Cultural Origins

The culture pages organise mythology and folklore by cultural zones rather than creature type. Each section frames myths within landscape, language, religion, trade routes, and performance traditions such as praise poetry, masquerade, and shrine rites. You will find context on oral tradition, ritual practice, iconography, and cosmology, with careful notes on variant names and transliteration. We highlight how stories travelled along caravan roads, river systems, and sea lanes, and how they changed through contact and conversion. Tiles let you navigate by region and subregion, then open cards for sources, dates, and cultural keywords. Cross references connect shared motifs across deserts, savannas, rainforests, coasts, and highlands.