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Bell’s Pantheon: Or Historical Dictionary of the Heathen Gods and Heroes

by Robert Bell

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Bell's Pantheon is a dictionary-style compendium of mythological deities, heroes, and legendary figures from Greco-Roman, Norse, Egyptian, and Indo-European traditions. Each entry includes etymologies, regional variations, and comparative notes linking mythic archetypes across cultures. This work was intended to serve both students and general readers curious about the gods of antiquity. Richly informative and accessible, it remains a useful resource for comparative mythology and folklore studies.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Folklore” and “Legends”. Retained metadata contains “Folklore” in the description, “mythological” in the description, “Mythology” in the description, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Folklore”· via Internet Archive
    • “Legends”· via Internet Archive
    • “Folklore”· in description
    • “mythological”· in description
    • “Mythology”· in description
    • “Folklore”· in subject
  • Ancient religions, animism, and ritual

    Retained metadata contains “Gods” in the title, “deities” in the description, “Gods” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Gods”· in title
    • “deities”· in description
    • “Gods”· in description
    • “deities”· in subject
    • “Gods”· in edition title

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