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| x Irish mythology |
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Leprechaun |
The mythology of pre-Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of...
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| x Greek mythology |
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Ancient Greece | Lernaean Hydra |
Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in...
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| x Philippine mythology |
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Manananggal |
Philippine mythology and folklore include a collection of tales and superstitions about magical creatures and entities. Some Filipinos, even though heavily westernized and Christianized, still believe in such entities. The prevalence of belief in...
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| x Spanish mythology | La Chusa |
Spanish mythology would encompass all the sacred myths of the cultures in the region of Spain. They include Galician mythology, Asturian mythology, Cantabrian mythology, Catalan mythology and Basque mythology. They also include the myths and...
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| x Mesopotamian mythology |
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Labbu |
Mesopotamian mythology is the collective name given to Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian mythologies from parts of the fertile crescent, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq.
The Sumerians practiced a polytheistic...
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| x Slavic mythology |
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Lady midday |
Slavic mythology is the mythological aspect of the polytheistic religion that was practised by the Slavs prior to Christianisation.
The religion possesses numerous common traits with other religions descended from the Proto-Indo-European religion....
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| x Roman mythology |
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Lares |
Roman mythology, or Latin mythology, refers to the mythological beliefs of the Italic people inhabiting the region of Latium and its main city, Ancient Rome. It can be considered as having two parts; One part, largely later and literary, consists of...
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| x Colombian folklore |
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Tunda |
Colombian folklore are beliefs, customs and cultural traditions in Colombia.
Colombia has many traditional folk tales and stories about legendary creatures which are transmitted orally and kept for next generations to come. Some of them are common...
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| x Latvian mythology | Lauma |
Latvian culture, along with Lithuanian, is among the oldest surviving Indo-European cultures. Much of its symbolism (an example is the pērkonkrusts or thunder cross) is ancient. Its seasons, festivals, and numerous deities reflect the essential...
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| x Scottish mythology |
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Lavellan | Orcadian folklore |
Scottish mythology may refer to any of the mythologies of Scotland. Myths have emerged for various purposes throughout the history of Scotland, sometimes being elaborated upon by successive generations, and at other times being completely rejected...
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| x Celtic mythology |
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Leanan sídhe |
Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, apparently the religion of the Iron Age Celts. Like other Iron Age Europeans, the early Celts maintained a polytheistic mythology and religious structure. Among Celts in close contact with...
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| x Etruscan mythology |
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Hippocamp |
The Etruscans were a diachronically continuous population speaking a distinct language and practicing a distinctive culture that ranged over the Po Valley and some of its alpine slopes, southward along the west coast of Italy, most intensely in...
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| x Jewish mythology |
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Leviathan |
Jewish mythology is generally the sacred and traditional narratives that help explain and symbolize the Jewish religion, whereas Jewish folklore consists of the folk tales and legends that existed in the general Jewish culture. There is very little...
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| x Balinese mythology | Leyak |
Balinese mythology is the traditional mythology of the people of the Indonesian island of Bali, before the majority adoption of Hinduism.
Balinese mythology is mainly a kind of animism with some widely-known characters and deities. Many themes of...
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| x Hungarian mythology |
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Liderc |
Hungarian mythology includes the myths, legends, folk tales, fairy tales and gods of the Hungarians. Many parts of it are thought to be lost, i.e. only some texts remained which can be classified as a myth. However, a significant amount of Hungarian...
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| x Continental Germanic mythology |
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Lindworm |
Continental Germanic mythology is a subset of Germanic mythology, going back to South Germanic polytheism as practiced in parts of Central Europe before gradual Christianization during the 6th to 8th centuries, and continued as legend, folklore,...
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| x Norse mythology |
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Light Elf |
Norse, North Germanic, or Scandinavian mythology comprises the myths of North Germanic pre-Christian religion. Most of the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled in medieval Iceland in Old Norse, notably as the Edda. Norse mythology is...
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| x Welsh mythology |
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Water leaper |
Welsh mythology, the remnants of the mythology of the pre-Christian Britons, has come down to us in much altered form in medieval Welsh manuscripts such as the Red Book of Hergest, the White Book of Rhydderch, the Book of Aneirin and the Book of...
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| x Chinese mythology |
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Chinese dragon |
Chinese Mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religions that have been passed down in oral or written are several aspects to Chinese mythology, including creation myths and legends and myths concerning the founding of Chinese...
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| x French mythology | Lou Carcolh |
The mythologies in present-day France encompass the mythology of the Gauls, Franks, Normans, Bretons, and other peoples living in France, those ancient stories about divine or heroic beings that these particular cultures believed to be true and that...
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| x English folklore | Lubber fiend |
English folklore is the folk tradition which has developed in England over a number of centuries. Some stories can be traced back to their roots, while the origin of others is uncertain or disputed. England abounds with folklore, in all forms, from...
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| x Guaraní mythology |
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Luison |
Guaraní Mythology refers to the beliefs of the Guaraní people of the south-central part of South America, especially the native peoples of Paraguay and parts of the surrounding areas of Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia.
There exists no written records...
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| x Estonian mythology |
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Maa-alused |
Estonian mythology is a complex of myths belonging the Estonian folk heritage and literary mythology.
Information about the pre-Christian and medieval Estonian mythology is scattered in historical chronicles, travellers' accounts and in...
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| x Māori mythology |
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Maero |
Māori mythology and Māori traditions are the two major categories into which the legends of the Māori of New Zealand may usefully be divided. The rituals, beliefs, and the world view of Māori society were ultimately based on an elaborate mythology...
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| x Hindu mythology |
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Maha-pudma |
Template:Vedic and Puranic history
Vedic and Puranic scriptures are the large body of traditional narratives related to Hinduism, notably as contained in Sanskrit literature, such as the Sanskrit epics and the Puranas. As such, it is a subset of...
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| x Basque mythology |
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Mairu |
The mythology of the ancient Basques largely did not survive the, albeit late, arrival of Christianity in the Basque Country between the 4th and 12th century AD. Most of what is known about elements of this original belief system is based on the...
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| x Japanese mythology |
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Konaki-Jijii |
Japanese mythology is a system of beliefs that embraces Shinto and Buddhist traditions as well as agriculture-based folk religion. The Shinto pantheon alone consists of an uncountable number of kami (Japanese for "gods" or "spirits"). This article...
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| x Turkic mythology | Asena |
Turkic mythology is the mythology of the Turkic peoples that spoke Turkic languages which are a subfamily of the Altaic language family.
In one tradition, described in the ancient Zoroastrian text called the Zend-Avesta similar to the biblical...
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| x Tatar mythology | Äbädä |
Tatar mythology refers to the mythology of the Turkic speaking people of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Like all mythology, it is varied and rich.
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| x Melanesian mythology | Abaia |
Melanesian mythology is a European way of referring to the custom stories of the world area known since the 19th century as "Melanesia", an umbrella term used for the archipelagos of New Guinea, the Torres Strait Islands, the Admiralty Islands,...
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| x Zulu mythology | Abatwa |
Zulu mythology contains numerous deities, commonly associated with animals or general classes of natural phenomena. Unkulunkulu is the highest God and is the creator of humanity. Unkulunkulu ("the greatest one") was created in Uhlanga , a huge swamp...
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| Chitauli | |||||
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| Inkanyamba | |||||
| x Inuit mythology | Adlet |
Inuit mythology has many similarities to the religions of other polar regions. Inuit traditional religious practices could be very briefly summarised as a form of shamanism based on animist principles.
In some respects, Inuit mythology stretches the...
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| x Aztec mythology |
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Ahuizotl |
The Aztec civilization recognized a polytheistic mythology, which contained the many deities Lords or Gods (over 100) and supernatural creatures from their religious beliefs.
Aztec culture is generally grouped with the cultural complex known as the...
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| x Persian mythology |
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Manticore |
By Persian mythology is meant the myths and sacred narratives of the culturally and linguistically related group of ancient peoples who inhabited the Iranian Plateau and its borderlands, as well as areas of Central Asia from the Black Sea to Khotan ...
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| x Scandinavian folklore |
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Mara |
Scandinavian folklore is the folklore of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the Swedish speaking parts of Finland.
In Scandinavia the term 'folklore' is not often used in academic circles, instead terms such as Folketro (folk...
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| x Italian folklore | Marabbecca |
It's difficult to individuate an Italian folklore, because of the enormous differences between regions.
In Italy are very important in tradition:
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| x Arabian mythology | Marid |
Arabian mythology comprises the ancient, pre-Islamic beliefs of the Arabs.
Prior to Islam on the Arabian Peninsula in 622, the physical centre of Islam, the Kaaba of Mecca, was covered in symbols representing the myriad demons, djinn, demigods and...
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| x Hawaiian mythology | Menehune |
Hawaiian mythology refers to the legends, historical tales and sayings of the ancient Hawaiian people. It is considered a variant of a more general Polynesian mythology, developing its own unique character for several centuries before about 1800. It...
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| x Finnish mythology |
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Menninkäinen |
Finnish mythology is the mythology that went with Finnish paganism which was practised by the Finnish people prior to Christianisation. It has many features shared with fellow Finnic Estonian mythology and its non-Finnic neighbours, the Balts and...
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| x Australian Aboriginal mythology |
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Minka Bird |
Australian Aboriginal myths (also known as Dreamtime stories, Songlines or Aboriginal oral literature) are the stories traditionally performed by Aboriginal peoples within each of the language groups across Australia.
All such myths variously tell...
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| x Polynesian mythology | Aitu |
Polynesian mythology is the oral traditions of the people of Polynesia (meaning "many islands" in Greek) a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in the Polynesian triangle together with the scattered cultures known as the...
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| x Lithuanian mythology |
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Aitvaras |
Lithuanian mythology is an example of pagan mythology containing archaic elements, developed by Lithuanians throughout the centuries.
The information about Baltic paganism in general is very sketchy and incomplete. Lithuanians hadn't developed a...
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| x Latin American folklore | Mohan |
Latin American Folklore is the study of the informal beliefs, customs and cultural traditions common in the countries in Latin America.
Latin America has many great folk tales worth of being retold and kept for next generations to come. La...
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| x Folklore of Romania |
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Moroi |
A feature of Romanian culture is the special relationship between folklore and the learned culture, determined by two factors. First, the rural character of the Romanian communities resulted in an exceptionally vital and creative traditional culture...
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| x Armenian mythology | Al |
Very little is known about pre-Christian Armenian mythology, the oldest source being the legends of Xorenatsi's History of Armenia.
Armenian mythology was strongly influenced by Zoroastrianism, with deities such as Aramazd, Mihr or Anahit, as well...
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| x Chilean mythology | Alicanto |
The Chilean mythology, is the mythology and beliefs of the Folklore of Chile.
The Chilean mythology is characterized by to have adopted a multitude of myths and legends of the beliefs of the indigenous towns of the Chilean territory (Mapuche,...
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| x Mythology of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples |
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Almas |
The mythologies of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples (both groups speakers of Altaic languages) are related and have exerted strong influence on one another. Both groups of peoples qualify as Eurasian nomads and have been in close contact throughout...
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| x Islamic mythology |
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Al-mi'raj |
Islamic theology refers to the body of traditional stories that belong to Islam. In its current form, Islam is a religion established by Muhammad, who lived in the 6th and 7th centuries C.E. Its sacred book is the Qur'an. Those who adhere to Islam...
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| x Maya mythology | Alux |
Maya mythology is part of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all those Mayan tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the heroes interacting with these play the main roles. Other parts of Maya oral tradition (such as animal tales...
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| x Native American mythology |
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Achiyalabopa |
Although a section on Mythology is no substitute for a section on Native American Religion, Native American belief systems include many sacred narratives. Such spiritual stories are deeply based in Nature and are rich with the symbolism of seasons,...
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| x German folklore | Nachzehrer | Germanic paganism |
German folklore shares many characteristics with Scandinavian folklore and English folklore due to their origins in a common Germanic mythology. It reflects a similar mix of influences: a pre-Christian pantheon and other beings equivalent to those...
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| x Buddhist mythology | Nāga |
Buddhist mythology operates within the Buddhist belief system. It is a relatively broad mythology, as it was adopted and influenced by several diverse cultures. As such, it includes many aspects taken from other mythologies of those cultures (for...
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| x Catalan myths and legends |
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Negret |
Catalan myths and legends are the traditional myths and legends of the Catalan-speaking world, especially Catalonia itself, passed down for generations as part of that region's popular culture.
Among the figures of Catalan mythology are:
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| x Mapuche mythology |
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Ngen |
The beliefs of the Mapuche and their mythology, stories about to the world and creatures born of the extensive and old religious beliefs, next to a series of common legend and myths that belong to the different groups that compose the Mapuche ethnic...
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| x Sufi mythology | Huma bird | ||||
| x Mesoamerican Mythology | Nagual |
Mesoamerican mythology is the mythology of the Mesoamericans.
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| x Shoshone Mythology | Nimerigar |
Shoshone Mythology is the mythology of the Shoshone people.
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| x Sumerian mythology |
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Abgal |
Sumerian religion refers to the mythology, pantheon, rites and cosmology of the Sumerian civilization. Sumerian religion influenced Mesopotamian mythology as a whole, surviving in the mythologies and religions of the Hurrians, Akkadians, Babylonians...
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| x Tsimshian mythology | Amala |
Tsimshian mythology is the mythology of the Tsimshian, a First Nations Native American people in Canada and the United States. The majority of Tsimshian people live in British Columbia, while others live in Alaska.
Tsmishian myth is known from...
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| x Yakut mythology | Abassy |
Yakut mythology is the mythology of the Yakuts.
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