The sources for the myths are listed in my (somewhat subjective) order of preference, with those listed first being most relevant to the Pythagorean Tarot; further, primary sources are given preference over secondary. Note! This guide in incomplete; I have made it available in the hope that it may be of some use to people exploring the mythological background of the Pythagorean Tarot.
In this guide I have used the following abbreviations:
A: Apollodorus, Bibliotêkê (cited by book, chapter and section)
B: Bulfinch, Age of Fable (cited by chapter)
Ga: Gantz, Early Greek Myth (cited by page)
G: Graves, Greek Myths (cited by chapter)
H: Hyginus, Fabulae (cited by fable number)
K: Kerényi, Gods of Greeks (cited by chapter and section)
KH: Kerényi, Heroes of the Greeks (cited by chapter and section)
O: Ovid, Metamorphoses (cited by book and line)
T: Hesiod, Theogony
TW: Hesiod, Works & Days (cited by line)
Many of these myths can be found in many other books, such as Rex Warner’s Stories of the Greeks.
Hera drives Dionysos mad
Orphic myth of birth of Dionysos [K 252-9]
Pentheus
Lycurgus
Resurrection of Glaucos [A iii.3.1]
Wagner’s Parsifal
Hermes’ Birth [Homeric Hymn IV to Hermes]
Demeter and Persephone [Homeric Hymn II to Demeter]
Demeter and Iasion
Aphrodite and Anchises
Fate of Zeus’s paramours
Innana/Astarte/Ishtar & Dumuzi/Tammuz
Aphrodite, Ares & Harmonia
Hermaphroditus
Innana & Dumuzi (see 2. Empress)
Zeus and Leto (Birth of Apollo and Artemis)
Leda and the Swan (Birth of Dioscuri)
Isis Restores Osiris
Isis Kills Ra
Birth of Hecate
Jupiter & Saturn
Myths of Helios
Apollo & Daphne
Helios or Apollo & Clytiê
Inanna (Ishtar) & Dumuzi (Tammuz) (see 2. Empress)
Artemis & Actaeon
Artemis & Orion
Apollo in Love with Artemis
Apollo & Cyrene (see 9. Fortitude)
Apollo & Coronis
Asclepius & Orion
Apollo & Coronis (see 6. Love)
Triple Birth of Dionysos
Demeter Tempers Triptolemos [Homeric Hymn II to Demeter]
Medea and the Cauldron of Regeneration
Hemaphroditus (see High Priestess)
Ishtar & Tammuz (see 2.Empress)
Aphrodite & Adonis
Plato’s Phaedrus
Ares, Aphrodite and Harmonia (see 2. Empress)
Apollo & Cyrene
Hercules & the Nemean Lion
Leda and the Swan (see 3. Emperor)
Europa and the Bull
Callisto
Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (carm. 1, 2)
Ixion and Hera
Amalthea & Zeus
Cronos & Ouranos
Cronos & Zeus
Rhea Raises Zeus
Saturn’s Golden Age
Saturn in Hyperborea (see 5. High Priest)
Wagner’s Parsifal (Act II)
Prometheus
Prometheus’ Theft of Fire and Punishment
Prometheus in the Titanomachy
Prometheus and the First Sacrifice
Prometheus and Pandora [HW 42-105]
The Flood of Deucalion
Prometheus Unbound & the Secret of Thetis
Prometheus & Athena [G 39.i]
Heracles and the Apples of the Hesperides
Odin on Yggdrasill
Osiris in the Tree
Innana in the Underworld
Heracles’ Descent
Orpheus’ Descent
Theseus & Peirithoos’ Descent
Hades’ Loves
Narcissus [O 3.339-512]
Amalthea & Zeus (see 10. Fortune)
Hephaistos’ Fire Stolen by Prometheus
Hephaistos Binds Hera
Hephaistos Binds Aphrodite & Ares
Aphrodite, Ares & Harmonia (see 2. Empress)
Harmonia’s Necklace
Wagner’s Siegfried (Act I, scene 3)
Birth of Athena
Birth of Hephaistos
Birth of Erikhthonios
Pandora [HW 42-105]
Athena & Arakhne
Hephaistos Thrown from Heaven by Hera
Hephaistos Thrown from Heaven by Zeus
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
Odysseus’ Descent
Aeneas’ Descent
Dante’s Inferno
Ninurta (Nabu) Defeats Asag
Semele & Zeus (see 7. Temperance, Triple Birth of Dionysos)
The Labyrinth of Minos
Calypso’s Cave [Odyssey 1.50ff]
Danaê & Zeus
Dante’s Inferno (canto ?end)
Pandora (see 12. Hanged Traitor)
Amalthea & Zeus (see 10. Fortune)
Pelops & Rhea
Tantalus in the Underworld
Epic of Gilgamesh (tablet 10)
Odysseus’ Descent (see 14. Devil)
Myth of Er in Plato’s Republic (Bk. 10)
Etana and the Eagle
Birth of Hecate (see 4. High Priestess)
Medea’s Cauldron of Rejuvenation (see 7. Temperance)
Circe [Odyssey, Bk. 10]
Babylonian Creation Epic
Artemis & Orion (see 6. Love)
Heracles and the Lernean Hydra
Epic of Gilgamesh (tablets 9, 11)
Etana & the Eagle (see 16. Star)
Apollo defeats the Python
Gilgamesh defeats Humbaba
Dumuzi escapes the Galla
Etana [Dalley 190-200]
Helios informs of rape of Persephone
Unsuccessful loves of Apollo
Birth of Apollo and Artemis
Mating of Apollo and Artemis
Birth of Heracles
The Dioscuri
Romulus and Remus
Hjuki and Bil
Gilgamesh in Garden of the Gods
Gilgamesh and the Plant of Life
Odysseus and the Cattle of the Sun
Odysseus and Calypso
Semelê and the birth of Dionysos [O 3.253-315, K 16.2, B 21, G 14]
Tantalos and Pelops [Ga 531-6, O 6.401-11, G 108]
Achilles discovered [A iii.13.8, B 27, G 160]
Dionysos dismembered by the Titans [K 16.1-2, H 167, G 27]
Inô and Melikertês [A iii.4.3, K 16.4]
Mêdea’s rejuvenations [O 7.160-349, B 17, Ga 365-8, G 155]
Purrha and Deukaliôn [O 1.163-415, B 2, K 13.7, G 38]
Demeter and Persephone [O 5.346-678, Homeric Hymn 2, K 14.1, G 24]
Phaëthon
Titanomachy
The Odyssey
Themis & Astraea (Dikê)
Mêtis and birth of Athena
Marduk
Hermaphroditus [K 10.2, O 4.285-388]
Etana (see 18.Sun)
Jîmûtavâhana
Orphic Theogony (G 1.1, Ga 741-53)
The Anzu Bird and the Tablet of Destiny [Dalley 205-7]
Gilgamesh and the Plant of Life (see 18.Sun)
Inanna and the Halub (Huluppu) tree [Wolkstein & Kramer 3-9]
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