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== Shapeshifters and | == Shapeshifters and weres == | ||
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zombies - ghouls - vampires - mummies | zombies - ghouls - vampires - mummies | ||
== Ghosts and | == Ghosts and paranormal entities == | ||
== Angels and | == Angels and demons == | ||
== Cryptids and | == Cryptids and monstrous animals == | ||
Revision as of 21:46, 27 June 2006
Sorry to be such a pain, but before going ahead and choosing our own areas wouldn't it be easier to: - take a decision on taxonomy; - give a look at the corrisponding subcategories born from Viper's devious mind. --Bloody Angel 16:55, 23 June 2006 (EDT)
Categories
Mythologies, folklore and legends
African Mythology
Akamba mythology - Akan mythology - Alur mythology - Ashanti mythology - Bambara mythology - Bambuti mythology - Banyarwanda mythology - Basari mythology - Baule mythology - Bavenda mythology - Bazambi mythology - Baziba mythology - Bushongo mythology - Dahomey mythology (Fon) - Dinka mythology - Efik mythology - Egyptian mythology (Pre-Islam) - Ekoi mythology - Fan mythology - Fens mythology - Fjort mythology - Herero mythology - Ibibio mythology - Igbo mythology - Isoko mythology - Kamba mythology - Kavirondo mythology - Khoikhoi mythology - Kurumba mythology - Lotuko mythology - Lugbara mythology - Lunda mythology - Madagascar mythology - Makoni mythology - Masai mythology - Mongo mythology - Mundang mythology - Ngbandi mythology - Nupe mythology - Nyamwezi mythology - Oromo mythology - Ovambo mythology - Pygmy mythology - San mythology - Serer mythology - Shona mythology - Shongo mythology - Songhai mythology - Sotho mythology - Tumbuka mythology - Xhosa mythology - Yoruba mythology - Zulu mythology
Asian Mythology
Ayyavazhi mythology - Buddhist mythology - Bön mythology (pre-Buddhist Tibetan mythology) - Khmer mythology - Chinese mythology - Hindu mythology - Hmong mythology - Japanese mythology (mainstream) - Japanese mythology (Hotsuma version) - Korean mythology - Philippine mythology - Turkic mythology- Vietnamese mythology
Australian and Oceanic Mythology
Australian Aboriginal mythology - Maori mythology - Melanesian mythology - Micronesian mythology - Polynesian mythology
European Mythology
Albanian mythology - Anglo-Saxon mythology - Basque mythology - Catalan mythology - Celtic mythology - Corsican mythology - Christian mythology - Chuvash mythology - English mythology - Etruscan mythology - Estonian mythology - French mythology - Germanic mythology - Greek mythology - Finnish mythology - Irish mythology - Latvian mythology - Lithuanian mythology - Lusitanian mythology - Norse mythology - Roman mythology - Romanian mythology - Sardinian mythology - Slavic mythology - Spanish mythology - Swiss mythology - Tatar mythology - Turkish mythology
Middle Eastern Mythology
Arabian mythology (pre-Islamic) - Biblical mythology - Christian mythology - Islamic mythology - Jewish mythology - Persian mythology - Babylonian Mythology - Sumerian Mythology - Assyrian Mythology - Yazidi
North American Mythology
Abenaki mythology - Algonquin mythology - American folklore (non-Native American) - Blackfoot mythology - Chippewa mythology - Chickasaw mythology - Choctaw mythology - Creek mythology - Crow mythology - Haida mythology - Ho-Chunk mythology - Hopi mythology - Inuit mythology - Iroquois mythology - Huron mythology - Kwakiutl mythology - Lakota mythology - Leni Lenape mythology - Navaho mythology - Nootka mythology - Pawnee mythology - Salish mythology - Seneca mythology - Tsimshian mythology - Ute mythology - Zuni mythology
South American and Mesoamerican Mythology
Aztec mythology - Inca mythology - Guaraní mythology - Maya mythology - Olmec mythology - Toltec mythology - Modern South and Central American Mythology: Haitian mythology - Santeria - ...
Modern mythologies
Harry Potter - Tolkien - Dungeons and Dragons - Warcraft
Main families
Snakes, dragons and fantastic monsters
Fairies and genius loci
Shapeshifters and weres
Corporal undead
zombies - ghouls - vampires - mummies
Ghosts and paranormal entities
Angels and demons
Cryptids and monstrous animals
Artificial monsters
Golems, robots, hybrid-monsters
Monstrous humans
Heroes, wizards, freaks, serial killers and mass murderers
other classification criteria
Element: water, fire, earth, air Shape: animal, humanoid, fantastic, non corporal
You see where I'm going with that. Please expand this list!!--Viper 21:35, 25 June 2006 (EDT)
I'd rather put Assyrian
- ) --85.18.136.102 11:58, 26 June 2006 (EDT)
- Changed --Viper 16:05, 26 June 2006 (EDT)
Why not using mythologies as starting point then range creatures in the corresponding family simply by tagging the page ? - Loki