Michael Delahoyde, PhD

Professor of English

Animals in Mythology

Mythology
Delahoyde & Hughes

ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY

Animals seem always to have triggered a complex of emotions and psychological reactions in humans, from admiration and awe to fear and awe. They become the representative manifestations of qualities we try to repress in ourselves and the often victimized recipients of our projected inferiorities. So naturally they not only appear in myths but in many cases seem intrinsically mythological in dimension.


Ants

Apes

Bats

Birds

Butterflies

Cats

Dogs

Horses

Lizards

Snakes

Spiders

Wolves