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This is a list of
mythologies native to
Asia:
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Buddhist mythology
The Buddhist traditions have created and maintained a vast body of mythological literature. The central myth of Buddhism is the life of the Buddha. This is told in relatively realistic terms in the earliest texts, and was soon elaborated into ...
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Chinese mythology
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Christian mythology (in Western Asia)
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Georgian mythology
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Greek mythology (see Greco-Buddhism)
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Hindu mythology
Hindu mythology is the body of myths and literature attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedic literature, epics like ''Mahabharata'' and ''Ramayana'', the Puranas, and reg ...
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Ayyavazhi mythology
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Tamil mythology
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Vedic mythology
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Hittite mythology and religion
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Indo-Iranian mythology
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Ossetian mythology
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Persian mythology
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Scythian mythology
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Assianism
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Zoroastrianism
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Indonesian mythology
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Balinese mythology
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Islamic mythology
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Japanese mythology
Japanese mythology is a collection of traditional stories, folktales, and beliefs that emerged in the islands of the Japanese archipelago. Shinto and Buddhist traditions are the cornerstones of Japanese mythology. The history of thousands of year ...
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Oomoto
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Shinto
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Kanglei mythology Kanglei mythology is the body of narrative myths, originally told by the people of Kangleipak or Manipur, India. It may refer to:
* Meitei mythology, the mythology of the Meitei people, one of the ethnic groups of Kangleipak
* Mythologies of any oth ...
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Korean mythology
Korean mythology ( ) is the group of myths told by historical and modern Koreans. There are two types: the written, literary mythology in traditional histories, mostly about the founding monarchs of various historical kingdoms, and the much l ...
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Meitei mythology
Meitei mythology or Manipuri mythology ( mni, Meitei Mi Lai Tingi Wari) is a collection of myths, belonging to the religious and cultural traditions of the Meitei people, the predominant ethnic group of Manipur. It is associated with tradi ...
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Manipuri mythology
Meitei mythology or Manipuri mythology ( mni, Meitei Mi Lai Tingi Wari) is a collection of myths, belonging to the religious and cultural traditions of the Meitei people, the predominant ethnic group of Manipur. It is associated with tradi ...
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Mesopotamian mythology
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Ancient Mesopotamian religion
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Babylonian mythology
Babylonian religion is the religious practice of Babylonia. Babylonian mythology was greatly influenced by their Sumerian counterparts and was written on clay tablets inscribed with the cuneiform script derived from Sumerian cuneiform. The myth ...
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Mongol mythology
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Tengriism (indigenous Mongol & Turkic belief)
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Philippine mythology
Philippine mythology is the body of stories and epics originating from, and part of, the indigenous Philippine folk religions, which include various ethnic faiths distinct from one another. Philippine mythology is incorporated from various ...
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Anito
''Anito'', also spelled ''anitu'', refers to ancestor spirits, nature spirits, and deities in the indigenous Philippine folk religions from the precolonial age to the present, although the term itself may have other meanings and associati ...
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Gabâ
Gabâ or gabaa, for the people in many parts of the ebuparticularly among Visayans, is the concept of a non-human and non-divine, imminent retribution. A sort of negative karma, it is generally seen as an evil effect on a person because of their w ...
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Kulam
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Semitic mythology
Ancient Semitic religion encompasses the polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa. Since the term ''Semitic'' itself represents a rough category when referring to cultures, as opposed to lan ...
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Arabian mythology
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Jewish mythology
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Shamanism in Siberia
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Tungusic creation myth
The Tungusic creation myths are traditional stories of the creation of the world belonging to the Tungusic peoples of Siberia.
Account of creation
In one account of the Tungusic creation myth, Buga, their central deity, set fire to a vast primor ...
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Turkic mythology
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Tatar mythology
The Tatars ()[Tatar]
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different
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Vietnamese mythology
Asian
Asian may refer to:
* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...