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Alcyone
Alcyone is a figure of Greek mythology best known as the devoted wife of Ceyx, whose grief after his death leads to the transformation of both spouses into seabirds. Their story belongs to the ancient Greek tradition of …
Maanhaltija
Maanhaltija is a term associated with Finnish folk religion and mythology for a spirit or guardian connected with the earth, land, or a particular place. It is best understood not as the name of one universally defined g…
Andrealphus
Andrealphus is a demon listed in the early modern tradition of ceremonial magic, especially the catalogue known as the Ars Goetia, the first part of the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is described as a great marquis who first…
Asroilu
Asroilu is an uncertain and poorly documented angelic name. It appears in some modern lists and secondary treatments of angels, but it does not have a securely established identity in the major scriptural and theological…
Hoa-tapu
Hoa-tapu is an obscure name associated with Polynesian mythology, but it does not identify a universally recognised god or legendary being across Polynesia. In modern lists of mythological figures, Hoa-tapu is sometimes …
Huecuvus
Huecuvus is a name associated with a harmful supernatural being in Mapuche tradition of south-central Chile and western Argentina. It is also written in forms such as Huecuve, Huecuvé, or Huecuvü, depending on the langua…
Tezcatlipoca
Tezcatlipoca is one of the most powerful and complex deities in Aztec, or more broadly Nahua, religious tradition. His name is commonly translated as “Smoking Mirror,” a reference to the dark, reflective obsidian mirror …
Nataska
Nataska is an ogre-like figure in Hopi katsina tradition, associated especially with public ceremonial performances connected with discipline, social teaching and the seasonal religious cycle. English-language sources of…
Nai-no-kami
Nai-no-kami (also written Nai no Kami or translated as the “Earthquake Kami”) is a Japanese divine figure or ritual designation associated with earthquakes. The name belongs to the older religious vocabulary of Japan, bu…
Odomankoma
Odomankoma is a creator figure in Akan religious thought, especially associated with Fante traditions of Ghana. The name is also used in some Akan contexts as a title or descriptive name for the supreme divine power. Dep…
Acca-larentia
Acca Larentia, also called Acca Larentina, is a figure of Roman mythology associated with the childhood of Romulus and Remus, the founding legends of Rome, and the annual festival known as the Larentalia. Her identity is…