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Greek Mythology Compared to Norse Mythology - Essay by Gareth Long comparing the main Greek and Norse gods.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology - By John Fiske (1900), e-tetxt from the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
Welcome to MYTHHOME:Mythology Site - Myth Home is a well-organized comparative myth website showcasing myths the world over. Categories include: Myth By Culture, Myth by Time and Themes.
The Anthropology of Mythology - Dedicated to the on-going study of world mythology and how humankind uses myth to express its belief in God.
Georges Dumézil - Indo-European Mythology - Discussion group for the work of Georges Dumézil on Indo-European mythology and trifunctionality.
Mythopedia - Proposing a theory of unity of human mythology, listing the common motifs in mythology, ritual, and symbolism, with comprehensive encyclopaedia of gods and myths from all corners of the world.
Comparative Religion - Resource for religious thought and literature, covering major world religions, modern and ancient.
Atlas of Myths - Illustrated essays on the mythologies of peoples of the world, by teacher and artist Alex Fantalov.
Myth of Creation - Articles on mythology by Stefan Stenudd, working on a dissertation on creation myths and their patterns of thought.
Encyclopedia Mythica - A comprehensive online encyclopedia of world mythologies for the scholar, researcher and casual reader.

Comparative mythology - Comparative mythology is the academic study of different myths, in an attempt to discover how various myths and religions evolved over time, and aims to reveal relationships between distant religions, and describe their origin.
Jesus and comparative mythology - The study of Jesus from a mythographical perspective is the examination of the narrative of Jesus, the Christ ("the Anointed") of the gospels, Christian theology and folk Christianity as a central part of Christian mythology.
Abrahamic mythology - Abrahamic mythology is a term used in comparative mythology to refer to those aspects of religious belief and tradition common to the Abrahamic religions, as distinct from those of the "Pagan religions" from which most mainstream research in this field suggests they developed.
Descent to the underworld - The descent to the underworld is a mytheme of comparative mythology present from the religions of the Ancient Near East and continued into Christianity. The myth involves the death of a youthful god (a life-death-rebirth deity), mourned and then recovered from the underworld by his or her consort, lover or mother.
Hamlet's Mill - Hamlet's Mill, by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend (first published by Gambit, Boston, 1969), is a nonfiction work of history and comparative mythology, particularly the subfield of archaeoastronomy. It resembles Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God.