In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming explores the role of mythology in histo...

The mythologies of the world are collective cultural dreams, and as such should be analyzed first...

One of America's most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for the mur...

Esteemed scholar David Leeming, who has authored more than twelve books on mythology, here offers...

He has been a trickster, a shaman, a divine child; he has been a sacrificial victim, a consort of...

Most North Americans experience mythology by way of translations of classical texts, and surprisi...

Vainglorious gods and irresistible seductresses. Beastly beasts and brutal warriors. Stories cent...

From cosmic eggs and the Garden of Eden to the Spider Woman and the Gaia Principle, from myths of...

This is the first definitive reference work to address the substantive elements of oral storytell...

Entries cover the Western allegorical tradition, as well as selected Indian, Middle Eastern, Sout...