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

Mythology – the collected myths of a group of people, or the study of such myths. A myth is a traditional story consisting of events that are ostensibly historical, though often supernatural, explaining the origins of a cultural practice or natural phenomenon.

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

African mythology

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

Asian 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
• Islamic mythology
• Jewish mythology

Fictional mythologies

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 of mythology

History of mythology

• Timeline of Chinese mythology

Features of myths

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 organizations

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

Persons influential in mythology