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Pekko
Pekko is a figure from Finnish folklore and the agrarian religious imagination of the Finns, best known as a spirit or deity associated with barley, brewing, and the success of the harvest. His place in older tradition i…
Bigfoot
Bigfoot is a name used in North American folklore and modern popular culture for a large, ape-like, human-shaped creature said to roam remote forests and mountain regions. The figure is usually treated as a cryptid or le…
St. Rose Of Viterbo
St. Rose of Viterbo is a young Italian Christian saint remembered for her intense piety, public preaching, and defiance of political power in the thirteenth century. In Catholic tradition she stands as a teenage lay peni…
Varima-te-takere
Varima-te-takere is a figure in Cook Islands mythology, especially in traditions from the island of Rarotonga, where she is remembered as a primal being associated with the beginning of the world and the emergence of the…
Uaica
Uaica is a name recorded in South American mythological and ethnographic materials, but the figure is not widely standardized in the way better-known gods, spirits, or legendary heroes are. Depending on the source, Uaica…
Xochipilli
Xochipilli is a deity from Aztec religion, most often understood as a god of flowers, song, dance, beauty, love, pleasure, and the flowering richness of life. His name is usually translated from Nahuatl as “Flower Prince…
Hinu
Hinu is a figure associated with Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee, mythology, but the surviving record is limited and the identity of the name is not always clear across sources. In some cases, names recorded in early ethnogra…
Umashiashikabihikoji
Umashiashikabihikoji is an early Japanese deity named in the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, the two foundational mythological chronicles of Japan. He belongs to the creation narratives of Shinto tradition and appears among …
Yasigi
Yasigi is a figure from Dogon tradition in West Africa, especially associated with communities in present-day Mali. In published accounts, Yasigi is most often described as a masked or ritual presence connected with perf…
Acheron
Acheron is best known in Greek mythology as a river of the underworld, one of the great boundary streams associated with the realm of the dead. In later tradition it could also be imagined as a place, a power, or even a …
Sól
Sól is the sun personified in Norse mythology, a female divine figure associated with the daylight sky, the passage of time, and the daily movement of the sun. She belongs to the mythological tradition of medieval Scandi…