Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Credits -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: The Dimensions of Myth -- Select Bibliography -- Part I Cosmic Myths -- The Creation -- The Creation Stories -- Egyptian: The Beginnings -- Mesopotamian: Enuma Elish -- Hebrew: Genesis -- Indian: The Rig Veda and the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad -- Greek: Hesiod's Theogony -- Christian: John's Gospel -- Hopi: Spider Woman -- Boshongo (Bantu): Bumba's Creation -- Modern: The Big Bang -- Bibliography -- The Flood -- The Flood Stories -- Mesopotamian: Utnapishtim -- Hebrew: Noah -- Chinese: Yü -- Indian: Manu -- Greco-Roman: Deucalion and Pyrrha -- Mayan: The Popol-Vuh -- Bibliography -- The Afterlife -- The Afterlife Stories -- Egyptian: Osiris -- Greco-Roman: Lands of the Dead -- Judeo-Christian: Hell, Purgatory, Heaven -- Muslim: Hell and Heaven in the Koran -- Buddhist: The Pure Land -- Hopi: The Kachinas -- Bibliography -- The Apocalypse -- The Apocalypse Stories -- Hebrew: The Day of Yahweh -- Christian: St. John's Book of Revelation -- Indian: The End of the Kali Age -- Hopi: Emergence to the Fifth World -- Norse: Ragnarök -- Modern: Entropy and Heat Death -- Bibliography -- Part II Myths of the Gods -- The Pantheons -- The Pantheonic Stories -- Egyptian -- The Gods of Heliopolis -- The Separation of Geb and Nut -- Greek -- The Olympians -- The Originators -- The Children of Kronos and Rhea -- The Children of Zeus -- Roman: The Renamed Olympians -- Norse (Icelandic): The Aesir -- Bibliography -- The God as Archetype -- Stories of Archetypal Gods -- The Supreme Being -- Indian: Krishna-Vishnu-Brahman -- Hebrew: Yahweh -- Modern: Immanent Mind -- The Great Mother -- Mesopotamian: Inanna-Ishtar -- Modern: Gaia as Earth -- The Dying God -- Egyptian: Osiris and Isis -- Babylonian-Greco-Roman: Adonis and Aphrodite -- Phrygian: Attis -- Greek: Dionysos.

Aztec/Toltec: Quetzalcoatl -- Christian: Jesus -- Norse (Icelandic): Odin -- The Trickster -- Greek: Hermes -- Indian: Krishna -- Shoshoni: Old Man Coyote -- Fon (Dahomey): Legba -- Bibliography -- Gods, Goddesses, and Lesser Spirits -- Stories of Gods, Goddesses, and Lesser Spirits -- Greco-Roman -- Prometheus -- Pandora -- Tiresias, Echo, and Narcissus -- Hyacinthus -- Eros and Psyche -- Daphne and Apollo -- Pan -- The Muses -- The Eumenides -- Zeus and Io -- Zeus and Europa -- Non-Greek -- Persian: Mithras -- Japanese: Amaterasu and Susanowo -- Polynesian: Pele and Hiiaka' -- Indian: Indra and the Parade of Ants -- Bibliography -- Part III Hero Myths -- The Hero Stories -- The Conception, Birth, and Childhood of the Hero -- Native American (Tewa): Water Jar Boy -- Greek: Theseus -- Indian: Krishna -- Indian: Karna -- Greek: Herakles -- Indian: The Buddha -- Irish: Cuchulainn -- Bantu: Lituolone -- The Journey Quest of the Hero -- French: Joan of Arc -- Greek: Oedipus -- Greek: Antigone -- Celtic: King Arthur -- Greek: Theseus -- Hebrew: Moses -- Celtic: Parcival -- Hebrew: Jonah -- Greek: Jason -- Roman: Aeneas -- Hebrew: Samson and Delilah -- Indian: The Buddha -- Native American: Wunzh, or Hiawatha -- Greek: Herakles -- African: Wanjiru -- Australian Aboriginal: The Pleiades -- Hebrew: Abraham and Isaac -- Mesopotamian: Gilgamesh -- Greek: Orpheus and Eurydice -- Greek: Odysseus -- The Rebirth, Return, and Apotheosis of the Hero -- Blackfoot: Kutoyis -- Christian: Jesus -- Greek: Herakles -- Aztec/Toltec: Quetzalcoatl -- Christian: Mary -- Greek: Alcestis -- Bibliography -- Part IV Place and Object Myths -- Stories of Places and Objects -- The Mountain -- Hebrew: Mount Sinai -- The City -- Greek: Troy -- Hebrew: Jerusalem -- Greek: Delphi -- The Temple -- Judeo-Christian: the Temple at Jerusalem -- European: The Chapel Perilous -- The Genitals.

Greek: Tiresias -- Apache: The Vagina Girls -- Greek: The Fig Phallus of Dionysos -- The Stone -- Phrygian: The Agdos Rock -- Australian Aboriginal: Erathipa -- Hebrew: The Bethel -- The Tree -- India: The Cosmic Tree -- Norse: Yggdrasil -- Hebrew: The Tree of Knowledge -- The Garden, the Grove, and the Cave -- Muslim: Muhammad's Cave -- The Labyrinth -- Greek: Daedalus and Icarus -- Bibliography -- Index.