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Paganism and Folk religion

Traditionally, these faiths have all been classified "Pagan", but scholars prefer the terms "indigenous/primal/folk/ethnic religions".

African

West Africa

  • Akan mythology
  • Ashanti mythology (Ghana)
  • Dahomey (Fon) mythology
  • Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Igbo mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Isoko mythology (Nigeria)
  • Yoruba mythology (Nigeria, Benin)

Central Africa

  • Bushongo mythology (Congo)
  • Bambuti (Pygmy) mythology (Congo)
  • Lugbara mythology (Congo)

East Africa

  • Akamba mythology (East Kenya)
  • Dinka mythology (Sudan)
  • Lotuko mythology (Sudan)
  • Masai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania)

Southern Africa

  • Khoisan religion
  • Lozi mythology (Zambia)
  • Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
  • Zulu mythology (South Africa)

American

Native American mythology

  • Abenaki mythology
  • Anishinaabe
  • Aztec mythology
  • Blackfoot mythology
  • Cherokee mythology
  • Chickasaw mythology
  • Choctaw mythology
  • Creek mythology
  • Crow mythology
  • Ghost Dance
  • Guarani mythology
  • Haida mythology
  • Ho-Chunk mythology (aka: Winnebago)
  • Hopi mythology
  • Inca mythology
  • Indian Shaker Church
  • Inuit mythology
  • Iroquois mythology
  • Keetoowah Nighthawk Society
  • Kuksu
  • Kwakiutl mythology
  • Lakota mythology
  • Leni Lenape mythology
  • Longhouse religion
  • Mapuche mythology
  • Maya mythology
  • Midewiwin
  • Miwok
  • Native American Church
  • Navajo mythology
  • Nootka mythology
  • Ohlone mythology
  • Olmec mythology
  • Pomo mythology
  • Pawnee mythology
  • Salish mythology
  • Selk'nam religion
  • Seneca mythology
  • Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
  • Sun Dance
  • Tsimshian mythology
  • Urarina
  • Ute mythology
  • Wyandot religion
  • Zuni mythology

Eurasian

Asian

  • Bon
  • Chinese mythology
  • Japanese mythology
  • Korean shamanism
  • Koshintō
  • Mun (Lepcha)
  • Siberian Shamanism
  • Tengrism

European

  • Asatru
  • Estonian mythology
  • Eskimo religion
  • Finnish mythology and Finnish paganism
  • Marla faith
  • Odinism
  • Hungarian folk religion
  • Sami religion (including the Noaidi)
  • Tadibya
  • Wotanism

Oceania/Pacific

  • Australian Aboriginal mythology
  • Austronesian beliefs
    • Balinese mythology
    • Javanese beliefs
    • Melanesian mythology
    • Micronesian mythology
      • Modekngei
      • Nauruan indigenous religion
    • Philippine mythology
      • Anito
      • Gabâ
      • Kulam
    • Polynesian mythology
      • Hawaiian mythology
      • Maori mythology
        • Maori religion
      • Rapa Nui mythology
        • Moai
        • Tangata manu

 

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