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Antinous
Antinous was a young man from Bithynia who became the beloved companion of the Roman emperor Hadrian and, after his death, the focus of a widespread religious cult. Unlike most figures classified under Roman mythology, A…
Lemminkäinen
Lemminkäinen is one of the best-known heroes of Finnish mythology, especially through the Kalevala, the nineteenth-century epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Finnish and Karelian oral poetry. He is portrayed as handsome…
Focalor
Focalor is a demon described in early modern European demonological literature, most famously in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is presented as a powerful duke of Hell associated with …
Barbiel
Barbiel is an angelic name found chiefly in Renaissance and later occult systems of correspondences. In the best-known tradition associated with the name, Barbiel is the angel assigned to October. The figure does not hav…
Wawalag
Wawalag refers most often to two ancestral sisters in the traditions of Yolngu peoples of north-eastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia. They are also known in English-language sources as the Wawilak o…
Anatiwa
Anatiwa is a poorly documented name sometimes presented online as belonging to South American mythology. Unlike well-attested figures such as Mama Quilla, Anhangá, or the Mapuche Antu, Anatiwa does not have a securely es…
Macuilmalinalli
Macuilmalinalli is a relatively obscure figure in the religious traditions of central Mexico. The name is usually translated from Nahuatl as “Five Grass” or “Five Grass-Stalk,” combining macuil, “five,” with malinalli, a…
Nanook
Nanook, more accurately written Nanuq in many Inuit-language contexts, is the polar bear as a powerful being in Inuit religious traditions and oral histories. The name can refer both to the animal itself and to the spiri…
In
In is not a clearly identifiable, independently attested deity, spirit or legendary creature in the principal traditions of Japanese mythology. As a name written only in Roman letters, “In” is highly ambiguous: it may re…
Ogun
Ogun (also written Ògún or Ogún) is a major òrìṣà of Yoruba religious tradition. He is especially associated with iron, metalworking, hunting, warfare, clearing paths, labour, technology and the difficult work required t…
Amymone
Amymone is a figure in Greek mythology, best known as one of the fifty daughters of Danaus and as the mortal woman associated with the spring of Lerna. In the most familiar version of her story, the god Poseidon rescues …