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Regin
Regin is a legendary smith, counsellor and foster father in the Norse story of Sigurd and the dragon Fafnir. He belongs to the heroic tradition surrounding the Völsung family rather than to the group of worshipped Norse …
Forneus
Forneus is a demon in the ceremonial-magical tradition known as the Ars Goetia, the first section of the seventeenth-century grimoire commonly called the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is listed as the thirtieth spirit and is…
Bariel
Bariel is an obscure and uncertain angelic name found in some later angelological and esoteric lists. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, or other angels with substantial scriptural and liturgical traditions, Bariel does n…
Wapiya
Wapiya is a name associated in some modern English-language accounts with an Aboriginal Australian spirit or deity of wind and storms. The identification is uncertain, however. Unlike widely documented figures such as th…
Aluberi
Aluberi is a creator figure associated in modern reference works with the Arawak peoples of northern South America and the Caribbean. The name is usually presented as belonging to a supreme or primordial being responsibl…
Ehecatl
Ehecatl is the Nahuatl word for wind and the name of a major wind deity in the religious traditions of central Mexico. In Aztec, or Mexica, religion, Ehecatl was commonly understood as a manifestation or aspect of Quetza…
Irdlirvirisissong
Irdlirvirisissong is a poorly documented name associated with Inuit mythology and with accounts of a dangerous marine being. Unlike better-known figures such as Sedna, the sea-mother, or the ijiraq, a mysterious wilderne…
Izumo
Izumo is an ancient region of Japan associated with some of the most important narratives in Japanese mythology. Located in what is now eastern Shimane Prefecture along the Sea of Japan, Izumo appears in early chronicles…
Obatala
Obatala is a major orisha of the Yoruba religious tradition of West Africa. Often described as an elder among the divine powers, Obatala is associated with creation, moral authority, wisdom, purity, calmness and the shap…
Ananke
Ananke is the Greek personification of necessity, compulsion and the forces that cannot be avoided. Her name, written Ἀνάγκη in Greek and often transliterated as Anankē, can refer either to an abstract condition—somethin…
Irusan
Irusan is a legendary cat associated with Irish folklore and with the tradition of the King of the Cats. He is generally described in later retellings as an unusually large or powerful cat who rules over other cats. Unli…