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Pariacaca
Pariacaca is a major deity in the religious traditions of the Huarochirí region of the central Peruvian Andes. He is especially well known from the Huarochirí Manuscript, a Quechua-language collection of Indigenous tradi…
Tlaltecuhtli
Tlaltecuhtli is a powerful earth deity of central Mexican, especially Mexica (Aztec), religious tradition. The name is usually translated as “Earth Lord” or “Lord of the Earth,” although the figure is often represented a…
Flying Head
Flying Head is a frightening being associated chiefly with Seneca and other Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, storytelling. In English-language retellings, it is usually described as a huge disembodied head that moves through …
Shoki
Shoki (Japanese: Shōki; Chinese: Zhong Kui) is a legendary demon-queller associated with protection against evil spirits, illness and misfortune. Although Shoki is often discussed within Japanese mythology, his immediate…
Tilo
Tilo is a name associated in some comparative accounts with a sky-related supreme power in southern and central African religious traditions. The name is often placed within discussions of Bemba or wider Bantu-speaking m…
Aegle
Aegle is a name shared by several figures in Greek mythology rather than belonging to one single, universally defined goddess or creature. The Greek name Αἴγλη (Aiglē) is commonly connected with “radiance,” “brightness,”…
Ogma
Ogma is a figure of Irish mythology associated with the Tuatha Dé Danann, the supernatural people who appear in medieval Irish narratives as rulers and champions of Ireland before the arrival of the Milesians. He is best…
Kelpie
The kelpie is a shape-shifting water spirit from Scottish folklore, usually described as a horse that lures people into rivers, lochs, or pools. In many traditional stories, an apparently tame horse waits beside the wate…
Anapiel
Anapiel is an obscure angelic name associated with Jewish mystical and angelological traditions. The name is more often written as Anaphiel, Anpiel, or Anafi’el, and the surviving evidence does not establish a single, un…
Ta’aroa
Ta’aroa is a major creator deity in the traditional religion of Tahiti and the Society Islands, in eastern Polynesia. He is often described as a primordial god who existed before the ordered world and brought the heavens…
Periboriwa
Periboriwa is an obscure name associated in some modern compilations with South American, especially Brazilian or Amazonian, folklore. Its identity is uncertain. Unlike well-attested figures such as the Curupira, Boitatá…