On this page I have briefly described the most important works of this genre. Most of these works are quite long and are composed of separable episodes, some of them rather repetitive. What the novels lack in plot integration, character development, and psychological sophistication, they make up for in the level of action they exhibit and great crispness in laying out who the good and bad guys are and what issues are at stake. In some cases actual authors are unknown or there is no definitive text. I have also included a couple of important novels of the same period that I thought you should know about.
Authorship is unknown, and a number of variants are in circulation.
There is some probability that the commonest text we have of this work is the product of revelations through possessed mediums. University of California Press. The result is a spectacular series of wars, featuring a wide range of miraculous weapons, that results in its human heroes being made gods and being appointed to places in the pantheon. In many cases the characters described were already canonized at the time the novel was created. In other cases, cults to particular gods may have arisen as a result of the circulation of this material.