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117 works cited

Aeneid, Book 6
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
Cited inSognare un ponte · Dream symbol Sognare un fiume · Dream symbol Sognare una barca · Dream symbol
Amaterasu
Itō Satoshi · Kokugakuin University Encyclopedia of Shinto
Cited inAmaterasu e la caverna · Story
Ame-no-Uzume: The Goddess Who Brought Light Back to the World
Government of Japan
Cited inAmaterasu e la caverna · Story
Ameno Iwayato
Matsumura Takeo · Kokugakuin University Encyclopedia of Shinto
Cited inAmaterasu e la caverna · Story
Argonautica, Book 4, lines 55–65Primary text
Apollonius of Rhodes · Dickinson College Commentaries
Cited inSelene ed Endimione · Story
Bell with image of Tlaloc
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare la pioggia · Dream symbol
British Museum — Antico Egitto
Cited inMitologia egizia · Tradition
British Museum — saggi sulla collezione e schede degli oggetti
Cited inMitologia cinese · Tradition
Cath Maige Tuired (Irish text)
Anonymous; edited by Elizabeth A. Gray · CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, University College Cork (text ID G300010)
Cited inLugh alla porta di Tara · Story
Cath Maige Tuired: The Second Battle of Mag TuiredPrimary text
Anonymous; translated by Elizabeth A. Gray · CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, University College Cork (text ID T300010), from the Irish Texts Society edition of 1982
Cited inLugh alla porta di Tara · Story
Ceremonial box
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare l'oceano · Dream symbol
Chair Strip with Cranes and Lantern
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare una lanterna · Dream symbol
Chang E Flying to the Moon
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inChang’e e la Luna · Story
Chang’e
The British Museum
Cited inChang’e e la Luna · Story
Copper-alloy figure of Epona
The British Museum
Cited inSognare un cavallo · Dream symbol
Cuneiform tablet concerning Tiamat's creatures
The British Museum
Cited inSognare l'oceano · Dream symbol
Cuneiform tablet: part of the legend of Etana
The British Museum
Cited inSognare di volare · Dream symbol
Cylinder seal and modern impression: so-called banquet scene
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare un banchetto · Dream symbol
Daikoku and Ebisu
The British Museum
Cited inSognare i pesci · Dream symbol
Description of Greece, 5.1.4–5Primary text
Pausanias · Theoi Classical Texts Library
Cited inSelene ed Endimione · Story
Divine Egypt: Ruling the Cosmos
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare il sole · Dream symbol Sognare gli uccelli · Dream symbol
Dreams of Teeth Falling Out: An Empirical Investigation of Physiological and Psychological Correlates
Frontiers in Psychology
Cited inSognare che cadano i denti · Dream symbol
Dreams of the deceased: A scoping and mixed-methods systematic review
Sleep, indexed by PubMed
Cited inSognare qualcuno che è morto · Dream symbol
East Asian Cultural Exchange in Tiger and Dragon Paintings
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare una tigre · Dream symbol
Ebisu
The British Museum
Cited inSognare i pesci · Dream symbol
Endymion Sleeping
Guercino · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSelene ed Endimione · Story
From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico: The Legend of the Suns
University Press of Colorado Open Books
Cited inQuetzalcoatl e le Ossa Preziose · Story
Gilgamesh
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare una foresta · Dream symbol
Goddesses, Mothers, Rulers
Penn Museum
Cited inSognare un bambino · Dream symbol
Greenfield Papyrus: the solar barque
The British Museum
Cited inSognare la luce · Dream symbol
Hanging scroll: Fujin releasing wind from his bag
The British Museum
Cited inSognare il vento · Dream symbol
Hanuman Bearing the Mountaintop with Medicinal Herbs
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare una scimmia · Dream symbol
Hecate
The British Museum
Cited inSognare di essere persi · Dream symbol
Hesiod, Theogony 116–125
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
Cited inSognare l'oscurità · Dream symbol
Hesiod, Theogony 211–232
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
Cited inSognare l'oscurità · Dream symbol
History and Mythology of the Aztecs: The Codex Chimalpopoca
Translated by John Bierhorst · University of Arizona Press
Cited inQuetzalcoatl e le Ossa Preziose · Story
Hokusai: The Great Picture Book of Everything — Large Print Guide
The British Museum
Cited inSognare una montagna · Dream symbol
Homer, Iliad, Book 1
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
Cited inSognare una freccia · Dream symbol
Homer, Odyssey, Book 11
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
Cited inSognare qualcuno che è morto · Dream symbol
Homeric Hymn 18 to Hermes
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
Cited inSognare di essere persi · Dream symbol
Hou Yi shoots down nine extra suns
The British Museum
Cited inSognare il sole · Dream symbol Sognare una freccia · Dream symbol
How do you put on a torc?
The British Museum
Cited inSognare una foresta · Dream symbol
Icarus
The British Museum
Cited inSognare di volare · Dream symbol
Immortal Holding a Peach
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare un frutto · Dream symbol
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Cited inSognare un palazzo · Dream symbol
Inana’s Descent to the Nether World: Bibliography and Cuneiform Sources
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford
Cited inInanna e le Sette Porte · Story
Inana’s Descent to the Nether World: TranslationPrimary text
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford
Cited inInanna e le Sette Porte · Story
Isis nursing Horus in the marshes
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare un bambino · Dream symbol
Japan Search — collezioni culturali nazionali
Cited inMitologia giapponese · Tradition
Key-bearers of Greek Temples: The Temple Key as a Symbol of Priestly Authority
Mythos, OpenEdition Journals
Cited inSognare una chiave · Dream symbol
Khipu
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Cited inSognare un filo · Dream symbol
Lovers in Italian Mythological Prints
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare di essere inseguiti · Dream symbol
Luring the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Out of a Cave with Music; Death of the Historical Buddha
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare uno specchio · Dream symbol Sognare la luce · Dream symbol Sognare il sole · Dream symbol
Marble sarcophagus with garlands and the myth of Theseus and Ariadne
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare di essere persi · Dream symbol
Marble sarcophagus with the myth of Selene and Endymion
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare la luna · Dream symbol
Marble votive relief of Hecate
The British Museum
Cited inSognare una chiave · Dream symbol
Matsya Avatara (Vishnu's Fish Avatar)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare i pesci · Dream symbol
Metropolitan Museum — collezione di arte cinese
Cited inMitologia cinese · Tradition
Moon Phases
NASA Science
Cited inSognare la luna · Dream symbol
Nanna-Suen's journey to Nibru: bibliography and cuneiform sources
Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford
Cited inNanna naviga verso Nibru · Story
Nanna-Suen's journey to Nibru: translationPrimary text
J. A. Black, G. Cunningham, E. Robson and G. Zolyomi (eds.) · Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, University of Oxford
Cited inNanna naviga verso Nibru · Story
Nanna/Suen/Sin (god)
Adam Stone · Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses, Oracc and the UK Higher Education Academy
Cited inNanna naviga verso Nibru · Story
Normal Grief and Complicated Bereavement among Traumatized Cambodian Refugees: Cultural Context and the Central Role of Dreams of the Dead
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, archived by PubMed Central
Cited inSognare qualcuno che è morto · Dream symbol
Obon
Government of Japan
Cited inSognare una lanterna · Dream symbol
Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Cited inSognare un fiume · Dream symbol
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 10
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
Cited inSognare qualcuno che è morto · Dream symbol
Painting of the moon god Chandra
The British Museum
Cited inSognare la luna · Dream symbol
Perchance to Dream: Dream Divination in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Society of Biblical Literature
Cited inSognare che cadano i denti · Dream symbol
Phrase about the female deity Mazu
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare l'oceano · Dream symbol
Pwyll Prince of DyfedPrimary text
Anonymous; literal English translation by Will Parker · The Four Branches of the Mabinogi
Cited inRhiannon e Pwyll · Story
Pyramidion depicting Ra aboard the solar barque
The British Museum
Cited inSognare una barca · Dream symbol
Ra
The British Museum
Cited inSognare la luce · Dream symbol
Raijin
The British Museum
Cited inSognare una tempesta · Dream symbol
Ramayana, Sundara Kanda manuscript record
The British Library
Cited inSognare di volare · Dream symbol
Relief: servants carrying food and drink
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare un palazzo · Dream symbol
Rig-Veda Translation, Mandala I
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts
Cited inSognare una tempesta · Dream symbol
Saint George and the Dragon
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare un drago · Dream symbol
Sango Staff: Kneeling Female Figure (Ose Sango)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare una tempesta · Dream symbol
Sarcophagus with the myth of Diana and Actaeon
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare di essere inseguiti · Dream symbol
Shinto household altar (kamidana)
The British Museum
Cited inSognare uno specchio · Dream symbol
Shiva in Himalayan Abode with Ascetics
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare una montagna · Dream symbol
Snow (Yuki), from Fashionable Snow, Moon, and Flowers
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare la neve · Dream symbol
Spearhead depicting Durga astride a tiger
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare una tigre · Dream symbol
Staff for Shango (Ose Shango)
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Cited inSognare il tuono · Dream symbol
Stamp, Butterfly
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare una farfalla · Dream symbol
Statuette of cat-headed Bastet
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare un gatto · Dream symbol
Sun Wukong
The British Museum
Cited inSognare una scimmia · Dream symbol
Terracotta pomegranate
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare un frutto · Dream symbol
Tezcatlipoca
The British Museum
Cited inSognare uno specchio · Dream symbol
The Dragon King of the Sea
The British Museum
Cited inSognare l'oceano · Dream symbol
The Goddess Chang'e in the Lunar Palace
Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
Cited inSognare la luna · Dream symbol
The Goddess Chang’e in the Lunar Palace
Smithsonian Institution
Cited inChang’e e la Luna · Story
The Legend of Isis and the Name of RaPrimary text
UCL Digital Egypt for Universities
Cited inIside e il Nome Segreto di Ra · Story
The Legend of the Suns, paragraphs 20–31Primary text
Anonymous Nahua author; independent English translation by Jason Colavito · The Jason Colavito Library
Cited inQuetzalcoatl e le Ossa Preziose · Story
The Library of Apollodorus, Epitome 1.9
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
Cited inSognare un filo · Dream symbol
The Library, 1.7.5Primary text
Pseudo-Apollodorus · Perseus Digital Library
Cited inSelene ed Endimione · Story
The Long Steps of the Hag
Internet Archaeology
Cited inSognare la neve · Dream symbol
The Prose Edda: Gylfaginning, chapters 44–47Primary text
Snorri Sturluson; translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur · Wikisource edition of the 1916 American-Scandinavian Foundation translation
Cited inThor a Útgarða-Loki · Story Sognare un ponte · Dream symbol Sognare gli uccelli · Dream symbol Sognare un cavallo · Dream symbol Sognare un gatto · Dream symbol
The Second Battle of Moytura
Anonymous; translated by Whitley Stokes · CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts, University College Cork (text ID T300011), from Revue Celtique 12 (1891) 52–130
Cited inLugh alla porta di Tara · Story
The Symposium in Ancient Greece
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare un banchetto · Dream symbol
Thomas Jefferson's Library: About the Collection
Library of Congress
Cited inSognare una biblioteca · Dream symbol
Transcriptions of MS Harleian 5280 (Cath Maige Tuired), Coll-98/3/1/38
Scribe unidentified; in the collection of Professor Donald Mackinnon (1839–1914), Professor of Celtic · University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections, Centre for Research Collections, ArchivesSpace
Cited inLugh alla porta di Tara · Story
UCL Digital Egypt for Universities
Cited inMitologia egizia · Tradition
Università Kokugakuin — Encyclopedia of Shinto
Cited inMitologia giapponese · Tradition
Vase with Dragon amid Clouds
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare un drago · Dream symbol
Vasilisa the BeautyPrimary text
Traditional; translated by Nathan Haskell Dole · The Russian Fairy Book (Wikisource scan-backed edition)
Cited inVasilisa alla Capanna di Baba Yaga · Story
Vessel with a procession of Chahk
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare la pioggia · Dream symbol
What was Ashurbanipal's Library?
The British Museum
Cited inSognare una biblioteca · Dream symbol
White Book of Rhydderch
National Library of Wales
Cited inRhiannon e Pwyll · Story
Who were the Celts?
The British Museum
Cited inSognare una foresta · Dream symbol
Wind God Pendant (Ehecacozcatl)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare il vento · Dream symbol
Wood statuette of Hekate
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cited inSognare una chiave · Dream symbol
Woodblock print: Raijin, the Thunder God
The British Museum
Cited inSognare il tuono · Dream symbol
Xuanzang and Sun Wukong from Journey to the West
The British Museum
Cited inSognare una scimmia · Dream symbol
Zhong Kui
The British Museum
Cited inSognare l'oscurità · Dream symbol
Zhuangzi
Chinese Texts, Stanford University
Cited inSognare una farfalla · Dream symbol
Василиса Прекрасная, tale 104Primary text
Collected by Alexander Afanasyev · Народные русские сказки (Russian Wikisource)
Cited inVasilisa alla Capanna di Baba Yaga · Story

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