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Explore myths, traditions and legendary beings grouped under Religious Traditions.
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Ansiel
Ansiel is an obscure angelic name found in some later occult and angelological compilations. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael or Uriel, Ansiel does not have a clear role in the major scriptures of Judaism, Christianity o…
St. Roch
St. Roch, also known as Roch of Montpellier, Saint Rocco, San Roque, or Rochus, is a Christian saint traditionally associated with the care of people suffering from plague and other epidemic diseases. His cult developed …
Anpiel
Anpiel is a name associated in some angelological lists with an angel who governs or protects birds. The figure belongs to the broad field of Jewish and Christian angel lore rather than to a clearly defined biblical trad…
St. Ronan Of Kilmaronen
St. Ronan of Kilmaronen is an obscure Scottish saint associated with an early Christian settlement whose name survives in the place-name Kilmaronock, in the historic parish of Kilmaronock near Loch Lomond. The saint belo…
Anahel
Anahel is a rare and uncertain angelic name found chiefly in later esoteric and occult lists rather than in the Bible or other major canonical religious scriptures. The spelling is sometimes treated as a variant of Anael…
St. Romanus Of Condat
St. Romanus of Condat was a fifth-century Christian monk and monastic founder associated with the Jura Mountains of eastern Gaul, in the region now forming part of eastern France. Known in French as Saint Romain de Conda…
Anapiel
Anapiel is an obscure angelic name associated with Jewish mystical and angelological traditions. The name is more often written as Anaphiel, Anpiel, or Anafi’el, and the surviving evidence does not establish a single, un…
St. Romaric
Saint Romaric, also known as Romary or Romaricus, was a seventh-century Frankish nobleman who became a monk and an important founder of religious life in the Vosges region of north-eastern Gaul. He is especially associat…
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…
St. Romuald
St. Romuald was an Italian Christian monk, hermit, and reformer who lived from about 951 to 1027. He is best known as the founder of the Camaldolese tradition, a branch of Benedictine monasticism that combines communal r…
Amriel
Amriel is a name associated with an angel in some modern esoteric and occult classifications, especially lists that assign angels to the months of the year. Unlike Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, or other figures with well-es…