Chronology
Mythology Timeline
See when traditions flourished and overlapped, or follow their stories from creation to the twilight of the gods.
Laying out three thousand years…
Deities by oldest catalogued date
320 of 360 placed by the oldest dated work recorded in this catalog
Using the interactive timeline
Read the dates as context, not a final authority: myths often outlive, or long predate, the manuscripts that preserve them. The story view groups tales by the era they describe, which is an editorial frame rather than a shared chronology.
Navigation. Use your mouse wheel to zoom in up to 50x magnification, and click and drag to pan across eras. The era buttons and year fields jump straight to a range.
Events and details. Hollow circles mark key mythical or historical events; hover over them for descriptions and dates.
Pantheons. Coloured bars show catalog periods where dates are recorded. Collections without a shared period are labelled after the dated entries. Click an entry to highlight it and dim the others.
Cosmic eras. In the story view, myths are grouped into five eras: the Primordial void, the Creation of worlds and gods, the Golden Age of divine rule, the Heroic Age of mortal champions, and the Decline or twilight of the gods. These editorial groupings help compare narrative patterns; they do not imply a shared chronology or the same sequence of eras in every tradition.