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This is a list of Mythologies of the world, by culture and region.
Mythologies by region[]
Africa[]
Further information: African traditional religions
North Africa[]
- Berber mythology
- Egyptian mythology (Pre-Islamic)
West Africa[]
- 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)
- see shared West African Mythology (Togo, Cameroun, Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Gambia, Mali, Senegal,Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone)
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)
- Somali Mythology (Horn of Africa)
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.
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)
- Semitic mythology
- Hittite mythology
- Hurrian mythology
- Scythian mythology
- Medieval to Modern
- Armenian mythology
- Ossetian mythology
- Arabian mythology
- Islamic mythology
- Kurdish mythology
- Persian mythology
South Asia[]
East Asia[]
Southeast Asia[]
Central and Northern Asia[]
Further information: Shamanism in Siberia
(overlaps with Eastern and Northern Europe)
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[]
Classical Antiquity[]
Northern Europe[]
Further information: Scandinavian folklore
Eastern Europe[]
Further information: Altaic mythology and Scythian mythology
- Georgian 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
British Isles[]
Americas[]
North America[]
- Algonquian (northeastern US, Great Lakes)
- Plains Indians
- 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
- Pacific Northwest
- Uto-Aztecan (Great Basin to Mexico)
- other southwestern US
- Post-Columbian
Mesoamerica[]
Caribbean[]
South America[]
African diasporic[]
Further information: African diasporic religions
Mythologies by religion[]
Further information: Myth and religion
Syncretic mythologies[]
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
See also[]
- List of deities
- List of legendary creatures
- List of mythological objects
- National myth
- List of creation myths
- Mythopoeia (genre)
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