I want to know who is the large canid by the by the black bridge, near the top, right of center?

I believe the cowboy you refer to is PECOS BILL.

and the girl with the pig could be this?

I see Lakshmi...

I think I found Queen Frostine's castle, from CandyLand!

If it's the dog with the two children underneath it, it's Romulus and Remus.

Pecos Bill - ah... I'm a little hazy on the American story mythos, though I did get Paul Bunyan and Babe the Ox, and what seems to be Johnny Appleseed.

Moby Dick jumped right out at me. I'm glad no one's mentioned it yet. And I'm going to post real fast before making more guesses so no one beats me to it.

And Superman, duh!

What are the great founding myths of Canada?

In the volcano, I did get Vulcan (2nd from left), but the first one I'm not sure of ... thought it was Hephaestus, but that's the Greek name of Vulcan. The 3rd is Mayan, I'm guessing, and the 4th is a total blank. Also note across the bottom is Atlas. :)

Jack, Beanstalk.

Pandora, box.

Riding Hood (red).

The pumpkin-headed Sleepy Hollow guy.

A happy little satyr.

Unicorns in love.

Atlantis.

The cyclops and the guy who fought him.

Goliath, David.

Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, Dulcinea, Rocinante.

The blind justice lady.

Canadian ones don't seem to be there. I can't recall any European-based myths off the top of my head. As for First Nations, the story of Raven discovering Man in a shell and setting them free is common on the west coast, but isn't represented here.

The city below Superman is obviously Metropolis. Also there's Hercules going up against the Boar, the Lion and a Hydra. And there's the Colossus of Rhodes straddling two islands.

Bah, I should have known that.

Theseus hunting the Minotaur, with Daedalus's string to lead him out. Oddly, the Labyrinth is vertical, descending into the earth.

Trying only to mention ones not yet mentioned:

The Sphinx (the Greek one, outside of Thebes) riddling someone, presumably Oedipus. (Top of image, in the "dark".)

Near the Headless Horseman pursing (presumably) Icabod Crane.

As mudpuppie points out, Cyclops Polyphemus being fought by Odysseus, while his men look on from the ship, with Neptune or some other sea-god to the right. No, Neptune is much further left, that must be Triton.

The Bremen Town Musicians: the donkey, dog, cat, and chicken drive away the robbers and get their own house (or, the ingredients of some Cantonese dish). (Above Polyphemus, to the right of Metropolis).

Three Billygoats Gruff cross a bridge.

Odin and Thor, top left. No, they all have two eyes, so it's Thor, Zeus, and (?) Indra, the Hindu god of lightning.

Further left, Apollo and his Golden Chariot are the setting sun, and Icarus is falling.

Rainbow Bridge, so elongated glass Ionic temples are supposed to be Valhalla???

Botticelli's Venus, on the half-shell but also in a bikini.

Pan, the satyr, playing panpipes.

Underground, far left, the Three Fates, Clotho the spinner, Lachesis the drawer, and Atropos the cutter.

Artemis chasing Actaeon, changed into a stag? (Except the "stag" is more a faun.)

Perseus rescuing Andromeda by using Medusa's head to turn the sea-serpent to stone.

The island that's really a sea-monster (Gulliver's Travels, multiple other sources).

Hell is Aeneas's, not Dante's?

No Rhine maidens?

I think the Hell is an amagamation of both. I can't remember if Cerberus is common to both, but there is Charon ferrying Dante and Virgil.

Top right of centre is Behemoth and Leviathan.

The spiral tower in the desert - Babel? Above that is Promethius giving fire to Man.

Prometheus giving men fire (he still has his liver, hard to say).

Stupid flash. I want to expand that thing to fill my 24" screen.

Ah, you can alter the flash parameters (interactively, with the right FF extensions). Much better at 1500x900.

Hmm, you can also get at the underlying jpegs, but that wouldn't be fair to the author.

Hades, king of the underworld. Pan, the Greek god, half man half goat. Could have sworn the guy being followed by a dark winged angel carrying a light is the soldier Saul, before becoming the Apostle Paul, but I'm probably wrong. And the messanger with winged feet-Aries? Or Mars? Aaaggghhh, I need to get out my mythology books!

Yeah, definitely, change the flash parameters. It doesn't make the resolution any higher (at max zoom, any part is as tall as before), but you don't have to peer through that little 750x450 viewport. Makes the painting much more impressive.

The saber-toothed bear and the sea-serpent are Behemoth and Leviathan????

Winged booted messenger is Mercury.

This is Leviathan.

Leviathan & Behemoth, as illustrated by William Blake.

Heh, no kidding. Thanks for that.

I'm really torn; I don't know if I like all those different myth-systems jumbled together or not.

I mean, it makes it more fun to figure out, but it might be more aesthetically pleasing if the Greeks and the Norse and Indians and the fables and comic books each had a separate region of the picture.