If the way Ka turns Garuḍa’s theft of amṛta, Prajāpati’s world-birthing desire, and the churning of the ocean into meditations on mind and origin thrilled you, you’ll love how The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony treats Greek myth the same way—Europa’s abduction, Cadmus founding Thebes, and Dionysus’s unruly advent unfold as radiant stories that double as a philosophy of how a civilization thinks in myth.

As Ka spirals through Indra’s battles, Śiva’s ash-smeared dances, and the Buddha’s serene ruptures without a straight timeline, Pavić’s lexicon-novel lets you piece together the Khazar conversion legend from three interwoven "sources." Like tracking Prajāpati’s many masks across Veda and Purāṇa, you navigate entries, cross-references, and mirrored tales until a myth-history blooms in your hands.

If the jeweled vignettes of Ka—Gāṅgā’s descent, Garuḍa’s flight, the Buddha’s parables—enchanted you in how each small scene refracts the whole, Invisible Cities offers that same pleasure: Marco Polo’s city-portraits, told to Kublai Khan, are exquisite fragments whose accumulation becomes a meditation on memory, desire, and the architecture of the mind.

If what gripped you in Ka was its Upaniṣadic thread—the dialogues on ātman, the "neti neti" undertone, Indra’s search for the self with Prajāpati, and the Buddha’s quiet, world-altering presence—then Siddhartha will resonate. Hesse follows a seeker from ritual to asceticism to the river’s wordless teaching, echoing the way Ka turns story into a path toward seeing.

If you savored the sumptuous, image-laden cadences of Ka—its lush evocations of Soma’s shimmer, Agni’s tongues, and the sensuous terror of gods stepping into the world—Ovid’s Metamorphoses gives that same intoxication in another key: a river of transformations where language itself seems to ripple as Daphne becomes laurel and the cosmos is remade by desire.