| The Mythology Book Big Ideas Simply Explained |
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CONTENTS – The Mythology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
ANCIENT GREECE
- Gaia first gave birth to her equal, Ouranos
- Origin of the universe
- Rhea swaddled up a stone and passed it to Kronos to swallow
- The birth of Zeus
- Zeus in his first youth battered the earthborn Titans
- The war of the gods and Titans
- No wind beats roughly here, no snow nor rain
- Mount Olympus
- He bound cunning Prometheus in inescapable fetters
- Prometheus helps mankind
- Her impulse introduced sorrow and mischief to the lives of men
- Pandora’s box
- Zeus had many women, both mortal and immortal
- The many affairs of Zeus
- Mighty Hades who dwells in houses beneath the earth
- Hades and the Underworld
- He slipped a pomegranate, sweet as honey, into her hand
- The abduction of Persephone
- The raving ladies streamed out of their homes
- The cult of Dionysus
- Turning round, he caught a glimpse of his wife and she had to return
- below
- Orpheus and Eurydice
- A bringer of dreams
- Hermes’ first day
- Athena presents the olive tree, Poseidon the wave
- The founding of Athens
- I will give infallible counsel to all who seek it
- Apollo and the Oracle of Delphi
- One loved; the other fled the name of love
- Apollo and Daphne
- Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor
- The Trojan War
- This pair of tyrants. They murdered my father
- Orestes avenges Agamemnon
- Tell me oh muse, the hero’s story
- The quest of Odysseus
- After the labours had been accomplished, he would be immortal
- The labours of Herakles
- He had the face of a bull, but the rest of him was human
- Theseus and the Minotaur
- Disdaining his father’s warnings, the exhilarated Icarus soared ever
- higher
- Daedalus and Icarus
- Watching the Gorgon’s head in the polished shield, he beheaded her
- Perseus and Medusa
- Hate is a bottomless cup, I will pour and pour
- Jason and Medea
- Unfortunate Oedipus – of all men, least to be envied!
- The fate of Oedipus
- She wants Adonis more than she does heaven itself
- Aphrodite and Adonis
- Whatever I touch, may it be transformed into tawny gold
- King Midas
- In a single day and night the island of Atlantis disappeared beneath the
- waves
- The legend of Atlantis
ANCIENT ROME – The Mythology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- I sing of arms and the man
- Aeneas, founder of Rome
- A desire seized Romulus and Remus to build a city
- The founding of Rome
- The father of gods spurts red flames through the clouds
- Numa outwits Jupiter
- Conceive of Vesta as naught but the living flame
- Vesta and Priapus
- The fates will leave me my voice, and by my voice I shall be known
- The sibyl of Cumae
- I love you as I love my own soul
- Cupid and Psyche
- I am on fire with love for my own self
- Narcissus and Echo
- She yet spins her thread, as a spider
- Arachne and Minerva
- I pay the due penalty in blood
- Cybele and Attis
- Mithras is the Lord of generation
- Mithras and the bull
- He carved a statue out of snow-white ivory
- Pygmalion
- For lying with me, take control of the hinge
- Carna and Janus
- No wood nymph could tend a garden more skilfuly than she
- Pomona and Vertumnus
- Even death shall not part us
- Pyramus and Thisbe
- Those whom the gods care for are gods
- Philemon and Baucis
NORTHERN EUROPE
- From Ymir’s flesh the earth was made
- Creation of the universe
- The ash of Yggdrasil is the noblest of trees
- Odin and the World Tree
- The first war in the world
- War of the gods
- They mixed honey with the blood and it turned into mead
- The Mead of Poetry
- Thor might smite as hard as he desired and the hammer would not fail
- The treasures of the gods
- Am I wrong in thinking that this little fellow is Thor?
- The adventures of Thor and Loki in Jötunheim
- The unluckiest deed ever done amongst gods and men
- The death of Baldur
- Brother will fight brother and be his slayer
- The twilight of the gods
- When the worm comes to the water, smite him in the heart
- Sigurd the dragon slayer
- Wonderful the magic sampo, plenty does it bring to northland
- The Kalevala
- The Dagda was eighty years in the kingship of Ireland
- A complex god
- As soon as he touched the earth, he was a heap of ashes
- The voyage of Bran
- One will be long forgetting Cúchulainn
- The cattle raid of Cooley
- He has the name of being the strongest and bravest man in Ireland
- Finn MacCool and the Giant’s Causeway
- So they took the blossoms and produced from them a maiden
- Blodeuwedd
- Who so pulleth out this sword is the rightwise king born of all England
- The legend of King Arthur
ASIA – The Mythology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- From the great heaven the goddess set her mind on the great below
- The descent of Inanna
- Command and bring about annihilation and re-creation
- Marduk and Tiamat
- Who can rival his kingly standing?
- The epic of Gilgamesh
- Two spirits, one good, the other evil, in thought, word, and deed
- Ahura Mazda and Ahriman
- Brahma opened his eyes and realised he was alone
- Brahma creates the cosmos
- Siva placed the elephant’s head on the torso and revived the boy
- The birth of Ganesha
- king, it is wrong to gamble oneself
- The game of dice
- Rama is virtuous and the foremost among all righteous men
- The Ramayana
- I am the lady, ruler of the worlds
- Durga slays the buffalo demon
- O! Meenakshi! Fish-eyed goddess! Grant me bliss!
- The fish-eyed goddess finds a husband
- You are to be the king over all the world
- The origins of the Baiga
- Yang became the heavens Yin became the earth
- Pangu and the creation of the world
- The ten suns all rose at once, scorching the sheaves of grain
- Yi shoots the sun
- I’ll roam the corners of the oceans and go to the edge of the sky
- The adventures of the Monkey King
- Having finished making the lands, they went on to make its spirits
- Izanagi and Izanami
- All manner of calamities arose everywhere
- Susanoo and Amaterasu
- Your rice of the Skyworld is good
- Fire and rice
- There was a man called Dan’gun Wanggeom who created a city and
- founded a nation
- The legendary foundation of Korea
- Hae Mosu made the sun shine and its rays caressed Yuwha’s body
- Jumong
THE AMERICAS – The Mythology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- The Earth is a giant island floating in a sea of water
- Cherokee creation
- It will not be well if they omit it
- Spider Woman
- Begin a Deerskin Dance for it because everything will come out well
- from that
- The Woge settle a dispute
- She was the shade of the whale
- The raven and the whale
- And the sun belongs to one and the moon to the other
- The Hero Twins
- So then the sun went into the sky
- The legend of the five suns
- In the beginning, and before this world was created, there was a being
- called Viracocha
- Viracocha the Creator
- The canoe was a wonder
- The first canoe
- The creator of the world has always existed
- The sky makes the sun and earth
ANCIENT EGYPT AND AFRICA
- I was alone with the Primeval Ocean
- The creation and the first gods
- Hail to you, Ra, perfect each day!
- The night barque of Ra
- Isis lived in the form of a woman, who had the knowledge of words of
- power
- Ra’s secret name
- He will not die! Osiris will live a life forever
- Osiris and the underworld
- If they built fires, evil would come
- San creation myth
- I will give you something called cattle
- En-kai and the cattle
- Tie the calabash behind you and then you will be able to climb the tree
- Ananse the spider
- The life-force of the earth is water
- The Dogon cosmos
- The queen wants to kill you
- Eshu the trickster
OCEANIA – The Mythology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
- Come and hear our stories, see our land
- The Dreaming
- Spear me slowly. I still have more to teach you
- The killing of Luma-Luma
- The world of myth is never far-off
- The Déma
- Master of everything that is
- Ta’aroa gives birth to the gods
- Death obtained power over mankind
- Tane and Hine-titama
- But the redoubtable Maui was not to be discouraged
- Maui of a thousand tricks
- What would you say to our driving the birds to Easter Island?
- Makemake and Haua
- When I utter his name, he hears in the heavens
- Mapusia and the Work of the Gods
- I do not forget the guiding stars
- Aluluei and the art of navigation
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