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Tsetse Bumba
Tsetse Bumba is a name associated in some modern English-language compilations with the creator figure better known as Mbombo or Bumba in traditions attributed to the Bushoong (also written Bushongo), a Kuba-speaking peo…
Briareus
Briareus is a primordial being in Greek mythology, one of the three Hekatoncheires, or “Hundred-Handers.” He is described as possessing extraordinary strength, many arms and numerous heads, and he plays an important part…
Sleipnir
Sleipnir is the eight-legged horse of Norse mythology and the principal mount of the god Odin. Renowned as the fastest and finest of horses, Sleipnir carries Odin across the worlds of the Norse cosmos and appears in stor…
Jersey Devil
The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature associated with the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey in the United States. In its most familiar form, it is described as a winged, hoofed being with a long horse-like head, cla…
Anael
Anael is an angelic name found mainly in later Jewish, Christian and Western esoteric traditions. It is commonly associated with the planet Venus, Friday, love, beauty, harmony and pleasure, especially in ceremonial syst…
Tangiia
Tangiia, also known as Tangiia Nui, is a celebrated ancestral chief in the traditional histories of the Cook Islands, especially Rarotonga. He belongs to the Polynesian traditions of central Eastern Polynesia, but he is …
Pillan
Pillan (also written Pillán, Pillan or Pu-pillan in some contexts) is a powerful spiritual figure, or class of spiritual beings, in the religious traditions of the Mapuche people of south-central Chile and western Argent…
Tonatiuh
Tonatiuh is the Nahuatl sun deity associated with the Fifth Sun, the present age of the world in Mexica and other Nahua traditions of central Mexico. He represents the sun’s light, heat, movement and life-giving power, b…
Dawn
Dawn is not securely documented as a single, pan-Iroquois goddess or named supernatural being. In discussions of Iroquois mythology, the word usually refers to the daily return of light, to the eastern horizon, or to a s…
Sukuna-bikona
Sukuna-bikona—also written Sukunahikona, Sukunabikona, or Sukunahikona no Kami—is a small but important deity in Japanese mythology. He is best known as the companion of Ōkuninushi (also called Ōnamuchi), with whom he he…
Uthlanga
Uthlanga is a name associated with origin traditions among Nguni-speaking peoples of southern Africa, especially in discussions of Zulu mythology. The term is often connected with a primordial reed bed or source from whi…