Encyclopedia Mythica

Encyclopedia Mythica

Encyclopedia Mythica is an internet encyclopedia of folklore, mythology, and religion. [cite news |title=Site of the week |url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue351/site.html |work=Science Fiction Weekly |date=12 January 2004 |accessdate=2008-09-14 ] It covers the mythology of most of the world, with sections spanning Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, both North and South America, and Oceania. This encyclopedia was founded in June 1995 [cite news |title=Entering the realm of myths. |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27000917_ITM |work=Computimes (Malaysia) |date=11 November 2002 |accessdate=2008-09-14 ] as a small site with about 300 entries, and established with its own domain name in March 1996. As of December 2005 this encyclopedia had 7,143 entries.

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* [http://www.pantheon.org/ Encyclopedia Mythica]


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