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Otshirvani
Otshirvani is a name used in Buryat and wider Mongolian religious traditions for a powerful Buddhist protector associated with the vajra, the ritual thunderbolt or diamond weapon. The figure is generally identified with …
Asa
Asa is an uncertain name in material labelled “African mythology.” Unlike figures such as Anansi, Mami Wata, or the Yoruba òrìṣà, Asa does not identify one widely documented being shared across African traditions. The na…
Ceres
Ceres is the Roman goddess of cultivated grain, agriculture and the nourishment that makes settled life possible. She belongs to the religious traditions of ancient Rome, where farming was both an economic necessity and …
Nidhogg
Nidhogg—Old Norse Níðhöggr—is a powerful serpent or dragon in Norse mythology. He lives beneath Yggdrasil, the great ash tree that connects the worlds, where he gnaws at one of its roots. Nidhogg is also associated with …
Seere
Seere is a demon of early modern European ceremonial magic, best known as the seventieth spirit in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the grimoire commonly called the Lesser Key of Solomon. His name also appears in var…
Damabiath
Damabiath is an uncertain angelic name found in some modern and esoteric lists of angels. It is not a clearly identified angel in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, or the principal bodies of early Jewish and Christian…
Junkgowa Sisters
The Junkgowa Sisters are a pair of female ancestral figures associated with Australian Aboriginal mythology, although the name and the stories connected with it are not consistently recorded. “Junkgowa” appears mainly in…
Kon
Kon, also written Con in some colonial records, is a deity associated chiefly with the ancient cultures of Peru’s Pacific coast. He is often described as a creator or culture-bearing power connected with the making of hu…
Quiabelagayo
Quiabelagayo is a name associated with Zapotec mythology and is commonly identified in modern reference works as a deity or supernatural power connected with earthquakes. The identification is not equally secure across a…
Sisiutl
Sisiutl is a powerful supernatural being best known from the traditions of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. It is commonly represented as a double-headed serpent, with a head at each end of a lon…
Ulgan
Ulgan, more commonly written Ülgen or Ölgen, is a powerful creator and sky-associated figure in the traditional religious culture of several Turkic-speaking peoples of the Altai region of southern Siberia. He is especial…