1. Genz, Henning. nothingness. Reading: Perseus Books, 1999; Karin Heusch, Translator; Pg. 271.
2. Sproul, Barbara C. Primal Myths. San Francisco: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.  There are many other good references for this, as well.
3. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995; Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Translator; Pg. 17.
4. Sturluson, Snorri, Ed.. The Prose Edda. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984; Jean I. Young, Translator; Pg. 32.
5. Ovid. The Metamorphoses. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993; Allen Mandelbaum, Translator; Pg 3.
6. Lonnrot, Elias, Ed. The Kalevala. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963; Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr., Translator; Pgs. 4-7.
7. This can, of course, be found in any version of the Bible.
8. Graves, Robert. The Greek Myths. London: The Folio Society, 1996; Pg. 35.
9. Budge, E. A. Wallis. A Hieroglyphic Dictionary to the Book of the Dead. New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1991; Pg. 164.
10. Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Gods of the Egyptians. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1969; Vol. 1, Pgs. 416-420.
11. Clark, R. T. Rundel. Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1978; Chapter I.
12. McCall, Henrietta. Mesopotamian Myths. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990; Pgs. 62-65.
13.  McCall, Pg. 63.