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Anahel
Anahel is a rare and uncertain angelic name found chiefly in later esoteric and occult lists rather than in the Bible or other major canonical religious scriptures. The spelling is sometimes treated as a variant of Anael…
Roua
Roua is a name associated with Polynesian mythology, but its identity is uncertain and its traditional context is not securely established in the surviving record. Unlike widely documented Polynesian figures such as Māui…
Pamuri Mahse
Pamuri Mahse is a name associated with the ancestral beings and origin traditions of Indigenous peoples in the north-western Amazon, especially communities of the Vaupés River region in present-day Colombia and Brazil. T…
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli is a deity and divine manifestation associated with the morning star in the religious traditions of central Mexico. His name is commonly translated as “Lord of the Dawn” or “Lord of the House of Daw…
Adekagagwaa
Adekagagwaa is a figure identified in some accounts of Iroquois mythology with summer and the warm, life-supporting part of the yearly cycle. He is commonly presented as the opponent or counterpart of Okwirase, a figure …
Shojo
Shōjō (猩々 or 猩猩, also written shōjō and commonly rendered as Shojo) is a legendary red-haired, red-faced being associated in Japan with the sea, sake, dancing and uninhibited celebration. It is best known through the cla…
Thixo
Thixo, also written Tixo or uThixo, is a name associated with God in Xhosa-speaking religious traditions of southern Africa. The term does not describe a single, uniformly documented mythological character in the way tha…
Aello
Aello is a Harpy in Greek mythology, one of the winged female beings associated with violent winds, sudden abduction and divine punishment. Her name is usually written Ἀελλώ in Greek and is commonly connected with words …
Skuld
Skuld is a figure associated with Norse mythology, but her identity is not entirely straightforward. In the best-known tradition, she is one of the three principal Norns, the beings connected with the shaping of human li…
Kraken
The kraken is a legendary sea monster associated chiefly with Scandinavian folklore, especially traditions from Norway and Denmark. In older accounts, it was not a god, demon or creature from a single canonical myth. Ins…
St. Romanus Of Condat
St. Romanus of Condat was a fifth-century Christian monk and monastic founder associated with the Jura Mountains of eastern Gaul, in the region now forming part of eastern France. Known in French as Saint Romain de Conda…