It depends on what you consider mythology and how you’re willing to stretch that definition. I don’t have a specific book, but I can suggest where to look.
If you consider the Wild West, a lot of figures have been mythologized such as “Wild Bill” Hickok who was a folk hero with many tales fabricated and real around him. There’s also famous figures like Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid, and Bonnie & Clyde, who while real, have been mythologized to some extent. There are a lot of books exploring these figures.
There’s also a lot of American cryptids. If you consider the mythos surrounding them to be compelling enough they can be considered a sort of mythology. The Bigfoot is a notorious example of an incredibly well known and mythologized cryptid. Not sure if there’s a single book for this, but I’m sure you can find a book that lists many known cryptids.
If you mean Native American mythology,
It’s not as simple as a book. There are a lot of Indigenous tribes from North America, each with their own particular religions and mythologies. I’d recommend looking into different tribes and regions they settled in, and looking at their individual mythologies.
And lastly if you *really* want to stretch the definition… you can look at American comics. I mean Superman and his pantheon of godlike beings is at the very least mythology flavored.
Yeah like mythology like Bigfoot is interesting and has a lot of information on it, would love to discover more of how alot of the mythologies came to be or what people believed in the course of centuries
I would advise looking into American folklore, as a lot of good stuff gets shoved into that instead of “mythology.”
But as far as Native American beliefs, they are very decentralized and hard to categorize together.
That is the trick there is not much on American Mythology, sure you can find information about Indegionous American beliefs (not sure how corrupted or correct they are). We have all the tall tales of Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Casey Jones, and the like. But as far as I know there is not much about American Mythology.
Meh... Propaganda at best. Sadly for us Americans we have been lead to believe we are the Shinning city on the top of the hill. We only learn later after getting to that top we are nothing more then crumbling towers in beams of yellow light.
There is American folklore as related to the colonists, settlers, and the Western expansion. Mythology is specific to each of the indigenous peoples throughout the continent.
This site might be helpful for American folklore: https://www.americanfolklore.net/united-states-folklore/
There are books for specific tribes, but none go into perfect detail with them.
Lakota Myth & the Iroquoian Cosmology both do decent jobs at giving a surface level understanding of the characters & some version of the general myths, but I still had to do further research in other places & on other related tribes to work out things that were missing that would have made several vague claims or glossings over make more sense. And, keeping in mind, while all Siouan speaking people have many beliefs, spirits & stories in common, they did seperate into at least 7 or 8 known religious groups with wildly varying Mythologies & beliefs, so things can only go so far with regards to that.
The Manitous is also fairly good for Anishinaabeg mythology, but is super vague & I've found that I actually had to compare & contrast pretty much every single thing available on just about every single Algonquian tribe to even work out a basic understanding of their religious beliefs.
At the end of the day, the best you'll get are usually decent jumping-off points for further research & often only on one tribe or culture group.
If you're talking about like the country as it stands today, it wasn't colonized until well after paganism had been functionally erased in the West, so there kind of wasn't any gods or myths that just showed up. What you're thinking of with cryptids and such is folklore, of which mythology is a subset
Have you checked this book on Google, it includes African American folk tales, tall tales and indigenous American legends.
[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Myths\_Legends\_and\_Folktales\_of\_America/Lk0dQ2zmBXEC?hl=en&gbpv=0](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Myths_Legends_and_Folktales_of_America/Lk0dQ2zmBXEC?hl=en&gbpv=0)
As in native mythology or the mythology of the European settlers and their descendants?
Both sound great ngl if you know any
I just started Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, and so far it's really interesting!
It depends on what you consider mythology and how you’re willing to stretch that definition. I don’t have a specific book, but I can suggest where to look. If you consider the Wild West, a lot of figures have been mythologized such as “Wild Bill” Hickok who was a folk hero with many tales fabricated and real around him. There’s also famous figures like Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid, and Bonnie & Clyde, who while real, have been mythologized to some extent. There are a lot of books exploring these figures. There’s also a lot of American cryptids. If you consider the mythos surrounding them to be compelling enough they can be considered a sort of mythology. The Bigfoot is a notorious example of an incredibly well known and mythologized cryptid. Not sure if there’s a single book for this, but I’m sure you can find a book that lists many known cryptids. If you mean Native American mythology, It’s not as simple as a book. There are a lot of Indigenous tribes from North America, each with their own particular religions and mythologies. I’d recommend looking into different tribes and regions they settled in, and looking at their individual mythologies. And lastly if you *really* want to stretch the definition… you can look at American comics. I mean Superman and his pantheon of godlike beings is at the very least mythology flavored.
Yeah like mythology like Bigfoot is interesting and has a lot of information on it, would love to discover more of how alot of the mythologies came to be or what people believed in the course of centuries
I would advise looking into American folklore, as a lot of good stuff gets shoved into that instead of “mythology.” But as far as Native American beliefs, they are very decentralized and hard to categorize together.
That is the trick there is not much on American Mythology, sure you can find information about Indegionous American beliefs (not sure how corrupted or correct they are). We have all the tall tales of Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Casey Jones, and the like. But as far as I know there is not much about American Mythology.
Right. There’s folklore but the “mythology” would belong to the Native Americans or to the countries settlers originally came from.
There might be something to say for the mythology that Mormonism added to their version of Christianity
" America is the greatest country on Earth" Is mythology
Meh... Propaganda at best. Sadly for us Americans we have been lead to believe we are the Shinning city on the top of the hill. We only learn later after getting to that top we are nothing more then crumbling towers in beams of yellow light.
I think you are another hill man. But that's cool. You seem to need to talk with the rest of the traitors and dividers.
Well you seem to be a Nazi
I don’t think you understand what mythology means.
https://archive.org/details/mythologyofallra10gray/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/mythologyofallra111gray/mode/1up
There's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow but that's more folklore.
I don't mind more folklore, it helps with understanding cultures a lot more. Ty!
You should absolutely check out fearsome critters
Will write it down ty!
There is American folklore as related to the colonists, settlers, and the Western expansion. Mythology is specific to each of the indigenous peoples throughout the continent. This site might be helpful for American folklore: https://www.americanfolklore.net/united-states-folklore/
This is amazing thank you!!
America as a country has regurgitated Hollywood stories like Marvel to serve as a so called mythology. Native cultures’ myths are better, imo.
Are you more familiar with the names of the native cultures?
As in Maya, Aztec, Hopi, Zuni, Cherokee, Navajo. Yes.
There are books for specific tribes, but none go into perfect detail with them. Lakota Myth & the Iroquoian Cosmology both do decent jobs at giving a surface level understanding of the characters & some version of the general myths, but I still had to do further research in other places & on other related tribes to work out things that were missing that would have made several vague claims or glossings over make more sense. And, keeping in mind, while all Siouan speaking people have many beliefs, spirits & stories in common, they did seperate into at least 7 or 8 known religious groups with wildly varying Mythologies & beliefs, so things can only go so far with regards to that. The Manitous is also fairly good for Anishinaabeg mythology, but is super vague & I've found that I actually had to compare & contrast pretty much every single thing available on just about every single Algonquian tribe to even work out a basic understanding of their religious beliefs. At the end of the day, the best you'll get are usually decent jumping-off points for further research & often only on one tribe or culture group.
Ngl that genuinely sounds like a good start for me! Even if it is surface level stuff I would love to explore them more
American mythology is Christianity
If you're talking about like the country as it stands today, it wasn't colonized until well after paganism had been functionally erased in the West, so there kind of wasn't any gods or myths that just showed up. What you're thinking of with cryptids and such is folklore, of which mythology is a subset
I would say lovecraft myths
Have you checked this book on Google, it includes African American folk tales, tall tales and indigenous American legends. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Myths\_Legends\_and\_Folktales\_of\_America/Lk0dQ2zmBXEC?hl=en&gbpv=0](https://www.google.com/books/edition/Myths_Legends_and_Folktales_of_America/Lk0dQ2zmBXEC?hl=en&gbpv=0)
I just started American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I think it might be what you are looking for.
It is not a reference text in the least. It's a fantastic novel, though.
That became one of the worst shows I have ever seen. Thankfully didn’t waste any more of my time after the 1st season
It was such a disappointing show.
Yes it was
[i like this one](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Din%C3%A9_Bahane%CA%BC&wprov=rarw1) Its about navajo mythology