This website was last revised on:
21 March 2011
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to
make sense of the world.
-- Alan Watts (1915-1973)
Statue of Zeus at Olympia - One of the Greek
Seven Wonders of the World
What Is Mythology?
Myths
Legends
Folktales
Fairytales
Fables
How Is Mythology Transmitted?
Oral Transmission
Textual Transmission
Professional Storytellers
Why Is Mythology Important?
Plato
Euhemerus
E. B. Tylor
James Frazer
G. I. Gurdjieff
Giorgio de Santillana
Sigmund Freud
Carl Gustav Jung
Joseph Campbell
Marija Gimbutas
Vladimir Propp
Claude
Lévi-Strauss
Walter Burkert
Examples of Major Myths and Legends
Ancient Near East
Ancient Europe
Ancient Persia
and India
Africa and Australia
Native American
Modern Myths
and Legends
My
Websites
I currently support twenty-four websites.
Fifteen sites are related to philosophy and art and nine are related to
genealogy and local history. Hyperlinks to these sites are shown below.
Philosophy and Art:
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Sites still under construction
Genealogy and Local
History:
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