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Medb
Medb is one of the most powerful and controversial figures in Irish mythology. Usually known in English as Maeve, she is the queen of Connacht and a central character in the Ulster Cycle, one of the four major narrative …
Berith
Berith is a demonological figure best known from early modern European grimoires, especially the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and the Ars Goetia. In those texts he is described as a powerful duke of Hell who appears as a sol…
St. Polycarp
St. Polycarp was a second-century Christian bishop of Smyrna, an important city on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor, in what is now İzmir, Turkey. He is remembered as one of the earliest Christian martyrs whose life and de…
Aku-aku
Aku-aku is a term from the traditional religious and folkloric vocabulary of Rapa Nui, the Polynesian people of Easter Island. It is commonly used for spirits of the dead, ancestral beings, or other supernatural presence…
Chibchacum
Chibchacum is a deity of the Muisca, an Indigenous people of the Andean highlands of present-day Colombia. In accounts recorded during the Spanish colonial period, he appears as a powerful protector associated with the p…
Ixtlilton
Ixtlilton was a deity of the Nahua peoples of central Mexico, especially associated with health, healing, childhood, music, dancing and joyful recreation. He is commonly described as an Aztec god because he appears in so…
Eototo
Eototo is a prominent katsina in Hopi religious tradition, often described in English-language accounts as a chief or father of the katsinam. The Hopi word katsina refers both to spiritual beings and, in particular conte…
Kasha
Kasha (火車, commonly read kasha) is a frightening being associated with Japanese Buddhist folklore and tales of the dead. Its name means “fire cart” or “fiery vehicle.” In traditional stories, a kasha descends during a fu…
Oya
Oya is a major òrìṣà in Yoruba religious tradition, associated especially with wind, sudden change, storms, transformation and the boundary between the living and the dead. Her name is also written Ọ̀ya, while related tr…
Albunea
Albunea is a prophetic female figure associated with Roman Italy, the waters of the Anio River and the ancient town of Tibur, now Tivoli. She is described in different traditions as a nymph of a sacred spring, a local go…
Kuu
Kuu is the Finnish word for the Moon and, in discussions of Finnish mythology, may refer either to the celestial body itself or to a personified lunar power. It is sometimes presented in modern summaries as a Finnish moo…