4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Erich Neumann's 1955 Jungian analysis of the Great Mother archetype — cataloguing her manifestations as nurturing, devouring, and transformative across global mythology, art, and religion.
Erich Neumann's 1949 magnum opus proposing that the development of human consciousness recapitulates a universal archetypal sequence visible in world mythology — from the uroboros through the hero myth to individuation.
Scottish social anthropologist whose monumental comparative mythology work The Golden Bough synthesized global data on magic, religion, fertility cults, and dying-and-rising gods, profoundly shaping 20th-century thought on religion and culture.
Monumental scholarly work by Calvert Watkins (1995). Reconstructs aspects of Proto-Indo-European poetic language and formula, with sustained focus on the dragon-slaying formula as it appears across Vedic, Greek, Hittite, Celtic, Germanic, and other Indo-European traditions.