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Tekkeitsertok
Tekkeitsertok is a figure associated primarily with Greenlandic Inuit traditions and with the caribou on which many northern communities depended. He is commonly described in English as a master or guardian of caribou, a…
Sanbo-kojin
Sanbō Kōjin (also written Sanbo Kojin or Sambō Kōjin) is a Japanese deity associated with fire, the hearth, the kitchen and the protection of the household. The name is usually translated as “the Rough Deity of the Three…
Orunmila
Orunmila is a central orisha in Yoruba religious tradition, especially associated with Ifá, the divination system through which knowledge, guidance and insight are sought. He is linked with wisdom, human destiny, moral c…
Amphion
Amphion is a legendary musician, prince and culture hero of Greek mythology, best known from the Theban cycle. He is traditionally the twin brother of Zethus and the son of Zeus and Antiope. His music was said to possess…
Róta
Róta is a little-known female figure in Norse tradition, usually classified as a valkyrie. Her name appears in medieval lists of valkyries preserved in Old Norse literature, especially material associated with the Prose …
Bune
Bune is a demon or spirit listed in early modern European ceremonial-magic literature, especially the Ars Goetia, the first section of the Lesser Key of Solomon. He is described as a powerful duke who appears as a dragon…
St. Pius V
St. Pius V was a sixteenth-century pope and Dominican friar whose pontificate helped shape the Catholic Church after the Protestant Reformation. Born Michele Ghislieri in 1504, he became Pope Pius V in 1566 and served un…
Yingarna
Yingarna is an ancestral creator being in the traditions of the Kunwinjku people of western Arnhem Land in northern Australia. She is commonly described as a powerful female Rainbow Serpent and as an ancestral mother ass…
Boraro
Boraro is a frightening forest being associated chiefly with Indigenous traditions of the north-western Amazon, especially the cultural region around the Vaupés River in present-day Colombia and Brazil. It is commonly de…
Ilamatecuhtli
Ilamatecuhtli is an aged female deity in the religious traditions of central Mexico, especially those associated with the Mexica, often called the Aztecs. Her name is usually translated as “Old Woman” or “Old Lady,” alth…
Torngarsak
Torngarsak is a powerful spirit known from several Inuit religious traditions, especially those recorded in Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic. Older English-language sources also use forms such as Torngarsoak, To…