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Babalú Ayé
Babalú Ayé is an Orisha associated with illness, healing, epidemics, and the vulnerable human body in the Yoruba-derived religious traditions of the Caribbean, especially Cuban Lukumí or Regla de Ocha. He is commonly con…
Civatateo
Civatateo is a variant spelling of cihuateteo, the Nahuatl name commonly used for the spirits or deified dead of women who died in childbirth in central Mexican religious tradition. The name is often translated as “divin…
Alignak
Alignak is a name commonly used in modern English-language accounts for an Inuit moon spirit or moon deity. He is often described as a male power associated with the Moon, tides, weather, hunting, and the movement of sou…
Hannya
Hannya is one of the most recognizable figures in Japanese theatrical tradition: a female demon with sharp horns, metallic eyes, pointed teeth and an expression that can appear furious, grief-stricken or sorrowful depend…
Oduduwa
Oduduwa is a major ancestral and sacred figure in Yoruba tradition, especially in the origin traditions of Ilé-Ifẹ̀, the ancient Yoruba religious and cultural centre in present-day southwestern Nigeria. Depending on the …
Bacchus
Bacchus is the Roman god associated with wine, ecstatic celebration, fertility, theatre and the loosening of ordinary social boundaries. He is closely identified with the Greek god Dionysus, and Roman writers often use t…
Lempo
Lempo is a figure of Finnish mythology whose identity changed significantly across time. In older layers of Finnish oral tradition, the name may have been connected with love, sexual attraction, or a powerful spirit of t…
Gusion
Gusion is a demon of European ceremonial magic, best known from the Ars Goetia, the first section of the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is listed as the eleventh spirit in that hierarchy and is described as a powerful duke wh…
St. Katharine Drexel
St. Katharine Drexel (1858–1955) was an American Catholic religious sister, educator, philanthropist and founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, she devoted her inheritan…
Heike
Heike is not the name of a single god, monster or spirit. In Japanese tradition, it usually refers to the Taira clan, a powerful warrior family whose defeat in the Genpei War (1180–1185) became the subject of history, ep…
Elegua
Elegua is a widely known name for a complex orisha associated with roads, thresholds, communication, chance and the opening of possibilities. The name is especially familiar in Cuba and other communities shaped by the Yo…