...em were believed as the same gods who takes care of the the underworld and the dead. They were described as angry evil spirit.
In Sudovian Book (1520s), Peckols was presented as the god of hell and darkness, while Pockols was said to be an airborne spirit o
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'''Bangpūtys''' is the god of sea and storm in Lithuanian mythology.
...holding a fish in his left hand, a untensil in his right and a rooster on the head.
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...r of the Way, The All-in-One and the One-in-All) The being is said to take the form of a conglomeration of glowing bubbles.
Imagination called up the shocking form of fabulous Yog-Sothoth — only a congeries of iridescent gl
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[[Image:Aegipan.jpg|thumb|Aegipan from the Nurenburg Chronicle, 1493]]
...gipans''' are a mythical tribe of Satyr-like creatures believed to inhabit the Atlas Mountains of North-West Africa.
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...y. They are characterized as a pulling carriage of Saulė (the Sun) through the sky.
...s are associated to Lithuanian Ūsinis and Latvian Ūsiņš (cf. Vedic Ushas), gods of horses.
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...of Naiad. They lived in freshwater lakes. Their parents were river or lake gods.
The number of Limnades includes but is not limited to:
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[[Image:Hermaphroditos.jpg|thumb|Hermaphroditos and the nymph]]
...phroditos''' (or ''Hermaphroditus'') is a son of Hermes and Aphrodite, the gods of male and female sexuality.
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'''Niamh of the Golden Hair''' was a faery princess who loved the bard Oisin and led him away to Tir nan og.
From Lady Gregory's Gods and Fighting Men:
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...tha (Russian: Gafiya). Her existence was mentioned in a list of Lithuanian gods by Jan Łasicki that was published in 1615.
...nce Gabija was the protector of the house, mothers became the protector of the fire.
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...ė''' is the well-known Baltic deity and is also considered as a goddess in the Lithuanian and Latvian mythologies.
...aulė/Saule refers to the conventional name of the Sun that originated from the Proto-Baltic name *Sauliā > *Saulē.
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...lassic Mayan feathered serpent god, closely related to [[Quetzalcoatl]] of the Aztecs.
...origin in the Valley of Mexico; some scholars have equated the deity with the Aztec deity Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl, who was also a creator god.
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...thology, he is known as the god of thunder, rain, mountains, oak trees and the sky.
...rpass Dievas because he is visible and has defined mythological functions. The god of thunder was described as middle-aged, carrying axe and arrows, and r
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...(or "the offspring of hell") of Babylonian theology who can be appeased by the sacrifice of a lamb at their altars.
Inana (or Ishtar) is accompanied by galla(s) as she is on a journey to the underworld.
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...'''Chantico''' ("she who dwells in the house") was the goddess of fires in the family hearth and volcanoes.
Chantico wears a crown of poisonous cactus spikes, and takes the form of a red serpent.
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...ewed as the mother goddess and one of the chief Lithuanian gods. Žemyna is the epitome of fertile earth and her duty includes nourishing of all life on ea
...blessings, and greetings. The bones and other leftovers will be offered to the goddess by burning or burying.
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...er gods. These trouble-making gods are regarded as having come from Samoa. The Tongan word ''tangi lauʻaitu'' means ''to cry from grief, to lament''.
...er. In Tahitian, ''aitu'' (syn. atua/raitu) can mean 'god' or 'spirit'; in other languages, including Rarotongan, Samoan, Sikaiana, Kapingamarangi, Takuu, T
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Io is unfathomably large; it is said the largest dragon who ever lived is smaller than a single one of his scales, w
...nine tails. Like Jazirian, Merrshaulk, and Shekinester, Io is an aspect of the World Serpent archetype.
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'''Ekwensu''' is a Trickster God in the Igbo mythology in Nigeria.
...revered as a God of War and Victory who ruled over the wicked spirits and the chaotic forces of nature. His companion was Death.
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...s described as being so hideous that his presence makes fish boil alive in the rivers.
...ring - born of his union with the mountains themselves. He was defeated by the god Ninurta.
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...acter featured within the famed ancient Chinese novel ''Investiture of the Gods''.
...ji Jing - along with her other fox cohorts - Zhiji Jing would be shown for the first time.
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...sister and wife of the Titan Oceanus, and the mother of the river gods and the Oceanids.
...y him the mother of numerous sons (the river gods) and numerous daughters (the Oceanids).
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...th Laima, another goddess of fate. However, there is a distinction between the two. Laima is concerned in giving predictions on a person’s life while Da
...newborn with a rightful share while Dalia imposed Dievas' will. She takes the form of a woman, lamb, dog, swan, or duck.
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...Aurora, and Vedic Ushas. As the Christianization spread out in Lithuania, the cult adapted Christian image and symbolism of Saint Mary.
...some instances, Saulė was referred as the mother of Aušrinė, Vakarinė and other planets – Indraja (Jupiter), Sėlija (Saturn), Žiezdrė (Mars), Vaivora
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...mythology, a '''dwarf''' is a fairy being that dwells in mountains and in the earth, and is associated with wisdom, smithing, mining, and crafting.
...m'' 'dream' and ''trug'' 'deception'), and comparisons have been made with the Old Indian ''dhvaras'' (a type of demonic being).
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...Bondye'' (''Bon Dieu'', or ''good god''), the Creator, who is distant from the world and humanity.
...ring rituals. Most similar to the veve are the drawings of zemi or gods of the Taino religion.
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...d in a cave, who mothered with her mate [[Typhon]] every major monster in the Greek mythos.
...ts were attacking the vines (Kerenyi 1951, p 51f). Echidna as protector of the vineyard perhaps.
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...y to the West''. He is called "Pigsy" or "Pig" in many English versions of the story.
...kes use of constant alchemical imagery and Bajie is most closely linked to the Wood element, as seen by another one of his nicknames, Mùmǔ (木母, "Woo
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...from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript, shows Loki with his invention - the fishing net.]]
...rch, "the figure of Loki remains obscure; there is no trace of a cult, and the name does not appear in place-names".
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...rtant deities of Nepal, sacred to Hindus and Buddhists alike. According to the Puranas, it was this aspect that severed Brahman's fifth head.
[[Image:Bhairava.jpg|thumb|Bhairava's image in the Durbar Square, Kathmandu]]
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The '''Mi-go''' are a race of extraterrestrials in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] created by H. P. Lovecraft and expanded on by others.
The name was first applied to the creatures in Lovecraft's short story "The Whisperer in Darkness".
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...b|155px|right|Sun Wukong depicted in Yoshitoshi's ''One Hundred Aspects of the Moon'', 1889.]]
...and being imprisoned under a mountain by the Buddha, he later accompanies the monk Xuanzang on a journey to retrieve Buddhist sutras from India.
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...o have played an instrumental role in the fall of Rome. It originates from the [[Book of Imaginary Beings]] by [[Jorge Luis Borges]].
...r light blue in color. Its skin cannot be pierced by any known weapon, and the creatures themselves are invulnerable and possibly immortal, or at least ve
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..., in [[:Category: Slavic mythology|Slavic mythology]], the wild old woman; the [[witch]]; and mistress of magic. She is also seen as a forest spirit, lead
...áба-Ягá''; Bulgarian uses ''Баба Яга'' and Ukrainian, ''Баба Яґа''; all of the last three are transliterated as ''Baba Yaga''.
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prized by Enlil, the Great Kur,
king, who turned out the mes-tree in the Abzu,
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...as a giant huntsman in Greek mythology whom Zeus placed among the stars as the constellation of Orion.
...us consented and, as a memorial to the hero's death, added the Scorpion to the heavens as well.
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...f a bull and the body of a man or, conversely, with the body of a bull and the head of a man.
...orical site of Knossos is usually identified as the site of the labyrinth. The Minotaur was eventually killed by Theseus.
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...n Sumerian mythology, among other things. ''Cthulhu'' is often preceded by the title ''Great'' or ''Dread''.
...ocal apparatus can come to reproducing the syllables of an alien language. Other possible pronunciations include ''k-Thoo-Loo''.
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...d his retinue find the sleeping Ariadne whom Theseus has just abandoned on the island of Naxos. ]]
...ociated with the Italic '''Liber'''), the Thracian God of wine, represents the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficent influences.
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Similarly to the other [[cryptid]]s, no one has produced proof of the existence of reptilian humanoids, and allegations of their existence can at
...mmon are the myths of "Serpents of Wisdom" who enlightened humanity before the dawn of civilization; but it has been noted by mythologists that here "serp
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...the head, beak and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion and occasionally the tail of a serpent.
...to modern day lions. The oldest and strongest male used to be the head of the group.
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...nt spellings in Haiti; '''Vudu''' in the Dominican Republic) is applied to the branches of a West African ancestor-based [[Spiritism|spiritist]]-[[Animism
...Lemba (originally a cult practiced among the Bakongo) is as widespread as the West African elements, but has largely been overlooked by North Americans.
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...e '''devil'''. For the Christian devil, see [[Devil in Christianity]], for the Islamic devil, see [[Iblis]].''
[[Image:Michael Pacher 004.jpg|thumb|right|''Saint Wolfgang and the Devil'' by Michael Pacher.]]
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...ng it in 1967 and 1969 to the final ''El libro de los seres imaginarios''. The English edition, created in collaboration with translator Norman Thomas di
...the shifting patterns of a kaleidoscope"; and that "legends of men taking the shapes of animals" have been omitted.
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...n modern fantasy literature and role-playing games, trolls are featured to the extent of being stock characters.
The meaning of the word ''troll'' is uncertain. It might have had the originally meaning of ''supernatural'' or ''Magic'' with an overlay of ''ma
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...Spriggans, Welsh Knockers, Cornish Knockers, German Kobolds and Wichtlein, the Irish Phooka and even Shakespeare's infamous Puck .
...to some traditions, ''goblin'' comes from ''Gob'' or ''Ghob'', the king of the [[gnome|gnomes]], whose inferiors were called ''Ghob-lings''.
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...although these fictional depictions often do not bear much resemblance to the original mythology.
The word “Wendigo” (pronounced wehn-dee-go) comes from the Native American Algonquian language, meaning “evil spirit that devours ma
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'''Anansi''' (/əˈnɑːnsi/ ə-nahn-see) the trickster is the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore.
...He is also known as Ananse, Kwaku Ananse, Kweku Ananse, and Anancy; and in the southern United States he has evolved into Aunt Nancy. He is a spider, but
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