Talk:Mythology

There are requests for:

• Roman Mythology
• Norse Mythology
• Egyptian Mythology
• Celtic Mythology
• Chinese Mythology

Someone said that these sections should be added to this book, opposed to having their own books... at least until they are large enough.

--Remi0o 05:22, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I realized that this book was, in some ways, acting as an index to established mythological books, and in other ways acting as a base of writing for new mythological books. I have created a policy statement on the front page to reflect that attitude. That is: if the subject of a culture's mythology has large enough content here, it should be separated into a new book. I believe that

1. This statement reflects previous actions in the organization of this book
2. This is a wise policy to follow, as to avoid having books within books, and to avoid created dozens of books which others have not shown the will to work on.

Although there are many books out there which are stubs, I see no reason to turn current mythology stubs into new books. Book stubs, although inevitable in some cases, are not desirable, and it is fine to keep a culture's mythology as a module until it grows enough content to be appropriate as a book. -Monk 02:09, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

British and Irish Mythologies

The British and Irish Mythologies should be listed as

British and Irish Isles

• English mythology
• Celtic mythology
  • Brythonic mythology
    • Breton mythology
    • Cornish mythology
    • Welsh mythology
  • Goidelic (Gaelic) mythology
    • Irish mythology
    • Manx mythology
    • Scottish mythology

and not as listed

• British and Irish Mythology
  • English Mythology
  • Scottish Mythology
  • Irish Mythology
  • Welsh Mythology

since it doesn't show how the regions (specifically the celtic mythology regions) spread out and developed their own mythologies.

On another note you might look at the wiki article on Lists of Mythologies which breaks all the mythologies down to their continents and regions.