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Yalungur
Yalungur is a name associated in some modern reference works with an Australian Aboriginal water or serpent being. The available information is limited, and the name is not supported by a single, widely documented tradit…
Aunyaina
Aunyaina is a name sometimes presented in English-language mythology directories as that of a South American, and more specifically Guarani, goddess of fire. The identification is uncertain, however. Unlike major figures…
Huehueteotl
Huehueteotl is the Nahuatl “Old God,” a venerable fire deity associated with the religious traditions of central Mexico, especially those of the Mexica, often called the Aztecs. He is usually represented as an elderly, w…
Pukkeenegak
Pukkeenegak is a figure associated in some English-language accounts with Inuit traditions of childbirth, fertility, pregnancy and the care of children. Her name and role are not documented through a single pan-Inuit myt…
Jo
Jo is not a securely identifiable god, spirit, monster or hero in the surviving corpus of Japanese mythology under that spelling alone. The name appears to be an abbreviated or incomplete romanization, a transliteration …
Onile
Onile is a name associated with the earth in Yoruba religious thought and folklore. It is usually understood from the Yoruba expression onílẹ̀, meaning “owner of the earth” or “owner of the land.” In some accounts, Onile…
Amphitrite
Amphitrite is a goddess of the sea in Greek mythology, best known as the wife and queen of Poseidon. In early Greek tradition she belongs to the Nereids, the fifty sea nymphs born to the ancient sea god Nereus and the Oc…
Mac Cécht
Mac Cécht is a name associated with more than one figure in medieval Irish literature. Most often, it identifies a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the supernatural people who appear in Ireland’s mythological history, and…
Dantalion
Dantalion is a demon listed in the Ars Goetia, the first section of the early modern grimoire known as the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is described as a powerful duke who appears with many human faces and carries a book. W…
St. Philip Neri
St. Philip Neri (1515–1595) was an Italian priest, mystic and founder of the Congregation of the Oratory. Remembered as the “Apostle of Rome,” he played an important role in the Catholic renewal of the sixteenth century,…
Yara-ma-yha-who
Yara-ma-yha-who is a dangerous blood-drinking being associated with Aboriginal tradition in Australia. In commonly repeated accounts, it is a small red figure that waits in a fig tree and attacks people who come within r…