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Mesopotamian mythology is the collective name given to Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian mythologies from parts of the fertile crescent, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq. The Sumerians practiced a polytheistic religion, with anthropomorphic gods or goddesses representing forces or presences in the world, in much the same way as later Greek mythology. According to said mythology, the gods originally created humans as servants and freed them when they became too

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece. Modern scholars refer to the myths and study them in an attempt to throw light on the religious and political institutions of Ancient Greece, its civilization, and to gain understanding of the nature of myth making itself. Some

Norse mythology has its roots in Proto Norse Nordic prehistory. It flourished during the Viking Age and following the Christianization of Scandinavia during the High Middle Ages passed into Nordic folklore, some aspects surviving to the modern day. The mythology from the Romanticist Viking revival came to be an influence on modern literature and popular culture. Most of the existing records on Norse mythology date from the 11th to 18th century, having gone through more than two centuries of

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Mythology is the fourth solo album by keyboardist Derek Sherinian. Sherinian again draws upon some of the greatest talent from the worlds of rock and jazz. Among the artists co featured on Mythology are fusion legend Allan Holdsworth, (U.K., Soft Machine, Level 42), Steve Lukather (Toto), Simon Phillips (Toto, Jeff Beck, The Who), Zakk Wylde (Ozzy Osbourne, Black Label Society), Grammy award winner Steve Stevens (Billy Idol), John Sykes (Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, Blue Murder) and Jerry Goodman

Māori mythology and Māori traditions are the two major categories into which the legends of the Māori of New Zealand may usefully be divided. The rituals, beliefs, and the world view of Māori society were ultimately based on an elaborate mythology that had been inherited from a Polynesian homeland and adapted and developed in the new setting (Biggs 1966:448). Little of the extensive body of Māori mythology and tradition was recorded in the early years of European contact. The missionaries had

Without a knowledge of mythology much of our elegant literature cannot be understood today. When Byron calls Rome the Niobe of nations or says of Venice that she looks a Sea Cybele fresh from the ocean he calls up images which would be lost to the reader ignorant of mythology. The practice of borrowing illustrations from mythology is also widespread among Baroque and modern composers: knowledge of the myths and legends of ancient Hellas would prove

Japanese mythology is a system of beliefs that embraces Shinto and Buddhist traditions as well as agriculture based folk religion. The Shinto pantheon alone consists of an uncountable number of kami (Japanese for gods or spirits ). This article will discuss only the typical elements present in Oriental mythology such as cosmogony, important deities and the best known Japanese stories. Mainstream Japanese myths, as generally recognized today, are based on the Kojiki, Nihon Shoki and some

The mythology of pre Christian Ireland did not entirely survive the conversion to Christianity, but much of it was preserved, shorn of its religious meanings, in medieval Irish literature, which represents the most extensive and best preserved of all the branch and the Historical Cycle. There are also a number of extant mythological texts that don't fit into any of the cycles. Additionally, there are a small number of recorded folk tales that, while not strictly mythological, feature personages