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Zao-Shen, the Kitchen God as depicted in Myths & Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (1922). New York: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.

Tintern Station, Gwent, Circle of Legends.

An illustration by Stephen Reid of a Celtic warrior with a spear. (Internet Book Archive image. From page 330 of "Myths and Legends; the Celtic Race", Rolleston, T.W., Boston-Nickerson, 1910)

Artist's depiction showing a tale from Norse Mythology recorded in the Skírnismál in which Freyr sends his servant Skírnir to Jotunheim, the realm of the giants, in order to convince the giant-daughter Gerðr to marry Freyr. She refuses, and...

Glooscap Turning Man into a Cedar Tree, scraping on birchbark by Tomah Joseph, featured in The Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland, 1884.

An illustration of Tuan mac Cairill watching the arrival of the Nemedians, one of the group of peoples that attempted to settle in Ireland in that country's founding mythology. (Taken from T. W. Rolleston's 'Myths & Legends of the Celtic...

Manabozho in the Tree Above the Flood, illustration by R.C. Armour, from his book North American Indian Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Legends, 1905.

The African kingdom of Axum (also Aksum) was located on the northern edge of the highland zone of the Red Sea coast, just above the horn of Africa. It was founded in the 1st century CE, flourished from the 3rd to 6th century CE, and then...

Lao-Tzu (l. c. 500 BCE, also known as Laozi or Lao-Tze) was a Chinese philosopher credited with founding the philosophical system of Taoism. He is best known as the author of the Laozi (later retitled the Tao-Te-Ching translated as “The Way...

Ancient Egyptian literature comprises a wide array of narrative and poetic forms including inscriptions on tombs, stele, obelisks, and temples; myths, stories, and legends; religious writings; philosophical works; wisdom literature; autobiographies...