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Jakuta
Jakuta is a Yoruba name associated with thunder, lightning and the dangerous power of the sky. In many accounts, Jakuta is an aspect, title or earlier form of Ṣàngó (often written Shango), the Yoruba orisha of thunder an…
Aquilo
Aquilo is the Roman personification of the north wind, or in some systems the cold wind blowing from the north-northeast. He belongs to the Roman tradition of naming and humanising the principal winds, which were importa…
Kalma
Kalma is a death-related figure or supernatural presence in Finnish mythology and folklore. The name is associated with death, graves, corpses and the smell of decay. In modern summaries of Finnish mythology, Kalma is of…
Furcas
Furcas is a demon listed in the early modern tradition of Western ceremonial magic, especially the catalogues of spirits associated with the Ars Goetia. In the standard ordering of that work, he is the fiftieth spirit an…
St. Peter Nolasco
St. Peter Nolasco was a thirteenth-century Christian religious founder associated with the redemption of captives and the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, commonly called the Mercedarians. He lived during the p…
Wandjina
Wandjina refers to powerful ancestral beings represented in the rock paintings of the Kimberley region of north-western Australia. The figures are especially associated with Wunambal, Ngarinyin and Worrorra peoples, alth…
Aiomun Kondi
Aiomun Kondi is a name associated in modern reference works with an Indigenous creator or supreme being of the Guianas, in the northern part of South America. The identification is not entirely secure: spellings differ, …
Tepoztecatl
Tepoztecatl was a Nahua deity associated with pulque, the fermented drink made from the sap of the maguey plant. He was especially connected with Tepoztlan, a sacred centre in the modern Mexican state of Morelos, where a…
Ignirtoq
Ignirtoq is a name associated in some modern accounts with an Inuit fire spirit or fire goddess. The figure is not as widely documented as Sedna, the sea being often called Nuliajuk, or other major beings known from Inui…
Hotei
Hotei is a cheerful, large-bellied figure in Japanese religious culture, usually shown carrying a cloth sack and smiling broadly. He is counted among the Seven Lucky Gods (Shichifukujin) and is associated with happiness,…
Morimi
Morimi, more commonly written Moremi in contemporary English-language writing, is a celebrated heroine of Yoruba tradition. She is associated especially with Ile-Ife, the ancient Yoruba sacred and political centre in pre…