Beowulf

First it talks about evil and good, the difference between heaven and hell, specially how evil came to the world and where is it after everything happened. Then in a great kingdom there's a warrior who with his army will fight against a monster, and they're planning the attack, and saying that if destiny says is time for them to die, then is time, but a great warrior from outside came to and he will help them to win the battle. Defeating the monster was difficult because he kind of like enchanted the warrior's weapons so they can't hurt him, but at the end they won the battle and the monster was death. The next fight was against a witch and the third against a dragon, these warrior won all of them so everyone celebrated his victories

Sundiata, an epic of old Mali

The story takes place in Mali where a hunter defeats the red bull and marries one of the girls of the king, the problem is that the old woman who was the red bull ask the hunter to marry an specific girl from all of the daughters of the king, she has not beautiful at all, and the court didn't like her at all, and the problems got bigger when the first baby arrives, because he is already 7 years old and he doesn't walk yet. Other 2 children came and nobody knows what will happen, what would the king choose?
The first son, the one from the first wife or the next 3 with the ugly woman he married?

It was kind of confusing because of the names and stuff but I think it can have a good end, anyway is just the beginning.

African and Native American Trickster Folktales

Here it talks how ancient stories have been so popular around the world specially those from tricksters. African and native american stories have big similarities, they use animals as main characters and sometimes they play the same type of problems, although non of them is totally the same; each story shows the characteristic of each culture and how they used to teach each others by telling stories for example grandparents to grandchildren. In México we used to have the same kind of traditions, telling legends one to another or fables in which you always learn something. The problem now days is that the children and their parents are not longer interested in this kind of traditions or they have no time or we are just in a different century where these traditions are staying as old traditions

Popol Vuh

As I read I discovered that the book was about stories come of them like the genesis in our bible, stories that explain how the world was created and how they explained some mysteries on earth. Stories about the mountains and the animals, how some of the"gods" we can say created those things and how they used to fight against each other until someone wins.
It is a book from a mayan culture, but actually we can't consider it to be a bible or spiritual scrips they're just stories, or legends they used to tell to explain everything around them.
The one I liked the most was on the first chapter because it was the creation of the world, how the gods by just mentioning the name of the things made it possible to exist the difference is that the story is to short and they don;t talk really much about the flood like on the bible and that they were different types of men before the ones we know.

The Paulownia Court

In this chapter of the story, there's and emperor who loves a lady very much, the problem is that she is very sick, she is barely at the court and the other ladies kind of hate her and her son. One day the lady got very ill and died leaving behind the emperor, her mother and her son who lived at his grandmother's house until the emperor ask for him to go back.
The boy was the favorite of the emperor so he was sent to school and they took really good care of him; but there was another lady, the first on the emperor's life who was jealous of the boy because she didn't want him to take the throne instead of his son, but the boy was still very young.
I think it's the typical story of everyone being jealous of everyone and it gets pretty messy until somebody realizes the one they hate is not that bad and they are friends at the end. Anyway, it's just the first chapter, who know :)

Tao Teh Ching

I did a little research and the title means something like the road to virtue. What I've read it's mainly spiritual stuff like if you avoid can make better lives and things that things that if you really do can make a big change in it. How opposites complement each other  like difficult and easy or music and voice, and how sometimes it's better to stay in the middle of both, it's never good to go to extremes, not to much and not few. It explains that heaven and earth are forever because they do not exist for themselves and how the virtues or in this case the mystic virtues take you to better lives. I actually agree to this ideas but it's also too spiritual, I prefer objective and clear things but that's my point of view.

"The Story of Santanu and Ganga"

In the Indian culture there's kind of like a book Mahabharata with some traditional stories based on the Indian mythology, with the video and the story, I realized that as the romans and greeks they made stories about their gods and believes. From this story which is better explained than on the video I kind of like understood the most of it but it's still complicated. The fact that the king (dad) was a man of word and kept his promise, then the girl married the son of the king under the agreement he'll never question her decisions but after so much suffering loosing his 7 children he stopped her, and realized there was a curse threatening them, but as he broke the agreement the girl had to leave him with the 8th child who still had the curse.

I actually understood that the curse was because one of the ancestors stole the sacred cow of a god and gave it to one of his girls to keep someone away from suffering and sickness. I really didn't like the story at all but i's okay, it's a good story just not my type; however, I really like Indian culture and I will love to have the chance to go and appreciate it and live it personally.