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Huitaca
Huitaca is a female figure associated with the Muisca, or Muysca, people of the Andean highlands of present-day Colombia. Spanish colonial writers described her as a beautiful and rebellious supernatural woman connected …
Omecihuatl
Omecihuatl is a female figure associated with the highest level of Nahua cosmology and with the principle of sacred duality. Her name is usually translated as “Lady Two” or “Lady of Duality.” In colonial-era accounts, sh…
Palhik Mana
Palhik Mana is a female katsina of Hopi religious tradition, commonly known in English as the Butterfly Maiden. She is associated with butterflies, beauty, seasonal renewal, young people and, in many modern descriptions,…
Naka-yama-tsu-mi
Naka-yama-tsu-mi is an obscure mountain kami associated with the mythic birth of mountain deities from the dismembered body of the fire god Kagutsuchi in Japanese mythology. The name is often written in English as Naka-y…
Ofo
Ofo is a sacred symbol of authority in many Igbo communities of southeastern Nigeria. Usually represented by a carved staff, rod or branch, it is associated with legitimate leadership, ancestral presence, truth, justice …
Alcmena
Alcmena—also spelled Alcmene—is a mortal woman in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of Heracles (the Roman Hercules). She was the wife of Amphitryon and became the mother of two sons: Heracles, fathered by Zeus, …
Mongán
Mongán, usually called Mongán mac Fiachnai, is a legendary king of Ulaid in Irish tradition. He is associated with the northern Irish kingdom of the Ulaid, the Otherworld, and the sea-god Manannán mac Lir. Unlike figures…
Amy
Amy, also written Ami or Avnas in some versions, is a spirit described in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the early modern grimoire commonly known as the Lesser Key of Solomon. In that text, Amy is ranked as a Presi…
Asariel
Asariel is a name associated in some later angelological and esoteric writings with water, the sea, and the zodiacal sign Pisces. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, or other angels with substantial scriptural and liturgic…
Kai-n-tiku-aba
Kai-n-tiku-aba is a little-known name associated with the traditional mythology of the Gilbert Islands, now the Republic of Kiribati in the central Pacific. The figure is sometimes placed under the broad heading of Polyn…
Iae
Iae is a name associated in some modern mythology lists with South American tradition, but its identity and cultural origin are uncertain. No single, widely recognised indigenous tradition securely establishes Iae as a g…