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Bifrons
Bifrons is a demon listed in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the early modern grimoire known as the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is described as a great earl who teaches astrology, geometry and other branches of knowle…
Azriel
Azriel is a name associated with angels, Jewish religious tradition, and later accounts of the angel of death, but its identity is not consistent across sources. In some modern writings, Azriel is treated as a variant sp…
Aiaru
Aiaru is a name associated in some modern reference works with Polynesian mythology, usually as a minor sea-related deity or supernatural figure. The identification is uncertain, however. Unlike major Polynesian gods suc…
Chia
Chía is a lunar figure associated with the Muisca, or Muysca, peoples of the highlands of what is now central Colombia. In most modern descriptions, she is identified as a goddess or personification of the Moon, often pl…
Itztlacoliuhqui
Itztlacoliuhqui is a complex figure in Aztec and wider Nahua religious thought, associated with frost, cold, rigidity, punishment and the dangerous power of the obsidian blade. His name is also connected with a covered o…
Angak Chin Mana
Angak Chin Mana is a female katsina figure in Hopi religious tradition, usually identified in English as the Long-Hair Maiden or Long-Haired Woman. The name appears in several spellings, including Angak'china, Angak Chin…
Kappa
The kappa is a water-dwelling being of Japanese folklore, traditionally associated with rivers, ponds, irrigation channels and other bodies of fresh water. Its name is commonly written 河童, literally “river child,” althou…
Oshunmare
Oshunmare is a Yoruba orisha associated above all with the rainbow, the serpent, movement between realms, and the continuous circulation of life’s forces. The name is also written Ọ̀ṣùmàrè, Osumare, or, in Brazilian reli…
Amalthea
Amalthea is a figure of Greek mythology associated with the infancy of Zeus. In the most familiar version of the story, she is the goat whose milk nourished Zeus while he was hidden from his father, Cronus. Other ancient…
Medb
Medb is one of the most powerful and controversial figures in Irish mythology. Usually known in English as Maeve, she is the queen of Connacht and a central character in the Ulster Cycle, one of the four major narrative …
Berith
Berith is a demonological figure best known from early modern European grimoires, especially the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the Ars Goetia. In those texts he is described as a powerful duke of Hell who appears as a sol…