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 • Germanic
Florentine Codex
Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators • Mesoamerican
Natural History
Pliny the Elder • Roman
Myths of the Dogon
Oral Tradition • African
Hawaiian Antiquities
David Malo • Pacific
Hawaiian Mythology
Martha Warren Beckwith • Pacific
Polynesian Mythology
George Grey • Pacific
On the Nature of the Gods
Cicero • Roman
Saturnalia
Macrobius • Roman
Shanhai Jing Commentaries
Guo Pu • East Asian
Library of History
Diodorus Siculus • Greek
Historia de los Mexicanos por sus Pinturas
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Ella E. Clark • Native American
Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Katharine Berry Judson • Native American
The Mythology of the Bella Coola Indians
Franz Boas • Native American
Tlingit Myth Anthologies
John R. Swanton • Native American
Tsimshian Myths
Franz Boas • Native American
Ancient Tahiti
Teuira Henry • Pacific
Myths and Legends of Micronesia
Nancy Bo Flood • Pacific
Nga Mahi a nga Tupuna
George Grey • Pacific
Samoan Mythology
George Turner • Pacific
The Lore of the Whare-Wānanga
H. T. Whatahoro Jury • Pacific
Tongan Myths and Legends
Oral Tradition • Pacific
Fabulae
Hyginus • Roman