This page compiles resources for the study of and attunement to Pagan myths.  Resources are organized by cultural pantheon, starting with general mythology resources

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General mythology

• A Pagan Testament:  The Literary Heritage of the World’s Oldest New Religion, by Brendan Myers – compendium of popular Pagan myths from a variety of cultures around the world
• A History of Pagan Europe by Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick
• Comparative Mythology by Jaan Puhvel
• The Paganism Reader by Chas Clifton and Graham Harvey

Celtic pantheons

• Charities by deity: Gaelic pantheon
• The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge by Thomas Kinsella
• The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales by Patrick K. Ford
• Celtic Heritage by Alwyn Rees and Brinley Rees
• The Celtic Heroic Age (None) (Old Irish Edition) by John T. Koch
• A Brief History of the Druids by Peter Berresford Ellis
• Pagan Celtic Britain by Anne Ross

Egyptian pantheon

• Charities by deity: Egyptian pantheon
• Isis in Big History, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 – a history of the myth of Isis told through Big History
• Ancient Egyptian Religion: An Interpretation by Henri Frankfort
• Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms by Miriam Lichtheim, Antonio Lopriano, Hans-W Fischer-Elfert and Joseph G. Manning
• Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume II: The New Kingdom by Miriam Lichtheim and Hans-W Fischer-Elfert
• Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume III: The Late Period by Miriam Lichtheim and Joseph G. Manning

Greek pantheon

• Charities by deity: Greek pantheon
• Greek Religion, by Walter Burkert – a quintessential, comprehensive introduction to ancient Greek religion.
• On Greek Religion, by Robert Parker
• Religion in the Ancient Greek City by Louise Bruit Zaidman, Pauline Schmitt Pantel and Paul Cartledge
• Gods of the Greeks , by Karl Kerenyi – a compendium of Greek myths written for adults, told from the point of view of an ancient Greek person
• Theoi Greek Mythology – comprehensive and historically accurate encyclopedia of Greek mythology
• The Iliad / The Odyssey by Homer, Bernard Knox and Robert Fagles
• Hesiod: Theogony, Works and Days, Shield by Hesiod and Apostolos N. Athanassakis
• The Homeric Hymns by Erwin Cook and Apostolos N. Athanassakis
• How Persephone killed the gods for me, by B. T. Newberg
• Being human when surrounded by Greek gods, by M. J. Lee

Norse and Germanic pantheons

• Charities by deity: Norse pantheon
• The Norse Myths, by Kevin Crossley-Holland – eminently readable collection
• Poetic Edda, trans. Hollander – excellent translation in verse
• Edda by Snorri Sturluson, trans. Anthony Faulkes
• The Saga of the Volsungs (Penguin Classics) by Jesse L. Byock and Anonymous
• Gods and Myths of Northern Europe by H.R. Ellis Davidson

Roman pantheon

• Charities by deity: Roman pantheon
• The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) by Virgil, Bernard Knox and Robert Fagles
• Metamorphoses, Ovid
• The Romans And Their Gods In The Age Of Augustus by R. M. Ogilvie
• Fasti by Ovid, Anne Wiseman and Peter Wiseman
• The Gods of Ancient Rome: Religion in Everyday Life from Archaic to Imperial Times by Robert Turcan
• An Introduction to Roman Religion by John Scheid
• Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome by Lesley Adkins and Roy A. Adkins

Other pantheons and modern movements

• Encounters with the Goddess? – account of a personal experience, by Thomas Schenk
• The Goddess Kali and Religious Naturalism – article by Colin Robinson
• Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer, by Diane Wolkstein – eminently readable telling from storyteller Diane Wolkstein
• Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America by Margot Adler
• The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton
• Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States by Helen A. Berger, Evan A. Leach and Leigh S. Shaffer
• The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won’t Give Women a Future by Cynthia Eller