Hapi (not Hapi son of Horus) is a deification of the annual flooding (inundation) of the Nile River in Ancient Egyptian folklore...

His name means Running One, probably referring to the current of the Nile.

He is typically depicted as a bearded man coloured blue or green with a large belly wearing a loincloth, having long hair and having pendulous, female-like breasts...

The annual flooding of the Nile occasionally was said to be the Arrival of Hapi...

It may be the case that originally, Hapi (or a variation on it), was an earlier name used for the Nile itself, since it was said (inaccurately) that the Nile began between Mu-Hapi and Kher-Hapi, at the southern edge of Egypt where the two tributaries entered the region (its sources are two lakes, one of which is Lake Victoria).

Nevertheless Hapi was not regarded as the god of the Nile itself but of the inundation event.

He was also considered a friend of Geb and Neper...

One of the oldest references to Hapi is in the Pyramid Texts of Unas. Hapi (here called Hep) is linked to the Nome of Kenset (including the First Cataract and the islands of Elephantine, Sahel, Philae, and others) and to (Wepwawet (the opener of the ways)...

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Hygieia, one of the daughters of Asklepios (Asclepius) and granddaughter of Apollo, played an important role in the cult of Asklepios as a giver of health...

She is often identified with health, sanitation and hygiene in Greek folklore...

She was sometimes called The Health...

In classical sculpture she was represented as a woman holding a large serpent in her arms...

In the Greek legends, Hygeia has a lineage full of ‘the healer’ archetypes.

Some say, that in contemporary times, Hygeia signifies the herbalist, the nurse, and the holistic health practitioners...

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The legend of Pan tells of a god born with goat legs and feet,
horns, and a furry human upper body.

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because of his appearance, and so Pan left Olympus, and went to
live in Arcadia.

There, he spent his time chasing lovely nymphs,
and playing on his pipes.

Pan (the son of Hermes and a nymph) is a god of flocks, forests and
fields, of mountain wilds, hunting, rustic music, and companion of the nymphs. He is often associated with Nature in general.

At times,
he would stamp his foot in anger, and cause a "panic" among mortals.

Pan became especially enamoured of a water nymph, or naiad, named
Syrinx.

He pursued her, but she escaped him by fleeing to a river,
where she was changed to a stand of reeds.

Pan finally took some of
these, and fashioned the instrument known as "Pan's pipes", on which
he played to console himself.

Pan is considered to be the cause of the sudden fear that sometimes comes for no reason, especially in lonely places. That's why it's called "panic".

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Frigg “The Beloved”sometimes Anglicized as “Frigga,” is the highest-ranking of the Aesir goddesses in Norse folklore...

(Aesir are warrior deities of the sky who lived in Asgard).

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She’s the wife of Odin, the chief of gods, the queen of Asgar, and the mother of Baldur...

Frigg is the goddess of love and fertility as well as the patron of marriage and motherhood, and hence shares common factors with Freya...

She was known as a 'seer', one who knew the future though she could never change it...

Frigga's youth isn't spoken of in the Viking folklore, but it does mention that Frigga is first among Odin's wives and she is considered his equal and opposite in many ways...

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In ancient times the end of the Winter Solstice, when the hours of sunlight began to lengthen, marked the beginning of the new year and was a time to think of new possibilities that would unfold.

Frigga was the goddess associated with the beginning of each new year.

New Year's eve, the longest night of the year, is called "Mother Night" in Northern Europe for it was in the darkness of that night that the goddess Frigga labored to give birth to Baldur who was so pleasant and 'radiant' was beloved of all the gods. 

The blessing of Frigga is still invoked for birthing women with a white candle that last burned during the winter solstice being used as a charm to ensure a safe delivery...

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Lamashtu is a hideous she-demonic-vampire in the Akkadian-Babylonian, Mesopotamian folklore...

Unlike other demonic entities of Mesopotamian lore, Lamashtu is indicated to have acted of her own volition, not ordered by other beings, signifying that she was probably a demigoddess of her own right...

Lamashtu is daughter of Anu...

Lamashtu is depicted as a mythological hybrid, with a hairy body, a lioness' head with donkey's teeth and ears, long fingers and fingernails, and the feet of a bird with sharp talons...

She is  well known for her bottomless hunger for the little noobs, and often shown standing or kneeling on a donkey, nursing a pig and a dog, and holding snakes.

Her herald is the Yethazamari, a winged jackal with a snake’s tail and empty eye sockets that emit smoke...

She thus bears some functions and resemblance to the Mesopotamian demon Lilith.

Lamashtu herself, while not rehabilitated, has been repackaged in the form of a Dungeons and Dragons character. She’s still evil and chaotic, though...

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For 4,000 years the highly seductive yet destructive Lilith has wandered the earth, figuring in the mythic imaginations of writers, artists and poets...

Her dark origins lie in Babylonian demonology, where amulets and incantations were used to counter the sinister powers of this winged spirit who preyed on pregnant women and infants. Lilith next migrated to the world of the ancient Hittites, Egyptians, Israelites and Greeks...

The ancient name “Lilith” derives from a Sumerian word for female demons or wind spirits—the lilītu and the related ardat lilǐ.

The lilītu dwells in desert lands and open country spaces...

Her breasts are filled with poison, not milk...

The ardat lilī is a sexually frustrated and infertile female who behaves aggressively toward young men.

Lilith makes a solitary appearance in the Bible, as a wilderness vampiric demonness shunned by the prophet Isaiah...

In the Renaissance, Michelangelo portrayed Lilith as a half-woman, half-serpent, coiled

around the Tree of Knowledge.

In most manifestations of her myth, Lilith represents chaos, seduction and ungodliness. Yet, in her every guise, Lilith has cast a spell on humankind...

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Then, like slippery oral art, like slips of the tongue, creation stories about men, women, and diwata—a god or spirit in Philippine folklore—are made up and told again and again...

Diwatas [possibly a form of Devata (Sanskrit)] are similar to Western fairies or nymphs, possessing supernatural powers...

Diwatas are avatars of Nature, which, as an active and potent force, may either bring good or evil...

Diwata inhabits many temporalities...

Diwatas live in trees, caves, hills and mountains, and streams and lakes.

They do harm to those who trespass within their premises while showing good  favors on folks whom they perceive to be good of heart. However, more simply many believe diwatas are the guardian spirits of nature.

The deep time of myth and folklore in Diwata is not static; rather, it is like static, a kind of oracular interference that sharpens the reader’s awareness of acts of wounding as well as acts of resistance performed during Philippines’ colonization...

These retellings of legends and folk tales become a modality through which ahistory is rendered into history, history itself is investigated, and variations of diwatas, their quarries, and their hunters are revealed as inhabiting multiple narrative, linguistic, and cultural sites...

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Pallas is the Greek titan-god of warcraft and the campaign season of late spring and early summer...

He is the son of Crius and Eurybia , the husband os Styx and the father of Victory (Nike), Rivalry...; children who turned to the side of Zeus during the Titan-War...

He is also the father of the famous Nike...

Pallas' name was derived from the Greek word pallô meaning "to brandish (a spear)."

Pallas was killed by Athena in the contest to fight for Zeus...

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Cecrops is a legendary king of Athens who is said to have reigned for fifty six years.

The name is not of Greek origin according to Strabo[1], or it might mean 'face with a tail': it is said that, born from the earth itself, he had his top half shaped like a man and the bottom half in serpent or fish-tail form...

He was the founder and the first king of Athens itself, which he is said to have founded, though preceded in the region by the earth-born king Actaeus of Attica. Cecrops was a culture hero, teaching the Athenians marriage, reading and writing, and ceremonial burial...

During his reign, Athena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens in a competition with Poseidon.

The two raced ferociously towards the Acropolis. It was a very close race, but Athena, as judged by Cecrops, won.

As evidence of her victory she planted an olive tree. Poseidon arrived moments later, struck the acropolis with his trident and thereby created a "salt sea. But Athena had already won, and the city was hers.

The Acropolis was also known as the Cecropia in his honor. The Athenians are said to have called themselves Cecropidæ, during the reigns of the five following kings, in his honor...

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Shapash is the Phoenician (Ugaritic)/Canaanite sun-goddess, daughter of El and Asherah, called the "Torch of the gods", or "Pale Shapash".

The goddess of the sun is frequently dispatched on errands by El or Anat, acting as their messenger or herald.

Much like Hermes, the Greek messenger-god, She is also a psychopomp who leads souls into or out of the Underworld.

The idea of the Sun as a traveller to the Underworld is known from other cultures such as Egypt, where in their legends the Sun journeys each night through the land of the dead (or the back/dark side of the world) to emerge once more in the East...

Shapash helps Anath in her retrieval of the dead husband Baal and intervenes in the final conflict between Baal and Mot...

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Like Her daughter 'Um Pachal, Shapash can cure the venom of snake bites, which is compared to the darkness or mists that the rising sun dispells...

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Mara is the master magician of illusion, became in Buddhist legends the Evil One.

Because the Buddha delivers men from desire, birth, and death, the demon Mara was his special enemy, and thus his tempter as well as those who would follow his law...

Threatened by Enlightenment, the powerful demon committed his entire strength to the capture of the Gautama's mind, but below the outstretched branches of the Bo Tree the meditating sage sat unmoved....

Assailed by the forces of Mara, the Buddha simply touched the earth with the tips of his fingers, whereupon there was a tremendous roar of approbation and the gods descended to pay their homage...

Though defeated and shamed, Mara is said to linger in the world, hoping to seize the souls of the dying...

In Hinduism, Mara is the divine embodiment of disease and dangerous sensuality. I

Also, in Indian folklore, Kama and Mara are the two sides of existence: the desire for life and the fear of death—the tasty bait and the keen hook. These two powers rule the world of the unawakened, those beguiled by maya.

To escape from this non-enlightenment the Buddha preached his doctrine, which was called yana, a vehicle, a ferry to the other shore, where spiritual ignorance no longer held sway...

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Tales of little people have been recorded throughout the ages in every culture, in every country around the globe. One race of them is the mysterious Menehune of Hawaii...

Reports of a little race called the Menehune (pronounced men-ah-hoonie) can be traced back in the Hawaiian records many hundreds of years.

The Mnehune are said to be a people, sometimes described as dwarfs in size, who live in the deep forests and hidden valleys of the Hawaiian Islands, far from the eyes of normal humans.

Their favorite food is the maiʻa (banana), but they also like fish...

Although the origins of these diminutive Polynesian folk have been a matter of considerable debate within Hawaiian researcher's circles, most agree that one of the following three versions is the most likely:

The Kauai Menehune Version

The Oahu Menehune Version

The Forced Migration of the Menehune

If you travel to Hawaii in the future - especially the garden island of Kauai - you might seek out the former "hobbit" habitats of the fabled Menehune.

The ancient walls and trails that still remain could be markers from the mists, signposts along meandering pathways that lead back to a once great civilization inhabiting a lost continent that sunk to a watery grave eons before our recorded history began...

The little ones are fond of dancing, and singing, and of sports, such as shooting arrows.

Sometimes they use magic arrows, to pierce the heart of angry persons, and make them feel love instead.

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In Greek folklore, Scylla is a sea monster who lived underneath a dangerous rock at one side of the Strait of Messia, opposite the Charybdis.The latter is

the whirlpool who lived in a cave at one side of the Strait of Messina, opposite the Scylla.

Scylla was a nymph, daughter of Phorcys. The fisherman-turned-sea-god Glaucus fell madly in love with her, but she fled from him onto the land where he could not follow. Despair filled his heart.

He went to the sorceress Circe to ask for a love potion to melt Scylla's heart. As he told his tale of love to Circe, she herself fell in love with him.

She wooed him with her sweetest words and looks, but the sea-god would have none of her.

Circe was furiously angry, but with Scylla and not with Glaucus. She prepared a vial of very powerful poison and poured it in the pool where Scylla bathed.

As soon as the nymph entered the water she was transformed into a frightful monster with twelve feet and six heads, each with three rows of teeth. Below the waist her body was made up of hideous monsters, like dogs, who barked unceasingly.

She stood there in utter misery, unable to move, loathing and destroying everything that came into her reach...

Charybdis was once a nymph-daughter of Poseidon and Gaia who flooded lands for her father's underwater kingdom until Zeus turned her into a monster and have her suck in and out water three times an day...

Both  Scylla and Charybdis form a dangerous threat to passing ships...A peril to all sailors who passed nearby...

To be “between Scylla and Charybdis” means to be caught between two equally unpleasant alternatives....

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For the Slavs Vesna is the goddess of spring and and awakening.

She is also associated with youth.

Vesna was a very popular goddess among people because she replaced winter and death that is Morena...

Vesna wore the green fields, the meadows, nice weather, favorable to life and work...

The Slavs celebrated spring because it won winter and announced the summer season...

As spring symbolized the beginning of a beautiful season, when it bloomed, the nature awoke, all was reborn and renewed life, Vesna had her role as a goddess of youth...

Vesna is beautiful and powerful and around her the wonderful scent spread.

In addition to beauty, she is also attributed to the power of the Sun, without which she could not get spring.

Vesna was never alone.She was always accompanied by Gerovit, who watched her constantly, and Stribog, god of wind and air...

Vesna is also a symbol of victory....

Hardly a trace has been preserved of her in Slovenian tradition, but many elements point to her...

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Seshat is the Ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing.

She was the daughter of Nut and Geb, her siblings included Osiris, Isis and Seth.

In Ancient Egyptian folklore there are confusing accounts as to whether Thoth was her brother or her husband...

She is seen as a scribe and record keeper, and her name means she who scrivens (i.e. she who is the scribe), and is credited with inventing writing. She also became identified as the goddess of architecture, astronomy, astrology, building, mathematics, and surveying...

Mistress of the House of Books is another title for Seshat, being the goddess  whose priests oversaw the library in which scrolls of the most important knowledge was assembled and spells were preserved.

Usually, she is also shown holding a palm stem, carrying notches to denote the recording of the passage of time.On her head she wears her headress which resembles a star or flower atop a pole or a bow...

She is frequently dressed in a leopard-skin, a symbol of funerary priests, because the pattern of the skin represents the stars, both a symbol of eternity, and associated with the moon. In this context, she seemed to have associations with Anubis...

Seshat assisted the pharaoh in the stretching the cord ritual.

This ritual is related to laying out the foundations of temples and other important structures in order to determine and assure the sacred alignments and the precision of the dimensions...

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The tiāngoǔ is a legendary creature from China.

Chinese literature assigns this creature a variety of descriptions, but most often it is a fierce and anthropophageous canine monster that resembles a shooting star or comet...

One plausible theory is that the Chinese derived its name from a destructive meteor that hit China sometime in the 6th century BC...

The tiangou makes a noise like thunder and brings war wherever it falls...

Zhang Xian (Zhāng Xiān) is the enemy of the tiangou.

It is said that he protects his children from the fierce being with his bow and arrows. He is often depicted aiming at the sky, waiting for the beast to appear...

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