List of mythologies

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List of mythologies

This is a list of mythologies of the world, by culture and region.

Mythologies by region

Africa

Further information: African traditional religions

Central Africa

• Bushongo mythology (Congo)
• Baluba mythology
• Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
• Lugbara mythology (Congo)

East Africa

• Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
• Dinka mythology (Sudan)
• Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
• Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)

Horn of Africa

• Somali mythology

North Africa

• Berber mythology
• Egyptian mythology (Pre-Islamic)

West Africa

Further information: West African Mythology

• Akan mythology
• Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
• Dahomey (Fon) mythology
• Edo mythology (Nigeria, Benin) *(Also connected to Edo Mysteries)
• Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
• Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
• Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
• Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)

Southern Africa

• Khoikhoi mythology
• Lozi mythology (Zambia)
• Malagasy mythology
• Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
• Zulu mythology (South Africa)

Arctic

Further information: Shamanism in Siberia

overlaps with North Asia, Northern Europe and North America.

• Finnish mythology
• Inuit mythology
• Norse mythology
• Sami mythology

Asia

Southwestern Asia

Main article: Middle Eastern mythology

Middle East, Persia, Anatolia, Caucasus.

Ancient

Further information: Ancient Near Eastern religion

• Sumerian religion
• Mesopotamian mythology (Sumerian, Assyro-Babylonian)*
• Persian mythology
• Semitic mythology
  • Babylonian mythology
  • Arabian mythology
  • Canaanite mythology
• Hittite mythology
• Hurrian mythology
• Scythian mythology
• Elamite Mythology

Medieval to Modern

• Armenian mythology
• Ossetian mythology
• Arabian mythology
• Islamic mythology
• Kurdish mythology
• Persian mythology

South Asia

• Ayyavazhi mythology
• Hindu mythology
• Tamil mythology
• Buddhist mythology

East Asia

• Chinese mythology
• Japanese mythology
• Korean mythology

Southeast Asia

• Philippine mythology
• Malay mythology
• Indonesian mythology

Central and Northern Asia

Further information: Shamanism in Siberia

(overlaps with Eastern and Northern Europe)

• Mythology of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples
• Scythian mythology
• Mongolian mythology
• Finnic mythology

Australia and Oceania

• Australian Aboriginal mythology
• Hawaiian mythology
• Kaluli creation myth
• Maori mythology
• Melanesian mythology
• Micronesian mythology
• Papuan mythology
• Polynesian mythology
• Rapa Nui mythology

Europe

Further information: European folklore, Christian mythology, and Folk Catholicism

Classical Antiquity

• Greek mythology
• Roman mythology
• Etruscan mythology
• Paleo-Balkans mythology
• Lusitanian mythology

Northern Europe

Further information: Scandinavian folklore

• Germanic paganism
• Norse mythology
• Finnic mythology
  • Estonian mythology
  • Finnish mythology
  • Sami mythology
• Slavic mythology
  • Baltic mythology
    • Latvian mythology
    • Lithuanian mythology
    • Polish mythology
    • Prussian mythology

Eastern Europe

Further information: Mythology of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples and Scythian mythology

• Hungarian mythology
• Roma (Gypsy) mythology
• Slavic mythology
• Romanian mythology
• Tatar mythology

Southern Europe

• Albanian mythology
• Catalan mythology
• Greek mythology
• Lusitanian mythology
• Maltese mythology
• Spanish mythology
• Turkish mythology

Western Europe

Further information: Continental Germanic mythology

• Alpine mythology
• Basque mythology
• Frankish mythology
• French mythology

North Caucasus

• Nart saga (Covers Abazin, Abkhaz, Circassian, Ossetian, Karachay-Balkar and Chechen-Ingush mythologies)
• Ossetian mythology
• Vainakh mythology (Covers Chechen and Ingush mythology)

South Caucasus/Transcaucasia

• Armenian mythology
• Georgian mythology

British Isles

• Celtic mythology
• English mythology
• Irish mythology
• Scottish mythology
• Welsh mythology

Americas

North America

See also: Native American mythology

Post-Columbian

• Folklore of the United States

Mesoamerica

• Aztec mythology
• Maya mythology
• Olmec mythology

Caribbean

• Haitian mythology

South America

• Chilota mythology
• Inca mythology
• Guaraní mythology
• Mapuche mythology

African diasporic

Further information: African diasporic religions

• Hoodoo
• Vodou
• Santería
• Obeah
• Kumina
• Palo
• Candomblé
• Umbanda
• Quimbanda

Mythologies by religion

Further information: Myth and religion

• Buddhist mythology
• Christian mythology
• Hindu mythology
• Islamic mythology
• Jewish mythology

Syncretic mythologies

• Theosophical mythology

Modern Mythologies

Ancient mythologies by period of first attestation.

Bronze Age

• Proto-Indo-European mythology (reconstructed)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian mythology (reconstructed)
• Mesopotamian mythology (Sumerian, Akkadian)
• Egyptian mythology
• Persian mythology
• Canaanite mythology
• Hittite mythology
• Hurrian mythology
• Rigvedic mythology
• Chinese mythology

Iron Age

• Classical mythology
  • Greek mythology
  • Roman mythology
  • Norse mythology
• Etruscan mythology
• Celtic mythology
• Germanic mythology

Late Antiquity

• Slavic mythology
• Arabian mythology

Fictional Mythologies

• William Blake's mythology
• Lovecraft Mythos

See also

• List of deities
• List of legendary creatures
• List of legendary creatures by type
• List of mythology books
• List of mythological objects
• National myth
• List of world folk-epics
• List of creation myths
• Mythopoeia (genre)