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Raiju
Raiju (雷獣, usually read raijū) is a creature of Japanese folklore associated with thunder and lightning. Its name means “thunder beast,” from rai, “thunder,” and jū, “beast” or “animal.” Unlike a single god with one esta…
Ruwa
Ruwa is the supreme creator deity in the traditional religious thought of the Chagga people of northern Tanzania, especially in communities living on and around Mount Kilimanjaro. Ruwa is commonly associated with the sky…
Agave
Agave is a figure of Greek mythology best known as the Theban woman who, while possessed by Dionysus, helped tear her own son Pentheus apart. Her story reaches its most powerful form in Euripides’ tragedy The Bacchae, wh…
Nechtan
Nechtan is a figure in Irish mythological tradition associated with a sacred well, hidden knowledge and the origin of the River Boyne. He appears most prominently in medieval Irish accounts concerning Boann, the female f…
Rokurokubi
Rokurokubi is a Japanese yōkai, or supernatural being of folklore, traditionally described as a person whose neck can stretch to an unnatural length. In many stories, the creature appears human by day but reveals its nat…
St. Rita Of Cascia
St. Rita of Cascia is a fifteenth-century Italian Christian saint associated with marriage, widowhood, religious life, forgiveness and apparently impossible causes. Known in Italian as Santa Rita da Cascia, she belonged …
Na Atibu
Na Atibu is a primordial figure in traditions associated with the Gilbert Islands, now the Republic of Kiribati, in the central Pacific. He is commonly described as an ancient male being, ancestor or first man, and is of…
Mani
Mani is a figure associated with an Indigenous Brazilian origin story for manioc, one of the most important food plants of tropical South America. The best-known version tells of a remarkable child whose death and burial…
Tecciztecatl
Tecciztecatl is a figure in Aztec and wider Nahua mythology who becomes the Moon in the creation story of the Fifth Sun. He is best known for his rivalry with Nanahuatzin, the humble, diseased god who becomes the Sun. Te…
Jistu
Jistu is a name used in English-language accounts for the rabbit trickster of Cherokee traditional storytelling. The figure is more accurately understood as Rabbit in Cherokee narratives rather than as a single god with …
Ryujin
Ryujin (Japanese: 龍神, commonly written Ryūjin in romanisation) is a Japanese dragon deity associated with the sea, water, rain and the power of the tides. The name literally means “dragon god” or “dragon deity,” and it d…