# Mythology Decks

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Canonical URL: https://shipslides.com/c/mythology
Deck count: 10

## Decks

### African Mythology
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-african-mythology
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-african-mythology/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: mythology, african

There is no "African mythology" in the singular — Africa contains roughly two thousand language groups, and a comparable count of distinct mythic traditions. What follows samples a few of the largest and the most generative. Key sections include: African Myth ologies.; Opening Before the singular.; Chapter I The Yoruba and the orishas.; Chapter II Ifa — the divination corpus.; Chapter III Anansi the spider.; Chapter IV The Akan cosmos.; Chapter V Zulu cosmogony and uNkulunkulu.; Chapter VI The Egyptian gods.; Chapter VII The Osiris cycle.; Chapter VIII The book of the dead..

Outline:
1. African Myth ologies.
2. Opening Before the singular.
3. Chapter I The Yoruba and the orishas.
4. Chapter II Ifa — the divination corpus.
5. Chapter III Anansi the spider.
6. Chapter IV The Akan cosmos.
7. Chapter V Zulu cosmogony and uNkulunkulu.
8. Chapter VI The Egyptian gods.
9. Chapter VII The Osiris cycle.
10. Chapter VIII The book of the dead.
11. Chapter IX The Dogon and Sirius.
12. Chapter X Vodun in Dahomey.
13. Chapter XI Haitian Vodou.
14. Chapter XII Santería — Lucumí — Regla de Ocha.
15. Chapter XIII Brazilian Candomblé and Umbanda.
16. Chapter XIV Hoodoo and the rootworker.
17. Chapter XV Bantu cosmology — Kongo and beyond.
18. Chapter XVI The San and rock art.
19. Chapter XVII Sundiata and the Mande epic.
20. Chapter XVIII Ethiopia — Solomon, Sheba, the Ark.
21. Chapter XIX The mask and the spirit.
22. Chapter XX The ancestor.
23. Chapter XXI Witchcraft as social theory.
24. Chapter XXII Christianity, Islam, and what survived.
25. Chapter XXIII The reading list.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV If you want to study these.
28. Chapter XXVI What the African mythologies teach.
29. Chapter XXVII The traditions today.
30. The end of the deck.

### Celtic Mythology
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-celtic-mythology
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-celtic-mythology/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: mythology, celtic

The Celts had no scripture. Their priestly class — the druids — taught the gods orally and would not commit the doctrines to writing. So when Christianity arrived, the old religion did not survive in its own voice; it survived in the manuscripts of monks who recorded the stories anyway, half as literature, half as catechism's negative. Key sections include: The Celtic Otherworld.; Opening What survived the saints.; Chapter I Who the Celts were.; Chapter II The four Irish cycles.; Chapter III The Tuatha Dé Danann.; Chapter IV Cú Chulainn — the hound of Ulster.; Chapter V The Battles of Mag Tuired.; Chapter VI Fionn mac Cumhaill and the fianna.; Chapter VII The Mabinogion.; Chapter VIII The Welsh Arthur..

Outline:
1. The Celtic Otherworld.
2. Opening What survived the saints.
3. Chapter I Who the Celts were.
4. Chapter II The four Irish cycles.
5. Chapter III The Tuatha Dé Danann.
6. Chapter IV Cú Chulainn — the hound of Ulster.
7. Chapter V The Battles of Mag Tuired.
8. Chapter VI Fionn mac Cumhaill and the fianna.
9. Chapter VII The Mabinogion.
10. Chapter VIII The Welsh Arthur.
11. Chapter IX The druids.
12. Chapter X The Otherworld.
13. Chapter XI The four fire festivals.
14. Chapter XII The goddess of sovereignty.
15. Chapter XIII The triple form.
16. Chapter XIV The bardic order.
17. Chapter XV The Christianisation.
18. Chapter XVI Scottish folklore — kelpies, selkies, the second sight.
19. Chapter XVII Brittany — the Continental survivor.
20. Chapter XVIII Cornwall and the Tristan tradition.
21. Chapter XIX The Celtic Revival.
22. Chapter XX Modern Druidry and Celtic Reconstructionism.
23. Chapter XXI The land speaks.
24. Chapter XXII The reading list.
25. Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
26. Chapter XXIV If you want to read these.
27. Chapter XXV Why these mythologies endure.
28. Chapter XXVI Where Celtic studies stand now.
29. Chapter XXVII The fairies are real.
30. The end of the deck.

### Egyptian Mythology
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-egyptian-mythology
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-egyptian-mythology/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: mythology, egyptian

Egyptian religion ran continuously for longer than any other system in this volume — from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 BCE to the final closure of the temple of Isis at Philae by Justinian in 537 CE. The basic cosmology stayed remarkably stable across that span. Key sections include: The Two Lands.; Opening Three thousand years.; Chapter I Four creation stories.; Chapter II The voyage of Ra.; Chapter III The death and return.; Chapter IV Isis.; Chapter V Set.; Chapter VI Horus.; Chapter VII The jackal at the door.; Chapter VIII Wisdom and order..

Outline:
1. The Two Lands.
2. Opening Three thousand years.
3. Chapter I Four creation stories.
4. Chapter II The voyage of Ra.
5. Chapter III The death and return.
6. Chapter IV Isis.
7. Chapter V Set.
8. Chapter VI Horus.
9. Chapter VII The jackal at the door.
10. Chapter VIII Wisdom and order.
11. Chapter IX The goddesses of joy and rage.
12. Chapter X The funerary corpus.
13. Chapter XI The court of Osiris.
14. Chapter XII The Egyptian person.
15. Chapter XIII Mummification and the tomb.
16. Chapter XIV The Aten interlude.
17. Chapter XV The reaction.
18. Chapter XVI How the religion ran.
19. Chapter XVII The king's role.
20. Chapter XVIII The animal-headed gods.
21. Chapter XIX The long Greek and Roman afterlife.
22. Chapter XX How we got the texts back.
23. Chapter XXI Egypt in the modern imagination.
24. Chapter XXII Twenty-five.
25. Chapter XXIII Watch & read.
26. Chapter XXIV Why we still read these.
27. Chapter XXV An order of operations.
28. Chapter XXVI Continuities into Christianity.
29. Chapter XXVII The geography of the religion.
30. The end of the deck.

### Greek & Roman Mythology
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-greek-roman-mythology
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-greek-roman-mythology/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: mythology, greek, roman

No mythological system has been more relentlessly read, painted, sculpted, staged, and rewritten than the Greek. Two and a half millennia of European art assumes you know who Hera is and what Achilles did wrong. Key sections include: Greek & Roman.; Opening The first stories Europe told.; Chapter I From Chaos to Olympus.; Chapter II The Olympians.; Chapter III Hades and Persephone.; Chapter IV Heracles.; Chapter V Theseus and the Minotaur.; Chapter VI Perseus and Medusa.; Chapter VII Jason and the Golden Fleece.; Chapter VIII Orpheus and Eurydice..

Outline:
1. Greek & Roman.
2. Opening The first stories Europe told.
3. Chapter I From Chaos to Olympus.
4. Chapter II The Olympians.
5. Chapter III Hades and Persephone.
6. Chapter IV Heracles.
7. Chapter V Theseus and the Minotaur.
8. Chapter VI Perseus and Medusa.
9. Chapter VII Jason and the Golden Fleece.
10. Chapter VIII Orpheus and Eurydice.
11. Chapter IX The Theban cycle.
12. Chapter X The Trojan war.
13. Chapter XI The nostoi.
14. Chapter XII Hesiod and the five ages.
15. Chapter XIII Ovid as transmitter.
16. Chapter XIV The handbook tradition.
17. Chapter XV Rome inherits.
18. Chapter XVI Aeneas and Roman foundation.
19. Chapter XVII Romulus and the founding.
20. Chapter XVIII Cupid and Psyche.
21. Chapter XIX Eleusis, Dionysos, Mithras.
22. Chapter XX What was here first.
23. Chapter XXI The painters' Ovid.
24. Chapter XXII Myth on the tragic stage.
25. Chapter XXIII The 21st-century reworkings.
26. Chapter XXIV Twenty-five.
27. Chapter XXV Watch & read.
28. Chapter XXVI Why we still read these.
29. Chapter XXVII How to begin.
30. The end of the deck.

### Hindu Mythology
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-hindu-mythology
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-hindu-mythology/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: mythology, hindu

Not one mythology but a layered, polyvalent literature — Vedic, epic, Puranic, regional — accumulating over three thousand years and still being told today. Key sections include: Hindu Mythology.; Opening What Hindu mythology is.; Chapter I The Vedas.; Chapter II Cosmic time.; Chapter III Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva.; Chapter IV Devi.; Chapter V The avatars of Vishnu.; Chapter VI The Mahabharata.; Chapter VII The Bhagavad Gita.; Chapter VIII The Ramayana..

Outline:
1. Hindu Mythology.
2. Opening What Hindu mythology is.
3. Chapter I The Vedas.
4. Chapter II Cosmic time.
5. Chapter III Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva.
6. Chapter IV Devi.
7. Chapter V The avatars of Vishnu.
8. Chapter VI The Mahabharata.
9. Chapter VII The Bhagavad Gita.
10. Chapter VIII The Ramayana.
11. Chapter IX Krishna.
12. Chapter X Shiva and his cycles.
13. Chapter XI Ganesha.
14. Chapter XII Hanuman.
15. Chapter XIII The Puranas.
16. Chapter XIV Sacred geography.
17. Chapter XV Cosmic geography.
18. Chapter XVI Asuras and demons.
19. Chapter XVII Rishis and sages.
20. Chapter XVIII The churning of the ocean.
21. Chapter XIX Caste in the cosmos.
22. Chapter XX Tantra.
23. Chapter XXI The bhakti movements.
24. Chapter XXII Festivals.
25. Chapter XXIII Mythology in modern India.
26. Chapter XXIV Beyond the subcontinent.
27. Chapter XXV Twenty-five works.
28. Chapter XXVI Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXVII If you want to read in.
30. Chapter XXVIII Why it matters.
31. The end of the deck.

### Japanese Mythology
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-japanese-mythology
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-japanese-mythology/llms.txt
Slides: 31
Tags: mythology, japanese

A native cosmology of place and ancestry — kami in everything — overlaid by 1,500 years of Buddhism and Confucianism, written down in two 8th-century imperial chronicles, and visible everywhere in modern Japanese culture from Studio Ghibli to the new emperor's enthronement rite. Key sections include: Japanese Mythology.; Opening 序 What Japanese mythology is.; Chapter I 古 The Kojiki.; Chapter II 紀 The Nihon Shoki.; Chapter III 創 Izanagi and Izanami.; Chapter IV 黄 Izanagi in Yomi.; Chapter V 天 Amaterasu.; Chapter VI 須 Susano-o.; Chapter VII 蛇 Yamata-no-Orochi.; Chapter VIII 出 The Izumo cycle..

Outline:
1. Japanese Mythology.
2. Opening 序 What Japanese mythology is.
3. Chapter I 古 The Kojiki.
4. Chapter II 紀 The Nihon Shoki.
5. Chapter III 創 Izanagi and Izanami.
6. Chapter IV 黄 Izanagi in Yomi.
7. Chapter V 天 Amaterasu.
8. Chapter VI 須 Susano-o.
9. Chapter VII 蛇 Yamata-no-Orochi.
10. Chapter VIII 出 The Izumo cycle.
11. Chapter IX 降 The descent of Ninigi.
12. Chapter X 神 Kami.
13. Chapter XI 道 Shinto.
14. Chapter XII 社 The shrines.
15. Chapter XIII 仏 Shinto and Buddhism.
16. Chapter XIV 妖 Yōkai.
17. Chapter XV 百 The night procession of a hundred demons.
18. Chapter XVI 武 Heroes and demigods.
19. Chapter XVII 幡 Hachiman.
20. Chapter XVIII 稲 Inari and the foxes.
21. Chapter XIX 祭 Matsuri.
22. Chapter XX 国 State Shinto and after.
23. Chapter XXI 代 Mythology in modern culture.
24. Chapter XXII 較 What Japanese mythology lacks.
25. Chapter XXIII 読 Twenty-five works.
26. Chapter XXIV 観 Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV 入 If you want to read in.
28. Chapter XXVI 為 Why it matters.
29. Chapter XXVII 問 Open questions.
30. Chapter XXVIII 終 Last word.
31. The end of the deck.

### Mesoamerican
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-mesoamerican-mythology
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-mesoamerican-mythology/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: mythology, mesoamerican

Mesoamerican mythologies — the religious cosmologies of the peoples between central Mexico and Honduras — are among the most fully developed pre-Columbian intellectual traditions in the Americas. They produced calendars precise to seconds, astronomy that predicted Venus cycles, and a literary tradition we are still reading. Key sections include: Meso america.; Opening Cosmologies of corn and blood.; Chapter I Olmec foundations.; Chapter II The classical city.; Chapter III The Classic period.; Chapter IV The K'iche' creation epic.; Chapter V Mexica origins.; Chapter VI Many gods, ordered.; Chapter VII Smoking mirror.; Chapter VIII The feathered serpent..

Outline:
1. Meso america.
2. Opening Cosmologies of corn and blood.
3. Chapter I Olmec foundations.
4. Chapter II The classical city.
5. Chapter III The Classic period.
6. Chapter IV The K'iche' creation epic.
7. Chapter V Mexica origins.
8. Chapter VI Many gods, ordered.
9. Chapter VII Smoking mirror.
10. Chapter VIII The feathered serpent.
11. Chapter IX The catastrophe.
12. Chapter X The few survivors.
13. Chapter XI The Long Count.
14. Chapter XII Cosmic sport.
15. Chapter XIII The contested element.
16. Chapter XIV World Tree and Xibalba.
17. Chapter XV The other traditions.
18. Chapter XVI The traditions today.
19. Chapter XVII The 20th-century rediscovery.
20. Chapter XVIII Mexican identity.
21. Chapter XIX The integrating concepts.
22. Chapter XX Old World parallels.
23. Chapter XXI What we still don't know.
24. Chapter XXII How to learn more.
25. Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV If you want to learn it.
28. Chapter XXVI Why it matters.
29. Chapter XXVII The next decade.
30. The end of the deck.

### Norse Mythology
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-norse-mythology
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-norse-mythology/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: mythology, norse

The Norse gods are unique among the major mythological systems in knowing, from the start, how the world ends. They lose. They fight anyway. Key sections include: Norse & Eddic.; Opening Gods who knew they would die.; Chapter I Ginnungagap.; Chapter II The nine worlds.; Chapter III Odin.; Chapter IV Thor.; Chapter V Loki.; Chapter VI The goddesses.; Chapter VII The first war.; Chapter VIII The death of Baldur..

Outline:
1. Norse & Eddic.
2. Opening Gods who knew they would die.
3. Chapter I Ginnungagap.
4. Chapter II The nine worlds.
5. Chapter III Odin.
6. Chapter IV Thor.
7. Chapter V Loki.
8. Chapter VI The goddesses.
9. Chapter VII The first war.
10. Chapter VIII The death of Baldur.
11. Chapter IX The doom of the gods.
12. Chapter X The Poetic Edda.
13. Chapter XI Snorri's Edda.
14. Chapter XII The skalds.
15. Chapter XIII The saga tradition.
16. Chapter XIV Sigurd and Brynhild.
17. Chapter XV The Ring of the Nibelung.
18. Chapter XVI The end of the cult.
19. Chapter XVII Runes and inscriptions.
20. Chapter XVIII Tolkien's Norse.
21. Chapter XIX The current Norse moment.
22. Chapter XX The Norse ethic.
23. Chapter XXI Twenty-five.
24. Chapter XXII Watch & read.
25. Chapter XXIII Why we still read these.
26. Chapter XXIV An order of operations.
27. Chapter XXV Where it is now.
28. Chapter XXVI The other Germanic systems.
29. Chapter XXVII The shape of fate.
30. The end of the deck.

### Slavic
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-slavic-mythology
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-slavic-mythology/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: mythology, slavic

Slavic mythology is what we can reconstruct from fragments. Pre-Christian Slavic religion was largely oral; its conversion to Christianity (988 CE in Kiev under Vladimir, parallel processes elsewhere) was substantially complete by 1100. Christian chroniclers were systematic in suppressing what they could not absorb. Key sections include: Slav ic.; Opening The fragmented tradition.; Chapter I What we can read.; Chapter II The thunder god.; Chapter III The underworld god.; Chapter IV The earth mother.; Chapter V The wider pantheon.; Chapter VI Domovoy, leshy, vodyanoy.; Chapter VII The water-women.; Chapter VIII The witch..

Outline:
1. Slav ic.
2. Opening The fragmented tradition.
3. Chapter I What we can read.
4. Chapter II The thunder god.
5. Chapter III The underworld god.
6. Chapter IV The earth mother.
7. Chapter V The wider pantheon.
8. Chapter VI Domovoy, leshy, vodyanoy.
9. Chapter VII The water-women.
10. Chapter VIII The witch.
11. Chapter IX The mythical bird.
12. Chapter X The deathless.
13. Chapter XI The summer festival.
14. Chapter XII The spring festival.
15. Chapter XIII World tree, three realms.
16. Chapter XIV The conversion.
17. Chapter XV What scholars do.
18. Chapter XVI The modern revival.
19. Chapter XVII The contested ground.
20. Chapter XVIII Where it shows up.
21. Chapter XIX Indo-European context.
22. Chapter XX What remains uncertain.
23. Chapter XXI Where to start.
24. Chapter XXII Why it persists.
25. Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV If you want to learn it.
28. Chapter XXVI Why it matters.
29. Chapter XXVII The next decade.
30. The end of the deck.

### Comparative
URL: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-world-mythology-comparative
LLM text: https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-world-mythology-comparative/llms.txt
Slides: 30
Tags: mythology, world, comparative

Comparative mythology is the study of structural and thematic parallels across human mythological traditions. It claims that certain narratives, character types, and cosmological structures recur cross-culturally — and offers explanations for why. Key sections include: World Myth.; Opening What comparative mythology does.; Chapter I Müller and the philological school.; Chapter II The Golden Bough.; Chapter III Animism and survivals.; Chapter IV Indo-European tripartition.; Chapter V Hierophany and sacred time.; Chapter VI Structural mythology.; Chapter VII The monomyth.; Chapter VIII The monomyth's limits..

Outline:
1. World Myth.
2. Opening What comparative mythology does.
3. Chapter I Müller and the philological school.
4. Chapter II The Golden Bough.
5. Chapter III Animism and survivals.
6. Chapter IV Indo-European tripartition.
7. Chapter V Hierophany and sacred time.
8. Chapter VI Structural mythology.
9. Chapter VII The monomyth.
10. Chapter VIII The monomyth's limits.
11. Chapter IX Archetypes.
12. Chapter X The cross-cultural pattern.
13. Chapter XI Common patterns.
14. Chapter XII The cross-cultural figure.
15. Chapter XIII The journey.
16. Chapter XIV Triangulating evidence.
17. Chapter XV Why myths feel familiar.
18. Chapter XVI The contested past.
19. Chapter XVII The strongest case.
20. Chapter XVIII Other language families.
21. Chapter XIX Sky in myth.
22. Chapter XX The category question.
23. Chapter XXI What comparative mythology cannot do.
24. Chapter XXII The continuing source.
25. Chapter XXIII Twenty-five works.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch & read.
27. Chapter XXV If you want to learn it.
28. Chapter XXVI Why it matters.
29. Chapter XXVII The next decade.
30. The end of the deck.