Americas Mythological Creatures

The Americas pages organise mythology and folklore from Arctic ice to Amazonian forests and Andean highlands. Each section frames stories within landscape, language families, calendars, and ritual cycles that structure memory and authority. Sources include codices, oral histories, archaeology, colonial chronicles, and modern ethnography with careful transliteration notes. We track how myths travelled along river systems, trade roads, and coastal routes, and how contact and conversion reshaped motifs. Tiles let you navigate by region, subregion, habitat, and theme, then open cards for sources, iconography, and variant names. Expect concise histories that link narratives to temples, plazas, shrines, pilgrimage sites, and the everyday rhythms of work and festival.