Open Access Journal: Comparative Mythology

Comparative Mythology
ISSN: 2409-9899

The International Association for Comparative Mythology (http://compmyth.org ) is happy to present the inaugural issue of our long - planned journal Comparative Mythology. 

IACM was founded in 2006, and we have held annual conferences on three continents. Comparative Mythology was conceived near the beginning of the organization, but the birth has been (like that of Väinamöinen ) protracted for technical reasons. The aim of th e new journal – the only one dedicated to comparative mythology with a worldwide scope – is to study ancient and current mythologies by employing various appropriate methodologies, some traditional, some radically new. 

We have long felt that the field of mythology is in need of an international journal dealing with world - wide mythology, as distinct from journals with a local or regional focus and from those of the adjacent field of folklore. The lack of a journal fully dedicated to comparative mythology h as been and still is a large lacuna in the field. Even though the new French journal Nouvelle mythologie comparée (http://nouvellemythologiecomparee.hautetfort.com ) covers some of the same territory as ours, it rather seems to focus more narrowly on Indo-European myths. Instead, we want to include accounts of mythologies from all regions and time periods, including prehistory as far as visible in Stone Age rock art or as appearing in careful reconstructions. The latter includes the innovative approach of combining traditional comparison with the historical study of myths, both extinct and current, which allows for the reconstruction of earlier stages. 

Comparative Mythology will thus include studies on the various forms that mythologies have taken in history and prehistory, including their use in ritual, their presence as archaeological remnants and in various religions, while making use, when relevant, of philological, linguistic, genetic and other scientific information and methods. Attention will also be given to the study of the origin and spread of the mythologies of human populations out of East Africa, possibly remnants of the tales of the “African Eve” 

Vol 2 (2016)

Issue 1

Table of Contents

Front Matter

Front Matter and Table of Contents Editorial Board

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Articles

Of Dice and Divination Gregory Haynes, Michael Witzel

PDF 1-26

Building Laomedon’s Troy: A Northern Parallel Dmitri Panchenko

PDF 27-32

Iarl and Iormun-; Arya- and Aryaman-: A Study in Indo-European Comparative Mythology John Bengtson

PDF 33-67

Biblical Mt. Ararat: Two Identifications Armen Petrosyan

PDF 68-80

The Motif of ‘the Ill-Willed Nursing Woman Who is Harmed’ in the Mythologies of Herakles and Krishna Arjan Sterken

PDF 81-99

The Dojoji Tale and Ancient Bronze Metallurgical Traditions Reinier Hesselink

PDF 100-114

Vol 1 (2015): Issue 1

• Table of Contents

Front Matter

Front Matter and Table of Contents Editorial Board

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Articles

Foreword Michael Witzel

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The Hero Who Releases the Waters and Defeats the Flood Dragon Emily Lyle

PDF 1-12

Cyavana Helps Ashvins, Prometheus Helps Humans: A Myth About Sacrifice Nick Allen

PDF 13-22

The Defeat of the Great Bird in Myth and Royal Pageantry: A Mesoamerican Myth in a Comparative Perspective Christophe Helmke, Jesper Nielsen

PDF 23-60

On the Religious Meaning of a Japanese Myth: The White Hare of Inaba Klaus Antoni

PDF 61-72

The God Okuninushi and the Trifunctional System of the Indo-Europeans Atsuhiko Yoshida

PDF 73-80

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