Tradition Registry

Sacred Traditions & Pantheons

Explore 37 historical mythologies, classical texts, folklore traditions, and lost civilizational lores from every inhabited continent.

classic

108 entries

Classic of Mountains and Seas

Region: Mountains and seas of ancient China

Period: compiled Warring States to Western Han

Classic of Mountains and Seas traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

72 entries

Greek Mythology

Region: Aegean & Mediterranean

Period: from c. 8th century BCE

Greek Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

38 entries

Norse Mythology

Region: Scandinavia

Period: Viking Age, written down 13th century

Norse Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

34 entries

Hindu Mythology

Region: Indian Subcontinent

Period: from the Vedic period, c. 1500 BCE

Hindu Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

33 entries

Chinese Mythology

Region: Yellow & Yangtze River Valleys

Period: from legendary antiquity

Chinese Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

32 entries

Celtic Mythology

Region: Ireland & Britain

Period: Iron Age origins, medieval manuscripts

Celtic Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

32 entries

Egyptian Mythology

Region: Nile Valley

Period: from c. 3100 BCE

Egyptian Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

31 entries

Japanese Mythology

Region: Japanese Archipelago

Period: Kojiki compiled 712 CE

Japanese Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

30 entries

Yoruba Mythology

Region: West Africa, Gulf of Guinea

Period: oral tradition, Ife flourished c. 11th century

Yoruba Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

29 entries

Slavic Mythology

Region: Eastern Europe & Balkans

Period: pre-Christian, c. 6th–12th century

Slavic Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

29 entries

Aztec Mythology

Region: Valley of Mexico

Period: 14th–16th century

Aztec Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

27 entries

Mesopotamian Mythology

Region: Between the Tigris & Euphrates

Period: from c. 3000 BCE

Mesopotamian Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

27 entries

Polynesian Mythology

Region: Pacific Islands

Period: oral traditions spread by voyagers

Polynesian Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

26 entries

Maya Mythology

Region: Yucatán & Mesoamerica

Period: from c. 2000 BCE, Popol Vuh written 16th century

Maya Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

25 entries

Korean Mythology

Region: Korean Peninsula

Period: Dangun legend, trad. 2333 BCE

Korean Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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modern-myth

24 entries

The Cthulhu Mythos

Region: Fictional New England, the polar wastes & deep space

Period: Lovecraft's 1917–1937 core fiction and its later echoes

The Cthulhu Mythos traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

23 entries

Persian Mythology

Region: Iranian Plateau

Period: Zoroastrian tradition, from c. 1000 BCE

Persian Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

23 entries

Roman Mythology

Region: Italian Peninsula & Mediterranean

Period: c. 8th century BCE – 5th century CE

Roman Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient lore.

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pantheon

22 entries

Inca Mythology

Region: The Andes

Period: 13th–16th century

Inca Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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urban

20 entries

American Folklore & Cryptids

Region: North America

Period: colonial-era legends to internet horror

American Folklore & Cryptids traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

19 entries

Haudenosaunee Tradition

Region: Northeastern Woodlands

Period: Oral sacred lore & Great Law of Peace

Haudenosaunee Tradition traditions, cosmology, and ancient lore.

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urban

18 entries

Japanese Kaidan & Urban Legends

Region: Japan

Period: Edo-period kaidan to the internet age

Japanese Kaidan & Urban Legends traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

18 entries

Finnish Mythology (Kalevala)

Region: Finland & Karelia

Period: Oral traditions, codified 19th century

Finnish Mythology (Kalevala) traditions, cosmology, and ancient lore.

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pantheon

16 entries

Aboriginal Australian Mythology

Region: Australia

Period: the Dreaming, oral traditions tens of millennia old

Aboriginal Australian Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

16 entries

Inuit Mythic Traditions

Region: Arctic North America & Greenland

Period: circumpolar oral traditions, systematically recorded from the 19th century

Inuit Mythic Traditions traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

16 entries

Canaanite Mythology (Ugarit)

Region: Levant & Syrian Coast

Period: c. 15th – 12th century BCE

Canaanite Mythology (Ugarit) traditions, cosmology, and ancient lore.

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pantheon

15 entries

Hittite Mythology

Region: Anatolia (Asia Minor)

Period: c. 18th – 12th century BCE

Hittite Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient lore.

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pantheon

14 entries

Biblical Tradition

Region: The Levant

Period: Hebrew Bible, 1st millennium BCE

Biblical Tradition traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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lostland

14 entries

Lost Lands

Region: Sunken and hidden realms of legend

Period: from Plato's account to modern esoterica

Lost Lands traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

14 entries

Diné (Navajo) Tradition

Region: North American Southwest

Period: Ancient oral sacred lore

Diné (Navajo) Tradition traditions, cosmology, and ancient lore.

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pantheon

12 entries

Arabian Lore

Region: Arabian Peninsula

Period: pre-Islamic era to the Thousand and One Nights

Arabian Lore traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

12 entries

Native American Mythology

Region: North America

Period: oral traditions spanning millennia

Native American Mythology traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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modern-myth

12 entries

SCP Foundation

Region: A borderless collaborative network and fictional containment sites

Period: 2007 to the present, an evolving open collaborative mythology

SCP Foundation traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

11 entries

Tlingit and Haida Tradition

Region: Pacific Northwest Coast

Period: Ancient oral lore & potlatch ceremonies

Tlingit and Haida Tradition traditions, cosmology, and ancient lore.

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pantheon

10 entries

Akan Mythic Tradition

Region: Southern Ghana & Côte d’Ivoire

Period: living oral tradition, recorded in writing from the 17th century

Akan Mythic Tradition traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

8 entries

Myths of the Philippine Archipelago

Region: Luzon, Visayas & Mindanao

Period: precolonial oral traditions to living folklore

Myths of the Philippine Archipelago traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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pantheon

8 entries

Guaraní Mythic Traditions

Region: Paraguay Basin & South American lowlands

Period: living oral and sacred-song traditions, recorded from the 16th century

Guaraní Mythic Traditions traditions, cosmology, and ancient mythology.

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