Origins
11 books featuring this theme
Origins investigates beginnings of peoples, institutions, or customs. It grounds present practice in authoritative first instances.

Book of Invasions
Anonymous
1000-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish

Royal Commentaries of the Incas
Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
1609 CE
Mesoamerican, Inca

Kumulipo
Anonymous
1700-1800 CE
Pacific, Hawaiian

Samguk Yusa
Iryeon
1281-1285 CE
East Asian, Korean

Polynesian Mythology
George Grey
1855 CE
Pacific, Polynesian

Library of History
Diodorus Siculus
60-30 BCE
Greek

Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas
Anonymous
1539-1541 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec

Haida Myths
Oral Tradition
1800-2000 CE
Native American, Haida

Micronesian Legends
Margarita N. Corpus
1900-2000 CE
Pacific, Micronesian

Samoan Mythology
George Turner
1884 CE
Pacific, Samoan

Hausa Cosmology
Oral Tradition
1800-2000 CE
African, Hausa