14 stops
Greek
The Odyssey
Odysseus's legendary 10-year journey home from the Trojan War, facing monsters, gods, and temptations along the way.
Guided journeys8 routes · 75 stops · 6 traditions
Journeys
Follow heroes and gods along legendary routes, from the wine-dark sea to the realms beyond the world.
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15 stops
Greek
Quest for the Golden Fleece
Jason and the Argonauts' epic voyage aboard the Argo to retrieve the Golden Fleece from Colchis, facing countless dangers and adventures.
12 stops
Greek
The Twelve Labors
Heracles's legendary twelve labors, assigned as penance for killing his family in a madness sent by Hera. These tasks took him across the known world and into the realm of the gods.
6 stops
Mesopotamian
The Quest for Immortality
Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, loses his beloved friend Enkidu and journeys to the ends of the earth seeking the secret of eternal life from Utnapishtim, the flood survivor.
8 stops
Mesoamerican
Descent into Xibalba
The Hero Twins descend into the Maya underworld of Xibalba, surviving deadly houses and ballcourt trials to avenge their father and defeat the lords of death.
5 stops
Polynesian
Fishing Up the Islands
Maui sails with his brothers, baits his ancestral hook Manaiakalani, and hauls a great fish from the deep — land that becomes islands when the brothers carve it too soon.
9 stops · otherworld
Norse
The Nine Realms
A circuit of the worlds gathered around the ash Yggdrasil, the realms Odin the Wanderer crosses in the Eddic poems in search of knowledge. The Eddas never give one fixed list or map of the nine worlds; this route follows the list most modern retellings use.
6 stops · otherworld
Egyptian
Journey Through the Duat
Follow the sun god's night barque into the Duat and the path the justified dead hoped to share: through guarded gates, to the weighing of the heart before Osiris, and on to the Field of Reeds. The stops combine the New Kingdom underworld books with the Book of the Dead; they are a composite route, not the itinerary of a single text.
About the journeys
Earthly voyages are drawn on a map. Journeys through otherworlds, such as the Nine Realms or the Duat, follow their realms in order, and every stop links to its place in the locations atlas. Want another route? Themed collections and study guides gather readings across traditions on Paths.