Wikipedia:WikiProject Mythology

Mythology Project
Objective: This is a place to discuss and coordinate issues relating to mythology and related articles in Wikipedia. To date, there has been extensive discussion regarding the use of the word mythology. See Talk:Mythology.

Scope: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help with the "To Do" list. In addition, to help read, edit, write, categorize, review and assess the many mythologies categories and stubs.

Definition: Mythology is the study of myth or a body of myths. While the definition of myth varies, a commonly cited definition is that of Finnish folklorist Lauri Honko:


 * Myth, a story of the gods, a religious account of the beginning of the world, the creation, fundamental events, the exemplary deeds of the gods as a result of which the world, nature, and culture were created together with all parts thereof and given their order, which still obtains. A myth expresses and confirms society's religious values and norms, it provides a pattern of behavior to be imitated, testifies to the efficacy of ritual with its practical ends, and establishes the sanctity of cult.

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 * Afqa
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 * Akabeko
 * Alatyr (mythology)
 * Amala (mythology)
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 * Ardhanarishvara
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 * Ashta Lakshmi
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 * Aspidochelone
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 * Batara Kala
 * Bayajidda
 * Bhikshatana
 * Biddenden Maids
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 * Capitoline Wolf
 * Celtic Animism
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 * Chinese Fables and Folk Stories
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 * Colombian folklore
 * The Colossus of Rhodes (Dalí)
 * List of common false etymologies of English words
 * Companions of Saint Nicholas
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 * Crouching Venus
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 * LGBT themes in Hindu mythology
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 * Homeric Hymns
 * The House of Asterion
 * Hungarian prehistory
 * Hymn to Enlil
 * Ifrit
 * Ila (Hinduism)
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 * Liễu Hạnh
 * List of fictional turtles
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 * Luceafărul (poem)
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 * Maha Sona
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 * Myrrha
 * The Myth Makers
 * Myth of the clean Wehrmacht
 * Naraka (Hinduism)
 * Nataska
 * Ninurta
 * Niuean mythology
 * Niya (mythology)
 * Nuckelavee
 * Odyssey
 * Old English Gospel of Nicodemus
 * Osiris myth
 * Palladium (classical antiquity)
 * Panchakanya
 * Patala
 * *Perkʷūnos
 * Petruk
 * Polycephaly
 * Polydorus of Troy
 * Pompeii Lakshmi
 * Prithu
 * Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
 * Psophis
 * Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid
 * Putana
 * Q'ursha
 * Qʼuqʼumatz
 * Rati
 * Ravens of the Tower of London
 * Rediculus
 * Reeri Yakseya
 * Revanta
 * Rishabhanatha
 * River dolphin
 * Roman d'Alexandre en prose
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 * Lazăr Șăineanu
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 * Henric Sanielevici
 * Santa Muerte
 * Sarama
 * Satan
 * Satyavati
 * Satyr
 * Sea Mither
 * The Secret of the Nagas
 * Semar
 * Saint Senara
 * Serglige Con Culainn
 * Sharabha
 * Shashthi
 * Shetani
 * Piers Shonks
 * Shooting an apple off one's child's head
 * Shtojzovalle
 * Shumbha and Nishumbha
 * Sinthgunt
 * Slavic creation myth
 * Sonargöltr
 * Song of the hoe
 * Sons of Odin
 * Stoor worm
 * Stuffo
 * Sülde Tngri
 * Sunstone (medieval)
 * Tablet of Shamash
 * Tara (Ramayana)
 * Tharmas
 * Thebaid (Latin poem)
 * Tigmamanukan
 * Tiyanak
 * Tlāhuizcalpantecuhtli
 * Tngri
 * Tohil
 * Toilet god
 * The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus
 * Trijata
 * Troll cat
 * Two Ladies
 * Uchchhishta Ganapati
 * Ulupi
 * Underwater panther
 * Until Dawn
 * Uttanka
 * Vaikuntha Chaturmurti
 * Vala, or The Four Zoas
 * Valhalla
 * Varaha
 * Varahi
 * Venus Anadyomene
 * Venus de' Medici
 * Vinayaki
 * Wagyl
 * Warg
 * Mami Wata
 * Water bull
 * Wayob
 * Wells in the Irish Dindsenchas
 * Werewolves of Ossory
 * White horses in mythology
 * William A. Wilson (folklorist)
 * Witch-hunts in Nepal
 * Wrath of the Titans
 * Wu Gang
 * Xenoclea
 * Xipe Totec
 * Xiuhcoatl
 * Xiuhtecuhtli
 * Yarilo
 * Yopaat
 * Zana (mythology)
 * Zduhać

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 * Christianity
 * The Colossus of Rhodes (Dalí)
 * Dali (goddess)
 * Ancient Egyptian deities
 * Ganesha
 * God of War (franchise)
 * Greek mythology
 * Hathor
 * Iravan
 * Isis
 * Kelpie
 * Kitsune
 * Names of God in Judaism
 * Noah's Ark
 * Nuckelavee
 * Orion (mythology)
 * Osiris myth
 * Rhinemaidens
 * Statue of Liberty
 * Villain
 * Vithoba

Main page featured lists

 * List of Mesopotamian deities
 * List of valkyrie names

Did you knows (DYKs)

 * Hippocamp - 12 January 2007
 * Dogs in Mesoamerican folklore and myth - 31 October 2008
 * Wayob - 28 January 2009
 * Xipe Totec - 31 January 2009
 * Cocijo - 25 February 2009
 * Xiuhtecuhtli - 1 March 2009
 * Kukulkan - 20 March 2009
 * Xiuhcoatl - 24 October 2009
 * Tohil - 3 February 2010
 * Awilix - 27 February 2010
 * Jacawitz - 2 March 2010
 * Gukumatz - 29 August 2010

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