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Arnakuagsak
Arnakuagsak is a figure associated with Inuit religious tradition, especially traditions recorded in Greenland. She is commonly described as a powerful female being connected with food, hunting success and the continued …
Hosuseri
Hosuseri is a minor but significant figure in Japanese mythology, known chiefly from the genealogy of the gods and heroes descended from the heavenly kami. In the Kojiki, Japan’s oldest surviving written record of myths,…
Yemaya
Yemaya is one of the best-known names associated with Yemoja, a powerful female water divinity in Yoruba religious tradition. In Yoruba contexts, the name is more commonly written Yemoja or Yemọja. She is connected espec…
Antaeus
Antaeus is a powerful wrestler and giant of Greek mythology, traditionally associated with Libya in the broad geographical sense used by ancient Greek writers for North Africa. He is best known for his encounter with Her…
Lugh
Lugh is one of the most prominent figures in Irish mythology. A member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the supernatural people who become associated with Ireland’s pre-Christian divine world, he is celebrated as a warrior, rule…
Furfur
Furfur is a demon recorded in early modern European grimoires, especially the Ars Goetia, the first section of the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is usually described as a great earl who appears as a hart with a fiery tail, a…
Barman
Barman is an obscure name associated in some modern reference works with Persian or Iranian angelology. It is sometimes described as an angel connected with the month of Bahman, animals, or benevolent thought. However, t…
Walaganda
Walaganda is a name associated in some English-language accounts with an Aboriginal ancestral or sky being of northern Australia. The identity is not uniformly described, however. Australian Aboriginal peoples do not sha…
Aguara-tunpa
Aguara-tunpa is a figure associated chiefly with Guarani-speaking peoples of South America, especially traditions identified with the Ava Guarani—formerly and controversially called Chiriguano—in eastern Bolivia and neig…
Cuaxolotl
Cuaxolotl is a very obscure name associated in some modern reference works with Aztec or broader Nahua mythology. The evidence for Cuaxolotl is limited, and the figure does not possess the clearly documented mythology of…
Eeyeekalduk
Eeyeekalduk is a name associated in some modern English-language references with Inuit mythology, usually as a female power connected with childbirth, fertility, or motherhood. The identification is uncertain, however. E…