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Payatamu
Payatamu is a figure associated with Hopi religious tradition, especially with flute playing, music, seasonal growth and the ceremonial renewal of life. The name is also written Paiyatamu and in other variant forms. In m…
Namazu
Namazu is the giant catfish associated with earthquakes in Japanese folklore and early modern popular imagery. In the best-known version of the tradition, a huge subterranean catfish lies beneath the Japanese islands. Wh…
Oghene
Oghene is the name used for the supreme deity in several traditions of southern Nigeria, especially among Urhobo and Isoko-speaking peoples of the Niger Delta. In these contexts, Oghene is generally understood as the cre…
Abundantia
Abundantia was a Roman personification of abundance, prosperity and the plentiful supply of food or material goods. Her name comes from the Latin word abundantia, meaning “abundance” or “plenty”. Unlike major Roman gods …
Tuonela
Tuonela is the realm of the dead in Finnish mythology and in the related Finnish-Karelian poetic tradition. It is often described as a dark and distant land beyond a dangerous river, inhabited by the dead and ruled or pe…
Amon
Amon, also spelled Aamon in some sources, is a demon listed in early modern European grimoires, most famously in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is described as a marquis of Hell who co…
St. Raymond Of Penafort
St. Raymond of Peñafort was a thirteenth-century Catalan Dominican friar, canon lawyer, confessor, and church administrator. He is remembered especially for organizing a major collection of medieval canon law and for hel…
Laufakanaa
Laufakanaa is an obscure name associated in some modern reference lists with Polynesian mythology. Unlike widely attested figures such as Māui, Tangaroa, Tāne, or Tagaloa, Laufakanaa does not have a securely documented m…
Jurupari
Jurupari, also written Yuruparí or Yurupary, is a name associated with Indigenous traditions of the north-western Amazon, especially the Upper Rio Negro and the Vaupés region of Brazil and Colombia. The name does not ide…
Opochtli
Opochtli is a deity associated with fishing, aquatic resources and the practical skills of life around the lakes of central Mexico. He belongs to the religious world of the Nahua peoples, including the Mexica or Aztecs, …
Sotuknang
Sotuknang is a powerful being in accounts of Hopi cosmology, where he appears as an agent of the creator Taiowa and an organizer of the universe. He is especially associated with the creation and ordering of the worlds, …