# Other Mythology

Abaddon
According to the ancient Hebrews, Abaddon was chief of the demons of the 7th hierarchy.

Abira
In Antioquia mythology, Abira is the creator.

Abominable snowman
The Abominable snowman is a legendary creature, said to resemble a human, with long arms and a thickset body covered with reddish gray hair. Reports of its existence in the Himalayas have been made since 1832, and they gained substance from a published photograph of a huge footprint in the snow in 1951. No further "evidence" has been found.

Achiyalatopa
In Zuni mythology, Achiyalatopa is a celestial giant monster with feathers of flint knives.

Adekagagwaa
In Iroquois mythology, Adekagagwaa is the spirit of summer who rests during the winter in the south.

Adonis
Adonis was a Phoenician god, adopted by Greek mythology as a mortal favourite of Aphrodite. He was killed by a wild boar and upon finding him Aphrodite caused the plant the anemone to rise from his blood.

Afrit
In Arab mythology, Afrits are the most powerful class of evil spirits.

Agla
An agla is a talisman used by the rabbis to exorcise evil spirits.

Ahriman
In Zoroastrianism the Ahriman is the supreme evil spirit, lord of the darkness and death.

Ahura Mazda
In Zoroastrianism Ahura Mazda is the spirit of supreme good, god of light and life.

Airsekui
In Huron mythology, Airsekui is the great spirit. He is invoked at times of great danger.

Aizen Myo-o
In Japanese mythology, Aizen Myo-o is the god of love.

Akka
In Finnish mythology, Akka was the consort of Ukko.

Aktunowihio
In Cheyenne mythology, Aktunowihio is the soul of the earth. A subterranean spirit.

Akycha
In Eskimo mythology, Akycha is the sun spirit.

Ala
In Ibo mythology, Ala is the Earth Mother, Law-giver, protectress of the harvest. She who receives the dead into her pocket.

Ama Terasu
In Japanese mythology, Ama Terasu is the Sun-Goddess.

Amaterasu
In Japanese mythology, Amaterasu is the sun goddess, grandmother of Jimmu Tenno, the first ruler of Japan.

Amitolane
In Zuni mythology, Amitolane is the rainbow spirit.

Anahita
In Persian mythology, Anahita (Immaculate-one) is a motherly goddess of life waters, weather, fertility, procreation, war and victory.

Anath
In Syrian mythology, Anath is a goddess of earth, grain, and sacrifice. She is the strength of life, a bloodthirsty maiden and a violent Virgin.

Angatupyry
In Guarani mythology, Angatupyry is the spirit of good. Together with Tau they guide people which road to follow.

Angpetu Wi
In Dakota mythology, Angpetu Wi is the sun spirit.

Anguta
In Eskimo mythology, Anguta is a god who lives under the sea and drags down the dead.

Aningan
In Eskimo mythology, Aningan is the moon spirit.

Anpao
In Dakota mythology, Anpao is the spirit of the dawn.

Anulap
In Truk Island mythology, Anulap is the sky god and the husband of Ligougubfanu.

Arasy
In Guarani mythology, Arasy is the wife of Tupa. She lives in the moon.

Aratron
In magic, Aratron is ruler of the affairs of Saturn. It is a spirit which can be invoked on the 1st hour of saturday.

Arnarquagssaq
see "Sedna"

Ashera
Ashera was an ancient Semetic goddess symbolised by the phallus. A bountiful great mother goddess of heaven, the moon and sea. In wisdom, she was the mistress of the Deities.

Ashtaroth
Ashtaroth was a goddess worshipped by the ancient Canaanites. She was regarded as symbolising the productive power of nature.

Asrael
In Islam, Asrael is the angel of death who takes the soul from the body.

Astarte
Astarte is a Syrian goddess representing the productive power of nature. She was a moon goddess.

Ataentsic
In Iroquois mythology, Ataentsic is the goddess of the earth. She was the Woman Who fell from the sky and creatress of the sun and moon. It is she who gives counsel in dreams.

Atanua
In the mythology of The Marquesas Islands, Atanua is the dawn goddess. She was the wife of Atea, and it was her miscarriage that created the seas.

Atea
In the mythology of the Marquesas Islands, Atea is the god of light and husband of Atanua.

Ateshga
Ateshga was a sacred site for the Guebres. It was on the peninsular of Apsheron on the west coast of the Caspian sea. Pilgrims would bow before the sacred flames which issued forth from the bituminous soil.

Au
In the mythology of the Gilbert Island, Au is the sun god and lord of the skies.

Avali
Avali is the plural of Omuli.

Awonawilona
In Zuni mythology, Awonawilona was the divine Shehe from Whose being flowed forth the mists of increasing and the streams of growing.

Ba-Maguje
In Hausa mythology, Ba-Maguje is the spirit of drunkeness.

Baal
In Canaanite mythology, Baal was the god of fertility. He was the son of El.

Babamik
In Arapesh mythology, Babamik is a cannibal ogress who is eventually lured to her death and she then becomes a crocodile.

Bajang
In Malaysian mythology, the bajang is an evil spirit which usually takes the shape of a polecat. When it mews at night a child will die. It is said that a bajang is obtained from the newly buried body of a still-born child, and can be lured from it by incantations of a sorcerer.

Barong
In Balinese mythology, Barong is a protective spirit portrayed as a lion or tiger.

Batara Guru
In Indonesian mythology, Batara Guru is the great god who made the earth.

Begu
In Batak mythology, begu are ghosts which wander the afterworld formless and starving. They approach humans by way of mediums demanding sacrifices to feed on. They may also steel the soul of a living person for a husband/wife.

Belam
In Melanau mythology, Belam are protective spirits who catch the souls of sick people and return them to their bodies thereby curing them.

Belet-ili
see "Aruru"

Biloko
In Zaire mythology, Biloko are spirits which live in hollow trees in the forest. They dress only in leaves and are devoid of hair, instead grass grows on their body. They have piercing eyes and a snout with a mouth which can open wide enough to swallow a man dead or alive. They have long sharp claws and can put a spell on passers by except those protected by strong counter magic.

Bimbogami
In Japanese mythology, Bimbogami is the god of poverty. He is an obstinate companion of families, who try hard to get rid of him and with him their poverty.

Bjelbog
In Slavonic mythology, Bjelbog is the pale or white god, as opposed to Tshernybog, the black god or god of darkness.

Bochica
In Chibcha mythology, Bochica was the supreme being.

Bodhisattva
A Bodhisattva is someone who has transmuted his personal human nature and raised it into impersonality.

Bokwus
In Kwakiutl mythology, Bokwus is a wild spirit of the woods who draws the spirits of the drowned to his home.

Bope
In Bororo mythology, Bope are evil spirits who attack the souls of the dead.

Boraspati ni Tano
In Batak mythology, Boraspati ni Tano is an earth spirit. Sacrifices are made to him when a new house is built.

Brownie
In Scotland, brownies are imaginary spirits believed to haunt houses, particularly farmhouses. Rather than doing damage, they are believed to be helpful to the family, particularly to the servants if they treat the brownie well.

Bulotu
In Tongan mythology, Bulotu is the paradise where the spirits of the dead live amidst richly laden fruit trees and blossoms in eternal bliss.

Cagn
see "Kaang"

Cavillaca
In Quecha mythology, Cavillaca was a goddess loved by Coniraya.

Ch'ang-O
In Chinese mythology, Ch'ang-O is the graceful moth-eyebrowed maiden goddess of the moon and immortality. The dispenser of life magic.

Chahuru
In Pawnee mythology, Chahuru is the spirit of water.

Chenoo
In Abnaki mythology, the Chenoo were stone giants versed in hunting who were invoked to assist the hunters.

Chia
In Chibcha mythology, Chia is the moon-goddess.

Chibchacum
In Chibcha mythology, Chibchacum was the god of farmers and merchants.

Chipiripa
In Curra mythology, Chipiripa is the rain god.

Chixu
In Pawnee mythology, Chixu are the spirits of the dead.

Chun-T'i
In Chinese mythology, Chun-T'i is a goddess of war. She who is capable of miraculous feats and she who excels in the magic arts.

Cockatrice
The Cockatrice is a fictious creature said to be hatched from a cock's egg by a serpant. It is an ugly creature with a crested head, glittering eyes, a barbed tongue and a serpants tail. Mention is made of the Cockatrice in several passages of the bible. It probably has as its origin the hermaphroditic fowl - a crowing hen - which is known to occur in nature. In 1474 a Basel cock was sentenced to death for laying an egg!

Coniraya
In Quecha mythology, Coniraya is the creator of all things and the founder of agriculture. He came to earth as a beggar, fell in love with the goddess Cavillaca and secretly impregnated her by turning some of his sperm into fruit which she ate. Cavillaca later turned herself and her child into stone at the shame of mothering the child of a beggar.

Dagon
Dagon was the god of the Philistines. He had the upper torso of a man and the tail of a fish.

Dakaki
In Hausa mythology, the Dakaki is a serpant spirit which causes the evil eye resulting in stomach ulcers.

Dama
In Huli mythology, dama are invisible deities which control the weather and attack people causing illness, sterility or death. Most of them can also bring good fortune, but a small minority are completely evil.

Dama dagenda
In Huli mythology, dama dagenda are evil forest-spirits that attack travellers making their noses bleed and giving them sores.

Danhyang Desa
In Java mythology, each village has a Danhyang Desa which is a spirit who lives in a large tree near to or in the village. All blessings emanate from him. Any disasters occuring to the village are seen as a sign that he has been neglected.

Datagaliwabe
In Huli mythology, Datagaliwabe is a giant who punishes offences against kinship laws with illness, fatal accidents or death in battle.

Degei
In Fijian mythology, Degei is the serpant-god in the Kauvadra hills who interogates the souls of the dead and punishes the souls of lazy people while rewarding those of hard working people.

Dido
Dido was a Phoenician princess. The legendary founder of Carthage, she committed suicide to avoid marrying a local prince.

Digawina
In the mythology of Melanesia, Digawina is a demoness who steals food and stuffs it into her enormous vagina.

Dinditane
In Huli mythology, Dinditane is a fertility god of gardening.

Djanggau
In Australian mythology, Djanggau with Her sister Djunkgao, are dual fertility goddess who brought forth all life in the beginning.

Djunkgao
see "Djanggau"

Donar
In Germanic mythology, Donar was the god of thunder, equivalent to the Norse god Thor.

Drupadi
In Javanese mythology, Drupadi is a warrior and expert archer, wife of Yudistira. She often joins in battle dressed as a male warrior.

Dunawali
In Huli mythology, Dunawali is an evil goddess who lodges herself in a woman's internal organs making the victim the innocent vehicle of the goddesses evil power.

Duppies
see "Duppy"

Duppy
In Jamaican folklore, Duppies are the ghosts of deceased people. An Obeah man will summon a Duppy and plant it in a home to curse the occupants. A sample of the victim's clothing, hair or especially menstrual fluid may be obtained so that a Duppy may rape a femal victim while she sleeps and make her ill.

Durga
In Balinese mythology, Durga is the goddess of death and disease. She is married to Waruna.

Dzivaguru
In Korekore mythology, Dzivaguru was the great earth goddess. She lived in a valley near Dande, kept cattle and goats and dressed in goatskins. She posessed a long horn which gave he whatever she wished for.

Eblis
In Islamic mythology, Eblis is the chief of the evil spirits.

Echidne
In Libyan mythology, Echidne (She-Viper) is part beauteous woman and part speckled serpent. She is a goddess of death, the underworld and prophesy.

Ekkekko
In Quecha mythology, Ekkekko is the god of good fortune.

El
In Canaanite mythology, El was the father of the gods.

Ellil
see "Enli"

Eloko
In Zaire mythology, the Eloko are dwarves who live in the densest and darkest parts of the forest guarding their treasure, which is the fruits and animals of the forest.

Enkidu
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu is the wild man created by the goddess Aruru who becomes a companion to Gilgamesh. After Gilgamesh has provoked the anger of the goddess Ishtar, Enkidu sickens and dies.

Eve
In Syrian mythology, Eve is a life-giving goddess. The creatrix of all manifested forms, the mother womb and instructress of humanity.

Fatima
In Syrian Arab mythology, Fatima is the great goddess of the moon and fate. The source of the Sun and the virgin Queen of Heaven. She is represented as the Tree of Paradise.

Finweigh
In Bilan mythology, Finweigh was the god who with Melu made man.

Forso
In Gururumba mythology, the forso are ghosts of the dead. They are tiresome attracting attention and causing accidents and illness.

Fuji
In Japanese mythology, Fuji is the goddess of Mount Fuji and its rocks. She is the one to whose peak pilgrims climb to worship the rising sun.

Fura-Chogue
In Colombian mythology, Fura-Chogue is the first mother. The Spirit of the waters and goddess of vegetation and harvest. She is the teacher of order and peace.

Ga-oh
In Iroquois mythology, Ga-oh is the wind-giant. His house is guarded by a bear, whose prowling brings the north wind; a panther whose whining brings the westerly wind; a moose whose breathing brings the wet east wind and a fawn whose returning to its mother brings the gentle south wind.

Gahonga
In Iroquois mythology, the Gahonga are the jogah of rocks and rivers.

Gandayah
In Iroquois mythology, the Gandayah are the jogah who tend the earth's fertility.

Gans
In Apache mythology, the Gans were mountain spirits sent to teach the Apache the arts of civilisation. But they went away because they were distressed by the corruption of people.

Gauna
In the mythology of the Bushpeople of Botswana, Gauna (Gawa, Gawama) was death, leader of spirits. He lived in the underworld, and was forever roaming in the Upper World to snatch away mortals and carry them below. His people were miserable and restless under the earth, and always tried to escape and take over the Upper World. During the time when Kaang lived on Earth, he kept Gauna in check, and in particular taught human beings a series of rituals and taboos which, rigorously observed, would keep the ghosts in their graves and stop Gauna from taking over the Upper World.

Gawa
see "Gauna"

Gawama
see "Gauna"

Geush Urvan
In Iranian mythology, Geush Urvan was the power of Mother Earth given form as a bull. For the 3000 years it lived on Earth, all the strength of the universe was located there. Then Mithras killed it, and its energy was transferred to the sky, where universal strength ever afterwards belonged to the gods. The decaying corpse, however, remained on Earth, and the last scraps of Geush Urvan's power were reformed into every species of animal and plant.

Geyaguga
In Cherokee mythology, Geyaguga is the moon spirit.

Gikuyu
Gikuyu and Mumbi were the spiritual ancestors of all the Kikuyu people. They had 9 daughters. For the daughters, Gikuyu found 9 husbands beneath a large fig tree at Murang'a for the daughters. These husbands then became the ancestors of the 9 Kikuyu clans.

Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh was a hero of Sumerian, Hittite, Akkadian and Assyrian legend. He was one-third mortal and two-thirds divine. Gilgamesh was Lord of the Sumerian city of Uruk.

Gnomes
The Gnomes are elementals evolved in the realm of Earth.

Gohone
In Iroquois mythology, Gohone is the spirit of winter.

Gu
In Fon mythology, Gu was a blacksmith-god who took not human form but the shape of a tool. At the beginning of creation his parent, Mawu-Lisa, made him in the form of a trowel, using him to mould human beings from the celestial dung-heap. When mortals were establishing themselves on earth. Mawu-Lisa changed Gu's shape to that of a metal blade embedded in a rock, and sent him to earth to teach humans how to make and use tools of their own.

Guan Di
In Chinese mythology, Guan Di or Guang Gong was the god of martial arts, and of the diplomacy which prevents or puts an end to fighting. His wisdom came partly from his courteous manner, partly from his knowledge of literature, and partly from knowledge of the future.

Guang Gong
see "Guang Di"

Guanyin
In Chinese mythology, Guanyin is the goddess of mercy.

Gudratrigakwitl
In the myths of the Wiyot people of Northern California, Gudratrigakwitl
created the universe by the unusual method of putting his hands together and then spreading the palms and fingers wide, like wings. The whole created world lies safe between these outspread hands, and despite the evil and cruelty it contains, in his benevolence he has never yet been moved to clap them together and end it.

Guebres
The Guebres were Persian fire worshippers.

Guecufu
In the myths of the Araucanian people of Chile, Guecufu was the king of demons and arch-enemy of Guinechen. He was always sending plagues, floods and other disasters to wipe out Guinechen's mortal creations, and Guinechen's interventions - and therefore die war between the two supernatural beings - guaranteed not only dissension in die universe, but also its continuity.

Guinechen
In Araucanian mythology, Guinechen or Guienapun ensured the continuation of life in the universe. He was perpetually at war with Pillan the thunder-god and with Guecufu king of the demons. Their struggle kept the universe in equilibrium, and the myth forecast that when that struggle was disturbed, the world would end.

Ha Wen Neyu
In Iroquois mythology, Ha Wen Neyu is the great spirit.

Hadad
In Canaanite mythology, Hadad was the god of thunder and lightning.

Hafoza
In Jate mythology, Hafoza is the god of thunder and lightning.

Hanghepi
In Dakota mythology, Hanghepi is the spirit of the night moon.

Hantu Air
In Malaysian mythology, Hantu Air is the god of the sea.

Harrimiah
In Australian mythology, Harrimiah is the twin brother of Perindi. Although he loves his brother, he is abused by him and this saddens Harrimiah so that he buries himself in the sand, whereupon his wife and mother ask the wattle and apple trees to keep watch over him, which they do.

Hastsehogan
In Navajo mythology, Hastsehogan is the god of houses.

Hastseltsi
In Navajo mythology, Hastseltsi is the god of racing.

Hastsezini
In Navajo mythology, Hastsezini is the fire-god.

Hau
In Maori mythology, Hau is the god of wind.

Haumea
In Hawaiin mythology, Haumea is the goddess of procreation and childbirth.

Heammawihio
In Cheyenne mythology, Heammawihio is the great spirit.

Heise
In Ju mythology, Heise was half man and half god. He created the forests from his own hair so that his own delicate son could have shelter from the searing sun.

Helabe
In Huli mythology, Helabe is a son of Honabe.

Helahuli
In Huli mythology, Helahuli is a son of Honabe. His four sons were the founders of mankind and the four tribes bear their names.

Heng
In Huron mythology, Heng is the god of thunder.

Herabe
In Huli mythology, Herabe is a god who causes insanity.

Het-Her
see "Athor"

Hidesato
In Japanese legends, Hidesato is a fearless hero who killed the centipede and other monsters.

Hino
In Iroquois mythology, Hino is the thunder god, guardian of the skies.

Hiribi
In Canaanite mythology, Hiribi was the goddess of summer.

Hiro
In Easter Island mythology, Hiro is the god of rain and fertility.

Ho-Hsien-Ku
In Chinese mythology, Ho-Hsien-Ku is the virgin of the mountains, agility, immortality and mother reverence. She is one of the `eight immortals'.

Hokewingla
In Dakota mythology, Hokewingla is a turtle spirit who lives in the moon.

Hokhma
In Syrian mythology, Hokhma is the goddess of spiritual transformation. The mother of the stars and the inspiration of philosophers.

Honabe
In Huli mythology, Honabe is the primaeval goddess and the first inhabitant of the land. She was seduced by the god Timbu and bore five deities.

Honoyeta
In Papua New Guinean mythology, Honoyeta was the demon who brought mortality to human beings. he had two wives, who mated with him as an enormous snake. But when they went to work each morning, he shed his snakeskin, became a handsome human and enjoyed sex with every pretty girl he found. One day the wives found out and burned his snakeskin. Honoyeta, condemned to human form for the rest of eternity, retaliated by introducing death to mankind.

Hoturu
In Pawnee mythology, Hoturu is the wind spirit.

Hou-T'u
In Chinese mythology, Hou-T'u is the goddess of the planet; Origin of people and all creation. She is the matron of the soil and its fertility.

Houmea
In Maori mythology, Houmea was a cannibal who swallowed her own children, but was forced to disgorge them by her husband, Uta. She later persued him and the children in the form of a stag and he killed her by throwing hot stones down her mouth.

Hu
Hu was the giver of mead and wine to man. He holds a plough to show men that the noblest of the arts is to control and to guide.

Huitaca
In Chibcha mythology, Huitaca is the beautiful goddess of drunkeness and licentiousness.

Iamanja
In Brazilian mythology, Iamanja is the goddess of the sea. A merciful answerer of prayers and she whose waters salve the wounded spirit.

Idlirvirissong
In Eskimo mythology, Idlirvirissong is an evil spirit.

Ifa
Ifa is the Yoruba god of wisdom, knowledge and divining.

Igaluk
In Eskimo mythology, Igaluk is the moon spirit.

Iki-Ryo
In Japanese mythology, Iki-Ryo is a spirit of anger and jealousy which does harm to other people.

Ilara
In Tiwi mythology, Ilara is the underworld.

Ilmarinen
In Finnish mythology, Ilmarinen was a blacksmith-god. Some accounts say he was the brother of Vainamoinen.

Ilya Muromets
see "Svyatogor"

Imana
In Banyarwanda mythology Imana was the creator and supporter of the universe. He ruled all living beings, and guaranteed them immortality by hunting Death, a savage wild animal. When he was hunting, his orders were that everything in creation was to stay in hiding, so that Death would have no refuge. But one day in the quiteness of the hunt, an old woman crept out to hoe her vegetable garden - and Death hid under her skirt and was taken inside with her. Imana tried a second way of cheating Death by telling the old woman's relatives to bury her body but leave cracks in the earth above her, so that she could hear him calling her back to life. But the old woman's daughter-in-law who hated her, filled the cracks with earth and banged the surface hard with her pounding stiepck - and Death became endemic.

In-Nard-Dooah
In Australian Aborigine mythology, In-Nard-Dooah is a porcupine who marries Yee-Na-Pah.

Ina
In Polynesian mythology, Ina is a two-faced great goddess of the sea, healing and death. She is an enchanting tapa-beating woman of the moon.

Inari
In Japanese mythology, Inari is both the god of food and the goddess of rice. Inari is both male and female and takes both forms.

Incubus
In folk-lore, the Incubus were male spirits who raped women during their sleep, producing Witches and Demons as offspring.

Inti
In Inca mythology, Inti is the sun god.

Ioskeha
In Huron mythology, Ioskeha was the all-good twin brother of Tawiskara, grandson of Ataentsic. He duelled with his brother for control of the world, each brother taking up whatever weapon he could find. Tawiskara fought with a rose-twig bu Ioskeha used a stag's antlers and won. Tawiskara fled into exile, weeping flint tears, and Ioskeha celebrated his victory and his power in the world by creating the Huron people.

Isitoq
In Eskimo mythology, Isitoq is a spirit who helps to find people who have broken taboos.

Ituana
In Amazon mythology, Ituana is the great goddess of the Amazon river. She is the many-breasted foster mother of the earth's innumerable children.

Iyatiku
In Keres mythology, Iyatiku is the earth mother. A Counselor and she who welcomes us home when we cast off our coil of flesh.

Izdubar
Izdubar was a hero of ancient Babylonia. He has feats similar to those of Hercules ascribed to him.

Japeusa
In Guarani mythology, Japeusa was one of the three sons of Rupave and Sypave. He was born standing up and was the disobedient son who did things backwards.

Jen-Shen
In Chinese mythology, Jen-Shen is a divine Shehe of man. The creator of thought, language, music and civilizations.

Jezanna
In Zimbabwean mythology, Jezanna is a glowing goddess of the golden moon, abundant crops, healthy children and plentiful cattle.

Jikininki
In Japanese mythology, jikininki are the spirits of dead people whose greed prevented their souls from entering a more peaceful existence after death and who lead a half-life by eating corpses.

Jinn
In Muslim mythology, a jinn is a spirit which is able to assume human or animal shape. They are supposed to have been created out of fire and maybe either good or bad and may be controlled by man by the use of Talismans.

Jogah
In Iroquois mythology, jogah are dwarf nature spirits.

Jubchas-Guaya
In Colombian mythology, Jubchas-Guaya was the rebellious, light-hearted, wild and lovely goddess of the moon, love, happiness and intoxication.

Jumala
In Finnish mythology, Jumala was the first sky god. He had no shape or identity, but was a creative impulse only.

Jyestha
In Dravidian mythology, Jyestha was the goddess of the cosmic energy which motivates evolution. She who dances the dance of life.

Kaang
In the mythology of the Bushpeople of Botswana, Kaang (Cagn, Kho, Thora) created the world and everything in it. At first he lived in harmony with human beings, his sons Cogaz and Gewi marrying mortal wives and one of his faughters married a human chief. He spent his time fighting Gauna, lord of death. At one time he was killed by Gauna's creatures the thorns, but he reassembled his skeleton and lived again. However, as human beings forgot his importance he decided to leave the Earth and went to live in the Sky as a disembodied spirit, taking with him the secret of immortality and leaving humans to be preyed upon by Gauna.

Kadlu
In eskimo mythology, the Kadlu were three sisters who lived in the sky and made thunder and lightning by scrubbing sealskins together.

Kagutsuchi
In Japanese mythology, Kagutsuchi is the spirit of fire, the god of destructive and purifying fire, and of summer heat. When he was born he scorched the vagina of his mother Izanami so badly that she died. His father cut him into five pieces, and as his blood hit the ground it became five mountain spirits. Just like fire he rekindled himself and settled on the peak of Mount Atago.

Kahit
In Wintun mythology, Kahit is the wind god.

Kala
In Javanese and Balinese mythology, Kala is the god of time and death. He would appear to people when they were due to die.

Kalamainu
In Polynesian mythology, Kalamainu and Kilioa are two lizard women who keep the souls of the dead imprisoned.

Kalma
In Finnish mythology, Kalma was the goddess of death and decay. In the Upper World she haunted graves, snatching the flesh of the dead. In Tuonela, the Underworld, she lived in an invisible country guarded by the flesh-eating monster Surma.

Kalunga
In Ndonga mythology, Kalunga is the creator of all things, the supreme god.

Kalvaitis
In Lithuanian mythology, Kalvaitis was the blacksmith god who each day remade the sun disc, sending it red-hot across the sky.

Kanati
In Cherokee mythology, Kanati was the first man and ancestor of the Cherokee. He was married to Selu.

Kapo
In Hawaiin mythology, Kapo is a fertility god.

Kathirat
In Canaanite mythology, the Kathirat were the wise goddesses.

Keneun
In Iroquois mythology, Keneun is chief of the Thunderbirds. He is an invisible spirit. Thunder is the sound of his beating wings and lightning his flashing eyes.

Kerana
In Guarani mythology, Kerana is the goddess of sleep.

Kho
see "Kaang"

Khuno
In Aymara mythology, Khuno is the god of snowstorms.

Kianda
In Angolan mythology, Kianda is the god of the sea and the fish in it.

Kilioa
see "Kalamainu"

Kinie Ger
In Australian Aborigine mythology, Kinie Ger was a ruthless and murderous beast with the head and body of a cat but the limbs of a man who went around killing innocent people, animals and birds. He was killed by the owl and the crow who ambushed him when he came to drink at a water hole.

Kishi
In Angolan folklore, a Kishi is an evil spirit. It is a demon with two faces on its head. One face resembles that of a normal man, and the other is the face of a hyena with big strong teeth and powerful jaw muscles.

Kostrubonko
In Russian mythology, Kostrubonko is god of the spring.

Kothar-u-Khasis
In Canaanite mythology, Kothar-u-Khasis was the god of craftsmanship.

Kuri
In Hausa mythology, Kuri is a black hyena spirit who causes paralysis.

Kwai-Yin
In Chinese mythology, Kwai-Yin is the wife of Shang Te. She is the mother of mothers, a goddess with a thousand arms and sits upon a throne made of the sacred Lotus.

Lahamu
see "Lahmu"

Laima
Laima was the Baltic goddess of good luck. Originally she and her sisters Karta and Dekla controlled the destinies of all living things, and her particular function was to choose the moment of death.

Land of Cockaigne
The Land of Cockaigne is an imaginary Utopia in mediaeval legend where a life of luxury and idleness was possible. Cockaigne was a gourmand's paradise where the rivers flowed wine and the houses were made of cake and the pavements of pastry.

Leshy
In Slavic mythology, the Leshy (Ljeschi) was the spirit of the forest. he was jealous of his forest kingdom and tried to lose travellers in its depth. He could change his shape but could always be recognised by his face which remained blue.

Libanza
In Upoto mythology, Libanza is the creator. He created the sky and the gods that inhabit it, and the sun that contains the fire of life, then he made the moon, the earth and all its inhabitants. He made all people equal, but calling them together the Earth people dawdled and Libanza gave the moon people immortality and sent the Earth people death. However, the moon people begged him to change his mind and he relented sufficiently to grant Earth people immortality in his Heaven, but only after they had served a lifetime of pain and toil on earth.

Lisa
In Fon mythology, Lisa is the sun god who causes the day and its heat. He is the god of strength and endurance.

Long Wang
In Chinese mythology, Long Wang was a god of water and the bringer of rain. When he appeared to humans he borrowed shape from a variety of Earth's creatures and was generous to mortals.

Louhi
In Finnish mythology, Louhi was a magic-working ice giantess, Princess of Pohjola. When suitors came to marry her daughter, she set them impossible tasks and if these taks were overcome she had her army of frost giants kill them.

Loviatar
In Finnish mythology, Loviatar was the goddess of plagues. She was the hideous daughter of Tuoni and Tuonetar, the King and Queen of the Underworld. Her body was ravaged by all the diseases to which it was host. She mated with the wind and had nine terrible children which gusted out across the universe carrying diseases.

Lubangala
In Bakongo mythology, Lubangala is the protector of villages, men and the souls of the dead. He appears as a rainbow during and after storms.

Mami
see "Aruru"

Mamlambo
In Zulu mythology, Mamlambo is the godess of the rivers.

Manabozho
In North American Indian mythology, Manabozho is a mischievious giant.

Mangalubulan
In Batak mythology, Mangalubulan is the god of thieves.

Mara
In Buddhism, the Mara is a supernatural being who tried to distract Buddha from the meditations which led to his enlightenment.

Marangatu
In Guarani mythology, Marangatu was one of the three sons of Rupave and Sypave. He was virtuous, goodnatured, the father of Kerana.

Marduk
Marduk was the Babylonian sun god, creator of Earth and humans.

Mawu
In Fon mythology, Mawu is the moon goddess. She is the sister of Lisa, and causes the night and its coolness. She is also the goddess of peace, joy, fertility, motherhood and rain.

Mbombo
In Zaire mythology, Mbombo is the White Giant who rules over the chaos of the universe and one day from his stomach comes the sun, the moon and the stars, and soon after the trees, animals and people of the earth.

Metempsychosis
Metempsychosis is the transmigration of the soul after death through the bodies of lower animals, plants or inanimate objects. Also called reincarnation.

Mithras
Mithras was the Persian god of light. Mithras represented the power of goodness, and promised his followers compensation for present evil after death. He was said to have captured and killed the sacred bull, from whose blood all life sprang. Mithraism was introduced into the Roman Empire 68 BC. By about AD 250, it rivaled Christianity in strength. A bath in the blood of a sacrificed bull formed part of the initiation ceremony of the Mithraic cult, which spread rapidly, gaining converts especially among soldiers.

Monai
In Guarani mythology, Monai was god of the countryside and the air.

Mot
In Canaanite mythology, Mot was the god of sterility.

Ndara
In the mythology of Sulawesi Island, Ndara is the god of the underworld.

Nergal
Nergal was the Babylonian god of the underworld.
In Mesopotamian mythology, Nergal was amorality personified and symbolized the unpredictability and risk in mortal life, and in particular brought death.

Nerrivik
see "Sedna"

Ngendi
In Fiji mythology, Ngendi is a fertility god who showed men the use of fire.

Ni
In Huli mythology, the god Ni is the sole cause of leprosy.

Nikkal
In Canaanite mythology, Nikkal was the goddess of the fruits of the earth. She was a daughter of Hiribi. She married Yarikh.

Ninigi
In Japanese mythology, Niniji was the grandson of Amaterasu, the sun. His task was to direct the suns rays from heaven to swell the celestial paddies which provided food for the gods.

Nuliajuk
see "Sedna"

Obatala
In Yoruba mythology, Obatala was the son of Olodumare. He created makind from the earth.

Oduduwa
In Yoruba mythology, Oduduwa is the wife of Obatala.

Ogun
In Yoruba mythology, Ogun is a son of Obatala and Oduduwa. He was a warrior who won many battles and was rewarded with the kingdom of the town of Ire in the land of Ekiti given to him by Oduduwa.

Ohdows
In Iroquois mythology, the Ohdows are the jogah who control the underworld spirits and prevent them coming to the surface.

Olokun
In Nigerian mythology, Olokun is the god of sea and lagoons and brother of Olorun.

Olorun
In Nigerian mythology, Olorun is the god of the sky.

Omphale
In Lydian mythology, Omphale is a goddess of the earth, rebirth & augury. The universal womb and the hub of life.

Omuli
In Nande folklore, an Omuli is a woman or girl who consumes the soul of a living person, and causes that person to die of consumption.

Ostara
In Saxon mythology, Ostara was the goddess of sunrise and the east. The ruler of the vernal equinox and earth's springtime burgeoning.

Parjanya
In Vedic mythology, Parjanya was the son of the sky god Dyaus. He was the god of rain-clouds and drove a cart across the sky, laden with bags and buckets of rain which he poured out on the Earth below. Because he sent rain to fertilize the ground, he also oversaw the fertility of animals (especially horses and cattle) and of human beings.

Perindi
In Australian mythology, Perindi is the evil twin brother of Harrimiah and paints him badly so as to attract the attentions of the maidens for himself.

Pinga
In Eskimo mythology, Pinga is a female spirit who watches carefully over men's actions, especially their treatment of animals.

Pohjola
In Finnish mythology, Pohjola or Pohja, was the country of the ice-giants in the Far North, realm of the evil queen Louhi. Later Finns identified it as the part of their country, and of Lapland, which lay in the Arctic Circle, but in earlier myth it was utterly remote, a frozen continent in the no-man's-land between Earth and stars.

Poia
In Blackfoot mythology, Poia was the son of the Morning Star and the mortal woman Soatsaki. The Morning Star took Soatsaki to the court of his father the Sun in Heaven, hoping to grant her immortality. But she preferred Earth to Heaven and the Sun, insulted, sent her back to Earth to bear her son, and then let her die. The child was born with a port-wine birthmark- hence his name - and grew up with the Blackfoot people. He asked to marry the chiefs daughter, but was rejected as 'blemished'. He set out to find his grandfather the Sun and ask for help, leaving the land and walking West across the sea on the path made by the Sun's reflection on the water. In Heaven he rescued his father Morning Star from seven birds of darkness, and the Sun rewarded him by removing his birthmark. He hurried down to Earth, along the Milky Way, and took his mortal beloved back into Heaven just as his father had fetched his mother there long before.

Poludnitsa
In Slavic and Russian mythology, Poludnitsa was a mischievous spirit who tormented people working in the fields, especially at midday in summer. She pinched them and pulled their hair, and if they failed to greet her politely, she took their children into the standing corn and lost them.

Porasy
In Guarani mythology, Porasy was a daughter of Rupave and Sypave. She was the mother of beauty, a woman of great physical strength who sacrificied herself to save her people from the domination of the seven evil sons of Tau and Kerana.

Puckowe
In Australian Aborigine folk-lore, Puckowe is the Grandmother spirit who lives in the sky and comes to the aid of medicine men.

Qi Yu
In Chinese mythology, Qi Yu is the rain god. He was the son, grandson or chief minister of Shen Nong. He was half bull and half giant and his head was fronted with iron.

Raicho
In Japanese mythology, Raicho is the Thunder-Bird. It looks like a rook and lives in a pine tree but makes a terrifying noise.

Raiden
In Japanese mythology, Raiden is the god of thunder. He is depicted with claws, a red skin and a demon's head.

Raiju
In Japanese mythology, Raiju is a demon of lightning. He is depicted as a badger, cat or a weasel. During thunderstorms he becomes agitated and jumps from tree to tree and likes to hide in people's navels.

Raja Angin
Raja Angin is the Malaysian Wind-God.

Raja Guru
In Batak mythology, Raja Guru is the gods' huntsman. He catches souls with his hounds Sordaudau and Auto Portburu. When he catches a soul that person dies suddenly.

Raja Indainda
In Batak mythology, Raja Indainda is the thunder god. He is the spy and messenger of the other gods.

Raja Jinn Peri
In Malay mythology, Raja Jinn Peri is the King of the Fairies.

Raka
in Polynesian mythology, Raka is the God of the Winds.

Rati-mbati-ndua
In Fiji mythology, Rati-mbati-ndua is the god of the underworld who devours the dead. He lacks arms, but has great wings.

Rauni
In Finnish mythology, Rauni (Mountain-Ash) was a goddess of air, clouds, thunder, life-giving rain and plant life. She who oversees the harvest.

Rozanica
In Slavic mythology, Rozanica is a white clothed and glistening goddess who comes at birth to prophesy the fate of the child.

Rupave
In Guarani mythology, Rupave was the first man, the father of the whole human race.

Rusalky
In Slavic mythology, Rusalky is a multiple goddess of spring and summer's plant growth. She is a water-sprite who lives in streams.

Sabians
The Sabians were a sect which arose about 830 and who followed a religion of the ancient Syrians modified by Hellenic influences.

Sajara
Sajara is the Rainbow-god of the Songhai people of eastern Mali. He is represented by a forked tree where a white ram is sacrificed to him.

Salamanders
The Salamanders are elementals evolved in the realm of Fire.

Saranyu
In Vedic mythology, Saranyu was the daughter of Tvashtri. She married Vivasvat and bore him twin children, Yama and Yami, the first humans. Then afraid of her husband's dazzling radiance, she hid among the clouds, leaving in her place and exact replica of herself.

Sedna
In Eskimo mythology, Sedna (Arnarquagssaq, Nerrivik, Nuliajuk) was the daughter of Anguta and his wife. In some accounts she married a dog, and her father angry at this threw her overboard from a canoe where she sank to the depths and lives still as queen of the monsters and demons of the Underworld.

Shahar
In Canaanite mythology, Shahar was the god of the dawn, and twin brother of Shalim. He was a son of El and Asherah.

Shalim
In Canaanite mythology, Shalim was the god of the dusk. He was the twin brother of Shahar and a son of El and Asherah.

Shang Di
see "Shang Te"

Shang Te
In Chinese mythology, Shang Te (or Shang Di) was the supreme being. He personified the power which generates life and causes growth.

Shango
In Yoruba mythology, Shango is an earth god. He was the King of Oyo, but because his citizens were dissatisfied with his tyranical rule he rode off into the forest and rose up into heaven where he became a god of thunder and lightning. He is the god of justice and fair play.

Shapash
In Caananite mythology, Shapash is the sun goddess.

Shing-moo
In Chinese mythology, Shing-moo was a nature goddess. She was the mother of perfect intelligence, and gave birth to a saviour son through an immaculate conception.

Shito Dama
In Japanese mythology, Shito Dama is an astral spirit. It is shaped like a fireball and is bright red in colour.

Sodza
In Hua mythology, Sodza is the great god who lives in heaven and to whom the priests pray for rain.

Sogblen
In Hua mythology, Sogblen is a god who mediates between priests and Sodza. He carries the priests prayers to Sodza and brings back promises of good crops.

Sogbo
In Fon mythology, Sogbo is the god of thunder, lightning and fire.

Succubus
In folk-lore, Succubus were female spirits who seduced men and had intercourse with them whilst they slept.

Sussistanako
In Pueblo mythology, Sussistanako (Thinking-Woman) is a goddess of creation. A spider woman and a spirit and power of intelligence. She who thinks into being.

Sutalidihi
In Cherokee mythology, Sutalidihi is the sun-spirit.

Svyatogor
In Slavic mythology Svyatogor was a hero who fought monsters, notably the demon Nightingale, a bird-headed human whose weapons were hurricanes. After Christianity he became called Ilya Muromets, one of the bogatiri and in this form he is accredited with building the cathedral at Kiev.

Sylphs
The Sylphs are elementals evolved in the realm of Air.

Sypave
In Guarani mythology, Sypave was the first woman, the mother of the whole human race and the wife of Rupave.

Tahit
In Tlingit mythology, Tahit is the god of fate.

Taio
In Lakalai mythology, Taio is the moon goddess.

Takuskanskan
In Dakota mythology, Takuskanskan is the wind-spirit and trickster.

Tau
In Guarani mythology, Tau is the spirit of evil.

Taxet
In Haida mythology, Taxet is a sky-god who receives the souls of those who die by violence.

Tcolawitze
In Hopi mythology, Tcolawitze is the fire-spirit.

Teju-Jagua
In Guarani mythology, Teju-Jagua was a great lizard with seven dog heads. He was master of the caves and protector of the fruits.

Tenondete
see "Tupa"

Thardid Jimbo
In Australian mythology, Thardid Jimbo is a seven feet tall giant who lives in a cave and every morning goes hunting for food.

Thora
see "Kaang"

Tirawa
In Pawnee mythology, Tirawa created the world in the shape of a bowl floating in space. He gave the stars the task of supporting the world and protecting it. He ordered the Moon and Sun to mate and produce a son and he ordered the Evening and Morning stars to mate and produce a daughter, these became the parents of the human race.

Tom Thumb
In English folk tales, Tom Thumb is a tiny man. An old, childless couple wish for a son and are granted a thumb-sized boy. After many adventures he becomes a brave, miniature knight at the court of King Arthur.

Tshernybog
In Slavonic mythology, Tshernybog is the black god, or god or darkness as opposed to Bjelbog, the pale or white god.

Tule
In Zande mythology, Tule is the Spider god who brought from heaven the seeds of all the plants on earth which he scattered in all the countries.

Tume Arandu
In Guarani mythology, Tume Arandu was one of the three sons of Rupave and Sypave. He was the great wiseman, the great Guarani prophet, father of wisdom, inspired by heaven.

Tuonela
In Finnish mythology, Tuonela was the underworld, a place tenanted by diseases and corpse-eating monsters in which every concept of the upper world was reversed.

Tuonetar
In Finnish mythology, Tuonetar was the consort of Tuoni.

Tuoni
In Finnish mythology, Tuoni was the personnification of darkness. He ruled Tuonela, the Underworld.

Tupa
In Guarani mythology, Tupa (Tupave, Tenondete) is the supreme god. His home is Kuarahy, the sun, the focus of light, the origin of the world. Together with Arasy he created the universe and the first human couple (Rupave and Sypave).

Tupan
In Guarani mythology, Tupan was the son of the sky-goddess. When a flood swamped the universe he escaped by climbing a tree. Every day thereafter, he set out in his canoe to visit his mother, and the splashing of his paddles was heard by humans as thunder.

Tupave
see "Tupa"

Tvashtri
In Vedic mythology, Tvashtri was the craftsman-god. In the earliest myths he was thought to contain the seeds of everything in creation and to grant them existence as he chose: he was thus the universal creator, the single principle from which all arose. He was regarded as the god of human fertility, giving people embryos and supervising the birth of healthy children.

Tzi-daltai
In Apache mythology, tzi-daltai are charms or fetishes carved from the wood of trees struck by lightning into a semblance of a human being and worn for good luck.

Uke-Mochi-No-Kami
In Japanese mythology, Uke-Mochi-No-Kami is the goddess of fertility and nourishment. The provider, through death, of life sustaining substances.

Ukko
In Finnish mythology, Ukko was king of the gods, successor to the first sky god Jumala. He was an elder of the universe, and his existence kept it in being and guaranteed its survival. He stayed aloof; the only signs of his presence mortals ever saw were rain clouds.

Ulala
In Haida mythology, Ulala was a man-eating ogress.

Uma
In Balinese mythology, Uma is the Rice-Goddess who causes the rice to germinate in the ground.

Una-Kuagsak
In Inuit mythology, Una-Kuagsak is the one-eyed Queen goddess of the Arctic Ocean. Mistress of life and death. The mother of sea-mammals.

Undines
The Undines are elementals evolved in the realm of Water.

Unicorn
The unicorn is a mythical horse with a straight horn projecting from the forehead.

Usukun
In Lacandones mythology, Usukun is a troglodyte who rules earthquakes.

Uta
In Maori mythology, Uta is a hero and the husband of Houmea.

Utchat
The Utchat was an amulet representing the eye of Horus and used in ancient Egypt. According to the book of the dead, the amulet should be made of lapis-lazuli or mak stone. However, these amulets have been found made of almost every conceivable material.

Vainamoinen
In Finnish mythology, Vainamoinen was the son of the fertilizing sea and the creation-goddess Luonnotar. He spent 700 years reaching maturity in Luonnotar's womb, and a further 30 years as a grown man sitting there, becoming ever more bored and shouting vainly to the sun and stars to help him. But the sun and stars could not hear him and Luonnotar, innocent of sex and childbirth, had no idea she was even pregnant. Finally in desperation, Vainamoinen began hauling himself hand over hand out of her womb and clambered out of her before swimming ashore to the country that was to become Finland. he began clearing land for farming using magic as he had no tools. He fought, and defeated the giant Joukahainen using his magic.

Vampire
In Slav mythology, a Vampire is an undead corpse which lives by drinking the blood of the living.

Venusberg
In German mythology, Venusberg was the mountain groto in which the knight Tannhauser found Venus and her court and spent his days with her in a long debauch, until satiated and filled with remorse he sought Pope Urban at Rome, and begged absolution for his sin.

Vete-Ema
In Finnish mythology, Vete-Ema is the goddess of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and streams, the spirit of water and Queen of aquatic life.

Waitiri
In Maori mythology, Waitiri is a goddess who descended to earth, married a human and taught man how to fish with barbs.

Wakinyan
In Dakota mythology, Wakinyan is the thunder-spirit.

Wakonda
In Sioux mythology, Wakonda is the Great Spirit.

Walpurgisnacht
Walpurgisnacht is the German festival celebrated on May the 1st. It is the time when the witches of Central Europe rendezvous in the Harz Mountains, circling around the bare peak of the Brocken plotting evil. The festival is named after Saint Walburga.

Waruna
In Balinese mythology, Waruna is the god of oceans, sea, rain and water who rules the west and is married to Durga.

Watu Gunung
In Javanese mythology, Watu Gunung was a king who unwittingly married his own mother.

Whowie
In Australian Aborigine mythology, the Whowie is the most terrible creature in existence. twenty feet long with six legs and the head of a frog and a tail. He would attack and devour anything that came his way.

Woo
In Australian mythology, Woo was a strange man like creature with a single arm formed from two arms and a single leg formed from two legs. He was an expert marksman and adept at balance.

Yagis
In Kwakiutl mythology, Yagis is a sea monster that overturns canoes and eats their crews.

Yarikh
In Canaanite mythology, Yarikh was the moon god.

Yata
In Japanese mythology, yata is the star-mirror of the sun goddess.

Yee-Na-Pah
In Australian Aborigne mythology, Yee-Na-Pah is a beautiful mountain devil girl chosen by In-Nard-Dooah for his wife.

Yudistira
In Javanese mythology, Yudistira is the eldest of the Pandawas. He is the ideal of the righteous brother, the fair fighter, the conscientious just ruler. He is married to Drupadi.

Zu
In Babylonian mythology, Zu is an evil lesser-god who steals the tablets of destiny from Enlil while he was washing, and flies away to his mountain. He was killed by Lugalbanda who was sent by the gods to retrieve the tables of destiny.

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