Great video! It makes sense to start with your local mythology. I’ve actually been looking online the last few days for Native American mythology books, particularly the Great Lakes region which is where I am from and live. I believe we have the Neil Gaimans Norse Mythology, I should give that a try. That Tolkien mythology book sounds interesting. Thank you for making this video. Hope you enjoy the rest of your day!

Great video! I remember in school having to read the epics Gilgamesh and Beowulf, which I think could be good mythology stories to start with, in the same vein of the Odyssey or Illiad. Another book I really enjoyed was The Book of Yokai by Michael Dylan Foster. It starts out by describing what yokai are, what they mean to Japanese culture (current and historically) and some interpretations of them. Then it goes into a sort of beastiology of yokai. I've been meaning to read Gaimen's Norse Mythology, and hope to do so this year.

I have to get that Tolkien sources book. Sounds like a great resource for fantasy writers

Dragons are cool

thank you very much, I don't think it will help me cause the books you mentioned are too heavy for a beginner in mythologies. You mentioned that in order to get into the world of mythology, it is good to start by reading one's own culture as it also is a kind of mythology. How is this so? I think mythology includes gods, super powers and miracles, if I'm not wrong. By the way, I've downloaded the mahabharata book, it's quite long but for sure will give it a try. I am reading all this along with malazan is just because I want to grasp the actual lessons that need to be learnt from novels bc I think now when I read them, I just read the book and enjoy the story , but don't digest the lessons it teaches. Hope getting into mythological reading will improve some how. Thank you