In When The Gods Came Down, Alford extended the scope of his study to Mesopotamian and biblical mythology.

For example the older ancestral mythology might be merged with foreign mythology, such as Hindu, Islam, or Christian biblical mythology.

Hawthorne relies heavily on the use of symbols in his work, and often includes references to classical and biblical mythology.

There exists a wide range of secular Christmas stories, told in popular music, on television, and in the cinema, that are told about the Christian holiday of Christmas, that may be based on or allegorize the biblical Christian mythology of Christmas, as the birth of Jesus, but not necessarily.

"It is a spectacular encyclopedia of classical and biblical mythology - a picture book of all secular knowledge in the world at the time," Dr. de Hamel said.

The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist explores the role that entheogens in general, and Amanita muscaria in particular, played in Greek and biblical mythology and later on in Renaissance painting, most notably in the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald.