The best way to understand a myth is to meet the original storytellers in their own space and time. Learning about various cultures deepens self-knowledge, broadens personal understanding, and invites appreciation for the diversity among peoples, while learning the binding, connecting, common mythical themes that unite us. Among cultures worldwide you will find similar stories, characters and themes that demonstrate a universal experience. You will also discover intriguing individual differences which color the world beautiful. People, animals and environmentals hold stories that heal and save us all.
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Arthurian Women by Thelma S. Fenster
The Elements of the Arthurian Tradition (Elements of Series) by John Matthews
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Ph.D
From Olympus to Camelot: The World of European Mythology by David Adams Leeming
Gods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain by Christopher Fee and David Adams Leeming
Holy Grail, The : Its Origins, Secrets, and Meaning Revealed
The Mabinogian Tetrology by Evangeline Walton
Meeting the Other Crowd- The Fairy Stories of Hidden Ireland by Eddie Lenihan and Carolyn Eve Green
Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Early Scandinavian and Celtic Religions by H.R. Ellis Davidson
The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Celtic Myth and Spirit by Patricia Monaghan
Kalevala Mythology by Juha Y Pentikainen
Land of Heroes: A Retelling of the Kalevala by Ursula Synge
The Golden Bough. Sir James Frazier.
Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures by Wade Davis
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade
The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light. William Irwin Thompason
Taonga Tuku Iho- Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Maori Life by A.W. Reed
The Book of Elders: The Life Stories of Great American Indians by Sandy Johnson, Dan Budnik
The Mythology of Native North America by David Adams Leeming and Jake Page
Through Indian Eyes: The Untold Story of Native American Peoples. Reader's Digest
Wisdomkeepers. Steve Wall and Harvey Arden
The Story of Lynz by Claude Levi-Strauss - a study North and South Native American myths relating to twinness or duality
The Book of the Hopi. Frank Waters
The Fourth World of the Hopis. Harold Courlander
Hopi Voices- Recollections, traditions and narrations of the Hopi Indians. Harold Courlander
The Hopi Way- Tales from a Vanishing Culture. Mando Sevillano
The Suns of the Wind: The Sacred Stories of the Lakota Edited by D.M. Dooling
Animals of the Soul by Joseph Epes Brown
Black Elk Speaks. John G. Neihardt
Lakota Belief and Ritual by James R. Walker
Lakota Myth by James R. Walker
Oglala Women : Myth, Ritual, and Reality (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Marla N. Powers
Coyote's Canyon- A Collection of Stories by Terry Tempest Williams (Audio cassette)
Celtic or the British Isles (England, Scotland and Wales)
The Art of Celtia by Courtney Davis
Supreme, unparalleled, unmatched anthropological, enthnographic, religious and psychological study of Fairy
Explains the French, English and Persian versions. Beautiful.
Ms. Walton made an extremely tedious Welsh epic that you had to mine for information and enjoyment into a fascinating, romantic escape.
Personal, experential account of Fairy.
Epic of the north;: The story of Finland's Kalevala by John Ilmari Kolehmainen
Engaging, enchanted, warm-hearted novel that makes the original 22,500 epic poem readable and understandable.
Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscape and Desire by Wade Davis
Some of the best work done regarding sex and culture within the disciplines of anthropology, archeology and mythology.
The Looking-glass God: Shinto, Yin-yang, and a cosmology for today by Nahum Stiskin
The Natural World of the Maori by Margaret Orbell
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Hopi
Fascinating book about one of the most interesting. holy. mystical and mysterious cultures on our planet.
Lakota
Navajo