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x Buddhist philosophy Buddha5.jpg
Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology. The Buddha's general outlook has been described as neither ontological nor metaphysical, but empirical. He assumed an unsympathetic attitude...
x Hinduism Brahma carving at a temple in Halebidu
Hinduism is the predominant religion of the Indian subcontinent. Hinduism is often referred to as Sanātana Dharma, a Sanskrit phrase meaning "the eternal law", by its adherents. Generic "types" of Hinduism that attempt to accommodate a variety of...
x Mesopotamian mythology /wikipedia/images/en_id/7804510
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...
x Egyptian mythology Egyptian goddess Isis, tomb painting, ca. 1360 BC
Ancient Egyptian religion encompasses the various religious beliefs and rituals practiced in ancient Egypt over more than 3,000 years, from the predynastic period until the adoption of Christianity in the early centuries AD. Initially these beliefs...
x Greek mythology Zeus Otricoli Pio-Clementino Inv257
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...
x Roman mythology IngresJupiterAndThetis
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...
x Etruscan mythology Etruscan mural of the Greek god Typhon
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...
x Celtic mythology Hope-coventina01a
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...
x Slavic mythology Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom, a painting by Ilya Repin (1876)
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....
x Arabian mythology  
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...
x Maya mythology  
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...
x Inca mythology Inti Torre Tagle
Inca mythology includes a number of stories and legends that are mythological and helps to explain or symbolizes Inca beliefs. All Christian priests that followed the Spanish conquest of Peru by Francisco Pizarro burned the records of the Inca...
x Aztec mythology TurquoiseAztecMask
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...
x Hopi mythology  
The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries. However, it is difficult to definitively state what all Hopis as a group believe. Like the oral traditions of many other societies, Hopi mythology is...
x Manichaeism Manicheans
Manichaeism (in Modern Persian آیین مانی Āyin e Māni; Chinese: 摩尼教; pinyin: Móní Jiào) was one of the major Iranian Gnostic religions, originating in Sassanid Persia. Although most of the original writings of the founding prophet Mani (Syriac, ܡܐܢܝ,...
x Zoroastrianism Modern day picture of the inscription.
Zoroastrianism is the religion and philosophy based on the teachings ascribed to an individual named Zoroaster (or Zarathustra - Persian), after whom the religion is named. The term Zoroastrianism is, in general usage, essentially synonymous with...
x Polynesian mythology  
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...
x Japanese mythology /wikipedia/images/commons_id/607158
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...
x Norse mythology Idun and the Apples (1890) by J. Doyle Penrose
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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