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Senx
Senx is a name sometimes presented in modern lists of Native American mythological beings, but its identity and cultural origin are uncertain. Unlike well-documented figures such as the Ojibwe Mishipeshu or the Algonquia…
Nga
Nga is a name associated chiefly with the lower world, death and harmful spiritual forces in accounts of traditional Nenets religion, a religious tradition of the Samoyedic peoples of the Russian Arctic. Nenets communiti…
Atai
Atai is a female divine figure associated chiefly with Efik and Ibibio religious traditions of the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and adjoining parts of Cameroon. She is often described as a goddess of the ea…
Astraea
Astraea is a figure from Greek myth associated with justice, moral order and the lost ideal of a righteous human age. In later tradition she became linked with the constellation Virgo and with the scales of Libra. Her st…
Akka
Akka is a name used in Finnish mythology and folk belief for a female power associated especially with the earth, fertility and the generative forces of nature. She is often described in modern summaries as the consort o…
Shax
Shax is a demon listed in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the seventeenth-century grimoire commonly known as the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is usually described as a marquis of Hell who commands thirty legions of spi…
St. Paul
St. Paul, also known as Paul the Apostle or Saint Paul of Tarsus, is one of the most influential figures in Christianity. He was a first-century Jewish follower of Jesus who became a leading missionary among non-Jewish p…
Julunggul
Julunggul is a major ancestral being in the traditions of Yolngu peoples of north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. Often described in English as a Rainbow Serpent, Julunggul is associated with …
Coca-mama
Coca-mama, also written Coca Mama or Mama Coca, is a figure associated in some accounts with the sacred coca plant of the Andes. She is often described as a feminine spirit, goddess, or personification of coca, but her s…
Pichanto
Pichanto is a poorly documented figure associated in some modern references with Zapotec mythology, the diverse body of religious traditions belonging to Zapotec-speaking peoples of Oaxaca, Mexico. Unlike better-attested…
Sint Holo
Sint Holo is a name associated with a giant serpent in Choctaw traditional narratives of the southeastern United States. It is commonly described in modern reference works as a dangerous or supernatural snake, and someti…