List of mythologies

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

Mythologies by region

Africa

Central Africa

• Bantu mythology
• 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)
• Kintu, Kaikuzi, Warumbe etc. (Uganda)

Horn of Africa

• Somali mythology

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)

Southern Africa

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

Arctic

overlaps with North Asia, Northern Europe and North America.

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

Asia

Southwestern Asia

Middle East, Persia, Anatolia, Caucasus.

Ancient

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

Medieval to Modern

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

South Asia

• Ayyavazhi mythology
• Hindu mythology/ Vedic mythology/ Indian epic poetry
• Tamil mythology
• Buddhist mythology

East Asia

• Chinese mythology
• Japanese mythology
• Korean mythology
• Tibetan mythology
• Ryukyuan mythology
• Ainu mythology

Southeast Asia

• Philippine mythology
• Malay mythology
• Indonesian mythology
• Vietnamese mythology

Central and Northern Asia

(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
• Kaluli creation myth
• Melanesian mythology
• Micronesian mythology
• Papuan mythology
• Polynesian mythology
  • Hawaiian mythology
  • Mangarevan mythology
  • Māori mythology
  • Rapa Nui mythology
  • Samoan mythology
  • Tahitian mythology
  • Tongan mythology
  • Tuvaluan mythology

Europe

Classical Antiquity

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

British Isles

• Celtic mythology
  • Goidelic (Gaelic) mythology
    • Irish mythology
    • Manx mythology
    • Scottish mythology
  • Brythonic mythology
    • Breton mythology
    • Cornish mythology
    • Welsh 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)
• Adyghe Habze

South Caucasus/Transcaucasia

• Armenian mythology
• Georgian mythology

Eastern Europe

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

Northern Europe

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

Southern Europe

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

Western Europe

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

Americas

Mesoamerica

• Aztec mythology
• Maya mythology
• Olmec mythology

Caribbean

• Bacoo
• Haitian mythology

South America

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

African diasporic

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

Mythologies by religion

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

Syncretic mythologies

• Theosophical mythology

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
• 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