WORLD
All articles
Explore all published articles about mythology, folklore, gods, heroes, spirits and legendary creatures.
Last articles
Chalchiuhtotolin
Chalchiuhtotolin is a deity or divine manifestation in Nahua religious tradition, especially the religious world commonly called Aztec. His name is usually translated as “Jade Turkey” or “Precious Turkey.” He is most clo…
Untunktahe
Untunktahe is a name associated with a powerful water being in traditions connected with the Lakota and other Dakota-speaking peoples of the northern Great Plains. The spelling is not uniform, and the form “Untunktahe” m…
Ebisu
Ebisu is a Japanese kami associated with the sea, fishing, trade, prosperity and good fortune. He is best known as one of the Seven Lucky Gods (Shichifukujin), usually shown smiling, carrying a fishing rod and holding a …
Achimi
Achimi is an obscure name associated with African mythology in some modern English-language catalogues of gods, spirits and legendary beings. Its identity, cultural origin and traditional role are not securely establishe…
Arion
Arion, also spelled Areion in transliterations of the Greek name, is a miraculous horse in Greek mythology. He is best known as the exceptionally swift and often immortal horse associated with the hero Heracles and the A…
Ód
Ód, more fully written in Old Norse as Óðr, is a little-known figure associated with Freyja in Norse mythology. He is described primarily as her husband and as the father of Hnoss and Gersemi. Unlike Odin, Thor or Freyja…
Marax
Marax, also spelled Morax in some sources, is a demon of early modern European ceremonial magic. He is best known from the Ars Goetia, the first part of the Lesser Key of Solomon, where he is listed as the twenty-first s…
St. Perpetua Of Carthage
St. Perpetua of Carthage was a Christian martyr who was executed in Carthage in Roman North Africa during the early third century. She is remembered chiefly through the Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, an unusual…
Mudungkala
Mudungkala is an ancestral being in the traditions of the Tiwi people of northern Australia. The Tiwi live primarily on Melville Island and Bathurst Island, in the Apsley Strait region north of Darwin in the Northern Ter…
Piguerao
Piguerao is an obscure name associated with Inca mythology, but its identity is not securely established in the surviving record. Modern lists of Inca beings sometimes describe Piguerao as a supernatural bird, usually co…
Chalmecatecuhtli
Chalmecatecuhtli is an obscure figure associated with Aztec, or more precisely Nahua, religious tradition in central Mexico. His name appears in colonial-era records and later catalogues of Nahua deities, but surviving e…