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Malinalxochi
Malinalxochi, also written Malinalxochitl or Malinalxoch, is a female figure associated with Mexica, commonly called Aztec, migration traditions. She is usually presented as the sister of Huitzilopochtli, the Mexica patr…
Hototo
Hototo is a name associated with a katsina—often written “kachina” in English—within Hopi religious and ceremonial traditions of northern Arizona. Hototo is not one of the universally standardized figures of Hopi mytholo…
Kashiwa-no-kami
Kashiwa-no-kami is best understood as a Japanese tree kami associated with the kashiwa, usually identified with the daimyo oak (Quercus dentata) or, in some contexts, with oak trees more generally. The name can be transl…
Sopona
Sopona is a Yoruba divinity associated chiefly with smallpox and other dangerous epidemic diseases. The name appears in several spellings, including Ṣọ̀pọ̀nná, Soponu, Shopona and Shapona. In Yoruba religious thought, So…
Alpheus
Alpheus is a river god of Greek mythology, identified with the Alpheus River in the western Peloponnese. In Greek, his name is written Alpheios (Ἀλφειός), while “Alpheus” is the usual Latin and English form. He belongs t…
Síbilja
Síbilja is not a securely attested goddess, giantess, valkyrie, or other independent figure in the surviving mythology of medieval Scandinavia. The name appears in some modern lists of “Norse gods and beings”, but those …
Belial
Belial is a name associated with wickedness, lawlessness and opposition to divine order in Jewish and Christian religious traditions. In the oldest Hebrew texts, however, Belial is usually not the name of an independent …
St. Pontian
St. Pontian, more precisely Pope Pontian or Pontianus, was a bishop of Rome who served during a period of internal conflict in the Christian Church and severe imperial persecution. He became bishop of Rome around 230 and…
Atanua
Atanua is a figure in the traditional mythology of the Marquesas Islands, an island group in Eastern Polynesia and part of present-day French Polynesia. She is generally identified as a goddess or personification of dawn…
Chonchon
Chonchon is a supernatural being associated chiefly with Mapuche and Chilean folklore. It is commonly described as a human head that separates from the body and flies through the night, using enlarged ears as wings. In m…
Mayahuel
Mayahuel is a goddess associated with the maguey or agave plant, its nourishing sap, and pulque, the fermented drink made from that sap in central Mexico. She belongs to the religious traditions of the Nahua peoples, inc…