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Andromalius
Andromalius is a demon listed as the seventy-second and final spirit in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the seventeenth-century grimoire known as the Lesser Key of Solomon. In that text, he is described as a great e…
St. Radegund
St. Radegund was a sixth-century Christian queen, ascetic, patron of learning and founder of a women’s religious community at Poitiers in Gaul, in what is now western France. Born into the royal family of Thuringia aroun…
Hina
Hina is a name used for several important female figures in Polynesian traditions, especially in eastern Polynesia. Depending on the island, language and tradition, Hina may be associated with the moon, women’s work, wea…
Huallallo
Huallallo, more fully known as Huallallo Carhuincho or, in some spellings, Wallallo Carhuincho, is a powerful sacred being in the mythology of the central Andes of Peru. He is best known from the Huarochirí Manuscript, a…
Omacatl
Omacatl is a deity associated in Aztec, or Mexica, religious tradition with feasting, banquets and festive abundance. His name is usually written Omacatl or Omácatl in modern publications. Unlike major Mexica gods such a…
Momo
Momo is a name sometimes presented in modern reference material as belonging to Hopi mythology, but it does not identify a single, consistently documented figure across the best-known accounts of Hopi religious tradition…
Musubi-no-kami
Musubi-no-kami is a Japanese religious and mythological expression connected with musubi, a sacred power of generation, growth, union and the bringing of things into being. Depending on the context, the name may refer ge…
Obassi Osaw
Obassi Osaw is a supreme divine figure associated with the traditional religious thought of the Efik people of southeastern Nigeria, especially the Cross River region. He is commonly described as a sky or heavenly deity …
Alcyone
Alcyone is a figure of Greek mythology best known as the devoted wife of Ceyx, whose grief after his death leads to the transformation of both spouses into seabirds. Their story belongs to the ancient Greek tradition of …
Maanhaltija
Maanhaltija is a term associated with Finnish folk religion and mythology for a spirit or guardian connected with the earth, land, or a particular place. It is best understood not as the name of one universally defined g…
Andrealphus
Andrealphus is a demon listed in the early modern tradition of ceremonial magic, especially the catalogue known as the Ars Goetia, the first part of the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is described as a great marquis who first…