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Xiuhcoatl
Xiuhcoatl is a powerful serpent figure in Aztec mythology, most often understood as the “turquoise serpent” or “fire serpent.” In Nahua tradition, the name refers not to a single simple creature but to a complex sacred i…
Gunnodoyak
Gunnodoyak is a name recorded in connection with Iroquois mythology, but it is not among the best-known figures in the Haudenosaunee religious or oral traditions. Because surviving references are limited and spellings ca…
Tsukiyomi
Tsukuyomi is a major deity in Japanese mythology, usually understood as the moon god. In the oldest surviving written sources of Japan, he appears as one of the children of the creator deities Izanagi and Izanami, and he…
Woyengi
Woyengi is a creator figure in the religious tradition of the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta region of present-day Nigeria. In the best-known accounts, Woyengi is a primordial being associated with the creation of human …
Adamanthea
Adamanthea is not a widely established figure in Greek mythology, and the name itself appears to be rare, obscure, and potentially variant in transmission. Because of that, any discussion of Adamanthea must begin with ca…
Sökkvabekk
Sökkvabekk is one of the named places in Norse myth, described as a hall or dwelling associated with the goddess Sága. It appears in the Poetic Edda, where it is portrayed as a place of quiet dignity and remembere…
Bunyanesque
Bunyanesque is not a monster from an ancient myth, a medieval bestiary, or a named creature from a single traditional folklore cycle. It is a modern descriptive word used for things that are exaggeratedly huge, powerful,…
St. Rose Of Lima
St. Rose of Lima is a revered Catholic saint of the early modern period and the first person born in the Americas to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. She is associated with asceticism, chastity, prayer, charity…
Tuli
Tuli is a name found in Polynesian contexts, but it does not point to a single universally agreed figure across all Polynesian traditions. In some references it appears as a personal name, while in others it is associate…
Tamusi
Tamusi is the name of a divine or ancestral figure in the traditions of some Indigenous peoples of South America, especially in the cultural world of the Siona and related peoples of the northwestern Amazon region. In su…
Xiuhtecuhtli
Xiuhtecuhtli is the Aztec fire deity associated with heat, light, life, and the center of the household and cosmos. In Nahua religion, he was especially important as a divine force tied to fire in many forms: the hearth,…