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 • Germanic
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson • Germanic
The Aeneid
Virgil • Roman
Popol Vuh
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Kojiki
O no Yasumaro • East Asian
The Descent of Inanna
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
The Descent of Ishtar
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Homeric Hymns
Anonymous • Greek
Chu Ci
Qu Yuan • East Asian
The Amduat
Anonymous • Egyptian
The Book of Caverns
Anonymous • Egyptian
The Book of Gates
Anonymous • Egyptian
Theseus
Plutarch • Greek
Nergal and Ereshkigal
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Shanhai Jing Commentaries
Guo Pu • East Asian
Book of the Earth
Anonymous • Egyptian
Book of the Night
Anonymous • Egyptian
The Books of the Sky
Anonymous • Egyptian
Orphic Hymns
Orphic tradition • Greek
Leyenda de los Soles
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Kwakiutl Tales
Franz Boas • Native American
The Battle of the Trees
Taliesin • Celtic
The Spoils of Annwn
Taliesin • Celtic
The Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn
Anonymous • Celtic