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Best books to learn World mythology, in order

World mythology is vast and easy to wander in without a map, so a path benefits from a survey before the sources. Begin with a broad comparative overview to see the shared shapes — creation, flood, hero, underworld — then read the great tradition-by-tradition collections of Greek, Norse, Egyptian, and Hindu myth, then the deeper scholarship on meaning. Get the panorama, then the stories themselves, then what they mean.

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