Ancestral Memory
29 books featuring this theme
Ancestral memory preserves communal knowledge through genealogy, story, and ritual commemoration. It stabilizes identity and legitimizes authority by linking the living to foundational pasts.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni • Mesopotamian
Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators • Mesoamerican
Royal Commentaries of the Incas
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega • Mesoamerican
Sumerian King List
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Fasti
Ovid • Roman
The Tale of Igor's Campaign
Anonymous • Slavic
Man’yōshū
Various • East Asian
The Secret History of the Mongols
Anonymous • East Asian
Gilgamesh and Huwawa
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Welsh Triads
Anonymous • Celtic
Pindar: Odes
Pindar • Greek
Annals of Cuauhtitlan
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Annals of the Cakchiquels
Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz • Mesoamerican
Books of Chilam Balam
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Codex Chimalpopoca
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Codex Nuttall
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Relación de Michoacán
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Title of the Lords of Totonicapán
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Ella E. Clark • Native American
Roman Antiquities
Dionysius of Halicarnassus • Roman
The Dindshenchas
Anonymous • Celtic
Codex Vindobonensis
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Lithuanian Mythological Songs
Anonymous • Slavic
The Colloquy of the Ancients
Anonymous • Celtic