Mythy Vision

Mythy Vision is an atlas of the world’s stories. Every point on the globe is a tale, placed where it was first told: 2,702 myths, legends, folktales and fairy tales from 169 countries, each with a short retelling, its source and its original name.

Discover how stories travel

Open any story and its closest relatives light up, joined by arcs across the planet. Flood myths from Mesopotamia, India, Greece and the Andes. Creation from the body of a giant, from China to Iceland. Tricksters, swan maidens, journeys to the underworld - the same ideas, told again and again.

Explore your way

• Filter by 20 motifs: Sun, Moon, Flood, Fire, Dragon, Love, Hero, Trickster, Underworld and more
• Travel through four eras, from undatable creation myths to tales collected in recent centuries
• Open a country to browse everything told there, with artwork for hundreds of stories
• Switch the globe between Terrain, Satellite and Dots
• Listen to any story read aloud

Made for VR

Hold the planet at arm’s length and spin it with the thumbstick. Point at a story and pull the trigger to open it. Everything works with one controller and there is no movement, so it is comfortable seated or standing.

About the stories

Retellings are short AI-assisted summaries of well-known sources - Wikipedia, Ovid, the Brothers Grimm, the Mahabharata, the Kojiki, One Thousand and One Nights - and simplify the originals. Artwork is freely licensed, from Wikimedia Commons.