The Mythology Book

DIRECTORY 339 KÖROGLU, TURKIC Turkic, 11th century CE The figure of Köroglu is common across Central Asian mythology. He was bor ...

340 descriptions of the struggle between these two forces. Twelve battles between righteousness and wickedness took place across ...

DIRECTORY 341 human woman and the West Wind. Nanabozho was associated with rabbits and was also known as “The Great Hare.” His m ...

342 took from the wealthy to give to the poor, had healing powers, and was immune to bullets. Just before he was to be executed, ...

DIRECTORY 343 RATA AND MATUKU-TANGOTANGO Maori of New Zealand, c. 13th century CE Rata’s father Wahieroa was killed by an ogre c ...

Page numbers in bold refer to main entries; those in italics refer to captions. A Aboriginal (Australian) mythology 13, 300, 302 ...

Calypso 68, 68 , 71 canoes 319 , 333 first canoe 258–59 Capitoline Triad 94, 107 Capitoline Wolf 103 Cardea 121 Carna 121 Cassio ...

Faunus 106 Faustulus 103 Fengmeng 217 Fenian Brotherhood 169 Fenian Cycle 169 Fenrir 148, 152, 153, 155, 156 fertility 89, 117, ...

Lidum 226, 227 Lif 157 Liriope 114 Lleu Llaw Gyffes 170, 171 Loki 55, 132, 132 , 141, 144 , 144–47, 146 , 148 , 149, 149 , 153, ...

Metztli 255 Micronesian mythology 301, 332–33 Mictlantecuhtli 252, 253 Midas, King 90 , 90 Midgard 133, 136–37 Mímir 140, 141, 1 ...

Styx, River 48, 63, 100, 113 sub-Saharan mythologies 265, 284–97 Sumerian mythology 12, 180, 186, 192–97 Sumitra 207 Sun Wukong ...

Tintagel Castle 174 , 175 Tired-Ones 226 Tiresias 71, 87, 114 Titanomachy 32–33, 36, 37 Titans 21, 22–23, 26, 28, 32–33, 36, 47, ...

351 QUOTE ATTRIBUTIONS ANCIENT GREECE 18 Theogony, Hesiod 24 Theogony, Hesiod 32 Dionysiaca, Nonnus 34 Odyssey, Homer 36 Theogon ...

Dorling Kindersley would like to thank Rabia Ahmad, Anjali Sachar, and Sonakshi Singh for design assistance. PICTURE CREDITS The ...