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Ran
Rán is a female figure associated with the sea in Norse mythology. She is best known as the wife of Ægir, a personification or divine being connected with the ocean, and as the owner of a net used to seize people who ven…
Gremory
Gremory is a demon described in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the seventeenth-century grimoire commonly known as The Lesser Key of Solomon. Listed as the fifty-sixth spirit, Gremory is given the rank of a great du…
Baruchiel
Baruchiel is an angelic name found chiefly in later Christian angelology, especially Eastern Orthodox and related devotional traditions. The name is also written Barachiel, Barakiel, Baraquel or Barchiel. He is commonly …
Ulanji
Ulanji is a name sometimes presented in modern mythology lists as belonging to an Australian Aboriginal spirit or supernatural being. Its identity, however, is uncertain. Unlike widely documented figures such as the Rain…
Ibeji
Ibeji refers to the sacred twins of Yoruba religious tradition and, more broadly, to the spiritual importance attached to twins in Yoruba-speaking communities. The name is especially familiar in the Caribbean through Cub…
Coatlicue
Coatlicue is a major earth and mother deity in Mexica, often called Aztec, religious tradition. Her name is commonly translated as “She of the Serpent Skirt,” referring to the garment of intertwined snakes associated wit…
Angakok
Angakok is an older English spelling for an Inuit religious specialist more commonly rendered today as angakkuq in Inuktitut and by related forms in other Inuit languages. An angakok was not a god, monster, or single leg…
Kagutsuchi
Kagutsuchi is a Japanese kami of fire, best known from the creation myths preserved in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki. He is also called Hi-no-Kagutsuchi, “Kagutsuchi of Fire,” and is associated in later religious tradit…
Elusu
Elusu is a little-documented figure associated with Yoruba religious tradition and with the watery realm governed by Olokun. Information about Elusu is considerably less abundant than material about major orishas such as…
Auster
Auster is the Roman personification of the south wind. In Latin poetry and natural philosophy, he is associated with the warm, damp air that comes from the south, bringing clouds, rain, storms and, at times, oppressive h…
Goibhniu
Goibhniu is a divine smith of Irish mythology and one of the most important craftsmen of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the supernatural people who appear in medieval Irish literature as rulers of Ireland before the coming of the…