Draft:Outline of mythology

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

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

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

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

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

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 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