Aside from the General section, these links are organized by region and language group, with those groups which produced written accounts of their myths and legends earlier, generally appearing closer to the beginning.

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General

Indicies and site reviews

• Philip Burns' Mythology & Folklore A description of mythology along with scores if not hundreds of links. It's quite a stash. There is a greater emphasis on folklore than here. He's been annotating them as well.
• Kathleen Jenks also has a large number of well annotated mythology links organized by theme & region at Mythinglinks.org
• John Adcox maintains a somewhat smaller collection of Mythology and Folklore links.
• Jo Heirman's collection of mythology links is a bit briefer and lacks descriptions, but Mythologie.pagina.nl may be easier for you to understand than other sites if Dutch is your native tongue.
• Julia Hayden's Ancient World Web contains links to and reviews of a number of sites dealing with archaeology, history, art, mythology and ancient religions. She also has a separate index for Mythology and Religion
• Arthur Goldstuck's Legendary Site of the Week Myths, Legends, and Urban Folklore are fair game.
• The ARGOS limited search engine, searches major ancient and medieval indicies such as ABZU, Perseus, and Labyrinth - thus screening out a large number of irrelevant links.

  Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Archives

• Micha Lindemans' Encyclopedia Mythica. Over 5100 articles and growing on myth related topics of lengths ranging from a couple of sentances to a couple of paragraphs.
• A somewhat similar venture by Lestat is Of Gods and Men.
• The University of Michigan's Windows to the Universe project has assembled a collection of Mythology pages describing deities from around the world. Of note is that here they are organized not only by cultural group, but by "sphere of influence" as well.
• The Probert Encyclopedia - Mythology should probably be called a dictionary, given its extenisve number of rather brief (one or two line), entries. Restored! 2/10
• After the MIT incarnation of this page, Mark de la Hey's MythText was the earliest site devoted entirely to mythology of which I was aware. Robert O'Connel of Untangel has revived the non-commercial parts of that site as Mythhome. It includes articles on and links to sites dealing with various aspects of mythology. It has recently been revamped and updated with the help of Rick Eagan.
• Luminara's Web of Myth-tery contains both short format entries on a number of deities, organized by culture, as well as a number of brief essays on myth related subjects.
• P. J. Criss's The Book of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes, and other Mythological Characters contains brief entires on numerous deities and heroes, retellings of various mythic tales, and links to a number of mythology related sites representing cultures around the world.
• Kat's older mythology pages have been incorporated into her site, Eliki's pages on Gods, Goddesses and Myth featuring the Celtic pantheons, and such creatures as the phoenix, dragons, and Pegasus. She also has pages on Arthuriana, Greek Amazons, Faeries, and Mermaids.
• Richard McLaughlin's Mythology Notes present descriptions of gods, summaries of myths, and some historical material on the mythologies of the Ancient Near East, Persia, Scandinavia, and the Celts. His is one of the few sites to include a mythological treatment of Judaic and Christian stories - some of the material he draws upon for these is extracanonical.
• Scadian, Cynric of Bedwyn (R. G. Ferrell) presents his Guide to Lesser known Deities and Moderately Divine Beings a few brief descriptions of obscure deities in this installment of Ex Tempore.
• Elizabeth Willey, Donald Keller, and Paula K. Marmor have put together a number of essays, links, pieces of artwork relating to such Legends as Robin Hood, King Arthur, Roland, El Cid, Pirates and others.
• JBL statue is out to sell you statues of deities from all over the world. The cool thing is that they show you pictures of these statues, but their brief descriptions of the deity featured thereon are not always accurate.
• Mythic Images is another purveyor of statues. They also describe the goddesses they portray in short paragraphs.
• Sandra Stanton sells oil paintings of goddesses from around the world. At her commercial web site, The Goddess in World Mythology she presents images of those paintings along with brief descriptions of those deities.
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable is just that from 1894.

  Offline sources

• Kim and Mike Burkard's The Green (formerly known as 'All things Ancient') features Kim's extensive mythology booklist FAQ - partially culled from USENET.
• Mark Isaak now keeps his Mythological Sources FAQ on his own page and features his picks of the better mostly offline sources.
• I too, have cobbled together a short list of Mythology Sources but to escape redundancy I've added brief reviews of those works I've encountered.

  Myth and Story Collections

• Bulfinch's Mythology - here maintained by Bob Fisher. Its first section, The Age of Fable includes Greek, some Norse, and some Egyptian mythology in a sort of "Reader's Digest" format. Its other sections on King Arthur, the Mabinogeon, and Charlemagne continue in a similar format.
• Reality Software's Origins of Mythology, is a Zip file e-text, downloadable as shareware.
• Madhury Ray (with some assistance) has compiled descriptions of the cultures, pantheons, and legends from around the world in The World (As We Know It), Legends of Forever.
• Morgana's Observatory collects, retells and highlights a number of Universal Myths and Mysterious Places including creation, flood, and afterlife myths.
• Creation Stories and Traditional Wisdom Short tales primarily from Australian Aboriginal and Native American sources.
• Richard Darsie collects Tales of Wonder - Folk and Fairy tales from around the world at his site. (Broken Link 2/10/2002)
• The SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages are Heidi Anne Heiner's collection of tales - often as written by Lang or Perrault, but well annotated by Heiner, with illustrations, histories, and recommended readings.
• Whootie Owl's Stories to grow by is a collection of folk and fairy tales gathered from around the world, intended for younger (up to 10 years old) readers.
• Kids Zone at AFRO-Americ@ has a Myths and Fables page, collecting & illustrating 16 stories from around the world. (Broken Link 2/10/2002)
• Snaith Primary School in East Yorkshire, UK has collected a few Myth retellings from places including Japan and Mexico.
• D. L. Asheman is the translator of several Electronic Texts in Folklore and Mythology. His translations are primarily from German tales and there are links to tales from Scandinavia, Britain and other regions.
• ZenSufi Story Park collects a number of folktales primarily from South and South-West Asia, primarily from the Sufi Muslim tradition - but including stories from outside those areas as well.
• Cinderella Stories are found throughout Western Europe, with parallels elsewhere as well. The University of Southern Mississippi has collected a number of English languages versions of the tale at its Cinderella Project site and also hosts collections of Jack the Giant Killer and Red Riding Hood stories at the same site.
• David Brown, Kathy Martin, Jean Rusting, Doris Dale and others have assembled a collection of links and bibliographic refferences to a number of Cinderella Stories for the Children's Literature Project.
• Rita Kambos's Mythmaker site contains retellings myths legends and folklore- current offerings are a story from India and a couple stories from Russia.
• Mary Mark has collected assmbled a large bibliography of and a few links to Percussion Folktales.
• The LEAP English Academy's students retell (and invent?) a number of Folktales, Stories, and Poems from around the world for an issue of their magazine, LEAP Star.

  Essays and Commentary

• In 1872, John Fiske wrote a "somewhat rambling and unsystematic series of papers" entitled Myths and Mythmakers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology.
• Eliza Burt Gamble wrote The God-idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion in 1899.
• Sir James George Frazer's magnum opus The Golden Bough was the first major work to make an exhaustive comparison of the myths and religious practicies of cultures worldwide. Much of Frazer's conclusions are now considered outdated, but the work as a whole is still an interesting read. The link above is to the 1922 abridged edition.
• Excerpts from the mythology related writings of James Frazer, author of The Golden Bough.
• Eric Maulin of the magazine Label France reviews Georges Dumézil's Mythe et Epopée in The Indo-European tales of Georges Dumézil revealing some of the philologist's comparisons between Indo-European mythologies.
• The Joseph Campbell Foundation Web Site features bio- and bibliographical information on the popular mythologist, an excerpt of his work, some other mythological links, and details of the Foundation's activities.
• Theosophical Perspectives on World Spiritual Traditions is a collection of articles from Sunrise Magazine, many of which deal with mythology from all over the world.
• Michael Joseph's course at Rutgers entitled In Search of Cupid & Psyche: Myths and Legends in Children's Literature examines and compares a number of stories and archetypes beginning with Near Eastern and Classical mythology and progressing forward in time to current tales.
• Aaron Rester's Mythology Home Page has become Lamhfada: An Online Magazine of Myth and Story. The initial articles contain several essays about mythological stories from numerous cultures all relating to the idea of a savior/creator/fertility deity. He also has a collection of links to other mythology sites.
• Flute (Carolyn Maloney), Vickie Hamby and the rest of Creative Minds have a site which includes monthly articles on mythology. They also feature poetry, the mystical, back articles and of course, links.
• N. S. Gill has assembled a number of essays on Ancient/Classical History for the Mining Company. Included is a section on mythology and religion.
• Every two weeks, Linda Casselman presents a new essay on a different area of mythology for Suite 101's Mythology page.
• Dan Norder's Mythology Web contains a number of essays on varying aspects of myth, legend, and folklore - including urban folklore. It appears that he intends to add a new collection of essays every month or so, but at last check it had been some time since the last update. Also at this site is an active mythology oriented mailing list and archive.
• Rebecca Salek has compiled a collection of creation myths, myths about the overthrowing of goddesses and descriptions of goddesses themselves in Clio: Women in Mythology, Religion and Herstory. She writes from the thesis that these myths help indicate that prior to the pridominatly patriarchal, literate cultures we know of, there were matriarchal societies.
• Tired of a saccharine goddess image? Robin Weare's Dark Goddess site examines the less sweet aspects of such deities as Artemis and Kali from a bit of a neo-Pagan standpoint.
• Stephan Stenudd critiques the Jungian analysis of Myths of Creation in this essay
• Deborah Scherrer has collected an number of myths and Solar Folklore from around the world for the Stanford Solar Center.
• Bifrost isn't the only rainbow in mythology. Fred Stern writes about the rainbow as it appears in a number of Religious Myths from all over the world. (Broken Link 2/10/2002)
• Mark Isaak has compiled a number of Flood Myth stories from around the world for use as a talk.origins FAQ. The most recent edition of which is kept at his home page. Third link is a (Broken Link 2/10/2002)
• Patrick C. Ryan has a page on Proto-Religion, which he claims is a reconstruction of the religious beliefs of people before they dispersed from the rift valleys of Africa 100K BCE. Putting it mildly, this is more than a bit of a stretch, but his comparisons of creation accounts are reasonably detailed, and hit some of the commonalities that many note about Near Eastern creation accounts, as well as bringing in a few other cultures.
• Equinox Occult Supplies also supplies a collection of essays on sundry topics in Mythology from the Greek & Celtic pantheons as well as various mythical animals.
• Gareth Long compares and contrasts the Hellenic and Nordic pantheons in Greek vs. Norse Mythology.

  Creatures of Myth and Legend

• The Aberdeen Bestiary is an actual medieval bestiary from around 1200.
• Oban retells assorted Animal, Myths, Legends, and Folktales from around the world, with illustrations.
• Windseeker's (Laura Hamilton's) Home Page contains a Glossary of Mythic Creatures and a page on dragon lore, including retellings of a few dragon legends.
• Gareth Long's Encyclopedia of Monsters, Mythical Creatures, and Fabulous Beasts contains a number of short paragraph descriptions of sundry creatures, some of which are illustrated.
• Dark Daemon's Mythic Creatures page contains a dictionary of mostly one-line descriptions of a great number of mythic creatures. (Broken Link 2/10/2002)
• Conrad Tolentino's The Bestiary presents information on both mythcal beasts and cryptozoological creatures such as Bigfoot.
• alt.mythology.mythic-animals - this USENET newsgroup is intended to be for the discussion of mythic & legendary animals & monsters. It is also dominated by a lot of PBNG (play by newsgroup) free-form roleplaying.
  • Anansi's Mithology, Stories, Movies page recounts spider legends from around the world - primarily from the Hopi stories and from the West African Anansi stories. This page is in both Japanese and English.

    Dragons, Serpents and Reptiles

  • Robert T. Mason's paper The Divine Serpent in Myth and Legend recounts and analyzes serpent tales from the Near East and the rest of the world.
  • Alara (Sara Gilliand) undertakes a Jungian analysis of dragons in world mythology in her The Dragon as an Archetype paper. (Broken Link 2/10/2002)
  • Jennifer Walker's Here be Dragons! provides mythic information as well as art and assorted links related to these fearsome beasts.
  • Polenth's Weyr is a collection of information about both literary and mythological dragons as well as links to other dragon afficianados on the web.
  • Drakhen briefly describes various Dragons of Myth and Legend.
  • The Dragon's Pearl A brief article on Lake Tahoe's Tessie with mentions of a couple of other dragon tales.
  • U. Mass has a page on Snake Mythology written by Scott Jackson and Peter Mirick with illustrations by Nancy Haver. Restored! 2/10/02
  • Soror Ourania's Naga page also focuses on the snake's role in myth.

    Birds

  • Phoenix recounts The Phoenix Legend of this fantastic bird as described in the Near East and in China. (Broken Link 2/10/2002)
  • Mad Phoenix also retells the Legend of the Phoenix in it's Chinese and Near Eastern versions.
  • A fixture in the legends of the cultures native to Alaska and the American Pacific Northwest, Raven is featured in the Aviariy's collection of links to Raven fiction
  • Gryphons, Griffins, Griffons! Tirya's page with some info, more pictures, and lots of links to companies named Gryphon or thereabouts.

    Mammals

  • Les licornes, The Unicorn Web Page of Bruno Faidutti. He keeps a number of unicorn pictures at this bilingual site, drawing from medieval manuscripts.
  • Cybercat's Space presents some brief notes on the cat as a symbol in world mythology. (Broken Link 2/10/2002)
  • Zephyr Lion presents this collection of Tidbits of Cat Mythology and Folklore.
  • Bandicoot's Cat Lovers page contains this section on Mythology and Folklore of cats. (Broken Link 2/10/2002)
  • Laura Steinke (Shadowfox) presents a page on Kitsune and other legends of foxes from around the world. (Broken Link 2/10/2002)
  • Bob Trubshaw's article, Black Dogs - Guardians of the Corpse Ways, explores the mythology of dogs drawing from many cultures.

    Human-like Creatures

  • Matt Wisely has a few brief descriptions of sprites and genies and things in An Etymology of Sprites and Fantastic Creatures. Restored! 2/10/02
  • Rebecca Lehmann's Faerie Encyclopedia has many brief entries as well as links to related pages and some of Yeats' tales. (Broken Link) 2/10/02
  • Pagan the Fay's Faerie page defines a number of different creatures, places and things related to the fair folk.
  • Dawn has collected a number of Feri Stories and more from around the world. Some of these one might not consider to be about faeries at first blush, such as the notes on the Sons of God.
  • Sea Tails Online Kurt Cagle's mermaid page. The History and Persona Guide is the meatiest section here.
  • Mermaid Myths and Legends recounts several mermaid stories, primarily from the British Isles.
  • Frodo's mermaid pages are primarily oriented around Disney's Ariel, however he maintains some useful Links to other Mermaid pages.
  • Pathway to Darkness bills itself as "the ultimate online vampire resource" and indeed its collection of essays on Vampire Facts is quite impressive and has much to say about past and present vampire folklore. Also included is an essay on werewolves.
  • In silence forlorn: Vampires gives a historical survey of vampire like creatures throughout the world, as well as brief recountings of the lives of Vlad Tepes and Lady Elisabeth Bathory.
  • S A Rudy has pages on vampires, shapeshifters, and witches which list the different quallities that they have when portrayed in contempory fiction in her Comparison of Myhs in Popular Fiction page.

  Miscellany

• The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts runs a very visual tour of World Mythology meant to supplement a trip to the museum.
• Here is presented Bill Hollon's essay on the Origin of the Seven Day Week.
• This feature on The Celestial David and Goliath takes an astronomical look at that Biblical tale and compares it to tales in Irish mythology. (Broken Link) 2/10/02
• Martin Gray invites folks to Explore the Sacred Sites he has photographed. His commentary discusses the religious, archeological and historical import of those sites with the mythic and legendary content varying.
• Bill Williams runs a concordance program that opperates over a number of e-texts including the Bible, the Koran, and a number of works of classical mythology--- which you could also find in the Perseus Project (see the Greek/Roman section).
• The American Academy of Religion maintains a searchable Syllabi project archive. Included are courses partially or fully covering myths and mythology to varying degrees.
• Catherine Yronwode's Lucky Mojo site includes a large collection of essays on amulets, talismans, charms, sacred geometry, and sacred landscape. Not exactly mythology, but some of it is related.
• Another useful site in a similar vein is Symbols.com.
• Whether or not they describe actual events, most modern religions are not above invoking material which is mythic in character. This page by A. Mueller is part of the World-Wide Web Virtual Library. (Broken Link) 2/10/02
• J. B. Hare's Internet Sacred Text Archive collects texts from past and current religions, including the Rg Veda, the Kojiki and Nihongi, the Quran, the Eddas, and many others.
• World Religions and Scriptures is another good site for information on major living religions.
• alt.mythology - this USENET newsgroup is a good place to go for general and even somewhat esoteric discussions. Don't proselytize there though, and it's also a good idea to check the archives at Google's Usenet Groups archive to look at past discussions first, and to read the alt.mythology General FAQ.

Ancient Near East

Mesopotamia

• Sumerian Mythology FAQ This page contains a description of the pantheon and cosmology of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq over 4000 years ago. Aspects of Sumerian culture are touched upon as are parallels with Biblical stories.
• Inanna can you hear me? Inanna - The Opera is a rock opera based on the Inanna myths. A number of translations of Sumerian myths (along with a couple of Babylonian ones) and hyms can be found here as well.
• Shemhazai's (Valis, Michael Tolle) Babyloniaca brings you translations of Sumerian and Akkadian myths, hymns and incantations, as well as information relavant to Mesopotamian oriented pagans. (Broken Link 2/10/02)
• Twin Rivers Rising a pagan coven of the Sumerian Tradition maintains a good page on the Religion of the Sumerians, as well as providing an English-Sumerian dictionary. (semi-Broken Link 2/10/02)
• Lishtar maintains an extensive collection of translations of Mesopotamian myths, as well as her own retellings in Gateways to Babylon. Some of these are difficult to find currently in print.
• Mary Lynn Schroeder has written an essay entitled In the Eyes of Inanna: Aspects of a Goddess in Literature, drawing from Jacobsen, Kramer, Eliade and Wolkstein. (Broken Link 2/10/02)
• Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ This page contains a description of the pantheon, cosmology, and history of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians. These people lived from about 4000 years ago to about 2500 years ago primarily in what is now northern and central Iraq.
• The Restoring Christian Keys site has a lot of messages within that I don't personally care for, as some of the language appears intollerant of other forms of belief. However, they have collected a number of translations of Mesopotamian Myths (by Dalley, Kramer, Jacobsen and others) on their Babylonia and Near Eastern Resources page.
• Lee Huddleston's course on The Ancient Near East to 500 BCE includes a good page on the spiritual systems of Mesopotamia and an extremely well annotated and linked outline of The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Fr. James W. Reites' Origins of Western Religion course presents information on the Enuma Elish and Gilgamesh for contrast with the creation and flood stories in Genesis in Archaeology and Literature: Creation and Flood Stories. (Broken Link 2/10/02)
• Wolf Carnahan presents Maureen Gallery Kovacs translation of the Sin-eqi-unninni version of The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablets I-XI.
• Washington State University's World Cultures course presents a summary of the New Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh by Sin-eqi-unninni.
• John Crocker sumarizes the Epic of Gilgamesh, introducing it with a history of the discovery of the different versions of the text.
• Rene Pannekoek presents the de Lingre Böhl translation of the Gilgamesh story into Dutch (although he also includes an English translation of the Atrahasis flood story) in Vertaling Gilgamesjepos. (Broken Link 2/10/02)
• Arthur A. Brown has written an essay entitled Storytelling, the Meaning of Life, and The Epic of Gilgamesh for Exploring Ancient World Cultures.

  Egypt

• Shawn C. Knight's Egyptology Page. Reworked and reformatted for the web from the old Egyptian Mythology FAQ, this edition is also quicker to upload. Restored! 2/10/02
• Jimmy Dunn has put together The Gods of Ancient Egypt, an extensive document discussing the individual deities and the development of Egyptian religion over time. This document is mirrored here. Much of this is straight out of E. A. Wallis Budge's The Gods of the Egyptians (1904).
• April Arnold's Ancient Egypt: the Mythology contains extensive descriptions of the deities, retellings of the myths, and essays on the region. (Broken Link 2/10/02)
• Katherine Griffis of Griffis Consulting provides a number of Egyptology pages including her pages on the Goddesses of Ancient Egypt.
• The Egyptian Mythology Site provides brief descriptions of the deities, images, descriptions of philosophical concepts, and another translation of the Papyrus of Ani. (Broken Link 2/10/02)
• In addition to providing a teaser for his new book Hor, Peter Preston provides an overview and some notes on Egyptian Mythology.
• Deborah Howard's essay The Egyptian Culture Reflected in Worship presents an overview of Egyptian religion and mythology for Exploring Ancient World Cultures.
• The Papyrus of Ani: The Egyptian Book of the Dead translated by turn of the century Egyptologist, E. A. Wallis Budge. It should be noted that Budge's translations have fallen out of favor in the Egyptological community in recent years. While the gist remains the same, the serious scholar is advised to seek out something more current.
• Jimmy Dunn and Interoz also have a copy of Budge's translation of the Book of the Dead, but this version has a table of contents page which makes it more nicely segmented.
• The Legend of Osiris and Isis as told by Christine Hobson for the Baobab Project
• Rev. Stephanie "merry-Bast" Cass discusses the cat goddess in great detail in The domain of Bast.
• Mike and Chris Ward of Colorado's Social Science Data Lab have an Egyptian Gods Description page because of their computer naming scheme.
• The House of Netjer, a Kemetic Orthodox church - basicly an Egyptian group which uses the whole of ancient Egyptian religion - has put together a large collection of brief descriptions of the Egyptian deities in Netjer - the One God of the Ancient Egyptians
• Milo Shiff has compiled a Glosary of Deites providing capsule information for a large number of Egyptian deities, with a bit of a neo-Pagan slant.
• Taken from Mythtext, Mark de la Hey's Guide to the Gods v. 1.0 contains brief descriptions of the Egyptian deities.

  The Levant (Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and coastal Syria)

• Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology FAQ This page contains a description of the pantheon of the people refered to as Canaanites in the Bible, as recovered from the city of Ugarit in what is now western Syria. These people lived from at least 3800 years ago through 3000 years ago and were absorbed into neigboring peoples including the Phoenicians and the Hebrews.
• Biblical Beginnings in Canaan As you can probably guess, this has a good bit on Canaanite Mythology in a Biblical context.
• Brandeis University maintains a number of Selections from Ancient Near Eastern Texts including the Ugaritic myth of the Dying and Rising of Baal (Broken Link 5/12/00)
• Lilinah biti-Anat's Qadash Kinahnu - A Canaanite-Phoenician Temple as well as being a site for Canaanite neo-pagan information contains a extensive amount of mythological information about those gods. She also continues to translate many of the myths from Ugarit and some later sources.
• Salim George Khalaf's page on Phoenician Religion describes the deities and religious practicies of the Canaanites, primarily as witnessed by their neighbors, the Greeks and the Egyptians. He also has a page describing their Ethnic Origin, Language and Literature, delving into both Ugaritic and Greek accounts, as well as a page giving the Background to Religions in E. Mediterranean - which confines itself to the Aramaeans, Canaanite/Phoenicians, Philistines, and Moabites.
• Roger Crowley, aka. Village Fox, has assembled a Hebrew Mythology Library which explores some of the Genesis stories such as those of creation and the early patriarchs. He also examines the nature of Elohim, YHWH, and possible Hebrew goddesses. He appears to intend to expand his site to cover other Near Eastern regions, as well as stories from Native American groups, but at last check, those pages weren't nearly as developed as the one above. (Broken Link 2/11/02)
• Paul Brians et al. present an excerpt from their book Reading About the World, Volume 1 discussing The Hebrew Creation Narrative (Genesis 1-3) including a fair amount of commentary. Genesis and the other books of the Pentateuch were assembled in written form during the sixth century B.C.E., following the Babylonian Captivity.
• Donavon Marais of the University of South Africa presents his paper on The Cain Myth: a discussion of its historical roots and an interpretation. He introduces the Cain story by examining the Old Testament from a historical and mythological perspective and compares the tale to Egyptian and Canaanite stories.
• It's not to hard to find the Bible on-line - The King James translation was one of the most widely distributed e-texts before the advent of the web; however, if you want to find the books and stories that didn't make it in (most of which were written after the canonical books - later than 200 B.C.E. for the Tanach and later than 150 C.E. for the New Testament) try the Wesley Center's Noncanonical Homepage for Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha - books that might have gotten you tortured during the inquisition. This is where you'll find stories about the Nephilim, and seven or ten heavens and all kinds of escatological stuff.
• Alan Humm's Lilith page contains a large number of ancient and medieval sources.
• Renee Rosen's Lilith Shrine has extensive links and information about the legendary first wife of Adam.
• David S. Devon has written an essay on Science as Applied Kabbalah. While primarily religious and mystical in tone, this essay does give some insight into the Kabbalistic take on Jewish cosmology. (Broken Link 2/11/02)
• Charles Benton takes a mythological look at Angels and their different classifications. (Broken Link 5/12/00)
• Stephanie Connelly's Online Demon Dictionary is featured in Terzian's Vault: Demonolatry. Many demons have there sources throughout the religions of the Near East. (Broken Link 2/11/02)
• Dante Alighieri is guided by Virgil through the Inferno (Hell), and Purgatorio (Purgatory) on his way to Beatrice in Paradiso (Paradise) in his Divine Comedy. Written in the late 1200's and early 1300's Dante's cosmology is his own take on that of the medieval Roman Catholic church and has roots in Classical myth, the Bible, extra-canonical sources, and Dante's own politics. The link above takes you to both the Italian and Longfellow's translation.
• Drawing on the legends of the fallen angels from Genesis 6 and various extra-canonical sources, John Milton crafted his masterpiece Paradise Lost in 1664 with a revision in 1667.
• Bashar Barghouti has collected a pair of Palestinian Folk Stories at his site.

  Anatolian

• Hittite Mythology REF This page contains a description of the pantheon, and history of the Hittites, who drew heavily upon the pantheon of their neighbors the Hurrians. These peoples lived primarily in the central and eastern portions of Anatolia during the second millenium B.C.E.
• Poems from the Turkish Epic is a collection of Altaic poems a dapted by Gene Doty from Gulten Yener's prose translation.
• Handan Oz's Turkish Mythology page contains Turkish myths (mostly in Turkish) as well as myths set in Turkey (mostly Greek and written in English). (Broken Link 2/11/02)

  Miscellaneous Near East

• Kephera claims to have assembled "the best collection of Middle Eastern Mythology!" accessible from his Middle Eastern Studies page. His ancient mythology page includes copies of Stephanie Dalley's translations of four Akkadian language myths. He also has a couple of Canaanite Myths, and five Egyptian myths. He also keeps a dictionary of Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Hittite, and Hebrew gods and assorted entities. (Broken Link 2/11/02)
• Pagans Online's Scrolls Catalogue - Ancient Near East collects some essays and translations of Mesopotamian and Egyptian texts. (Broken Link 2/11/02)
• Robert Best argues that Noah's flood was based on Sumerian accounts of an actual river flood and compares the two versions in this site promoting his book: Noah's Ark and the Ziusudra Epic: Sumerian Origins of the Flood Myth..
• Well, it's archaeology, not mythology, but The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago has some interesting stuff including ABZU a guide to info on the Ancient Near East availible on the net.
• Father James W. Reites' course on the Origins of Western Religion contains a description and links concerning Religion in the Ancient Near East: Myths and Gods. He deals with Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Canaanites.
• A brief glossary of predominently Mesopotamian, Near Eastern deities explains the Names of the Computers at IIB.uam.es.

  1001 Arabian Nights

• Alf Layla wa Layla The Thousand Nights and a Night translated by Sir Richard F. Burton. Early versions of this collection of tales go back to the tenth century, but the present collection includes material from as recent as the sixteenth. It made its way to Europe, specifically France, in the early 1700's and Burton's version was published in the late 1800's. The source tales come from all over the Near East, as well as India. The frame story of Shaharazad is Persian and if you're looking for Sindbad the Sailor, this book is his home. Many of these tales feature the Caliph Harun al'Rashid, a historical figure who ruled the Abbasids and was a correspondent of Charlemagne. This is the 1850 version which is much less exhaustive and inclusive than his famous 17 volume 1885 version. Nonetheless, the file is huge. Other copies of this can be found here.
• Andrew Lang's version. of The Arabian Nights. (Broken Link 2/11/02)
• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp - a story associated with the Nights, but not included in the canonical collection. (Broken Link 2/11/02)
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is also associated with the Nights. This is from the Burton translation. (Broken Link 2/11/02)
• Jinni, Genie, Djinn, Richard F. Burton had a fair amount to say abouth them in the footnotes to his translation of the Nights. He also had notes about Ghuls, more commonly known as ghouls, the Rukh, and flying carpets.
• John Crocker has an excellent set of notes on the Nights entitled Arabian Nights Entertainments after the publishing house which put out Burton's translation. He details works of art, music & literature inspired by the Nights, as well as providing a history of the Nights and of many of the characters contained therin.
• Fatme Sharafeddine Hassan's essay The Passion and the Magic: Distinctions of Arabic Folktales, highlights common features of those stories.
• alt.mythology.jinn has been a fairly low traffic newsgroup devoted to that subject.

Indo-Iranian

Persian

• The Zoroastrian religion contains much of what we know of the Persian mythology, particularly in the Avesta, a work attributed to Zarathustra, which likely preceeded him.
• In the 800's CE, Ervad Zadspram compiled writings from the Avesta and Zand, here translated by W. E. West for Exploring Ancient World Cultures. This selection begins with a description of creation by Ohrmazd and Ahriman.
• Written around 1000 CE by Ferdowsi, the Shah Nahmeh i.e. the Epic of the Kings, contains much of the balance of known Persian myth and legend including tales of the Zal and of Rustram. (Broken Link 2/11/02)

  Hindu

• Pomona's Ancient Cosmology site features three articles on India which describe the creations, Deities, and structure of the Vedic universe. (Eratic Link 5/26/00)
• Indian Mythology.com presents a sizable collection of tales and descriptions of Hindu deities as they appear in mythic tales. This stretches from the Vedas to folktales.
• Global Hindu Electronic Networks presents God in Hindu Dharma and Representation in Temples, which describes and provides images of a number of Deities and heroes and also maintains an article from "Hinduism Today" on "God and Gods of Hinduism".
• Dating back to at least 1200 BCE to 900 BCE, the Hymns of the Rig Veda collected at Washington State University provide insight into creation, the devas, and the ashuras.
• Sri Aurobindo focuses on the tradition of spirituality and mysticism found in the Rig Veda, and translates those hymms relating to Agni, fire, in Rig Veda - Hymms to the Mystic Fire. (Broken Link 2/12/02)
• InvestIndia collects a dozen or so Religious Stories from India including mythological tales as well as summaries of the epics and a Yoga Sutra creation story.
• John Smith maintains an archive of Hindu epics in Sanskrit including the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.
• Richard Blumberg sumarizes the Mahabharata and includes some coments intended for a Western oriented readership.
• Larry A. Brown presents a good synopsis of The Mahabharata as well as his discussion of the religious and mythological themes involved in the epic.
• The Library of Hindu History includes a collection of links to essays concerning the Mahabharat including some which find it to be more grounded in history than legend.
• Concerning events of 1000 BCE and written down between 400 BCE and 200 CE, the Ramayana tells of Rama, Sita, and the Rakshasha among others and is attributed to Valmiki. Jean Johnson's Rama and the Ramayana discusses the work and offers a synopsis.
• John Crocker present a good set of notes and a good summary of The Ramayana.
• This commercial site for indiaMystica provides presents as a sample of their product, a brief history of Indian religious practices, from pre-Vedic times through the Upanishads. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Mike Magee's and Jan Bailey's Tantrik Home Page presents information and images of the gods, goddesses, and practices of Tantra.
• K. Kannikeswaren and Templenet compile information about a number of Hindu temples. This page links to the sections covering Myths and Legends associated with those temples and their images.
• Here's a brief description of Bengali Folklore from the West Bengal homepage.

Armenian

• The St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church has compiled this brief listing of the deities and their qualities in Armenian Mythology (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Armenia Online presents an article on The Worshiping of Armenian Mother Anahit, Armenia's mother goddess. This article is based on Karapet Sukiasian's Hayagitakan Hetazotutuner. (Broken Link 5/26/00)
• Tsegakron Hye writes an essay on the Armenians eponymous god, Ar in Armenian Forefathers. (Broken Link 2/14/02)

East Asian

East Asian - General

• A. G. Bell Elementary has collected a number of links to Fairy/Folk Tales from the Pacific Rim, including tales from East Asia and Southeast Asia. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Joo-Young You presents an essay entitled Foundation and Creation Myths in Korea and Japan: Patterns & Connections and compares the tales within Kojiki and Nihon shoki with those found in Samguk yusa and Samguk sagi.

  Chinese

• Chinavista's The China Experience includes a description of Chinese Myths and Fantasies from a historical perspective, brief retellings of over a dozen Selected Mythical Stories as well as descrpitions of some Deities Worshipped by Farmers.
• U. C. Computer (Shanghai) maintains a large collection of Chinese Historic Legends & Tales including how Pan Gu created the world, how Nv Wa patched up the sky, as well as tales of historical figures such as Emperors and Confusius.
• Princeton ninth graders have researched Chinese Creation Myths. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• The Taoist Restoration Society is primarily a religious site, but does include a few essays about the legends associated with some Taoist deities as well as many illustrations of Taoist deities particularly in the Taoism Explained and Introduction sections.
• Tao Resource, a related commercial site, describes the deities of The Taoist Pantheon in paragraph long descriptions, sometimes including brief allusions to associated legends.
• The life of Buddhist monk Xuan Zang (602-664 C.E.) is the basis for the story The Journey to the West, also known as The Monkey King. This site contains an episode from the novel illustrated with Chinese paintings.
• Galen Jang's China: Journey of the Mind features an English translation of Pu Sung-lin's Liao Tsai Chi Yi, a 17th century collection of tales. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Jason Enterprise tells of the Nian as a monster in Myths and Legends of the Chinese New Year. (Broken Link 2/14/02)

  Tibetan

• This excerpt from an article by H. Wenzel in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland tells A Jataka-Tale from the Tibetan. Jataka are fables concerning former lives of the Buddha.

  Korean

  
  Special thanks to Nancy Lee for suggesting many of the Korean legends links.
  
• Myths and Legends of Ancient Korea translated by Richard Rutt and Peter Lee.
• The SsangYong motor company presents this summary of The SsangYong Legend - the legend of the twin dragons. (Eratic link 7/31/01)
• Hwan-ung begins a new nation as a bear and a tiger ask him for advice on how to become human in Korea in the eye of the Tiger - which tells the legend of the founding of Korea as a preface to a site dealing with Korean history.
• Kidsight's Folk Tale Corner tells an illustrated version of The Story of Tan-gun.
• Jeon Hong Kyu retells The T'angun Legend and Ancient Choson, a talee of the founding of Korea, as part a project at Sogang University.
• As part of the same project, Song Ju Yeon retells The Founding Myth of Koguryo.
• Kim Mae Sook retells The Tale of Sim Chung - a story of piety and fidelity along with a brief sojurn under the Southern Sea.
• This page on Korean Astrology begins by telling the legend of how the Korean zodiac came into being. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Sugano explains the nature of Tokkaebi, i.e. Korean "gremlins". This page is also available in Japanese. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Haemin Dennis Park tells the story of Hok-boo-ri Grandpa, The Old Man With A Wen. He also encounters do-ggae-bis (tokkaebis). (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Carsten Jorgenson has compiled a great deal of information on The Hwarang Warriors a group of Korean knights who were both legendary and historical.
• A class at UIUC put together a collection of Fairytales from east Asia - primarily from Korea, but with a couple from Japan and one from Taiwan.
• Dr. Jason Joh presents his Home Page of Korean Folktales which includes his essay on Korean folklore as well as his translations of several tales.
• Eyoungsoo Park retells the folktale of the brothers Nolboo and Hungboo.
• Heinz Insu Fenkl introduces with comentary the tale of Shimchong, The Blind Man's Daughter, a story of virtue and sacrifice of a daughter for her father.
• KT Net's Korean Faith page includes the story of Princess Pari, as well as a general discussion of faiths native to Korea and the somewhat more recently imported religions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
• Suzanne Crowder Han retells four folktales on this site about Hangul / Literature - Hangul is the Korean alphabet. (Broken Link 2/14/02)

  Japanese

• Pomona's Ancient Cosmology site includes an article by Mitch Stoltz on Ancient Japanese Culture and Cosmology. It includes a brief account of the Shinto creation story. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• The Kojiki and the Nihongi, both completed in the early 8th century C.E., are the earliest written histories of Japan. Their early sections contain a wealth of myth and legend, and of the two, the Kojiki contains more mythic material. Mire Uno translates sections of that work relating to Miyazaki Prefecture in Myth and Legends in Miyazaki: Kojiki. Included within the translations here are also illustrations and a nice family tree of the older deities. This page is part of a larger site dealing with other Myths and Legends in Miyazaki.
• Paul Brians et al. present another excerpt from their book Reading About the World, Volume 1 discussing the Japanese Creation Myth - Tales from the Kojiki. The Kojiki was complied in 712 CE by O No Yasumaro.
• Kimiyo Tanaka's intro page tells briefly of the creation of Japan and, more germain to the rest of her site, the haiku.
• A brief telling of the Myth of Munakata-Taisha
• Ayacko Adachi retells a handful of Japanese Myths.
• Myriam Dantois has nearly a dozen Japanese Old Tales on her site, written in Japanese, as well as translated into French, Spanish, and English.
• The Astronomy in Japan page contains, among other things, details of a few legends and mythic starlore.
• Ancient World presents five brief tales from Japanese Myth.
• While geared for use in role-playing games (Torg, Shadowrun), Japanese Legendary Lives by Gen-ichi Nishio, contains legitimate descriptions of legendary creatures. (Broken Link 2/14/02)

Southeast Asian

Burmese

• Dr. Htin Aung tells about the celebration the Burmese New Year and The Visit of Thagyamin, the King of the Gods.

  Cambodian

• This site tells the legend of the founding of Phnom Penh.

  Hmong

• Khoua Neng Yang retells The Creation Myths, Legends, and Folk Tales of the Hmong. The Hmong, aka the Miao, live in south east China, and northern Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. (Broken Link 2/14/02)

  Vietnamese

• Symbols of Vietnam explains the legendary nature of those objects in its title.
• A page on Vietnamese Literature (Broken Link 2/14/02)

  Thai

• The U.S. Muy Thai Association presents this page on the Ramakien, the Thai version of the Sanskrit epic, the Ramayana. Here it ties parts of it to moves in Thai boxing. Restored! 2/14/02
• This site is another recounting of the Ramakian. Restored! 2/14/02
• The Chiang Mai annals tell a fifteenth century story of The Tiger King another legend related to Muay Thai (Thai boxing). (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• This page briefly tells folklore and myths associated with certain Thai Amulets, Charms and Talismans
• Rachan Ninlawannapha and Wajuppa Tossa retell the folktale of Pig and Dog, which explains why pigs eat bran and dogs eat rice. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Asian Elephant Legends briefly tells the Thai origin story for elephants. Restored! 2/14/02
• L. Hasadsri tells the folktale of The Singing Ape of Thailand - an origin story of the Lar Gibbon.

  Malay

• June Rubis has collected a number of Fauna Folktales (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• KampungNet, representing Singapore's Muslim community collects a handful of Malay Legends about Singapore.
• Lady Kitty has collected a handful of Myths and Legends of Singapore as well as some ghost stories from the Lion City.
• Puan Normah Mohamad tells the story of The Monkey and Red Chillies (Broken Link 2/14/02)

  Indonesian

• Mario Rustan's page on Indonesian Myth gives a basic introduction and then retells almost a dozen tales.
• Mrs Kusumadewi retells the legend of the Keong Mas, The Golden Snail - a tale of shapechanging and curses.
• Here is a brief retelling of the Javanese Legend of Prambanan Temple. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Renny Yaniar has collected three Folktales from Indonesia, principally from Java.
• Here is briefly retold the Javan tale of The Birth of Majapahit.
• The year four class at Fahan school retell and illustrate The Blooming Flower of Flores (Broken Link 2/14/02)

  Filipino

• Tanikalang Ginto, the Philippines' Web Directory has large collection of links to Filipino Myths and Legends
• Johann Stockinger has put much of Mable Cook Cole's collection of Philippine Folk Tales gathered from five of the Filipino peoples (Tagalog, Ilocano, Bilaan, Manadaya, and Visayan) with six more groups stories in preparation when this link was added.

Central and Western Asian

• Poems from the Turkish Epic is a collection of Altaic poems a dapted by Gene Doty from Gulten Yener's prose translation.
• Azerbaijan International is an online magazine that in this issue has a number of articles on Azerbaijani legends, both ancient and contemporary. Restored! 2/14/02
• Three English translations of Uzbek Folktales are kept on this University of Washington site meant to aid students of the Uzbek language. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• This Mongol page features a collection of Mongol Mythology, translated by Todd Cornell and the trickster tale of Shagdar the Nut.
• Sarangerel of the Buryat Homep page, recounts about a dozen tales of Buryat Mongolian Mythology.
• Afghani.com's Afghan Traditions & History page discusses the mythic origins of the new year festival of Nowrouz which has some ties to Zoroastrianism. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• The Afghan Cultural Information Center maintains a small collection of Afghan Folklore including a few folktales. (Broken Link 2/14/02)

Greek and Roman

• The Perseus Project maintains an extensive collection of hypertext annotated classical texts, as well as a new encyclopedia and search engine.
• Another great resource of classical texts is found at the MIT Student Newspaper's site The Tech's Classics Archive.
• Baylor Classics Page (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• sci.classics

  Greek

• One of the first sites to offer information on the characters and stories of Greek Mythology is this one by John M. Hunt.
• Princeton's Greek Myth HQ by Mark Woon is now Classical Mythology by Geography.
• Professor Ruth Webb, also at Princeton, has a comprehensive site on the characters in Greek mythology for her Classics Course CLA 212 Mythology Home Page.
• Spyros Tyrakis site features The Hellenic Pantheon. While primarily a neo-pagan site, it also contains information about the Greek deities and mythology related links. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Brandon's Mythology is an overview of Greek mythology.
• Carlos Parada's Greek Mythology Link provides information about the gods and heroes in brief list form as well as extended entries on the more major deities. It also allows the user to poll entries from his CDrom - Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology. Another useful feature here is the bibliography of primary sources, indicating which myths they contain. (Now also available en español Restored! 2/10/02
• From Myth to Eternity is another Greek myth project. This one gives summaries of information on the greek cosmology and mythological characters as well as providing related images and links to excerpts from classical sources.
• The Pantheon is another Greek myth project that details the stories, the deities, and other characters that appear in Greek mythology. Also part of this site are a search feature and a discussion board.
• Audrey's Le Grenier de Clio provides brief articles on a large number of classical mythological figures, accompanied by a number of images from classical and renaissance art. This site is primarily en Francais, with English and Deutsch translations.
• Hellas On Line provides information on The Ancient Gods of Greece, including brief descriptions and a family tree.
• Here is a brief description of The Myth of Cheiron Restored! 2/14/02
• The University of Victoria presents Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources, which collects links to classical images and texts and organizes them by Olympian deity.
• Classical depictions of the most popular pantheon Mythology in Western Art kept by the University of Haifa Library.
• Mythology 101 From the people who bring you "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys". Brief and flip but not inaccurate. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Ceres A summary of the Persephone myth as a means of explaining the name of the host machine. Restored! 2/14/02
• From an astronomical perspective, here is the Mythology of the Seven Sisters (Pleiades)
• The Eliki site has this Circle of Muses which describes those inspirational beings.
• Heather Blakey's House of the Muse also describes the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne on this site which is primarily intended as a creative writing center.
• The Ecole Initiative keeps an article by Edward Beach on The Eleusinian Mysteries which honored Demeter and Persephone. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Writing in the last half of the eighth century B.C.E. or perhaps the early 7th century B.C.E., Hesiod presents the earliest written works of Greek Mythology. His Theogony describes the creation of the world and the history of the titans and gods. Works and Days focuses more on the acts of man, while containing a synopsis of the myth of Prometheus and Pandora and the myth of the five ages of man. Restored! 2/14/02
• Assembled in its present form by the sixth century B.C.E. The Iliad is attributed to Homer and was probably composed around 750 B.C.E. It tells part of the story of the Trojan War. Restored! 2/14/02
• The Odyssey also by Homer, here translated by S. Butler, tells of the wanderings of Odysseus following the capture of Troy, on his way home to his family in Ithaka.

  Roman

• Bill Thayer's RomanSites is a detailed collection of links related to ancient Rome. This page is his sub section on Astrology, Magic, Religion & Philosophy - with the religion sections haveing myth related links.
• David Camden's Forum presents retellings of a number of Roman and Greek myths, as well as other Roman cultural information and, of course, the requisite link pages. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Religio Romana is a Roman pagan reconstructionist site which includes some brief information on the dieties of Rome and promises to offer more information on Roman legends.
• Publius Vergilius Maro wrote his sequel to Homer's epics, The Aeneid in 29 B.C.E., bringing Trojan glory to the ancient Latins in the form of Aeneas. Restored! 2/14/02
• Alan Dyck presents John Dryden's verse translation of Book I of The Aeneid. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Larry A. Brown presents a thorough summary and commentary of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Publius Ovidius Naso composed his poetic retellings of Classical Myths sometime during his lifetime of 43 B.C.E. to 18 C.E.

Norse/Teutonic

• Nicole Cherry's Norse Mythology page Excellent, with more being added.
• The nordic mythology... A recounting of Snori's Edda, possibly with more to come.
• Sverre Moe's Viking History Web includes a good deal of information on Norse mythology and deities. He's also working on a multi-lingual text archive of sagas and Edda poems, but the primary focus of the site is on history. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• The Viking Home Page which has some info on the history and religion of the Northmen.
• Some students in Iceland have been putting together Fornfraedi a Vesturlandi which has or will have info. on some a couple of sagas as well as Snorri's Edda. That link will get you to the English version, from which the more comprehensive Icelandic version is also reachable. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Nicky Page provides a collection of translations on The Norse Classics Page, including Paul Taylor and W. H. Auden's translation of the Elder Edda, a translation of the Prose Edda, excerpts from a number of sagas, and an essay or two on Norse Mythology. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• The Poetic Edda translated into English by Stephan Grundy. Also known as Edda Saemundar and as the Elder Edda, the oldest written copy of this work dates to 1270 in Iceland, about 30 years after the publication of Snorri Sturlason's Prose Edda. Still, this work is often judged to be closer to the source than Snorri's work and less colored by his clerical perceptions.
• Within its extensive archives, Project Runeberg offers The Poetic Edda, both in modern Swedish and in Old Norse.
• Composed around 1200 for an Austrian court wedding, the Nibelungenlied tells of the Burgundians Gunther and Kriemhild, her lover, Siegfried, Gunter's wooing of Brunhild, the treachery of Hagen, and the court of Etzel aka. Attila the Hun.
• The story of Sigurd, Gudren, Grimhild and Brynhild is found in the 13th century work Volsunga Saga, a story which is also told in the Poetic Edda and the Nibelungenleid.
• The Germanic Heritage Page, by Arlea Anschütz, includes a page of links to and essays about Germanic folklore and mythology as well as Asatru, history, and literature.
• In Furth im Wald, every summer for the past 500 years or so, the "Drachenstich" is performed - tale of a knight slaying a dragon during the Hussite Wars. This site is primarily auf Deutsch.
• A rise in the spirit of German unity, partially triggered by a rising French influence during the reign of Napoleon inspired linguists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm to assemble a collection of Märchen - most often translated as 'Fairy Tales', but also meaning 'Fables' or 'Legends', from across the German countryside, publishing them between 1812 and 1815.
• Also in the 1800's, Richard Wagner composed Der Ring des Nibelungen, an opera in the tradition of Nibelungenleid and the Volsungsaga. This page by Erik Tempel contains a plot summary and character descriptions of the cycle - in Dutch.

Finno-Ugric

Suomi (Finnish)

• FINFO: The Ancient Religion of the Finns. An extensive examination of ancient Finnish religion, including the precursors to the Kalevala.
• Reijo Nenonen and Luca Piotto present The Ancient Finnish Myths home page which describes the history, deities, cults, and spells of the Suomi and of course includes the appropriate links. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• FINFO: Kalevala An examination and summary of the Kalevala and its role as myth and national symbol. Also found there is Kalevala - The Finish National Epic
• Finnish Mythology A brief introduction to the topic by Pirjo Joki.
• Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot (in Finnish/Suomeksi). Lönnrot spent the years from 1828 to 1845 collecting folk songs from the Karelia regions of Finland and Russia and assembled and edited them into what became the Finnish national epic. An early version was released in 1835, with the final version being completed in 1849.
• Another copy of the Kalevala can be found at Project Runeberg.
• Ritva Raesmaa's Kalevala page contains many links on the work.
• Sonja Reasor presents selections from W. F. Kirby's English translation of the Kalevala in Kalevala - Land of Heroes. She includes sections of Runo's 1, 9, and 10, which deal with creation, iron working, and the Sampo. (Broken Link 2/14/02)
• Aaron Shepard retells part of Vainamoinen's battle of song with the young Joukahainen from Runo 3 of the Kalevala in A Hero Tale of Finland
• Keith Bosley's English translation of Runo 15 from the Kalevala - a Lemminkainen episode - is provided by Interspecies Communication.
• Aaron Shepard again retells part of the Kalevala this time reworking the contest between Vaino and Ilmarinen for the hand of Louhi's daughter in The Maiden of the Northland

  Sami

• Glenn Jakobsen's page on Sami Culture expired, leaving a pointer to the Sami Association of North America, which contains links to information on the culture of the people from arctic Scandinavia. (Broken Link 2/14/02)

  Estonian

• Commentary on the Kalevipoeg, the Estonian national epic. (Broken Link 2/14/02)

  Mansi

• Aado Lintrop's essay on Little Mos'-woman features stories of her and Bell-Hand, and bear feasts as recounted by Maria Albina and Klaudia Sainokhova. This article appears in the Estonian Folklore Archive's Electronic Journal of Folklore.

  Hungarian

• Fred Hamori's extensive Hungarian Heritage Page has been relocated and expanded. His section on mythology includes links to his accounts of legends and with detailed linguistic traces.
• Dr. Josef Vegvari's Magyar Traditional Culture page (originally titled "Hungarian Organic Culture") "does not contain any myths or legends in the strict sense of the word - it presents original and largely unpublished research relating to the origins of, and the ancient knowledge underlying, all Hungarian folklore. This knowledge is cosmic in its origins and astrological in its structure." - Dr. Vegvari.
• István Lázár tells the origin myth of the Huns and Magyars in Chapter 2, One Must Descend from Some Place of his book Hungary - A Brief History. Restored! 2/14/02

Slavic and Baltic

General Slavic

• Ainsley Friedberg's page on Slavic Paganism & Witchcraft includes pages on Slavic Pagan Beliefs and Slavic deities, demigods and faeryfolk in addition to spells and links to related sites.
• This page describing the deities of The Slavic Mythos comes from a site dealing with a PBEM RPG. (Broken Link 2/14/02)

  Polish

• Denice Szafran presents Lady Okana's Web. Here you will find primarily Polish information including pages on Polish Paganism, a listing of Slavic Deities, spirits, and faery folk, a brief collection of folk tales, and other places to go for resources. Restored! 2/16/02
• Tomasz Wiersza³owicz has a list of names of Polish deities at Slowianie. (Broken Link 2/19/02)

  Czech/Bohemian

• Grace Green Knoche retells the Czech Legend of The Princess Libushe.

  Russian

• Russian Crafts collects dozens of Russian and Ukranian folk tales, legends, and stories including a couple retold by Pushkin.
• Tradestone International collects eight Russian Fairy Tales.
• G. Galinka describes the pre-Christian Russian pantheon of Peroon (Perun) et al. in Ancient Slavic Gods. (Broken Link 2/19/02)
• Dazhdbog in Russian mythology. Summary and excerpts from Dazhdbog's tale with commentary by Sergei Naumov.
• Sunbirds.com sells Russian Lacquer, much of it decorated with themes from Russian folk stories. Their page of Readings is an index to brief essays on the subjects of those tales.
• Masha Gedilaghine Holl presents a lengthy essay on Russian Folk Tales and includes links to her tellings of some of those stories including the "Tale of the Apples of Youth and the Living Water", which features Prince Ivan and Baba Yaga, and several animal tales.
• David J. Birnbaum's Russian Fairy Tales class web page includes a page with brief descriptions of Russian gods as well as a page full of images related to those stories.
• E.A. Kostiukhin tells about Magic Tales that End Badly in this lengthy article for the SEEFA (Slavic and East European Folklore Association) Journal.

  Bulgarian

• Wonderland Bulgaria's Ethnography and Folklore page contains Todor Zhivkov's essay on Bulgarian Folklore and an article on the Samodivi (Woodland Fairies). Their layout suggests that there will be myths, legends and folk-tales page in the future.

  Serbian

• Mark D. Lew has collected Helen Rootham's translations of Serbian Epic Poetry - specifically the Kosovo song cycle, centering around the battle there in the fourteenth century C.E.

  Baltic

• An abstract from Prane Dunduliene's Ancient Lithuanian Mythology and Religion
• Marija Kuncaitis presents Pagan Lithuania, Folk Beliefs and Its History which includes translations of the tales Egle, Queen of Serpents, and The Old Man and the Devil as well as a general lecture on Lithuanian Paganism.
• A collection of Baltic (primarily Lithuanian) legends and tales as well as a listing of Baltic deities and their attributes are among the features at Sacred Sepent -Journal of Baltic Tradition.
• Kristaps Johnson's Ancient Latvian Paganism and Mythology describes the deities of the Latvian pantheon as well as religous festivals on his seachable site.

Romanian