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Foras
Foras, also written Forcas in some editions, is a demon listed in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the seventeenth-century grimoire commonly known as the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is described as a powerful president…
St. Peter Of Alcántara
St. Peter of Alcántara was a sixteenth-century Spanish Franciscan friar, ascetic, writer and reformer of religious life. Born in Alcántara in Extremadura around 1499 and dying at Arenas in 1562, he became known for sever…
Waramurunggundji
Waramurunggundji is an ancestral creator figure associated particularly with Aboriginal traditions of western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Her name is also written as Warramurrungundji, Waramurrungundji and in …
Amana
Amana is commonly described in modern references as a rain goddess associated with Indigenous traditions of South America, especially the Tupian cultural world of Brazil and neighbouring regions. The identification is no…
Macuilxochitl
Macuilxochitl, whose name means “Five Flower” in Classical Nahuatl, is a deity associated with music, dance, flowers, games, pleasure and forms of cultivated enjoyment in central Mexican religious tradition. He belongs t…
Isitoq
Isitoq is a name associated in some modern English-language accounts with an Inuit supernatural figure concerned with justice, moral conduct and punishment. The evidence for Isitoq is limited, however, and the name does …
Yakusa-no-ikazuchi-no-kami
Yakusa-no-ikazuchi-no-kami is the collective name for the eight thunder deities who appear in the Japanese creation narrative preserved in the Kojiki. They are born from the body of Izanami after her death and later purs…
Ochosi
Ochosi—written in Yoruba as Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì and known by related spellings such as Oshosi or Oxóssi—is an òrìṣà of Yoruba religious tradition. He is especially associated with hunting, the forest, tracking, accuracy and the kn…
Antinous
Antinous was a young man from Bithynia who became the beloved companion of the Roman emperor Hadrian and, after his death, the focus of a widespread religious cult. Unlike most figures classified under Roman mythology, A…
Lemminkäinen
Lemminkäinen is one of the best-known heroes of Finnish mythology, especially through the Kalevala, the nineteenth-century epic compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Finnish and Karelian oral poetry. He is portrayed as handsome…
Focalor
Focalor is a demon described in early modern European demonological literature, most famously in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is presented as a powerful duke of Hell associated with …