Underworld Descent
28 books featuring this theme
Underworld descent is intentional entry into realms of the dead or hidden. It yields knowledge, retrieval, or transformation with risks to return.
Poetic Edda
Anonymous
1270 CE
Germanic, Norse
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson
1220 CE
Germanic, Norse
The Aeneid
Virgil
29-19 BCE
Roman
Popol Vuh
Anonymous
1554-1703 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Kojiki
O no Yasumaro
712 CE
East Asian, Japanese
The Descent of Inanna
Anonymous
1900-1600 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
The Descent of Ishtar
Anonymous
1800-1600 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Homeric Hymns
Anonymous
700-500 BCE
Greek
Chu Ci
Qu Yuan
300-200 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
The Amduat
Anonymous
1500-1400 BCE
Egyptian
The Book of Caverns
Anonymous
1200-1100 BCE
Egyptian
The Book of Gates
Anonymous
1290-1180 BCE
Egyptian
Theseus
Plutarch
100 CE
Greek
Nergal and Ereshkigal
Anonymous
1400-700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Shanhai Jing Commentaries
Guo Pu
300-600 CE
East Asian, Chinese
Book of the Earth
Anonymous
1145-1137 BCE
Egyptian
Book of the Night
Anonymous
1200-1100 BCE
Egyptian
The Books of the Sky
Anonymous
1292-1070 BCE
Egyptian
Orphic Hymns
Orphic tradition
100-300 CE
Greek
Leyenda de los Soles
Anonymous
1600-1700 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Kwakiutl Tales
Franz Boas
1910 CE
Native American, Kwakiutl
The Battle of the Trees
Taliesin
1300-1400 CE
Celtic, Welsh
The Spoils of Annwn
Taliesin
1300-1350 CE
Celtic, Welsh
The Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn
Anonymous
1100-1400 CE
Celtic, Irish