List of mythologies
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This is a list of Mythologies of the world, by culture and region.
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Mythologies by region
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Africa
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North Africa
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West Africa
- Akan mythology
- Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
- Dahomey (Fon) mythology
- Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
- Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
- Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
- Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)
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Central Africa
- Bushongo mythology (Congo)
- Baluba mythology
- Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
- Lugbara mythology (Congo)
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East Africa
- Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
- Dinka mythology (Sudan)
- Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
- Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)
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Southern Africa
- Khoikhoi mythology
- Lozi mythology (Zambia)
- Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
- Zulu mythology (South Africa)
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Arctic
overlaps with North Asia, Northern Europe and North America.
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Asia
Middle East, Persia, Anatolia, Caucasus.
- Ancient
- Mesopotamian mythology (Sumerian, Assyro-Babylonian)
- Semitic mythology
- Hittite mythology
- Hurrian mythology
- Scythian mythology
- Medieval to Modern
- Armenian mythology
- Ossetian mythology
- Arabian mythology
- Islamic mythology
- Kurdish mythology
- Persian mythology
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South Asia
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East Asia
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Southeast Asia
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Central and Northern Asia
(overlaps with Eastern and Northern Europe)
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Australia and Oceania
- Australian Aboriginal mythology
- Hawaiian mythology
- Maori mythology
- Melanesian mythology
- Micronesian mythology
- Papuan mythology
- Polynesian mythology
- Rapa Nui mythology
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Europe
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Classical Antiquity
- Greek mythology
- Roman mythology
- Etruscan mythology
- Celtic mythology
- Germanic mythology
- Paleo-Balkans mythology
- Lusitanian mythology
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Northern Europe
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Eastern Europe
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Southern Europe
- Albanian folklore
- Catalan mythology
- Greek mythology
- Maltese mythology
- Spanish mythology
- Turkish mythology
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Western Europe
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British Isles
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Americas
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North America
- Algonquian (northeastern US, Great Lakes)
- Muskogean (southern US) and Iroquois (Eastern US)
- Iroquois mythology (Five Nations)
- Choctaw mythology
- Creek mythology
- Ho-Chunk mythology
- Huron mythology
- Seneca mythology
- Alaska and Arctic Canada
- Uto-Aztecan (Great Basin to Mexico)
- other southwestern US
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Mesoamerica
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Caribbean
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South America
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African diasporic
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Mythologies by religion
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Mythologies by time period
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
- Hittite mythology
- Hurrian mythology
- Rigvedic mythology
- Iron Age
- Late Antiquity
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See also
- List of deities
- List of legendary creatures
- List of legendary creatures by type
- List of mythology books
- List of mythological objects
- List of species in folklore and mythology
- List of species in folklore and mythology by type
- National myth
- List of world folk-epics
- Mythopoeia (genre)
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