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For myths surrounding the Greek godess Demeter.
For questions about beings known to combine human and super-human properties.
Questions pertaining to spirits from multiple cultures and mythologies. Most popularly seen as tormented souls that went to hell in Christianity.
Questions about about or related to the Greek god of wine, son of Zeus, Dionysus
Questions pertaining to the Italian poet Dante Alighieri's trilogy, the Divine Comedy. In the Divine Comedy consists of The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso. These books are in respective rel…
For questions about mythological creatures that possess reptilian traits but may, in some tales, have supernatural abilities, such as flying and breathing fire.
For the mythological significance of dreams.
The Dreamtime, or Dreaming. The Australian Aboriginal understanding of the creation of the world.
Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean famous for the Moai, ancient carved statues
For questions about myths related to times when the Sun, Earth and Moon align, creating a shadow on either the Earth or the Moon caused by the other body blocking the Sun's light.
For questions on the myths, legends, and religious beliefs of the people of Ancient Egypt.
For topics on epic poetry outside the Greek epic cycle.
For questions on the goddesses of vengeance in Greek mythology, also known as *furies*, believed to pursue those guilty of some transgressions with endless tormenting.
For questions concerning the final events of history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity. The concept is commonly referred to as the "end of the world" or "end times".
For questions about the history of a name, including its evolution and the words and language it stems from.
The traditional stories, beliefs, and customs of Europe.
For myths relating to the concept of Evil
For questions on a type of mythical creatures found in European folklore. They are generally human in appearance and capable of magic, but exact definitions and forms vary from tradition to tradition.…
For questions relating to the origin or meaning of Fairy Tales
For questions about the descent and heritage (as well as offspring) of a being.
For questions about a group of three mythological goddesses, often depicted as weavers of a tapestry on a loom, with the tapestry dictating the destinies of humans and sometimes gods.
For myths originating in Finland
The aboriginal people of current-day Canada, excluding the Inuit and Métis peoples.
For questions about a group of Roman priests dedicated to honoring several minor deities.
For questions about stories of floods that had drastic impact on civilizations, such as the Great Flood described in the Bible.
For questions on the traditional beliefs, customs and stories of a community or culture.
For questions about the academic discipline of folkloristics, i.e. the study of folklore.
For questions about one of the two places of the afterlife in Norse Mythology.
For questions regarding the mythology that drives funerary practices.
Use for question relating to the Furies, aka the Erinyes, aka the Eumenides, aka the "Kindly Ones"
Not part of any one mythology. But rather used to describe games of any sort from any mythology or culture.
The spirit of a dead person imagined as visiting the living and usually appearing as a pale, almost transparent form.
A (usually) human like creature but extremely tall and strong.