World Mythology

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  1. 2. This place's mythology comes from a boy who visited the spirit realm, was blind and could see the future, telling tales of what he saw in the spirit realm where he went when his soul went when mistaken for dead; contains tales and epics of many khans
  2. 3. An area where believers believed in many gods, such as: Isis, Osiris, Anubis and more
  3. 7. An area from which its mythology has an unparalleled influence on Western culture, with literature such as the Iliad, Odyssey and Theogony
  4. 8. An area where Sumerian Mythology, Babylonian Mythology, Hittite Mythology, Hurrian Mythology, Biblical Mythology, Ugaritic Mythology and Persian Mythology
  5. 12. This are is unique and impressive due to its sheer diversity of mythologies with beliefs varying from local areas, such as the creator god
  6. 14. A place with Slavs, an ethnic group which believed in vampires, werewolves, dragons, witches
  7. 16. This place adopted and modified most of Greek myths, like changing the gods' names to ones like Jupiter, Neptune, Venus and Juno
  8. 17. This area's people believe in animal myths, nature spirits, nature myths, ancestor worship, and serpents; creation myths occur throughout the region, along with tales of crossing the great ocean and death is hedged about with myth and ritual
  9. 18. This area is usually divided into three regions: the larger islands above Australia or Melanesia, scattered groups of small islands contiguous to Asia or Micronesia and the far-flung islands of Polynesia forming a triangle enclosing Hawaii in the north; primary mythologies reflect their shamanic origins
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  1. 1. A place of mainly Germanic mythology, with gods like Odin, Loki and Thor, and beings like giants, elves and dwarves
  2. 4. Regions containing the Chukchi, Even, Evenk, Nenets, Nivkhi, Itelmen, Chuvan, Yakagir and Khant, Inuit and Saami
  3. 5. A place where its religion and mythology are the result of the fusion of the Neolithic culture, Mohenjo Daro culture and Aryans; they also believed the river Ganges was a goddess and in a Buddha
  4. 6. A place where the original religion was typically animistic and based on dualism, with the religious aspiration of its inhabitants to live in harmony with the unseen forces around them; mythology is categorized as either worldly or transcendental, with struggles between the forces of light and darkness, Buddha's and demons
  5. 9. This area has gods such as Izanagi, Izanami, Amaterasu and Susa-no-o, with shrines to built for certain gods
  6. 10. One of the great founding people of Europe, dominated Europe for 500 years in apparent disorganization, until being conquered by the Romans; myths of Arthur and the Knight of the Round table could be located here
  7. 11. The area's myths emerged from the oral tradition to be preserved in classical texts in the Age of Philosophers; writers introduced fragmentary passages of mythic narrative into their works
  8. 13. This area's mythology is a reflection of a non-Chinese culture; myths are two types: foundation myths about the people and state, and creation myths about the origin of the world
  9. 15. This area has serpents recur in this mythology many times, with the Rainbow Serpent being an important figure and motif