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Tumuitearetoka
Tumuitearetoka is a figure from Polynesian tradition, associated especially with Cook Islands mythology. Like many names preserved in oral literature from Oceania, Tumuitearetoka appears in a cultural world shaped by gen…
Tovapod
Tovapod is a poorly documented name from the broad sphere of South American mythology, but it is not a figure with a widely standardized place in the continent’s better-known Indigenous traditions. In most available refe…
Xmulzencab
Xmulzencab is a little-known name associated with Aztec mythology, though the identity behind the term is not fully secure. In surviving modern references, Xmulzencab is usually treated as a mythic or divine being from t…
Hahgwehdiyu
Hahgwehdiyu is a figure from Haudenosaunee tradition, especially associated with the Iroquois-speaking peoples of what is now northeastern North America. He is commonly described as the Sky Woman’s grandson or as the ben…
Uke-mochi
Uke-mochi is a Japanese food and fertility deity associated with the provision of grain, fish, game and other foods. In surviving tradition, Uke-mochi appears most clearly in Shinto mythic and ritual contexts, although t…
Wuni
Wuni is a figure associated with African mythology, especially in traditions from parts of the Sudan and the wider Nilotic cultural sphere, where details may vary by language group and by source. Because the name is not …
Achilles
Achilles is one of the most famous heroes of Greek mythology, best known from the Iliad, where he stands at the center of the Trojan War. In the ancient Greek tradition, he is not a god, but a mortal warrior of extraordi…
Pekko
Pekko is a figure from Finnish folklore and the agrarian religious imagination of the Finns, best known as a spirit or deity associated with barley, brewing, and the success of the harvest. His place in older tradition i…
Bigfoot
Bigfoot is a name used in North American folklore and modern popular culture for a large, ape-like, human-shaped creature said to roam remote forests and mountain regions. The figure is usually treated as a cryptid or le…
St. Rose Of Viterbo
St. Rose of Viterbo is a young Italian Christian saint remembered for her intense piety, public preaching, and defiance of political power in the thirteenth century. In Catholic tradition she stands as a teenage lay peni…
Varima-te-takere
Varima-te-takere is a figure in Cook Islands mythology, especially in traditions from the island of Rarotonga, where she is remembered as a primal being associated with the beginning of the world and the emergence of the…