The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to mythology:

Myth is a genre of folklore or theology consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society, such as foundational tales or origin myths. For folklorists, historians, philosophers or theologians this is very different from the use of "myth" simply indicating that something is not true. Instead, the truth value of a myth is not a defining criterion.

What type of thing is mythology?

Mythology can be described as all of the following:

A mythology is a culture's collection of myths

A culture's collection of myths –

• Element of culture –
  • Tradition –
    • Traditional stories –
    • Genre of literature –
  • Component of a religion –

Mythology is an academic discipline

Academic discipline –

• Branch of science –
  • Branch of social science –
    • Branch of anthropology – the academic discipline of mythology is a branch of anthropology, which is the study of various aspects of humans within past and present societies.
      • Branch of cultural anthropology
      • Branch of anthropology of religion

Mythologies by region

• Mythology in the Low Countries
• Mythology of the Caucasus
• Classical mythology
• Index of Egyptian mythology articles
• Bengali mythology
• Bön
• Cahuilla mythology
• Cantabrian mythology
• Chilote mythology
• Cook Islands mythology
• Ekoi mythology
• Fijian mythology
• Folklore of Romania
• Fragments of Lappish Mythology
• Guarani mythology
• Hebrew mythology
• Hebridean mythology and folklore
• Hurrians
• Kalenjin mythology
• Komi mythology
• Louisiana Voodoo
• Maasai mythology
• Macedonian Slavic mythology
• Mbuti mythology
• Muisca religion and mythology
• Niuean mythology
• Odinani
• Olmec religion
• Paleo-Balkan mythology
• Pre-Christian Alpine traditions
• Proto-Indo-European religion
• Samseong mythology
• Tahiti and Society Islands mythology
• Teutonic Mythology
• Tsimshian mythology
• Turkish folklore
• Uralic mythologies
• Ute mythology
• West African Vodun
• Yoruba religion

African mythology

Central African mythology

• Bantu mythology
• Bushongo mythology (Congo)
• Baluba mythology
• Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
• Lugbara mythology (Congo)

East African mythology

• Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
• Dinka mythology (Sudan)
• Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
• Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)
• Kintu, Kaikuzi, Warumbe etc. (Uganda)

Horn of Africa mythology

• Somali mythology

North African mythology

• Berber mythology
• Egyptian mythology (Pre- Islamic)
  • Ancient Egyptian religion

West African mythology

• 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 African mythology

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

Arctic mythology

overlaps with North Asia, Northern Europe and North America.

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

Asian mythology

Southwest Asian mythology

Middle East, Persia, Anatolia, Caucasus.

Ancient mythology in Southwest Asia

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

Medieval to Modern mythology in Southwest Asia

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

South Asian mythology

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

Southeast Asian mythology

• Mythology of Indonesia
  • Balinese mythology
• Philippine mythology
• Vietnamese mythology

East Asian mythology

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

Central and Northern Asian mythology

(overlaps with Eastern and Northern Europe)

• Mythology of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples
• Scythian mythology
• Mongolian mythology
• Mongol mythology

Oceanian mythology

• Mythology of Australia
  • 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

European mythology

• Romani mythology

Mythology of classical antiquity

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

Mythology of the British Isles

• Anglo-Saxon paganism
• Celtic mythology
  • Goidelic (Gaelic) mythology
    • Irish mythology
    • Manx mythology
    • Scottish mythology
  • Brythonic mythology
    • Breton mythology
    • Cornish mythology
    • Welsh mythology
  • Mythologies of the countries of the United Kingdom

North Caucasus mythology

• 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 European mythology

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

Northern European mythology

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

Southern European mythology

• Albanian mythology
• Catalan mythology
• Greek mythology
• Italian mythology
  • Mythology of Italy
• Lusitanian mythology
• Maltese mythology
• Spanish mythology
• Turkish mythology

Western European mythology

• Continental Germanic mythology
• Alpine mythology
• Basque mythology
• Frankish mythology
• French mythology

Mythologies of the Americas

• Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas

North American mythology

• Abenaki mythology
• Anishinaabe traditional beliefs
• Blackfoot mythology
• Blackfoot religion
• Cherokee mythology
• Choctaw mythology
• Creek mythology
• Haida mythology
• Ho-Chunk mythology
• Hopi mythology
• Iroquois mythology
• Kwakwaka'wakw mythology
• Lakota mythology
• Lenape mythology
• Miwok mythology
• Navajo mythology
• Ohlone mythology
• Pawnee mythology
• Pomo religion
• Seneca mythology
• Zuni mythology

Mesoamerican mythology

• Mexican mythology
• Aztec mythology
• Maya mythology
• Olmec mythology

Caribbeann mythology

• Haitian mythology

South American mythology

• Brazilian mythology
• Chilean mythology
• Indian mythology
• Inca mythology
• Muisca mythology
• Guaraní mythology
• Mapuche mythology
  • Chilota mythology

African diasporic

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

Mythologies by religion

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

Fictional mythologies

Syncretic mythologies

• Theosophical mythology

Mythologies by time period

Ancient mythologies by period of first attestation.

Bronze Age mythologies

• Proto-Indo-European mythology (reconstructed)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian mythology (reconstructed)
• Mesopotamian mythology (Sumerian, Akkadian)
• Egyptian mythology
  • Index of Egyptian mythology articles
• Persian mythology
• Hittite mythology
• Hurrian mythology
• Rigvedic mythology
• Chinese mythology
• Semitic mythology
  • Arabian mythology
  • Ancient Semitic religion
  • Babylonian mythology
  • Babylonian religion
  • Canaanite mythology
  • Canaanite religion

Iron Age mythologies

• Classical mythology
  • Greek mythology
  • Roman mythology
• Etruscan mythology
• Celtic mythology
• Germanic mythology
  • Norse mythology

Late antiquity mythologies

• Slavic mythology
• Arabian mythology

Mythology by religion

• Christian mythology
  • Jesus in comparative mythology
  • New Testament and Mythology
• Hindu mythology
• Islamic mythology
• Jewish mythology

History in mythology

• Puranic chronology
• Timeline of Chinese mythology

Features of myths

Mythological themes

• Architectural mythology
• Cattle in religion and mythology
  • Bovidae in Chinese mythology
    • Ox in Chinese mythology
• Crane in Chinese mythology
• Creation myth
  • Creation myths
• Dance in mythology and religion
• Deer in mythology
• Deities
• Dog in Chinese mythology
• Dragons in Greek mythology
• Dragons in mythology and folklore
• Elephants in mythology and religion
• Fish in Chinese mythology
• Flood myth
• Flood Mythology of China
• Giants in mythology and folklore
• Herbs in Polish mythology
• Horse in Chinese mythology
• Impalement in myth and art
• Insects in mythology
• Jötnar in Norse mythology
• Landscape mythology
• Legendary creature
  • Legendary creatures
    • Hybrid creatures in mythology
    • Legendary creatures by type
    • Legendary creatures in Hindu mythology
• LGBT themes in mythology
  • LGBT themes in African diasporic mythologies
  • LGBT themes in Chinese mythology
  • LGBT themes in Hindu mythology
  • LGBT themes in classical mythology
• Mytheme
• Mythical place
• Mythical objects
• National myth
• Numbers in Egyptian mythology
• Numbers in Norse mythology
• One-eyed creatures in mythology and fiction
• Origin-of-death myth
• Petrifaction in mythology and fiction
• Poles in mythology
• Rainbows in mythology
• Sacred objects in Japanese mythology
• Snakes in mythology
  • Snakes in Chinese mythology
• Textiles in mythology and folklore
• Trees in mythology
  • Sacred trees and groves in Germanic paganism and mythology
• Twins in mythology
• Vampires in folklore and mythology
• Witches in mythology
  • Catalan mythology about witches
• Wolves in folklore, religion and mythology
• Wrestling mythology

Mythological archetypes

• Culture hero
• Death deity
• Earth Mother
• First man or woman (disambiguation)
• Hero
• Life-death-rebirth deity
• Lunar deity
• Psychopomp
• Sky father
• Solar deity
• Trickster
• Underworld

Mythology as an academic discipline

Mythology as an academic discipline

• Religion and mythology
• Structuralist theory of mythology
• Euhemerism
• Mythopoeic thought
• Myth and ritual
• Comparative mythology

Mythology in popular culture

• By culture of origin
  • Aztec mythology in popular culture
  • Celtic mythology in popular culture
  • Chinese mythology in popular culture
  • Greek mythology in popular culture
  • Irish mythology in popular culture
  • Japanese mythology in popular culture
  • Norse mythology in popular culture
  • Welsh mythology in popular culture
• Mythology depicted in games
  • Age of Empires: Mythologies
  • Age of Mythology
  • Age of Mythology: The Boardgame
  • Age of Mythology: The Titans
• Mythology depicted in films
  • List of films based on Greco-Roman mythology
  • List of films based on Slavic mythology
• Mythology depicted in literature
  • Anita Blake mythology
  • William Blake's mythology
  • Lovecraft Mythos
• Mythology depicted in TV shows
  • Mythology of Fringe
  • Mythology of Heroes
  • Mythology of Lost
  • Mythology of Stargate
  • Mythology of Teen Wolf
  • Mythology of The Librarian
  • Mythology of The X-Files
    • The X-Files Mythology, Volume 1 – Abduction
    • The X-Files Mythology, Volume 2 – Black Oil
    • The X-Files Mythology, Volume 3 – Colonization
    • The X-Files Mythology, Volume 4 – Super Soldiers

Mythology organizations

Mythology publications

• List of mythology books and sources
• Bulfinch's Mythology
• Creative Mythology
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
• Historical Atlas of World Mythology
• Investigations into Germanic Mythology
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• The Mythology of All Races

Persons influential in mythology

See also

• 2012 phenomenon
• Adam Kasia
• Antemurale myth
• Apocalypse
• Archaeomythology
• Branding national myths and symbols
• Cambridge Ritualists
• Chut (Belarusian mythology)
• Culture hero
• List of culture heroes
• Damavik
• Demythologization
• Devourer
• Divine Council
• Düzgün Baba
• Dzedka
• End time
• Eschatology
• Etiology
• Euhemerism
• Forgiveness
• Hau (sociology)
• Heaven
• Lampetho
• Lazavik
• The Legend of Diyes
• Legend of the Four Blood Bars
• Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae
• Missing sun motif
• Myth
• Mytheme
• Mythology of Oceania
• Namas (rishi)
• Origin-of-death myth
• Prophecy
• Pyra of Herakles
• Resurrection
• Sardus
• The Sekhmet Hypothesis
• Selk'nam mythology
• Shahrokh (mythical bird)
• Shatans
• Vaduthala Nair
• The Witch of Atlas
• Younik
• Zheuzhyk
• Zhytsen
• Zlydzens
• Magic and mythology
• Archetypal literary criticism
• Artificial mythology

• Fairy
• Fable
• Geomythology
• Mythopoeia, artificially constructed mythology, mainly for the purpose of storytelling

Lists

• Library of Congress Classification:Class B, subclass BL -- Religions. Mythology. Rationalism
• List of characters in mythology novels by Rick Riordan
• List of women warriors in folklore
• List of people, items and places in Norse mythology
• List of rape victims from ancient history and mythology

Mythology links

• Antimachus in Greek mythology

• Modern understanding of Greek mythology
• Greek mythology in western art and literature

• Deities of Philippine mythology
• Dionysus in comparative mythology
• Feminist revisionist mythology
• Imperial examination in Chinese mythology

• Jesus in comparative mythology
• Language and mythology
• Loki: Heroes of Mythology (RPG)

• Money, A Mythology of Darkness (fantasy film)

• Monster Mythology (RPG)
• Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
• Mythology and legacy of Benjamin Banneker
• Mythology in Rick Riordan's works
• Mythology of Carnivàle
• Mythology Tour

• New Testament and Mythology
• No Mythologies to Follow
• Nouvelles Mythologies

• Nuu-chah-nulth mythology
• P-Funk mythology
• Personal mythology
• The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies
• Theban kings in Greek mythology
• V – The New Mythology Suite

References

External links

• The New Student's Reference Work/Mythology, ed. Beach (1914), at wikisource.
• Leonard, Scott. "The History of Mythology: Part I". Youngstown State University.
• Greek mythology
• Sacred texts
• Myths and Myth-Makers Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by comparative mythology by John Fiske.
• LIMC Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, a database of ancient objects linked with mythology
• Joseph Campbell on Bill Moyers's The Power of Myth
• Dreams, Visions, and Myths: Making Sense of Our World

Journals about mythology

• Amaltea, Journal of Myth Criticism
• Mythological Studies Journal
• New Comparative Mythology / Nouvelle Mythologie Comparée
• Ollodagos
• Studia Mythologica Slavica
• The Journal of Germanic Mythology and Folklore