Note: Although this website was developed for the MA/Ph.D. students in Pacifica Graduate Institute's Mythological Studies Department, others interested in these subjects are also warmly welcomed here.
Mythological Studies Department
Pacifica Graduate
Institute
249 Lambert Road
Carpinteria, CA 93013
Since this project, begun 6 April 1998 and put on-line 13 November 1998, will take many months, if not years, to complete, large portions will probably always remain unfinished. So that frequent visitors can keep track of this progress (and to avoid annoying and misleading "New!" icons), if a section at least has opening artwork, and/or some commentary, and/or one or two links, it will have a single tree:Important notes:
Nearly completed sections will be marked with four trees:
A fully completed page will have a petaled sun:
(Note: New additions made after a page is complete will bear an "updated ikon" plus a date after the petaled sun:Pages in between one and four trees will have as many trees as I think their state of completedness warrants. (For more specific data on future updates, go to the Updates Log.)11/9/98.)
If a site has no tree, it means there's nothing there except the usual heading, a title and a way to get back to this home page.
This site is designed to be used for student research as well as for browsing. For students, I'm providing a link to a website that'll assist you in citing on-line sources correctly; this site includes an MLA/APA-specific link as well as links to other style manuals (just click with your mouse on the following link):http://clever.net/quinion/words/articles/citation.htm
In addition, if you're new to websites, I've written this page:On copyright issues, this is Brad Templeton's timely and valuable "10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained":Finally, if you wish to download art, please be sure to note title, artist's name, source, and so forth, for copyright purposes in citing on-line art (you'll need to do this as a separate action because computers don't automatically include this data when you download). If you're not sure how to do the actual downloading, here's a website by Lori Howe with clear instructions:COMMON THEMES, EAST & WEST:
Creation
Myths
Star
Lore & Astrology
Floods
Earth
Goddesses & Gods
Sky
Goddesses & Gods
Dragons
& Serpents
Green
Men
Trees
& Plant Lore
Tricksters
Shamanism
Sacred
Theatre, Dance & Ritual
GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS:
AFRICA
EGYPT & THE SAHARA
EGYPT's subdivisions:
& Practices: Ancient, Graeco-Roman, & Coptic
& Artists
ASIA
EUROPE
RUSSIA's subdivisions:Note: for Estonia, see "Baltic Sates";
for Sami and western Siberian peoples,
see "INDIGENOUS: Circumpolar"
INDIGENOUS
PEOPLES
Note: also see "Sub-Saharan Africa"; "The Sahara"; and "Eastern Europe" (for indigenous Eurasian, but non-circumpolar, peoples)
NEAR
EAST [For Egypt, see under AFRICA]
http://www.enteract.com/~jwalz/Eliade/index.html
Despite the unfortunate title, a good place to start is with this massive site: "From Primitives to Zen," a hypertext conversion of Mircea Eliade's reference work.
RELATED LINKS
(OF INTEREST TO PACIFICA FACULTY,
STUDENTS & COLLEAGUES)
Pacifica
Graduate Institute Library Research
Foundation
for Mythological Studies
Association
of Cultural Mythologists (ACM)
Jungian and Depth
Psychology Sites [Still to come]
If you know of a site that should be included here,
or if you have problems accessing the site,
please e-mail me at: jenks7@webcom.com
This page created with Netscape Gold
Designed by Kathleen Jenks
William Weeks: Technical Advisor
My grateful thanks to collectors of materials in
the public domain, especially:
William H. Anderson of the "Radiology
HTML Animals Collection" for the Flying Pegasus (on page 6 of 8);
Tony of "Web Sauce" for the woodsy background used
on most of my pages,
also the animated yellow-star subdivider used for
"Egypt: General Information" (which he was kind enough to adapt for me
from a blue version), and animated green subdividers used for the Sub-Saharan
Africa pages (unfortunately, when I checked his sites 11/98, all were dead-ends;
if I get an update from him, I'll link it here); and
Lori
"Sewdoll" Howe for the leaf-twining subdividers I've used for Eastern
Europe.
Section-divider bars taken from ancient art (for pages
under Egypt, Near East, Asia)
will be fully identified on the opening pages for
each category.
Since this is a non-profit, educational site, with
some art (especially images scanned from books), I have assumed "fair use"
and have been very careful to credit such sources;
I prize the books I've used here and highly recommend
them to others.
It is not my intent to infringe upon anyone's copyrighted
material, but in working with huge amounts of art, some of it downloaded
before I had enough web sophistication to know how to find it again, I
may have inadvertantly used something to which I had no right. If
you find something of yours here, please let me know and I will either
give you linked-credit, if you permit this, or else replace the item.
Text and layout for this and all linked "mythinglinks.org" pages:
Copyright © 1998 by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.
Latest update: 13 November 1998