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Bath Kol
Bath Kol, also written Bat Qol, Bat Kol, or Bath Qol, is a form of divine communication in Jewish religious tradition. The Hebrew expression is usually translated as “daughter of the voice,” “voice of a voice,” or more n…
Tjati
Tjati is a name sometimes listed in English-language collections of Australian Aboriginal mythology, but it does not have a securely established, widely documented identity across Aboriginal traditions. Unlike figures su…
Vichama
Vichama is a culture hero and divine figure associated chiefly with the central coast of Peru, especially the Huaura and Végueta region. Although often placed under the broad label of Inca mythology, his surviving legend…
Ometecuhtli
Ometecuhtli is a creator figure in Nahua religious thought, especially in accounts associated with the Aztec or Mexica world. His name is usually translated as “Lord Two” or “Two Lord.” He is commonly presented as the ma…
Adlivun
Adlivun is a name used in some accounts of Inuit religious tradition for the realm of the dead, often described as lying beneath the sea. It is not a single, universally defined place in all Inuit communities. Inuit peop…
Hamori
Hamori is not a securely identifiable figure in the best-known surviving sources of Japanese mythology. The name appears occasionally in modern lists, online encyclopaedias and informal discussions of Japanese legendary …
Egungun-oya
Egungun-oya is a name associated with Yoruba ancestral masquerade and with Ọ̀ya, the orisha linked in many Yoruba traditions with wind, storms, change, and the boundary between the living and the dead. The name does not …
Antiope
Antiope is a name shared by more than one woman in Greek mythology. The best-known Antiope is an Amazon queen associated with Theseus and the birth of Hippolytus, while another Antiope is a Theban princess who became the…
Gae Assail
Gáe Assail is a magical spear associated with Lugh, the renowned hero and champion of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish mythological literature. It is usually counted among the Four Treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann, a group…
Haagenti
Haagenti is a demon described in the early modern grimoire tradition of Western ceremonial magic. In the Ars Goetia, the best-known section of the Lesser Key of Solomon, Haagenti is listed as the forty-eighth spirit. The…
St. Peter Claver
St. Peter Claver was a seventeenth-century Jesuit priest best known for his ministry among enslaved Africans brought to Cartagena de Indias, a major Spanish port in present-day Colombia. Catholic tradition remembers him …