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Snotra
Snotra is a little-known female deity, or ásynja, in Norse mythology. She appears in Snorri Sturluson’s Prose Edda as a wise and courteous goddess associated with intelligence, good judgment and proper conduct. Unlike fi…
Doppelgänger
A Doppelgänger is a supernatural double of a living person. In its traditional sense, the figure is not simply a stranger who happens to look alike, but an apparition or uncanny counterpart connected to a particular indi…
St. Ronan Of Iona
St. Ronan of Iona is a little-known Christian figure associated with the monastery of Iona and with the early medieval controversy over the date of Easter. His identity is not entirely secure. The surviving evidence most…
Tiki
Tiki is a name and image associated with several Polynesian traditions, especially the carved human or ancestor figure known in parts of eastern Polynesia. It does not identify one universally defined god or legendary be…
Sinaa
Sinaa is an obscure name associated in some modern compilations with Indigenous mythology from South America. It is sometimes presented as a creator, sky being or supreme spirit, but its cultural origin and traditional i…
Ueuecoyotl
Ueuecoyotl, more commonly written Huehuecoyotl, is a figure of Nahua religious tradition often described as an old coyote associated with music, dancing, pleasure, and trickery. The name comes from Nahuatl huehue, meanin…
Gendenwitha
Gendenwitha is a figure associated in some Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, traditions with the dawn and the Morning Star. Her name appears in several spellings, including Gendewitha and Gendenwitha, and accounts of her ident…
Tamayori-hime
Tamayori-hime is a female kami in Japanese mythology whose name appears in more than one important tradition. The best-known Tamayori-hime is the daughter of Watatsumi, the sea kami, and the younger sister of Toyotama-hi…
Waaq
Waaq, also written Waaqa, is the supreme creator and sustaining power in the traditional religious thought of many Oromo people of the Horn of Africa. Oromo communities are especially associated with Ethiopia and norther…
Adephagia
Adephagia was a Greek personification associated with gluttony, insatiable appetite and excessive eating. Her name, written Ἀδηφαγία in Greek, is generally understood as meaning “insatiability” or “gluttony,” from words …
Ruadán
Ruadán, usually known as Saint Ruadán of Lorrha, is a sixth-century Irish religious figure associated with the early Christian monastery at Lorrha in County Tipperary. He belongs more properly to Ireland’s early medieval…