In each issue of Mythic Passages, we'll share a few of our favorite links on the World Wide Web. We hope these resources help you with your own Mythic Journey.

The first this month is an on-line virtual library of sacred texts and myth sources from a dizzying spectrum of cultures from all over the world. You'll find sacred texts from the world's major religions, ancient sagas and myths, poetry, occult reference, and even some of the ancient sources for Tolkien's books. This is a truly wonderful resource, a veritable online Library of Alexandria, and a terrific place to begin your research, or just to browse and read.

We'll admit that we're a little biased about this next site, an amazing animated collection of creation myths from all over the world. The creators of The Big Myth are now partners of ours (we host this site for them) and we hope to soon begin working together to develop digital media education tools. We think this is one of the niftiest sites around, but don't take our word for it. Give them a visit yourself.

Spring Publications has been reborn, and is offering some truly important works on myth and psychology by such authors as Nor Hall, Mircea Eliade, Ginette Paris, Thomas Moore, and, of course, one Joseph Campbell. Dr. James Hillman, the father of archetypal depth psychology and one of our featured speakers, is the founder.

The Camelot Project and Celtic Twilight are two of the best places on the Web to begin your research into the Arthurian Legends. The Camelot project contains an exhaustive collection of original sources, while Celtic Twilight offers an online encyclopedia, a wealth of links, and much more. We recommend both highly.

The Encyclopedia Mythica may be one of the most important mythology resources to be found on the Internet. This is an always-growing collection of detailed entries on characters, stories, and motifs from around the world. We recommend it highly.

Here's a terrific online community for in-depth discussions of fairy tales.

Finally, we point you to three musicians who are doing some interesting work inspired by myth, Heather Dale, Michaela Foster Marsh, and Carrie Newcomer.

As we're developing our new Web site over the next few months, we're adding a section of recommended reading. In addition to book reviews (and music, spoken word, performance, film, and video reviews), we'll be offering short lists of five to ten books to introduce people to some of the concepts we'll be presenting at Mythic Journeys.

To start, here are ten basic books from a variety of genres and disciplines that we recommend to everyone associated with Mythic Journeys:

The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell

From the Beast to the Blonde
by Marina Warner

The Soul's Code
by James Hillman

Sacred Narrative: Reading in the Theory of Myth 
by Alan Dundes

Touch Magic
by Jane Yolen

The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine
by Marion Woodman and Robert Bly

Once and Future Myths
by Phil Cousineau

The Essential Rumi
by Coleman Barks

Someplace To Be Flying
by Charles de Lint (or, since we've already recommended Charles this time around, The Wood Wife by Terri Windling)

The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende