A piece of land ruled by a monarch (king or queen)

An extensive group of countries under a single supreme authority (brought together by conquering)

a society consisting of families or communities linked by social, cultural, and linguistic ties

related to or inhabiting the underworld (often coded as evil or at least scary)

"guide of souls"; a figure whose job is to ferry newly-dead souls to the afterlife

existing before or at the point of the world's creation; often seen as outside the natural order

the process of different cultures coming together and beliefs adding together or changing from the cultural exchange.

the process of passing down beliefs, history, and aspects of culture through repeated, generational stories

A partial divinity who is able to do things normal humans can't, but is limited and separated from the gods by mortality.

A family of gods, or all the gods from a religion or background collectively

A divine spirit who has superhuman abilities, worshipped as having influence over human lives

A secondary force present at creation - sometimes just to observe, other times to edit creation or corrupt creation

A figure who brings something into existence, which often makes them head of their pantheon. (Falls into archetypes of Earth Mother, Sky Father, etc.)

A repeated pattern - specific structures of stories ("the origin of fire") or characters (a hero, a trickster)

Creation type that mimics the start of life i.r.l. - with the world coming out of an egg or birthed from a cosmic pregnancy

Creation type that starts with void, and then "out of nothing" there is the creator to make everything else

Creation type that starts with unshaped raw materials - barren water, or lots of elements already in conflict - to be shaped into the world

A religious system focused on one figure or object

Hero archetype with a larger than life hero as protagonist of a story sharing his name, and who is able to do impossible things

Hero archetype that changes the world with invention or discovery - w/ essential aspects of culture (stories) or necessary for life (fire)

Hero archetype for someone who goes to the Underworld and returns (usually for lost love, almost always unsuccessful)

Archetype for an existential origin of evil, or literally a force that births threats into the world

The eternal resting place of the dead (and probably monsters) with the important rule that they are not allowed to leave