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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 Roman mythology |
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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 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...
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| x Zuni mythology |
The Zuni mythology is the mythology of the Zuni tribe. The Zuni are a Pueblo people located in the southwest of the United States. They worship many Kachinas (gods).
A list of Kachinas includes:
Awonawilona created of the world, becoming the sun and...
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| x Irish mythology |
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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 Norse mythology |
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Norse mythology has its roots in Proto-Norse Iron Age Scandinavian prehistory. It flourished during the Viking Age and following the Christianization of Scandinavia during the High Middle Ages passed into Scandinavian folklore, some aspects...
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| x Aztec mythology |
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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 Inuit mythology |
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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The Creek mythology is related to an American Indian Creek people who are originally from the southeastern United States, also known by their original name Muscogee (or Muskogee), the name they use to identify themselves today. Mvskoke is their name...
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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 Jewish mythology |
Jewish mythology is a body of stories that explains or symbolizes Jewish beliefs. Jewish folklore are the tales, legend, and superstition that exist within the oral history of the Jews. There is very little early folklore distinct from the aggadah...
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| 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...
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| x English mythology |
English mythology (see also English folklore) incorporates the folk traditions, stories and beliefs which have developed in England over a number of centuries. Some stories can be traced back to their roots, even predating the Roman invasion of...
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| x Latvian mythology |
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 Guaraní mythology |
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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 Choctaw mythology |
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Choctaw mythology is related to Choctaws who are a Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States (Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana). In the 19th century, Choctaws were known as one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" because...
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| x Egyptian mythology |
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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...
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| x Etruscan mythology |
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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 Chippewa mythology |
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Anishinaabe traditional beliefs cover the traditional belief system of the Anishinaabeg peoples, consisting of the Algonquin/Nipissing, Ojibwa/Chippewa/Saulteaux/Mississaugas, Odawa, Potawatomi and Oji-cree, located primarily in the Great Lakes...
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This article concerns itself with the mythology of the Cherokee, Native Americans indigenous to the Appalachias, and today are enrolled in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee Nation, and United Keetowah Band of Cherokee Indians.
The...
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Christian mythology (μῦθος (mythos) in Greek) is the body of traditional narratives (everything) associated with Christianity from a mythographical perspective. Many Christians believe that these narratives are sacred and that they communicate...
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Template:Hindu theology 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 Indian...
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| x Māori mythology |
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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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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 French mythology |
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 Inca mythology |
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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...
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| x Spanish mythology |
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 Nepali mythology |
Nepali mythology is a unique combination of mythology coming from different cultures some of which are Hindu Mythology, Tibetan Mythology, Newari Mythology, Buddhist Mythology and historical Nepali Mythology.
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| x Newari mythology |
Newari mythology is derived from the Newari Culture of Nepal and is closely related to the entire Nepali Mythology family.
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| x Hawaiian mythology |
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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A fairy (also faery, faerie, fay, fae; euphemistically wee folk, good folk, people of peace, fair folk, etc.) is a type of mythological being or legendary creature, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural....
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Buddhist philosophy deals extensively with problems in metaphysics, phenomenology, ethics, and epistemology.
Buddhist philosophy does not depend on ontological or metaphysical speculation that is based on empirical evidence gained by the sense...
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Hinduism is the predominant religious tradition 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...
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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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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 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...
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| x Manichaeism |
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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 (in Persian:...
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Zoroastrianism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of prophet Zoroaster (or Zarathustra - Persian). The term Zoroastrianism is, in general usage, essentially synonymous with Mazdaism, i.e. the worship of Ahura Mazda, exalted by...
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| 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...
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