The myths I use in my research, grouped by people and region. Each line links to its own page. For the two themes that run through almost all of them, see creation stories and flood stories.
The Americas
I start in the Americas, grouped by people. Several of these myths tell of world ages that each ended in a destruction.
Aztecs
Aztlan, the Five Suns and the flood.
The feathered serpent from the east.
The water goddess who brought the great flood.
Aztlan or Atlan as the homeland.
Maya
The Maya sites across five countries.
The hero who came to Chiapas after a great flood.
North America
The four worlds and their destructions.
The island of the Sky People.
The raft that saves one family.
The man who survived the flood the Creator sent to purify the earth.
Tulugaak shapes the first humans from clay.
South America
The flood in Mbya-Guarani tradition.
Europe
In Europe I follow the Greek, Norse, Celtic and Basque myths, and the sunken lands of Wales and Brittany.
My collection of Greek gods, heroes, islands and floods.
Uranus, Kronos and the war with Zeus.
Asgard, Ymir, the Vanir war and Ragnarok.
Thor's duel with the giant Hrungnir.
The Celtic god of many skills.
The sunken kingdom of Welsh legend.
The drowned city of Breton folklore.
The legends of the Basques of the Pyrenees.
The Mairu giants and the dolmens.
The Near East
These are the gods and myths of Sumer, Babylon, Egypt and Persia, from Enki and Enlil to Isis and Hathor.
The Sumerian lord of earth and water.
The Sumerian lord of the air.
How the world began in Sumer and Babylon.
The king of Uruk, Enkidu and the flood.
The Egyptian god shown as a mummy with a crook and flail, husband of Isis.
Isis and the survivors of Atlantis in Egypt.
The Egyptian goddess of love and music.
The Persian shelter against the evil winter.
Asia
In Asia I have the Hindu deities and Manu, the Eight Immortals of China and the myths of Shinto Japan.
The Hindu flood survivor and the fish.
The crossing of the East Sea.
Yingzhou, the city of immortals.
Susanoo and the eight-headed serpent.
Africa
The African pages cover the Yoruba, the Kuba, the San and the Dogon, whose oral traditions I read as a memory of Atlantis.
Olorun and the great flood.
The San creator who fought as he shaped the world.
The Dogon of Mali read as a memory of Atlantis.
Unkulunkulu and the Drakensberg.
Oceania
The last region is Oceania: the Polynesian creation chants, Hiva and the Aboriginal songlines.
Ta'aroa, the ancestor of all the gods.
Hiva, the ancestral homeland.
The Father of All Spirits.
The Pleiades in Aboriginal songlines.
