Contents...... v Enlil and Ninlil...... 105 Publisher's Note...... ix Frey’s Courtship of Gerd...... 115 Introduction...... xi Hades and Persephone ...... 124 Contributors ...... xiv Ištar and Tammuz...... 133 Maps and Mythological Figures...... xv Mami Wata...... 141 Pan and Syrinx...... 151 The Lover's Quest...... 1 Selene and Endymion...... 159 Black Bull of Norroway...... 3 Zeus and Europa ...... 166 Cupid and Psyche ...... 12 The Fair Angiola ...... 21 The Myth of Ideal Love...... 177 The Faithful Prince...... 29 Admetus and Alcestis...... 179 Isis and the Search for Osiris...... 39 The Blind Beauty...... 188 The King of Love...... 47 Daphnis and Chloe ...... 197 Orpheus and Eurydice...... 55 The Devotion of Sītā...... 206 The Romance of Tristan and Iseult...... 65 The Holy Cherry Tree...... 217 Tấm and Cám...... 74 Hymn to Aphrodite...... 225 Layla and Majnun...... 234 Gods and Godesses in Love...... 85 Moghol-Dokhter and Arab-Bacha...... 243 Aphrodite and Adonis...... 87 Śiva and Pārvatī...... 252 Apollo and the Thessalian Hyacinthus...... 97 Winona, the Child-Woman...... 260

Volume 2

Contents...... v The Stolen Wife...... 323 Complete List of Contents...... vi Urvaśī and Purūravas ...... 332 The White Condor...... 342 Loss of the Beloved ...... 269 Bopolûchî...... 271 Tales of Transformation ...... 351 Daphne the Naiad Nymph...... 279 A Basque Tale of Beauty and the Beast...... 353 The Fire-Fly’s Lovers...... 288 Beauty and the Beast...... 362 Polyphemus and Galatea ...... 296 Blodeuwedd the Flower Maiden Goddess. . . . . 371 Pyramus and Thisbe ...... 305 Donkey Skin...... 380 Sigurd and Gudrún ...... 314 The Frog Prince...... 388

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The Goodman o’ Wastness...... 397 Love, Sexuality, and Creation...... 531 Kitsune: Come and Sleep & The Foxes’ Wedding. . .406 Izanami-no-Mikoto...... 533 The Sleep of Ondine...... 415 Love and the Second Half ...... 542 The Transformation of Tiresias...... 422 Shu and Tefnut...... 550 Vertumnus and Pomona ...... 432 Uranus and Gaia...... 558

Animal Loves...... 441 Appendixes ...... 567 The Daughter of the Skies...... 443 Mythology in the Classroom...... 569 East o’ the Sun and West o’ the Moon...... 451 Lesson Plan...... 572 The Golden Apple Tree and the Nine Peahens. . . 460 Timeline...... 574 The Nightingale and the Rose...... 468 Guide to Online Resources...... 576 The Peacock Maiden...... 476 Bibliography...... 577 The Prince and the Tortoise...... 486 The Snake Maiden...... 495 Indexes...... 579 The Snake with Seven Heads ...... 504 Country and Culture Index...... 581 Untombi-yapansi...... 513 Chronological Index...... 583 The Woman Who Married a Bear...... 521 Index ...... 587

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