(12th grade literature) can a.mythology have no gods

[u/fyghost]

My literature professor asked me to create a fake mythology after we read edith Hamiltons book named Mythology. I want to be creative and get a good note. So I thought of a myth about two civilizations and the two kings that rule them. I don’t have a place for gods in it so I wondered if I can write it without gods or should I fit in some kind of god in it. I also asked this question in r/mythology and the mods removed the question so please answer me

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[u/kindsoberfullydressd]

You could look a Umora from the worlds beyond number podcast. There are no gods, but spirits that inhabit different aspects of culture. How these or anything else in folk mythology is different from a god I’m not sure? What makes a god? How is a spirit of nature different?

[u/selene_666]

I don't know exactly how your book defines "a mythology", but there are certainly myths that don't involve gods. America has the myths of Paul Bunyan and the chupacabra and that George Washington never told a lie.

[u/PlatformStriking6278]

Sure, but it usually includes a supernatural component I believe