Shapeshifter
27 books featuring this archetype
The Shapeshifter alters form to test perception and stability. This figure dramatizes ambiguity, transition, and adaptive identity.
The Odyssey
Homer
700-600 BCE
Greek
Metamorphoses
Ovid
1 BCE-8 CE
Roman
Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en
1592 CE
East Asian, Chinese
The Mabinogion
Anonymous
1100-1410 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Investiture of the Gods
Xu Zhonglin
1560-1620 CE
East Asian, Chinese
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Anonymous
1300-1400 CE
Germanic, English
Anansi Stories
Oral Tradition
1800-2000 CE
African, Akan
Dreamtime Stories
Oral Tradition
1800-2000 CE
Pacific, Aboriginal Australian
Book of Invasions
Anonymous
1000-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish
Epic of King Geser
Anonymous
1700-1900 CE
East Asian, Tibetan
Shiva Purana
Anonymous
900-1400 CE
Indian, Hindu
Myths of the Dogon
Oral Tradition
1930-1960 CE
African, Dogon
Culhwch and Olwen
Anonymous
1100-1200 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Diné Bahaneʼ
Anonymous
1984 CE
Native American, Navajo
The Book of Taliesin
Anonymous
1500-1600 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Blackfoot Cycles
Anonymous
1890-1918 CE
Native American, Blackfoot
Coast Salish Tales
Coast Salish oral tradition
1934 CE
Native American, Salish
Haida Myths
Oral Tradition
1800-2000 CE
Native American, Haida
Kwakiutl Tales
Franz Boas
1910 CE
Native American, Kwakiutl
Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Katharine Berry Judson
1910 CE
Native American
Tlingit Myth Anthologies
John R. Swanton
1880-1950 CE
Native American, Tlingit
Micronesian Legends
Margarita N. Corpus
1900-2000 CE
Pacific, Micronesian
Myths and Legends of Micronesia
Nancy Bo Flood
1900-2000 CE
Pacific, Micronesian
Nga Mahi a nga Tupuna
George Grey
1854 CE
Pacific, Maori