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There is no "African mythology" in the singular — Africa contains roughly two thousand language groups, and a comparable count of distinct mythic traditions. What follows samples a few of the largest and the most generative.
The Once and Future King
The Celts had no scripture. Their priestly class — the druids — taught the gods orally and would not commit the doctrines to writing. So when Christianity arrived, the old religion did not survive in its own voice; it survived in the manuscripts of monks who recorded the stories anyway, half as literature, half as catechism's negative.
Gods, Spirits, and Legends of the Middle Kingdom
Egyptian religion ran continuously for longer than any other system in this volume — from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 BCE to the final closure of the temple of Isis at Philae by Justinian in 537 CE. The basic cosmology stayed remarkably stable across that span.
Before Spanish colonization in 1565, the Philippine archipelago possessed written scripts, sophisticated trade networks, and rich oral traditions that rival any world mythology in complexity.
No mythological system has been more relentlessly read, painted, sculpted, staged, and rewritten than the Greek. Two and a half millennia of European art assumes you know who Hera is and what Achilles did wrong.
Not one mythology but a layered, polyvalent literature — Vedic, epic, Puranic, regional — accumulating over three thousand years and still being told today.
A native cosmology of place and ancestry — kami in everything — overlaid by 1,500 years of Buddhism and Confucianism, written down in two 8th-century imperial chronicles, and visible everywhere in modern Japanese culture from Studio Ghibli to the new emperor's enthronement rite.
Mesoamerican mythologies — the religious cosmologies of the peoples between central Mexico and Honduras — are among the most fully developed pre-Columbian intellectual traditions in the Americas. They produced calendars precise to seconds, astronomy that predicted Venus cycles, and a literary tradition we are still reading.
The Gods of the First Civilization
Sacred Stories of Turtle Island
The Norse gods are unique among the major mythological systems in knowing, from the start, how the world ends. They lose. They fight anyway.
Gods, Heroes, and the Living Ocean
Slavic mythology is what we can reconstruct from fragments. Pre-Christian Slavic religion was largely oral; its conversion to Christianity (988 CE in Kiev under Vladimir, parallel processes elsewhere) was substantially complete by 1100. Christian chroniclers were systematic in suppressing what they could not absorb.
Comparative mythology is the study of structural and thematic parallels across human mythological traditions. It claims that certain narratives, character types, and cosmological structures recur cross-culturally — and offers explanations for why.