Mythology Books

Mythologis publishes mythology books the way the old storytellers would have wanted them read: drawn straight from the primary sources, organised by culture, and built to be read cover to cover rather than skimmed on a phone. Every title in this library is the work of a single author, so a reader who moves from our Greek mythology book to our Norse or Egyptian one finds the same method, the same care, and the same respect for the texts.

Most readers arrive looking for one tradition. The shelf above lets you filter by region: the Greek, Roman, Norse and Celtic myths of Europe; the Aztec, Maya and Inuit stories of the Americas; the Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian myths of Africa and the Middle East; the Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Hindu traditions of Asia; and the Polynesian and Aboriginal myths of Oceania. Each book stays inside its own world, names its gods correctly, and follows the stories in the order the sources tell them.

If you would rather hold the whole of world mythology in one volume, start with the World Mythology Encyclopedia. It gathers Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Japanese, Slavic, Celtic, Hindu, Mesoamerican and African myths under one cover, with the gods, the creatures and the founding stories laid out side by side. It is the quickest way to see the family resemblances between myths that grew up thousands of miles apart.

Every mythology book here comes two ways. The paperback is typeset for real reading, with a serif body, generous margins, printed and shipped through Amazon. The ebook is a print-quality PDF delivered the moment you buy it, readable on a phone, a tablet or a laptop. Same text, same care: you simply choose whether you want ink or pixels tonight.

New to myth? Greek mythology is the friendliest door: you already know half the cast, and the old poets give the stories their shape. From there, Norse mythology rewards anyone who likes their gods a little doomed, and Egyptian mythology suits readers who want ritual, death and rebirth handled properly. If you cannot choose, the encyclopedia lets you taste a dozen traditions before you settle on one.

Myths are how cultures answered the questions that have no tidy answers: where we came from, why we suffer, what waits after death. Reading them in order, from the source, is the difference between knowing that Prometheus stole fire and understanding why the Greeks thought that theft was worth an eternity of punishment. These mythology books are built for that second kind of reading.