• culture. Sago is the staple food of the Papuan supplemented with hunting, fishing and small gardens. Papuans may be related to the Iatmul on the Sepik...
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    by linguists, between speakers of Papuan languages and speakers of Austronesian (Oceanic) languages. Dixon's "Papuan" layer was best represented, in his...
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    Norse, Nordic, or Scandinavian mythology, is the body of myths belonging to the North Germanic peoples, stemming from Old Norse religion and continuing...
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    Slavic mythology Pombero - Guarani mythology Pygmies (in Greek mythology) Qutrub Redcap Siyawesi - Benin Sprites Ta'ai, or 小黑人 - in the mythology of, or...
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    mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology...
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    Indigenous people of New Guinea Dugout (boat) Asmat people Sago Papuan people Papuan mythology Swamp Digging stick Hourglass drum Secret society Ananta, A...
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  • Comparative mythology is the comparison of myths from different cultures in an attempt to identify shared themes and characteristics. Comparative mythology has...
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    Germanic mythology consists of the body of myths native to the Germanic peoples, including Norse mythology, Anglo-Saxon mythology, and Continental Germanic...
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    use, "mythology" usually refers to the collection of myths of a group of people. For example, Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Celtic mythology and Hittite...
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  • American mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to America's most legendary stories and folktale, dating back to the late 1700s when...
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    West African mythology is the body of myths of the people of West Africa. It consists of tales of various deities, beings, legendary creatures, heroes...
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    The Mongol mythology is the traditional religion of the Mongols. There are many Mongol creation myths. In one, the creation of the world is attributed...
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  • The mythologies in present-day France encompass the mythology of the Gauls, Franks, Normans, Bretons, and other peoples living in France, those ancient...
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    Turkic mythology refers to myths and legends told by the Turkic people. It features Tengrist and Shamanist strata of belief along with many other social...
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  • Religion and mythology differ in scope but have overlapping aspects. Both are systems of concepts that are of high importance to a certain community,...
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    Mythology of the Haudenosaunee includes the creation stories and folktales of the Native Americans who formed the confederacy of the Five Nations Iroquois...
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    Celtic mythology is the body of myths belonging to the Celtic peoples. Like other Iron Age Europeans, Celtic peoples followed a polytheistic religion...
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  • Finnic mythologies are the mythologies of the various Finnic peoples: Finnish mythology Estonian mythology Komi mythology Mari mythology Sámi shamanism...
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  • and other Finnic mythologies, but also with neighbouring Baltic, Slavic and, to a lesser extent, Norse mythologies. Finnish mythology survived within an...
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  • Baltic mythology is the body of mythology of the Baltic people stemming from Baltic paganism and continuing after Christianization and into Baltic folklore...
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  • Lakota mythology is the body of sacred stories that belong to the Lakota people, also known as the Teton Sioux. The Lakota believe that everything has...
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    Slavic mythology or Slavic paganism is the religious beliefs, myths, and ritual practices of the Slavs before Christianisation, which occurred at various...
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    Inca mythology is the universe of legends and collective memory of the Inca civilization, which took place in the current territories of Colombia, Ecuador...
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  • medicine keepers, called Medeoulin or Mdawinno.[citation needed] In Abenaki mythology the highest deity is Gici Niwaskw, also referred to by the titles of Tabaldak...
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    Polynesian mythology encompasses the oral traditions of the people of Polynesia (a grouping of Central and South Pacific Ocean island archipelagos in...
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    and gods. These native mythologies are relatively free from foreign influences, such as Torajans, Nias, Bataks, Dayaks and Papuans. By contrast, Javanese...
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  • the few still widely observed. Afekan, equivalent of Afek in Tifalmin mythology Biersack 2006, pp. 176-177. Biersack 2006, pp. 177, 190. Aletta, Biersack;...
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    The mythology of the ancient Basques largely did not survive the arrival of Christianity in the Basque Country between the 4th and 12th century AD. Most...
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    Korean mythology (Korean: 한국 신화; Hanja: 韓國神話; MR: Han'guk sinhwa) is the group of myths told by historical and modern Koreans. There are two types: the...
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