List of mythologies explained

Mythologies by region

Africa

• Bantu mythology

Central Africa

• Baluba mythology
• Bushongo mythology
• Kongo mythology
• Lugbara mythology
• Mbuti mythology

East Africa

See also: Kushite mythology.

• Kalenjin folklore
• Dinka mythology
• Kalenjin mythology
• Lotuko mythology
• Maasai mythology
• Somali mythology

North Africa

• Berber mythology
• Egyptian mythology

Southern Africa

See also: South African folklore and Afrikaans folklore.

• • Lozi mythology Malagasy mythology
• San mythology
  • Tumbuka mythology Zulu mythology

West Africa

• Akan mythology
• Dahomean mythology
• Dogon mythology
• Efik mythology
• Igbo mythology
• Serer mythology
  • Urhobo mythology Yoruba mythology

African Diasporic

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

Americas

See main article: Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

North America

Native

• 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

Modern

• Cryptozoology

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

East Asia

• Ainu mythology
• Bai mythology
• Chinese mythology
• Japanese mythology
• Shinto religion
• Korean mythology
• Manchu mythology
• Mongol mythology
• Qiang mythology
• Ryukyuan mythology
• Tibetan mythology
• Taiwanese folk
• Chinese mythology

South Asia

• Buddhist mythology
• Hindu mythology
  • Ayyavazhi mythology
  • Tamil mythology
  • Vedic mythology
• Romani mythology

Southeast Asia

• Burmese mythology
• Indonesian mythology
  • Balinese mythology
• Malaysian mythology
• Meitei mythology
• Philippine mythology
• Vietnamese mythology
• Thai mythology

West Asia

• Abrahamic mythology
  • Christian mythology
    • Assyrian
    • Baptism
    • Protestant
    • Orthodoxy
  • Islamic mythology
    • Shia Islam
    • Sunni Islam
  • 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

Northern Europe

• Proto-Uralic mythology
  • Komi mythology
  • Finnic mythology
    • Estonian mythology
    • Finnish mythology
    • Mari mythology
    • Sami mythology
• Germanic mythology
  • 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
• Roman mythology
• Italian mythology
• Spanish mythology
  • Catalan myths and legends
• Cult of Artemis

Western Europe

• Basque mythology
• Celtic mythology
  • Brythonic mythology
    • Breton mythology
    • Cornish mythology
    • Welsh 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
• Greek mythology
• Wiccan deities
• Gnostic mythology
• Norse mythology

Mythologies by time period

Ancient mythologies by period of first attestation.

Bronze Age

• Hindu mythology
• Canaanite mythology
• Chinese mythology
• Egyptian mythology
• Hittite mythology
• Hurrian mythology
• Sumerian mythology
• Persian mythology
• Proto-Indo-European mythology
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian mythology

Iron Age

• Celtic mythology
• Classical mythology
  • Greek mythology
  • Roman mythology
• Etruscan mythology
• Japanese mythology
• Germanic mythology
  • Anglo-Saxon mythology
  • Norse mythology

Late Antiquity

• Arabian mythology
• Slavic mythology

Fictional mythologies

• List of fictional deities
• Cthulhu Mythos
• Glorantha
• William Blake's mythology
• J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
• Discworld

See also

• List of creation myths
• List of legendary creatures by type
• List of mythology books and sources
• List of mythological objects
• List of culture heroes
• List of world folk-epics
• Lists of deities
• Lists of legendary creatures
• National myth
• Mythopoeia