Stories from ancient cultures
A growing collection of 924 stories from the world's oldest mythological traditions: gods and heroes, lovers and tricksters, the founders of cities and the keepers of the dead.
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About this site
What started as bedtime stories for a child became a project to gather mythology from many traditions in one place. Each story is told as a story - dropped into the action, shaped to its own culture's voice, free of summary lectures and "themes-of" lists. At the top of every page is a short fact-card so you can see at a glance who the figures are, where the story comes from, and what it left behind in the world.