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Sotuknang
Sotuknang is a powerful being in accounts of Hopi cosmology, where he appears as an agent of the creator Taiowa and an organizer of the universe. He is especially associated with the creation and ordering of the worlds, …
Ninigi-no-mikoto
Ninigi-no-mikoto is a kami of Japanese mythology who is presented as the grandson of Amaterasu Ōmikami and the ancestor of Japan’s imperial line. In the mythic genealogies preserved in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, he desc…
Ogo
Ogo is a primordial figure in some recorded traditions of the Dogon people of Mali, in West Africa. He is commonly associated with Yurugu, the “Pale Fox,” a rebellious and incomplete being whose actions introduce disorde…
Alcmene
Alcmene is a mortal woman in Greek mythology, best known as the mother of Heracles (Roman Hercules). A princess of the royal house of Mycenae, she becomes central to one of the most important divine-human unions in Greek…
Skadi
Skadi (Old Norse Skaði) is a powerful female figure in Norse mythology, associated with the mountains, winter, hunting and skiing. She is usually described as a jötunn, a member of the supernatural beings often translate…
Amdusias
Amdusias, also spelled Amduscias or Amducias in different texts, is a demon and infernal duke described in early modern European demonological literature. He is best known from the Ars Goetia, the first part of the Lesse…
Armisael
Armisael is a little-known angelic name associated in later angelological and occult traditions with the womb, pregnancy, and protection against miscarriage. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, or Uriel, Armisael does not …
Lo-au
Lo-au, more commonly written Loʻau or Loau, is a traditional Polynesian figure associated especially with Tonga. He is generally described not as a universal Polynesian god but as a culture hero, priest, lawgiver, or anc…
Kanassa
Kanassa is an obscure and uncertain name associated in some modern catalogues with South American mythology. Unlike widely documented figures such as Inti, Pachamama, Viracocha, or the Mapuche serpent beings, Kanassa doe…
Oxomoco
Oxomoco is an ancient Nahua figure associated with creation, divination and the keeping of ritual time. In Aztec and broader central Mexican traditions, she appears most often alongside Cipactonal, her male counterpart. …
Taiowa
Taiowa is a creator figure associated with Hopi religious tradition in the American Southwest. In published accounts, Taiowa is described as the supreme creative power who existed before the ordered universe and brought …