An atlas of world mythology360 deities, 162 stories
Mythos Atlas
Meet the gods. Follow their stories. Discover how people across 26 traditions imagined their world.
FrontispieceShiva, Tamil NaduBegin with a tradition
Featured pantheons
Start with a place, then meet its gods and follow its stories.
Daily ritual
Today's myth
One myth a day and three questions about it. A new one each morning, by your local date.
Across pantheons
Themed collections
Archetypes that travel: tricksters, rulers of the dead, love and war, gathered for comparative reading.
Trickster Gods7 deitiesDivine troublemakers and shapeshifters who use cunning over brute force. These deities blur the lines between chaos and creation.Loki · Hermes · Anansi · Susanoo
Rulers of the Dead7 deitiesSovereigns of the afterlife who guide souls, judge the deceased, and guard the boundaries between life and death.Hades · Hel · Osiris · Anubis
Gods of Love8 deitiesDeities who govern passion, desire, beauty, and the bonds between hearts. Their influence shapes mortal and divine relationships alike.Aphrodite · Venus · Freyja · Aengus Óg
Divine Warriors8 deitiesGods and goddesses of battle, strategy, and martial prowess. Some embody brutal warfare, others disciplined combat.Ares · Mars · Athena · Odin
Across traditions
Compare figures and traditions
Figures grouped by related roles. A shared role is not, by itself, evidence of a shared origin.
The Zeus parallels
ZeusGreekIllustration
JupiterRomanIllustration- OdinNorseIllustration
IndraHinduIllustration
The Inanna parallels
InannaMesopotamianIllustration- AphroditeGreekIllustration
HathorEgyptianIllustration- FreyjaNorseIllustration
FeaturedBranching myths
Stand where the heroes stood
The Judgment of Paris. Step into the sandals of Paris, prince of Troy. Three goddesses stand before you, each offering a gift beyond mortal dreams. But every choice carries consequences that will echo through eternity. Your choices decide the ending.
Guides
The myths behind the story
What novels, epics and games took from ancient myth, and what they invented.
Percy Jackson: The Titan's CurseArtemis and her Hunters, Atlas, the Nemean Lion, Ladon, the Hesperides, Mount Othrys and Kronos: what Rick Riordan took from ancient myth, and what he invented.
Homer's OdysseyOdysseus's route from Troy to Ithaca, a book-by-book summary of Homer's poem, and the gods, monsters and mortals he meets, linked to their entries.- Hades II mythologyMelinoë, Hecate, Chronos and Cronus, Nemesis, Moros, Thanatos and Nyx: which Hades II characters come from ancient sources, and what the game invents.
- Greek gods family treeWho is whose parent among the primordials, Titans and 12 Olympians, as plain lists with the Hesiod lines behind each link, the Hestia and Dionysus seat, and the Aphrodite and Hephaestus variants.
- Greek and Roman gods chartEvery Greek god and its Roman counterpart in one table, with the domains they share, what Rome changed, and a link to each head-to-head comparison.
- Valhalla vs FolkvangrOdin's hall, Freyja's field and Hel's realm: who the Norse sources send to each, quoted from the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, and what they leave unsaid.