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Eligos
Eligos, also written Eligor or Abigor, is a demon in the ceremonial magic tradition commonly known as the Ars Goetia. He is listed as the fifteenth spirit in its catalogue and is ranked as a Great Duke of Hell. The descr…
St. Philip
Saint Philip is traditionally remembered as one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. He appears especially in the Gospel of John, where he brings Nathanael to Jesus, participates in the feeding of the multitude, and a…
Wuraka
Wuraka is a name associated in some modern lists with Australian Aboriginal mythology, but its identity is not securely established in the surviving record. Unlike better-documented figures such as Baiame, Bunjil, Daramu…
Aroteh
Aroteh is an uncertain name associated in some modern mythology lists with South American tradition. Its identity, cultural origin and meaning are not securely established in the surviving historical and ethnographic rec…
Macuilcozcacuahtli
Macuilcozcacuahtli is a little-known figure associated with Aztec and wider Nahua religious tradition. His name is usually translated as “Five Vulture” or “Five [the] Vulture,” from macuil, “five,” and cozcacuahtli, a Na…
Nootaikok
Nootaikok is a little-known figure associated in some modern accounts with Inuit traditions concerning icebergs, ice, and the northern landscape. Unlike widely documented figures such as Sedna, Sila, or Nanook, Nootaikok…
Izanami
Izanami, also known as Izanami-no-Mikoto, is one of the principal creator kami of Japanese mythology. She appears most prominently in the Kojiki, compiled in 712, and the Nihon Shoki, completed in 720. In these early myt…
Olokun
Olokun is a powerful divinity in Yoruba religious tradition, associated above all with the sea, its immense depths, its hidden riches and the forces that lie beyond ordinary human understanding. The name is commonly writ…
Angita
Angita, also written Angitia, is a goddess or sacred female figure associated with the Marsi, an ancient people of central Italy. Her tradition belongs to the religious landscape of the Apennines, where local Italic cult…
Rind
Rind, also recorded in Old Norse as Rindr and in Latinised Scandinavian tradition as Rinda, is a little-known female figure associated with Odin and the birth of Váli, the son who avenges the death of Baldr. She belongs …
Decarabia
Decarabia is a demon listed in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the seventeenth-century grimoire known as the Lesser Key of Solomon. In that tradition, Decarabia is the sixty-ninth spirit and holds the rank of a marq…