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Sudika-mbambi
Sudika-mbambi is a heroic figure associated primarily with the oral traditions of the Mbundu, or Ambundu, peoples of Angola. He is usually presented not as a universally worshipped god, but as an extraordinary culture he…
Aeolus
Aeolus is a name associated with the winds in Greek mythology, but it does not belong to only one figure. In the Odyssey, Aeolus is a powerful ruler who keeps the winds under control on the floating island of Aeolia. Lat…
Otava
Otava is the Finnish name for the constellation commonly known in English as the Great Bear or, more specifically, the seven prominent stars of the Big Dipper. In Finnish mythology and folklore, Otava belongs to the nort…
Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster, commonly called Nessie, is a legendary creature associated with Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. In modern descriptions, Nessie is usually imagined as a large aquatic animal with a long neck, a…
Anahel
Anahel is a rare and uncertain angelic name found chiefly in later esoteric and occult lists rather than in the Bible or other major canonical religious scriptures. The spelling is sometimes treated as a variant of Anael…
Roua
Roua is a name associated with Polynesian mythology, but its identity is uncertain and its traditional context is not securely established in the surviving record. Unlike widely documented Polynesian figures such as Māui…
Pamuri Mahse
Pamuri Mahse is a name associated with the ancestral beings and origin traditions of Indigenous peoples in the north-western Amazon, especially communities of the Vaupés River region in present-day Colombia and Brazil. T…
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli is a deity and divine manifestation associated with the morning star in the religious traditions of central Mexico. His name is commonly translated as “Lord of the Dawn” or “Lord of the House of Daw…
Adekagagwaa
Adekagagwaa is a figure identified in some accounts of Iroquois mythology with summer and the warm, life-supporting part of the yearly cycle. He is commonly presented as the opponent or counterpart of Okwirase, a figure …
Shojo
Shōjō (猩々 or 猩猩, also written shōjō and commonly rendered as Shojo) is a legendary red-haired, red-faced being associated in Japan with the sea, sake, dancing and uninhibited celebration. It is best known through the cla…
Thixo
Thixo, also written Tixo or uThixo, is a name associated with God in Xhosa-speaking religious traditions of southern Africa. The term does not describe a single, uniformly documented mythological character in the way tha…