A free, academically sourced archive of the world’s great pantheons and legends: 227 entries across 13 traditions, every claim referenced.
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13 traditions. Every entry belongs to exactly one.
Gods, monsters, and worlds of the North, sourced from the Eddas and modern scholarship. Season 1 of Realms of the Ascended is built on this pantheon; the articles note where.
All 40 Norse entries →The Olympians, heroes, and monsters of ancient Greece, drawn from Hesiod, Homer, and the classical mythographers.
All 31 Greek entries →The gods of the Nile and the long journey through the afterlife, from the Pyramid Texts to the Book of the Dead.
All 15 Egyptian entries →The deities of Rome — Jupiter, Mars, Venus, and their kin — who guarded the state and its empire, drawn from Ovid, Virgil, and Livy.
All 15 Roman entries →The kami, spirits, and creatures of Shinto myth, recorded in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki.
All 13 Japanese entries →Gods, immortals, and beasts of Chinese myth — from the creators Pangu and Nüwa to the Monkey King — recorded across millennia of legend.
All 20 Chinese entries →The vast cosmology of the devas and their many avatars, from the Vedas and the great epics of India.
All 14 Hindu entries →The oldest recorded gods of Sumer, Akkad, and Babylon, drawn from the Enuma Elish and the Epic of Gilgamesh.
All 12 Mesopotamian entries →The Tuatha Dé Danann and the otherworldly beings of Irish and Welsh legend.
All 14 Celtic entries →The deities of the Mexica — sun, rain, and feathered serpent — who demanded sacrifice to sustain the age, from the Florentine Codex.
All 10 Aztec entries →The creators, rain-bringers, and death-lords of the Maya world, drawn from the Popol Vuh and the surviving codices.
All 9 Mayan entries →The thunderers, earth-mothers, and forest spirits of the pre-Christian Slavs, reconstructed from chronicle and folklore.
All 13 Slavic entries →King Arthur, Merlin, the Knights of the Round Table, and the quest for the Grail: medieval legend rather than ancient religion, drawn from Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, the Vulgate Cycle, and Malory.
All 21 Arthurian entries →Across every tradition at once.
