Strongly supporting this. There's currently no genre covering mythology or folklore, and it's such an important part of world literature! There isn't any genre that is even remotely relevant, I've seen Fantasy and Classics being used but that's just completely off.

Yes please! As someone who reads lots of mythology from different cultures, it feels like it own genre.

If this happens - it would be good to have a 'mythology' category (non-fiction, original myths and legends etc and books about these) and a 'retellings' section or some other way to keep say... original classics, books about mythology and persephone and hades romance retellings separate. Not that both aren't great, but I feel like it would make sense to have them separate? Could also be combined with a fairy-tale retellings (so just one fictional 'retellings' genre....