List of mythologies

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

Contents

[edit] Mythologies by region

[edit] Africa

Further information: African traditional religions

[edit] North Africa

[edit] West Africa

[edit] Central Africa

[edit] East Africa

[edit] Southern Africa

[edit] Arctic

Further information: Shamanism in Siberia

overlaps with North Asia, Northern Europe and North America.

[edit] Asia

[edit] Southwestern Asia

Main article: Middle Eastern mythology

Middle East, Persia, Anatolia, Caucasus.

ancient
Further information: Ancient Near Eastern religion
medieval to modern

[edit] South Asia

[edit] East Asia

[edit] Southeast Asia

[edit] Central and Northern Asia

Further information: Shamanism in Siberia

(overlaps with Eastern and Northern Europe)

[edit] Australia and Oceania

[edit] Europe

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

[edit] Classical Antiquity

[edit] Northern Europe

Further information: Scandinavian folklore

[edit] British Isles

[edit] Western Europe

Further information: Continental Germanic mythology

[edit] Eastern Europe

Further information: Altaic mythology and Scythian mythology

[edit] Southern Europe

[edit] Americas

[edit] North America

Algonquian (northeastern US, Great Lakes)
Plains Indians
Muskogean (southern US) and Iroquois (Eastern US)
Alaska and Arctic Canada
Pacific Northwest
Uto-Aztecan (Great Basin to Mexico)
other southwestern US

[edit] Mesoamerica

[edit] Caribbean

[edit] South America

[edit] African diasporic

Further information: African diasporic religions

[edit] Mythologies by religion

Further information: Myth and religion

[edit] Mythologies by time period

Ancient mythologies by period of first attestation.

Bronze Age
Iron Age
Late Antiquity

[edit] See also