River
15 books featuring this symbol
The river encodes life-flow, boundary, and purification. It enables travel, irrigates fields, and features in rites of passage.
The Iliad
Homer
750-700 BCE
Greek
Dhammapada
Anonymous
100 BCE
Indian, Buddhist
Baal Cycle
Anonymous
1300 BCE
Levantine, Ugaritic
Samaveda
Anonymous
1200-800 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Qur'an
Anonymous
650-660 CE
Arabic, Islamic
Georgics
Virgil
37-29 BCE
Roman
The Tale of the Doomed Prince
Anonymous
1300-1100 BCE
Egyptian
Lives of the 63 Illustrious Beings
Hemachandra
1100-1200 CE
Indian, Jain
The Birth Legend of Sargon
Anonymous
700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Inanna and the Huluppu-Tree
Anonymous
1900-1800 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Instructions of Shuruppak
Anonymous
2600-1600 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Ella E. Clark
1953 CE
Native American
Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Katharine Berry Judson
1910 CE
Native American
Menog-i Khrad
Anonymous
500-900 CE
Persian, Zoroastrian
Erotika Pathemata
Parthenius of Nicaea
100-1 BCE
Greek