List of mythologies
This is a list of Mythologies of the world, by culture and region.
Mythologies by region
Africa
North Africa
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)
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)
Southern Africa
- Khoikhoi mythology
- Lozi mythology (Zambia)
- Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
- Zulu mythology (South Africa)
Arctic
overlaps with North Asia, Northern Europe and North America.
Asia
Southwestern 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
- Turkish mythology
South Asia
East Asia
Southeast Asia
Central and Northern Asia
(overlaps with Eastern and Northern Europe)
Australia and Oceania
- Australian Aboriginal mythology
- Hawaiian mythology
- Maori mythology
- Melanesian mythology
- Micronesian mythology
- Papuan mythology
- Polynesian mythology
- Rapa Nui mythology
Europe
Classical Antiquity
- Greek mythology
- Roman mythology
- Etruscan mythology
- Celtic mythology
- Germanic mythology
- Paleo-Balkans mythology
- Lusitanian mythology
Northern Europe
British Isles
Western Europe
Eastern Europe
Southern Europe
Americas
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
Mesoamerica
Caribbean
South America
African diasporic
Mythologies by religion
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