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Explore myths, traditions and legendary beings grouped under Religious Traditions.
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Astanphaeus
Astanphaeus is a name associated with the archontic beings of certain Gnostic creation myths, especially traditions related to the Apocryphon of John and other texts from the Nag Hammadi library. The name appears in seve…
St. Radegund
St. Radegund was a sixth-century Christian queen, ascetic, patron of learning and founder of a women’s religious community at Poitiers in Gaul, in what is now western France. Born into the royal family of Thuringia aroun…
Asroilu
Asroilu is an uncertain and poorly documented angelic name. It appears in some modern lists and secondary treatments of angels, but it does not have a securely established identity in the major scriptural and theological…
St. Raymond Of Capua
Raymond of Capua was a fourteenth-century Dominican friar, spiritual adviser, church reformer and author best known as the confessor and first major biographer of St. Catherine of Siena. He played an important part in th…
Asariel
Asariel is a name associated in some later angelological and esoteric writings with water, the sea, and the zodiacal sign Pisces. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, or other angels with substantial scriptural and liturgic…
St. Raymond Of Penafort
St. Raymond of Peñafort was a thirteenth-century Catalan Dominican friar, canon lawyer, confessor, and church administrator. He is remembered especially for organizing a major collection of medieval canon law and for hel…
Armisael
Armisael is a little-known angelic name associated in later angelological and occult traditions with the womb, pregnancy, and protection against miscarriage. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, or Uriel, Armisael does not …
St. Regulus
St. Regulus, also known as St. Rule, is a figure in the medieval Christian traditions associated with St Andrews in Scotland. According to the best-known legend, he was a monk or cleric who brought relics of St Andrew fr…
Ariel
Ariel is a name with several different uses in Jewish and Christian religious history. In the Hebrew Bible, Ariel is not clearly presented as a personal angel. The name is used chiefly as a symbolic or poetic designation…
St. Remigius
St. Remigius, also known as Saint Rémi or Remy, was a fifth- and sixth-century bishop of Reims whose episcopate became closely associated with the conversion of the Frankish king Clovis I to Nicene Christianity. In Chris…
Araton
Araton is an obscure and uncertain angelic name. It does not belong to the established angelologies of the Bible, the Qur’an, or the principal Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. In modern occult and esoteric list…