Secondary Source
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A work that analyzes, edits, translates, or synthesizes primary materials. It provides context, comparisons, and arguments that frame how traditions are understood and taught.
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson
1220 CE
Germanic, Norse
Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
1540-1577 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Natural History
Pliny the Elder
77-79 CE
Roman
Myths of the Dogon
Oral Tradition
1930-1960 CE
African, Dogon
Hawaiian Antiquities
David Malo
1830-1850 CE
Pacific, Hawaiian
Hawaiian Mythology
Martha Warren Beckwith
1940 CE
Pacific, Hawaiian
Polynesian Mythology
George Grey
1855 CE
Pacific, Polynesian
On the Nature of the Gods
Cicero
45 BCE
Roman
Saturnalia
Macrobius
430 CE
Roman
Shanhai Jing Commentaries
Guo Pu
300-600 CE
East Asian, Chinese
Library of History
Diodorus Siculus
60-30 BCE
Greek
Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas
Anonymous
1539-1541 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Ella E. Clark
1953 CE
Native American
Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Katharine Berry Judson
1910 CE
Native American
The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians
Franz Boas
1898 CE
Native American, Nuxalk
Tlingit Myth Anthologies
John R. Swanton
1880-1950 CE
Native American, Tlingit
Tsimshian Myths
Franz Boas
1916 CE
Native American, Tsimshian
Ancient Tahiti
Teuira Henry
1928 CE
Pacific, Tahitian
Myths and Legends of Micronesia
Nancy Bo Flood
1900-2000 CE
Pacific, Micronesian
Nga Mahi a nga Tupuna
George Grey
1854 CE
Pacific, Maori
Samoan Mythology
George Turner
1884 CE
Pacific, Samoan
The Lore of the Whare-Wānanga
H. T. Whatahoro Jury
1865-1915 CE
Pacific, Maori
Tongan Myths and Legends
Oral Tradition
1800-2000 CE
Pacific, Tongan
Fabulae
Hyginus
1-100 CE
Roman