Mythologies by region

Africa

Central Africa

* Baluba mythology * Bushongo mythology * Kongo mythology * Lugbara mythology * Mbuti mythology

East Africa

* Kalenjin folklore * Dinka mythology * Kalenjin mythology * Lotuko mythology * Maasai mythology * Somali mythology

North Africa

Egyptian mythology Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt, which describe the actions of the Egyptian pantheon, Egyptian gods as a means of understanding the world around them. The beliefs that these myths express are an important part ...

Americas

North America

* Abenaki mythology * Blackfoot mythology * Cherokee mythology * Choctaw mythology * Creek mythology * Crow mythology * Haida mythology * Hopi mythology * Inuit mythology * Iroquois mythology * Lakota mythology * Navajo mythology * Nuu-chah-nulth mythology * Ohlone mythology * Pawnee mythology * Tsimshian mythology * Zuni mythology

Caribbean

* Haitian mythology * Taíno mythology * Rastafari religion

Central America

* Aztec mythology * Maya mythology * Olmec mythology * Talamancan mythology

South America

* Brazilian mythology * Chilean mythology * Chilote mythology * Guarani mythology * Inca mythology * Mapuche mythology * Muisca mythology

Asia

Caucasus

* Armenian mythology * Circassian mythology * Georgian mythology * Ossetian mythology * Vainakh mythology * Azerbaijani mythology

Central Asia

* Scythian mythology *

Turkic mythology Turkic mythology refers to myths and legends told by the Turkic people. It features Tengrism, Tengrist and Shamanism in Central Asia, Shamanist strata of belief along with many other social and cultural constructs related to the nomadic and wa ...

East Asia

* Ainu mythology * Bai mythology *

Chinese mythology Chinese mythology () is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature throughout the area now known as Greater China. Chinese mythology encompasses a diverse array of myths derived from regional and cultural tradit ...

* Japanese mythology * Shinto religion *

Korean mythology Korean mythology () is the group of myths told by historical and modern Koreans. There are two types: the written, literary mythology in traditional histories, mostly about the founding monarchs of List of monarchs of Korea, various historical k ...

* Manchu mythology * Mongol mythology * Qiang mythology * Ryukyuan mythology * Taiwanese folk

North Asia

* Siberian mythology

South & Southeast Asia

* Buddhist mythology * Tibetan mythology * Hindu mythology ** Ayyavazhi mythology **

Tamil mythology Tamil mythology refers to the folklore and traditions that are a part of the wider Dravidian pantheon, originating from the Tamil people. This body of mythology is a fusion of elements from Dravidian peoples, Dravidian culture and the parent Ind ...

Vedic mythology The historical Vedic religion, also called Vedism or Brahmanism, and sometimes ancient Hinduism or Vedic Hinduism, constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst some of the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontin ...

* Romani mythology * Meitei mythology * Burmese mythology * Indonesian mythology ** Balinese mythology * Malaysian mythology * Philippine mythology * Vietnamese mythology * Thai mythology

West Asia

* Abrahamic mythology ** Christian mythology *** Assyrian *** Baptism ***

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Orthodoxy Orthodoxy () is adherence to a purported "correct" or otherwise mainstream- or classically-accepted creed, especially in religion. Orthodoxy within Christianity refers to acceptance of the doctrines defined by various creeds and ecumenical co ...

** Islamic mythology ***

Shia Islam Shia Islam is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political Succession to Muhammad, successor (caliph) and as the spiritual le ...

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Sunni Islam Sunni Islam is the largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any Succession to Muhammad, successor and that his closest companion Abu Bakr ...

** Jewish mythology *** Elamite mythology * Hittite mythology * Iranian mythology ** Kurdish mythology ** Mazandarani mythology ** Persian mythology ** Talysh mythology * Mesopotamian myths ** Babylonian mythology ** Sumerian mythology * Semitic mythology ** Arabian mythology ** Canaanite mythology

Europe

Eastern Europe

* Baltic mythology ** Latvian mythology ** Lithuanian mythology ** Prussian mythology * Hungarian mythology * Paleo-Balkan mythology ** Albanian mythology ** Dacian religion ** Illyrian mythology ** Thracian religion *

Slavic mythology Slavic paganism, Slavic mythology, or Slavic religion refer to the Religion, religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation of the Slavs, Christianisation, which occurred at various stages between the 8th and ...

Northern Europe

* Proto-Uralic mythology ** Komi mythology ** Finnic mythology *** Estonian mythology *** Finnish mythology *** Mari mythology *** Sami mythology *

Germanic mythology Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples, including Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon paganism#Mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology, and Continental Germanic mythology. It was a key element of Germanic paganism. O ...

** Anglo-Saxon mythology ** Continental Germanic mythology ** English mythology ** Frankish mythology ** Norse mythology ** Swiss folklore * Scottish mythology * Welsh mythology * Irish mythology ** Northern/modern Druidic/Druidism/Druidry

Southern Europe

Greek mythology Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories conc ...

Roman mythology Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans, and is a form of Roman folklore. "Roman mythology" may also refer to the modern study of these representations, and to th ...

* Italian mythology ** Catalan myths and legends * Cult of Artemis

Western Europe

* Basque mythology * Celtic mythology ** Brythonic mythology *** Breton mythology *** Cornish mythology *** Welsh mythology ** Galician mythology ** Cantabrian mythology ** Goidelic (Gaelic) mythology *** Irish mythology *** Manx mythology *** Scottish mythology ** Lusitanian mythology * Mythology in France

Oceania

* Australian Aboriginal mythology * Melanesian mythology ** Fijian mythology ** Papuan mythology * Micronesian mythology * Polynesian mythology ** Hawaiian mythology ** Mangarevan mythology ** Māori mythology ** Rapa Nui mythology ** Samoan mythology ** Tahitian mythology ** Tuvaluan mythology * Tongan Mythology * Nauruan religion * Lost Moriori mythology * Niuean mythology

Mythologies by religion

* Buddhist mythology * Christian mythology * Hindu mythology * Islamic mythology * Jewish mythology * Meitei mythology *

* Wiccan deities * Gnostic mythology * Norse mythology

Mythologies by time period

Ancient mythologies by period of first attestation.

Bronze Age

* Hindu mythology * Canaanite mythology *

* Hittite mythology * Hurrian mythology * Sumerian mythology * Persian mythology *

Proto-Indo-European mythology Proto-Indo-European mythology is the body of myths and deities associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans, speakers of the hypothesized Proto-Indo-European language. Although the mythological motifs are not directly attested – since Proto-Ind ...

** Proto-Indo-Iranian mythology

Iron Age

* Celtic mythology * Classical mythology **

* Etruscan mythology * Japanese mythology *

** Anglo-Saxon mythology ** Norse mythology

Late Antiquity

* Arabian mythology *

Fictional mythologies

* List of fictional deities * Cthulhu Mythos * Glorantha * William Blake's mythology *J.R.R. Tolkien's

Middle-earth Middle-earth is the Setting (narrative), setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the ''Midgard, Miðgarðr'' of Norse mythology and ''Middangeard'' in Old English works, including ''Beowulf'' ...

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