This is a hand-made high school textbook created from 1998-2004 for a senior elective in World Mythology. There is no license or restriction – feel free to use, remix, etc. Here is an abridged table of contents:

Part One: Creation Stories (Cosmogonies)

Hebrew
Zuñi
Pelasgian
Greek
Australian
Haudenosaunee
Norse
Chinese
Egyptian
Babylonian
Scientific

Part Two: Trickster Tales

Some Functions of Trickster Tales
Some Tricksters From Around the World
Mind: Trickster, Transformer
How Stories Came to Earth – Ashanti of Ghana
Raven finds the First Men – Haida
The Pot Bears a Son – China
Nasreddin Hodja – Turkey
Bouki Rents a Horse – Haiti
The Power of Writing
How Coyote kept death for the people – Caddo
Coyote and the Stranger – Kiowa
Trickster’s Buffalo Hunt – Hotcâk
Loki – Norse
Hermes: Apollo’s Cows – Greek
Hermes: Baby Heracles – Greek

Part Three: Hero Quests

The Epic of Gilgamesh
Kotan Utunnai
Beowulf & The 13th Warrior
Star Wars: A New Hope
Move over, Odysseus, here comes Luke Skywalker
Changing Face of Oral Tradition?
Stages of the Monomyth
Of Myth and Men
The Myth of Sisyphus

Compiled by Mark Oppenneer