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=Categories=
=Categories=


=Creatures from mythology, folklore and legends=
=Mythologies, folklore and legends=


==African Mythology==
==African Mythology==
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== Precolombian South American and Mesoamerican Mythology==
== South American and Mesoamerican Mythology==


Aztec mythology - Inca mythology - Guaraní mythology - Maya mythology - Olmec mythology - Toltec mythology  
Aztec mythology - Inca mythology - Guaraní mythology - Maya mythology - Olmec mythology - Toltec mythology - Modern South and Central American Mythology: Haitian mythology - Santeria - ...


== Modern South and Central American Mythology


Haitian mythology - Santeria -
== Modern mythologies ==


Harry Potter - Tolkien - Dungeons and Dragons - Warcraft






=Angels and Demons=


According to mythology (see below) when relevant.
=Main families=




== Snakes, dragons and fantastic monsters ==


=Shapeshifters and Weres=


== Fairies and genius loci ==


=Cryptids and Monstrous animals=


== Shapeshifters and Weres ==


=Ghosts and Paranormal entities -


== 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


=corporal undead=


zombies - ghouls - vampires - mummies
 
=other classification criteria=
 
Element: water, fire, earth, air
Shape: animal, humanoid, fantastic, non corporal
 




===Mythological archetypes?===


* Lake Monster
* Sea Monster
* Elemental - Fire


You see where I'm going with that. Please expand this list!!--[[User:Devious Viper|Viper]] 21:35, 25 June 2006 (EDT)
You see where I'm going with that. Please expand this list!!--[[User:Devious Viper|Viper]] 21:35, 25 June 2006 (EDT)


== I'd rather put Assyrian ==
== I'd rather put Assyrian ==
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:) --[[User:85.18.136.102|85.18.136.102]] 11:58, 26 June 2006 (EDT)
:) --[[User:85.18.136.102|85.18.136.102]] 11:58, 26 June 2006 (EDT)
::Changed --[[User:Devious Viper|Viper]] 16:05, 26 June 2006 (EDT)
::Changed --[[User:Devious Viper|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

Revision as of 21:45, 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