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

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...

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

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