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Sarutahiko
Sarutahiko, also called Sarutahiko Ōkami or Sarutahiko-no-Kami, is a major earthly kami in Japanese mythology and Shinto tradition. He is best known as the powerful deity who stands at the boundary between the heavenly a…
Soko
Soko is a name associated primarily with the supreme creator being of the Nupe people of central Nigeria. In accounts of traditional Nupe religion, Soko is understood as the source of the world and of life, often describ…
Asclepius
Asclepius is the Greek god and legendary master of healing, one of the most important divine figures associated with medicine in the ancient Mediterranean. In myth he begins as a gifted mortal physician, but his skill be…
Skoll
Sköll is a wolf in Norse mythology who pursues the sun across the sky. He belongs to the group of monstrous beings associated with the forces that threaten the ordered world of the gods and humans. According to accounts …
Mokele-Mbembe
Mokele-Mbembe is the name most often given to a legendary creature said to inhabit the rivers, swamps and remote forests of the Congo Basin in Central Africa. In modern popular culture it is usually portrayed as a living…
Anpiel
Anpiel is a name associated in some angelological lists with an angel who governs or protects birds. The figure belongs to the broad field of Jewish and Christian angel lore rather than to a clearly defined biblical trad…
Pulotu
Pulotu is a name used in several Polynesian traditions for a supernatural realm associated with the dead, ancestral spirits and powerful deities. It is especially prominent in Tongan and Samoan religious traditions, alth…
Omame
Omame is a name associated with Omama, a creator and culture hero in Yanomami religious traditions of the north-western Amazon. The Yanomami live mainly in territories spanning northern Brazil and southern Venezuela. In …
Toci
Toci is a female deity of Nahua religious tradition, usually associated with the earth, childbirth, healing, midwifery and the temazcal, or Mesoamerican sweat bath. Her name is commonly translated as “Our Grandmother.” I…
Thunder Twins
The Thunder Twins are often presented in English as a pair of supernatural brothers from Cherokee mythology. The name, however, does not identify one universally fixed Cherokee character comparable to a single, consisten…
Seidai Myojin
Seidai Myojin is an obscure and uncertain name associated with Japanese religious tradition. Unlike Amaterasu, Susanoo, Inari, or other widely documented kami, Seidai Myojin does not appear as a clearly identifiable figu…