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| Introduction To Studying Myth | |
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| Introductory Overview | |
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| What is Myth? | |
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| Ways of Understanding Myth | |
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| Myths Of Creation And Destruction | |
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| Creation: Introductory Overview | |
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| Greece: Hesiod | |
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| Rome: Ovid | |
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| The Bible: Genesis (Creation) | |
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| Mesopotamia: Enuma Elish | |
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| Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda | |
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| North America: Zuni, Hopi, Navaho | |
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| Africa: Uganda and Nigeria | |
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| China: Nu Kwa | |
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| Mesoamerica: Popol Vuh | |
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| Destruction: Introductory Overview | |
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| Rome: Ovid (Flood) | |
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| The Bible: Genesis (Flood) | |
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| Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Ragnarok) | |
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| Heroes And Tricksters | |
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| Introductory Overview | |
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| Theory: Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Dave Whomsley) | |
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| Mesopotamia: The Epic of Gilgamesh | |
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| Applying Theory: A Levi-Straussian Analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh | |
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| India: The Ramayana | |
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| Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda | |
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| Africa: The Mwindo Epic | |
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| Greece: Sophocles, Oedipus the King | |
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| Theory: Claude Levi-Strauss, The Structural Study of Myth | |
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| North America: Raven | |
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| African and African-American Trickster Stories | |
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| Greece: Prometheus | |
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| Applying Theory: Different Versions of Myths | |
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| Ritual And Myth | |
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| Introductory Overview | |
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| Theory: Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols | |
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| Greece: Demeter and Persephone | |
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| Egypt: Isis and Osiris | |
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| Applying Theory: Meals in the Bible | |
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| Icelandic/Norse: The Rituals of Iceland | |
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| Greece: Heracles and Dionysus | |
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| Dreams And Myth | |
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| Introductory Overview | |
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| Theory: C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols | |
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| Applying Theory: How to Perform a Jungian Analysis | |
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| Folktale And Myth | |
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| Introductory Overview | |
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| Theory: Vladimir Propp, The Morphology of the Folktale | |
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| Applying Theory: A Proppian Analysis of The Wizard of Oz | |
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| Germany: Grimms' Household Tales | |
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| Rome: Apuleius' "Cupid and Psyche" | |
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| Applying Theory: Highlighting Different Aspects of the Same Tale Using Multiple Analyses | |
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| Contemporary Myth | |
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| Introductory Overview | |
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| Daniel Boone: Building the Myth Around the Man | |
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| Stagecoach and Firefly: The Journey into the Unknown in Westerns and Science Fiction | |
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| Harry Potter: A Rankian Analysis of the Hero of Hogwarts | |
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| The Vampire as Hero: Tales of the Undead in a Contemporary Context | |
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| Literature And Myth | |
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| Introductory Overview | |
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| Poetry and Myth | |
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| Leslie Marmon Silko, "Yellow Woman" (Native-American Oral Myth in Contemporary Context) | |
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| Narrative and Myth | |