tauris Publishers From Asgard to Valhalla, The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths (2007).pdf
Infobase Publishing African Mythology A to Z 2nd (2010).pdf
Infobase Publishing Celtic Mythology A to Z 2nd (2010).pdf
Infobase Publishing Chinese Mythology A to Z 2nd (2010).pdf
Infobase Publishing Egyptian Mythology A to Z 3rd (2010).pdf
Infobase Publishing Greek and Roman Mythology A to Z, 3rd (2009).pdf
Infobase Publishing Japanese Mythology A to Z 2nd (2010).pdf
Infobase Publishing Native American Mythology A to Z 2nd (2010).pdf
Infobase Publishing Norse Mythology A to Z 3rd (2010).pdf
Infobase Publishing South and Meso-American Mythology A to Z 2nd (2010).pdf
Kessinger Publishing Celtic Mythology and Religion (1885) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Kessinger Publishing Myths of Babylonia and Assyria (2004).pdf
Liverpool University Press American Mythologies, Essays on Contemporary Literature (2005).pdf
Longman Group Classical Mythology 3rd (1985).pdf
M.E. Sharpe Publishing Storytelling, An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore (3 Vols) (2008).pdf
Macmillan Reference Mythologies (1959).pdf
Marshall Cavendish Publishing The Ancient Chinese, Myths of the World (2010).pdf
Marshall Cavendish Publishing The Ancient Maya, Myths of the World (2010).pdf
McFarland Publishers Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology (2010).pdf
McFarland Publishers The Oral Tradition of the Baganda of Uganda, A Study and Anthology of Legends Myths Epigrams and Folktales (2010).pdf
McFarland Publishers Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture (2011).pdf
Meridian Books Myths of the Greeks and Romans (1962).pdf
Methuen & Co. The Gods of the Egyptians, Studies in Egyptian Mythology Vol. 1 (1904) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Methuen & Co. The Gods of the Egyptians, Studies in Egyptian Mythology Vol. 2 (1904) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Metron Publications A Handbook of Mythology, Sacred Practices Electrical Phenomena and their Linguistic Connections in the Ancient Mediterranean World (1992).pdf
Noonday Press Mythologies (1972).pdf
Oxford University Press Athenian Myths and Institutions, Words in Action (1991).pdf
Oxford University Press Classical Mythology 7th (2003).pdf
Oxford University Press Classical Mythology, A Very Short Introduction (2007).pdf
Oxford University Press Fantastic Worlds, Myths Tales and Stories (1979).pdf
Oxford University Press Forms of Astonishment, Greek Myths of Metamorphosis (2009).pdf
Oxford University Press Freudian Mythologies, Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities (2007).pdf
Oxford University Press From Olympus to Camelot, The World of European Mythology (2003).pdf
Oxford University Press Jealous Gods and Chosen People, The Mythology of the Middle East (2004).pdf
Oxford University Press Mythology, The Voyage of the Hero 3rd (1998).pdf
Oxford University Press Myths from Mesopotamia, Creation the Flood Gilgamesh and Others (2000) (no OCR).pdf
Oxford University Press Norse Mythology, A Guide to Gods Heroes Rituals and Beliefs (2001).pdf
Oxford University Press Plato, Selected Myths (2004).pdf
Oxford University Press Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts, History Politics and Mythology in the Age of Queen Anne (2005).pdf
Oxford University Press The Poetic Edda Vol. 2, Mythological Poems (1997) (no OCR).pdf
Oxford University Press Tree of Souls, The Mythology of Judaism (2004).pdf
Oxford University Press Virgil Recomposed, The Mythological and Secular Centos in Antiquity (2005).pdf
Oxford University Press World Mythology, The Illustrated Guide (2006) (Scan, no OCR).pdf
Pantheon Books Essays on a Science of Mythology, The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis (1969).pdf
Pantheon Books Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization (1946).pdf
Penguin Publishing Gods and Myths of Northern Europe (1964).pdf
Penguin Publishing Myths of the Greeks and Romans (1995).pdf
Penguin Publishing The Friendly Guide to Mythology (2001).pdf
Praeger Publishers The Age of Oil, The Mythology History and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resource (2006).pdf
Praeger Publishers The Shah and the Ayatollah, Iranian Mythology and Islamic Revolution (2003).pdf
Princeton University Press Philosophical Myths of the Fall (2005).pdf
Princeton University Press The Gardens of Adonis, Spices in Greek Mythology (1994) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Princeton University Press Women at the Beginning, Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary (2006).pdf
Rodopi Press Monsters and the Monstrous, Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil (2007).pdf
Rodopi Press Vampires, Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil (2003).pdf
Rosen Publishing Group Indian Mythology (2008) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Rosen Publishing Group Japanese Mythology (2008) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Routledge Press A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology (1991).pdf
Routledge Press A Handbook of Greek Mythology, Including Its Extension to Rome 6th (1958).pdf
Routledge Press Aphrodite and Eros, The Development of Erotic Mythology in Early Greek Poetry and Cult (2007).pdf
Routledge Press Greek Myths and Mesopotamia, Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod (1994).pdf
Routledge Press Handbook of Greek Mythology (2004).pdf
Routledge Press Interpretations of Greek Mythology (1987) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Routledge Press The Myths We Live By (2011).pdf
Routledge Press Thinking through Myths, Philosophical Perspectives (2002).pdf
Routledge Press White Mythologies, Writing History and the West 2nd (2004).pdf
Routledge Press Who's Who in Classical Mythology (2002).pdf
Routledge Press Who's Who in Non-Classical Mythology 2nd (1993).pdf
Schocken Publishing The Trickster, A Study in American Indian Mythology (1987).pdf
Society of Biblical Literature Publishing Hittite Myths 2nd (1998).pdf
Society of Biblical Literature Publishing The Rituals and Myths of the Feast of the Goodly Gods (2006).pdf
Springer Publishing The Mythology of the Night Sky, An Amateur Astronomer's Guide to the Ancient Greek and Roman Legends (2011).pdf
Stackpole Sons Publishing African Genesis, Folk Tales and Myths of Africa (1937) (no OCR).pdf
State University of New York Press Aryans Jews Brahmins, Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity (2002).pdf
State University of New York Press Historical-critical Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology (2007).pdf
State University of New York Press Mythology and Folklore of the Hui, A Muslim Chinese People (1994) (no OCR).pdf
State University of New York Press The Flood Myths of Early China (2006).pdf
Studio Books Hermaphrodite, Myths and Rites of the Bisexual Figure in Classical Antiquity (1961).pdf
T&T Clark Ltd. Canaanite Myths and Legends 2nd (1978).pdf
Taylor & Francis Mythological Deliberations, Lectures on the Phenomenology of Myth (1993).pdf
UBC Press Animals and Nature, Cultural Myths Cultural Realities (1999).pdf
University of California Press The Heart of the Pearl Shell, The Mythological Dimension of Foi Sociality (1988) (no OCR).pdf
University of Chicago Press Aryan Idols, Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science (2006) (Scan, OCR).pdf
University of Chicago Press Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths, An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination (1988).pdf
University of Chicago Press How Philosophers Saved Myths, Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology (2004).pdf
University of Chicago Press Myths of the Dog-Man (1991).pdf
University of Chicago Press River Jordan, The Mythology of a Dividing Line (2011).pdf
University of Chicago Press Sumerian Epics and Myths (1934).pdf
University of Michigan Press The Learned Collector, Mythological Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul (2005).pdf
University of Minnesota Press French Colonial Documentary, Mythologies of Humanitarianism (2008).pdf
University of Nebraska Press Salish Myths and Legends, One People's Stories (2008).pdf
University of Sydney Press Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society (2000).pdf
University of Toronto Press Biblical and Classical Myths, The Mythological Framework of Western Culture (2004).pdf
University of Zagreb Press A Reader in Comparative Indo-European Mythology (2009).pdf
W & R Chambers Ltd Scottish Myths and Legends (1992) (no OCR).pdf
W.W. Norton & Company Greece before Homer, Ancient Chronology and Mythology (1957).pdf
Watts & Co. Publishing Christianity and Mythology 2nd (1910).pdf