Stories from ancient cultures
A growing collection of 1,585 stories from the world's oldest mythological traditions: gods and heroes, lovers and tricksters, the founders of cities and the keepers of the dead.
Browse by culture
Arabic 100 stories
Buddhist & Jain 88 stories
Celtic 28 stories
Chinese 95 stories
Egyptian 102 stories
Ethiopian 22 stories
Finnish 23 stories
Greek 140 stories
Indian 189 stories
Indian Tribal 121 stories
Japanese 97 stories
Korean 28 stories
Native American 32 stories
Norse 80 stories
Persian 28 stories
Polynesian 28 stories
Roman 100 stories
Tamil 228 stories
Thai & Southeast Asian 28 stories
West African 28 stories
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.