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
1200-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
1540-1577 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Royal Commentaries of the Incas
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
1609 CE
Mesoamerican, Inca
Sumerian King List
Anonymous
2000-1800 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Fasti
Ovid
8-14 CE
Roman
The Tale of Igor's Campaign
Anonymous
1185-1200 CE
Slavic
Man’yōshū
Various
759 CE
East Asian, Japanese
The Secret History of the Mongols
Anonymous
1240 CE
East Asian, Mongolian
Gilgamesh and Huwawa
Anonymous
2000-1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Welsh Triads
Anonymous
1200-1400 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Pindar: Odes
Pindar
498-446 BCE
Greek
Annals of Cuauhtitlan
Anonymous
1570 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Annals of the Cakchiquels
Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz
1570-1600 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Books of Chilam Balam
Anonymous
1600-1800 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Codex Chimalpopoca
Anonymous
1608-1615 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Codex Nuttall
Anonymous
1300-1500 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Relación de Michoacán
Anonymous
1540-1550 CE
Mesoamerican, Purepecha
Title of the Lords of Totonicapán
Anonymous
1554 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Ella E. Clark
1953 CE
Native American
Roman Antiquities
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
20-7 BCE
Roman
The Dindshenchas
Anonymous
1100-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish
Codex Vindobonensis
Anonymous
1200-1521 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Lithuanian Mythological Songs
Anonymous
1800-2000 CE
Slavic, Lithuanian
The Colloquy of the Ancients
Anonymous
1200-1220 CE
Celtic, Irish