Elimu ya visasili

*: mchoro huu wa mwaka 1868 wa Gustave Moreau unamuonyesha amefungwa na kuteseka kwa kosa la kuwapa binadamu moto kama kiumbe chake, inavyosimuliwa na visasili na fasihi ya Kigiriki.]]
**Elimu ya visasili** (au **mithiolojia**, Kiing. *mythology*, kutoka neno la Kigiriki μυθολογία, mithologia, linaloundwa na μῦθος, mithos, "kisasili" na λογία, logia, "elimu") inahusu utafiti juu ya visasili vya makabila mbalimbali ili kuelewa utamaduni wao.

Jinsi visasili vilivyoanza haijulikani vizuri, lakini vimekuwa vimechunguzwa tangu kale, kwa mfano huko China na Ugiriki wa Kale.

Juhudi kubwa zaidi za kuzilinganisha zilifanywa kuanzia karne ya 19 kwa mitazamo tofauti, chanya au hasi.

## Tanbihi
## Marejeo
### Magazeti 
* New Comparative Mythology / Nouvelle Mythologie Comparée, http://nouvellemythologiecomparee.hautetfort.com/
* Ollodagos, http://www.sbec.be/index.php/publications/ollodagos 
* Studia Mythologica Slavica, http://sms.zrc-sazu.si/
* Mythological Studies Journal,http://journals.sfu.ca/pgi/index.php/pacificamyth/index 
* The Journal of Germanic Mythology and Folklore, http://www.jgmf.org/ 

### Vitabu 
*Armstrong, Karen. "A Short History of Myth". Knopf Canada, 2006.
*Bascom, William. "The Forms of Folklore: Prose Narratives". *'Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth*. Ed. Alan Dundes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. 5–29.
*Bulfinch, Thomas. *Bulfinch's Mythology*. Whitefish: Kessinger, 2004.
*Campbell, Joeseph. "The Power of Myth". New York: Doubleday, 1988.
*Doty, William. *Myth: A Handbook*. Westport: Greenwood, 2004.
*Dundes, Alan. "Binary Opposition in Myth: The Propp/Levi-Strauss Debate in Retrospect". *Western Folklore* 56 (Winter, 1997): 39–50.
*Dundes, Alan. Introduction. *Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth*. Ed. Alan Dundes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. 1–3.
*Dunes, Alan. "Madness in Method Plus a Plea for Projective Inversion in Myth". *Myth and Method*. Ed. Laurie Patton and Wendy Doniger. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996.
*Eliade, Mircea. *Myth and Reality*. Trans. Willard R. Trask. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
*Eliade, Mircea. *Myths, Dreams and Mysteries*. Trans. Philip Mairet. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
*"Euhemerism". *The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions*. Ed. John Bowker. Oxford University Press, 2000. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.  UC – Berkeley Library.  20 March 2009 .
*Fabiani, Paolo "The Philosophy of the Imagination in Vico and Malebranche". F.U.P. (Florence UP), English edition 2009.  PDF
*Frankfort, Henri, et al. *The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East*. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1977.
*Frazer, James. *The Golden Bough*. New York: Macmillan, 1922.
*Graf, Fritz. *Greek Mythology*. Trans. Thomas Marier. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
*Honko, Lauri. "The Problem of Defining Myth". *Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth*. Ed. Alan Dundes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. 41–52.
*Humphrey, Sheryl. *The Haunted Garden: Death and Transfiguration in the Folklore of Plants*. New York: DCA Art Fund Grant from the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island and public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, 978-1-300-55364-9, 2012. 
*Kirk, G.S. *Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures*. Berkeley: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
*Kirk, G.S. "On Defining Myths". *Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth*. Ed. Alan Dundes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. 53–61.
*Leonard, Scott. "The History of Mythology: Part I". *Scott A. Leonard's Home Page*. August 2007.Youngstown State University , 17 November 2009
*Littleton, Covington. *The New Comparative Mythology: An Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dumezil*. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973.
*Meletinsky, Elea. *The Poetics of Myth*. Trans. Guy Lanoue and Alexandre Sadetsky. New York: Routledge, 2000.
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*Northup, Lesley. "Myth-Placed Priorities: Religion and the Study of Myth". *Religious Studies Review'' 32.1(2006): 5–10.
*O'Flaherty, Wendy. *Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook*. London: Penguin, 1975.
*Pettazzoni, Raffaele. "The Truth of Myth". *Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth*. Ed. Alan Dundes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. 98–109.
*Segal, Robert. *Myth: A Very Short Introduction*. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
*Simpson, Michael. Introduction. Apollodorus. *Gods and Heroes of the Greeks*. Trans. Michael Simpson. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976. 1–9.
*Singer, Irving. "Introduction: Philosophical Dimensions of Myth and Cinema." Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film. Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States: MIT Press Books, 2008. 3–6. Web. 23 Oct. 2011.
*Indick, William. "Classical Heroes in Modern Movies: Mythological Patterns of the Superhero." Journal of Media Psychology 9.3 (2004): 93–95. York University Libraries. Web.
*Koven, Mikel J. "Folklore Studies and Popular Film and Television: a Necessary Critical Survey." Journal of American Folklore 116.460 (2003): 176–195. Print.
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*Matira, Lopamundra. "Children's Oral Literature and Modern Mass Media." Indian Folklore Research Journal 5.8 (2008): 55–57. Print.
*Cormer, John. "Narrative." Critical Ideas in Television Studies. New York, United States: Charendon Press, 2007. 47–59. Print.

### Marejeo mengine
* Stefan Arvidsson, *Aryan Idols. Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science*, University of Chicago Press, 2006. ISBN 0-226-02860-7
*Roland Barthes, *Mythologies* (1957)
*Kees W. Bolle, *The Freedom of Man in Myth*. Vanderbilt University Press, 1968.
*Richard Buxton. *The Complete World of Greek Mythology*. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
*E. Csapo, *Theories of Mythology* (2005)
*Edith Hamilton, *Mythology* (1998)
*Graves, Robert. "Introduction." *New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology*. Trans. Richard Aldington and Delano Ames. London: Hamlyn, 1968. v–viii.
*Joseph Campbell
***The Hero with a Thousand Faces*. Princeton University Press, 1949.
***Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension: Select Essays 1944–1968*  New World Library, 3rd ed. (2002), ISBN 978-1-57731-210-9.
***The Power of Myth*. Doubleday, 1988, ISBN 0-385-24773-7.
***Thou Art That (book)*. New World Library, 2001, ISBN 1-57731-202-3
*Mircea Eliade
***Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return*. Princeton University Press, 1954.
***The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion*. Trans. Willard R. Trask. NY: Harper & Row, 1961.
*Louis Herbert Gray [ed.], *The Mythology of All Races*, in 12 vols., 1916.
*Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
***Mental Functions in Primitive Societies* (1910)
***Primitive Mentality* (1922)
***The Soul of the Primitive* (1928)
***The Supernatural and the Nature of the Primitive Mind* (1931)
***Primitive Mythology* (1935)
***The Mystic Experience and Primitive Symbolism* (1938)
*Charles H. Long, *Alpha: The Myths of Creation*. George Braziller, 1963.
*O'Flaherty, Wendy. *Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook*. London: Penguin, 1975.
*Barry B. Powell, *Classical Myth*, 5th edition, Prentice-Hall.
*Santillana and Von Dechend (1969, 1992 re-issue). ''Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth*, Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-87923-215-3.

*Isabelle Loring Wallace and Jennie Hirsh, *Contemporary Art and Classical Myth*. Farnham: Ashgate (2011), ISBN 978-0-7546-6974-6
*Walker, Steven F. and Segal, Robert A., *Jung and the Jungians on Myth: An Introduction*, Theorists of Myth, Routledge (1996), ISBN 978-0-8153-2259-7.
*Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard, *Lauphing with Medusa*. Oxford: Oxford `University Press (2006), ISBN 978-0-19-923794-4.
*Zong, In-Sob. *Folk Tales from Korea''. 3rd ed. Elizabeth: Hollym, 1989.

## Viungo vya nje
*The New Student's Reference Work/Mythology, ed. Beach (1914), at wikisource.
*Leonard, Scott. "The History of Mythology: Part I" . Youngstown State University.
*Greek mythology
*Sacred texts
*Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by comparative mythology by John Fiske.
*LIMC  Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, a database of ancient objects linked with mythology
*Joseph Campbell on Bill Moyers's *The Power of Myth*
*Dreams, Visions, and Myths: Making Sense of Our World

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