Lawgiver
47 books featuring this archetype
The Lawgiver establishes codes that regulate conduct and ritual. This figure translates divine or ancestral authority into normative systems.
Enuma Elish
Anonymous
1100-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Babylonian
Early Upanishads
Anonymous
300 BCE-200 CE
Indian, Hindu
Antigone
Sophocles
441 BCE
Greek
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus
1-200 CE
Greek
Atrahasis
Anonymous
1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Diamond Sutra
Anonymous
401-868 CE
Indian, Buddhist
Kebra Nagast
Anonymous
1314-1321 CE
African, Ethiopian
Qur'an
Anonymous
650-660 CE
Arabic, Islamic
Hebrew Bible
Various
1000-200 BCE
Levantine, Hebrew
Dreamtime Stories
Oral Tradition
1800-2000 CE
Pacific, Aboriginal Australian
Classic of Documents
Various
600-200 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
Heimskringla
Snorri Sturluson
1220-1230 CE
Germanic, Norse
Brahmanas
Anonymous
800-500 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra
Anonymous
300-500 CE
Indian, Buddhist
Sumerian King List
Anonymous
2000-1800 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Fasti
Ovid
8-14 CE
Roman
Primary Chronicle
Nestor
1113-1118 CE
Slavic
Suppliants (Aeschylus)
Aeschylus
500-400 BCE
Greek
Romulus
Plutarch
100 CE
Greek
Lives of the 63 Illustrious Beings
Hemachandra
1100-1200 CE
Indian, Jain
Codex Mendoza
Anonymous
1541-1542 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Eridu Genesis
Anonymous
1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Diné Bahaneʼ
Anonymous
1984 CE
Native American, Navajo
Denkard
Adurfarnbag ī Farruxzādān and Adurbad ī Emēdān
800-1000 CE
Persian, Zoroastrian