51 Civilizations' Creation Myths Mapped on One Interactive World Map
An interactive world map of the stories cultures have told
Sunny Guha's Origin Myth Map plots 51 civilizations across 5 eras and 29 themes, from the Bronze Age to 1500 CE. Users can click any glowing region to read its creation myth, then use the era slider to travel through time. Quick themes like Water & Flood (28) and Sacrifice (5) reveal cross-cultural patterns, while network and migration views trace how stories spread.
Click any glowing region to explore its creation myth. Use the era slider below to travel through time.
- Planktonne
I think projects like this--feeding a bunch of incomplete information into AI and making a glossy-but-shallow output--do more harm than good.
How stories and created and shared and transmitted is a vast and complex field, something well worth diving into and addressing properly. Reducing that to a single output made without care presents beautiful richness as a solved and simple detail.
- casper14
Youre missing Christianity, Islam etc.
- tyrabound
“…map of the known stories…”
It’s unfortunate, but we have permanently lost way more stories and are losing them at catastrophic rates today as technology and globalism eradicate local and indigenous cultures and languages/dialects.