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Urubutsin
Urubutsin is a name associated with South American mythology, but its exact identity, cultural origin, and meaning are not firmly established in widely available reference material. That uncertainty matters: unlike bette…
Xolotl
Xolotl is a deity and mythic figure from Aztec religion and broader Nahua tradition in central Mexico. He is usually described as the twin brother or companion of the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl, and he belongs to…
Sosondowah
Sosondowah is a figure from Iroquois mythology, especially associated with Haudenosaunee oral tradition as recorded by later collectors and interpreters. He is usually presented as a hunter, a sky-related being, or a pow…
Yo
Yo is a term that appears in Japanese religious and folkloric contexts, but it is not a single, securely defined mythological being with one fixed story. In Japanese tradition, the word can be written with different char…
Yurugu
Yurugu is a major figure in the religious and cosmological traditions of the Dogon people of Mali. In Dogon thought, he is not a conventional god, hero, or demon in the sense familiar from many other mythologies, but a d…
Achelois
Achelois is a Greek mythological name associated with healing, relief, and the soothing of pain. In surviving ancient material, the name does not belong to a single, fully developed goddess with a large myth cycle. Inste…
Sampsa
Sampsa is a figure from Finnish mythology and folk tradition, best known from the Kalevala, where he appears as a mysterious cause of fertility and abundance. The name is usually associated with growth, plenty, and the m…
Abominable Snowman
The Abominable Snowman is a modern English name for a mysterious Himalayan creature reported in stories, local tradition, and mountaineering accounts. It is most often associated with the high mountains of Nepal, Tibet, …
Aeshma
Aeshma is a demon of violence, wrath and destructive impulse in the religious traditions of ancient Iran, especially within Zoroastrianism and related Iranian religious thought. He is most often understood as a personifi…
Surt
Surt is a giant or fire-being from Norse mythology, best known as the guardian or wielder of the fires of the south and as a central figure in the destruction of the world at Ragnarök. In the surviving Old Norse sources,…
Tailtiu
Tailtiu is a figure from Irish mythology and early Irish tradition, best known as a goddess or divine ancestress associated with the land, sovereignty, clearing of territory, and the funeral games that later gave their n…