Inanna is an important goddess of the ancient Near East...

Inanna is the icon of love and fertility and warfare.

Inanna is the daughter of either the sky god Anu or the storm god Enlil, or the moon-god Nanna.

She is also associated with forces of nature such as rain and thunderstorms...

In a legend probably dating from the end of the third millennium b.c.e., we find an explanation for her association with the me, the sources of Sumerian civilized order inherent originally in the primal waters, the Mother goddess Nammu.

The me include, for example, ritual, priesthood, political power, security, crafts, animal husbandry, agriculture, sexual behavior, family, and decision making.

Inanna, lacking any particular office or function among the gods, decides to visit the crafty Enki in the abzu at his home in Eridu with the intention of stealing the powerful elements of the me.

The legend in question probably was enacted in a festival or cult drama, one type of which was the journey drama in which a deity traveled ritually from his or her home city to the city of another god, especially to Enki at Eridu, where great power was stored and could be obtained as a boon.

It seems that after Inanna's gaining of the me and her becoming one of the four most important deities—truly a queen of heaven—she has yet to fulfill her destiny as a goddess of erotic love and fertility...

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Inanna is portrayed as a fickle person who first attracts men and then rejects them.

She is depicted as richly dressed goddess or as a naked woman.

Her symbol is the eight-pointed star...

Inanna is the Sumerian counterpart of the Semitic goddess Ishtar.

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Aatxe means "calf" in Basque.

In Basque folklore, Aatxe is a demonic shapeshifting spirit that takes the form of a bull and occasionally a human. He is a master shape-shifter but favors the appearance of a red bull or a bull-shape of fire.

The latter emerges at night, especially in stormy weather, from his cave dwelling in the Basque mountains.

Aatxe comes from the underground world of Euskal Herria. He haunts the caves and gorges of the Pyrenees Mountains...

On stormy nights, Aatxe rises out of his lair and attacks criminals and other evil people...

He also protects people by making them stay home when danger is near...

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Dumuzi is the Sumerian god of vegetation and fertility, and also of the underworld...

Dumuzi means "faithful or true son" in Sumerian...

In the Sumerian Descent of Inanna he is the consort of the goddess Inanna...

According to the Sumerian King-List Gilgamesh was descended from 'Dumuzi a shepherd'.

Dumuzi was originally a mortal ruler whose marriage to Inanna ensured the fertility of the land and the fecundity of the womb...

This marriage, however, according to a legend whose denouncement has only recently come to light, ended in stark tragedy when the goddess, offended by her husband's unfeeling behavior toward her, decreed that he be carried off to the netherworld for six months of each year-hence the barren, sterile months of the hot summer.

At the autumnal equinox, which marked the beginning of the Sumerian new year, Dumuzi returned to the earth...

His reunion with his wife caused all animal and plant life to be revitalized and made fertile once again...

In Babylonia, the month Tammuz was established in honor of the eponymous god Tammuz, who originated as a Sumerian shepherd-god...

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Nerio is a goddess of war in Roman folklore...

Very little is known about her, and the ancients themselves were doubtful as to the correct form of her name...

Although this goddess did not play a significant role in legend, she was important enough in Roman pantheon to be honored with her own temple...

It is thought thet Nerio is Mars's consort.She is sometimes identified with Minerva...

Nerio personifies valour and bravery in life and war...

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Dagon is the Mesopotamian (Assyro-Babylonian) god of agriculture in Biblical times.

The god of farming was the father of no less than the king of gods, Baal Hadad, and was, insofar as the deity takes care of the crops, a fertility god.

Dagon is also associated with the Philistines, fertility, vegetation, and military strength...

The image of Dagon is a debated issue. The notion that Dagon was a god whose upper body was that of a man and the lower body that of a fish has been prevalent for decades.

This idea may stem from a linguistic error in translating a derivative of the Semitic 'dag.' The word 'dagan' actually means 'corn' or 'cereal'.

The name 'Dagon' itself dates back to at least 2500 BCE, and is most probably a derivative of a word from a dialect of the Semitic tongue.

This notion that Dagon was represented in iconography and statuary as part fish in Philistia proper is not supported entirely by coins found in Phoenician and Philistine cities.

In fact, there is no evidence in the archaeological record to support the theory that Dagon was thusly represented.

Whatever the image, a varying perception of Dagon developed around the Mediterranean...

Dagon, after he discovered corn and the plough, was called Arotrios, Philos of Byblos...

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Rheia, the daughter of Gaia and Uranus, the Titanis mother of the gods, and a goddess of female fertility, motherhood, and generation.

Her name means "flow" and "ease".

Rhea was seen by the classical Greeks as the mother of the Olympian gods and goddesses, though never dwelling permanently among them on Mount Olympus.

As the wife of Kronos (Time), she represented the eternal flow of time and generations ; as the great mother (Meter Megale), the "flow" was menstrual blood, birth waters, and milk.

She was also a goddess of comfort and ease, a blessing reflected in the common Homeric phrase "the gods who live at their ease (rhea)."...

Her children are her children are Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus.

Cronus, jealous of the future power of his children and to secure his dominion, ate his own children but Rhea managed to rescue one son, Zeus.

She hid him in the Dictean Cave in Crete and gave Cronus a stone wrapped in the clothes of the infant, which he swallowed.

Cybele is her Asia-minor counterpart.

Rhea is depicted between two lions or on a chariot pulled by lions...

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See Uranus:

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Haumia Tiketike, the son of Rangi and Papa, is the god of uncultivated food, i.e. wild berries and roots, wild plant, and fernroot, a staple food of the Māori; the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealando.

Haumia contrasts with his brother Rongo, the god of the kūmara and all cultivated plants...

Haumia agreed to the forced separation of his parents. Because of this he was subjected to the fury of his brother Tāwhirimātea, god of winds and storms, who would have killed him if their mother had not hidden him in her body, that is, in the ground. While he escaped from Tāwhirimātea, he was later discovered by Tū, god of war, who saw Haumia's hair sticking up out of the earth...

Haumia is particularly associated with fernroot or aruhe, the starchy rhizome of the bracken fern Pteridium esculentum, which formed a major element of the Māori diet in former times...

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The term is generally used in reference to elf-like creatures, including fairies, and similar beings (although not earth beings), but can also signify various spiritual beings, including ghosts.

In Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl books, sprites are a race of fairies with green skin and wings.

In The Spiderwick Chronicles, sprites are creatures that resemble insects or flowers.

The word "sprite" is derived from the Latin "spiritus" (spirit).

Variations on the term include "spright" (the origin of the adjective "sprightly", meaning "spirited" or "lively") and the Celtic "spriggan".

The term is chiefly used in regard to elves and fairies in European folklore, and in modern English is rarely used in reference to spirits or other legendary creatures...

At night the insect-like sprites' bodies give off a faint glow that can have them mistaken for fireflies, which, along with other flying insects and small birds, they are fond of riding.

Sprites can also cause plants to bloom in the middle of Winter and are the nurturers of the strange fruits that faeries delight in.

In forests with sprites, it is possible to find the hollowed-out acorns they use as cups; dandelion-tuft mattresses, and hats made from folded leaves...

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See the Kobold:

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Oynyena Maria in Slavonic and Polish folklore is the "Fiery Mary," a fire goddess who assists and counsels the thunder god Piorun...

Oynyena Maria may have been a fire goddess who later became submerged by Piorun...

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Ymir (pronounced “EE-meer", meaning Scream) is an old Norse hermaphroditic giant and the first creature to come into being in the Norse creation narrative... He is the ancestor of all jötnar (Jötunn).

According to the medieval Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson, Ymir was born when fire from Muspelheim and ice from Niflheim met in the abyss of Ginnungagap.

Ymir was suckled by the primeval cow Auðhumbla, and several other giants spontaneously sprang from his sweat..

Ymir grew so large and so evil until his two brothers, Vili and Vé, who are generally considered to be hypostases (extensions or alternate versions) of Odin, slew the primordial giant (Ymir). The blood that flowed from Ymir's wound was so great that almost all the frost giants drowned in the torrent.

Only the frost giants Bergelmer and his wife escape the flood in a chest, arriving on the mountain of Jötunheim (Jotunheim), which became the home of the giants...

As one of the poems in the Poetic Edda, Grímnismálor “Song of the Hooded One,” words it:

From Ymir’s flesh the earth was created,
And from his sweat [or, in some versions, blood] the sea,
Mountains from bone,
Trees from hair,
And from his skull the sky.

And from his eyebrows the blithe gods made
Midgard, home of the sons of men
And from his brains
They sculpted the grim clouds.

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Breo Saighead, or the "Fiery Arrow or Power," is a Celtic three-fold goddess, the daughter of The Dagda, and the wife of Bres.

Known by many names, Brighid's three aspects are:

(1) Fire of Inspiration as patroness of poetry...

(2) Fire of the Hearth, as patroness of healing and fertility...

(3) Fire of the Forge, as patroness of smithcraft and martial arts...

She is mother to the craftsmen. Sons of Tuireann: Creidhne, Luchtaine and Giobhniu...

Excalibur, King Arthur's sword, was forged by the Lady of the Lake, a figure sometimes associated with Brighid because of her fire and forgery aspect...

Like the Arthurian Avalon, or "Isle of Apples," Brigid possessed an apple orchard in the Otherworld to which bees traveled to obtain it's magickal nectar...

The Romans equated Brigantia with Minerva, a goddess of war, wisdom and crafts. There is evidence of this from a statue at Birrens in Dumfriesshire which shows her with Minerva’s symbol of the Gorgon’s head on her breast, a mural crown, a spear and the globe of victory.

Brigid, which means "one who exaults herself," is Goddess of the Sacred Flame of Kildare (derived from "Cill Dara," which means "church of the oak") and often is considered to be the White Maiden aspect of the Triple Goddess...

Today, many places in the British Isles bear her name. As “Brigantia” she gave her name to the Celtic lands of the North of England. Rivers are also named after her including, Afon (River) Braint, the longest river on Ynys Mon (Anglesey); Brent, London; and Brue, Somerset.

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Asteria, the daughter of the Titan Coeus and Phoebe, is the Titan goddess of the oracles and prophecies of night, including prophetic dreams, the reading of the stars (astrology), and necromancy.

She is the mother of the goddess Hekate by Perses (the Destroyer).

After the fall of the Titanes, Asteria was pursued by the god Zeus.

She fled his advances, transforming herself into a quail (ortux) and leaping into the sea (or the island which had fallen from heaven like a star), afterwards called Delos.

Her sister Leto later sought refuge on the isle and there gave birth to her son Apollon.

Asteria appears in Athenian vase-painting alongside the other Delian gods--Apollon, Artemis and Leto.

She is often labelled as "Delos."

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Portumnus, in Roman folklore, is originally the god of gates and doors (Lat. porta), and as such identified with Janus and represented with a key in his hand.

He is also assoiated with keys, livestock, fords and possibly warehouses...

With the introduction of the Greek gods, he became conflated with Palaemon, and evolved into a god primarily of ports and harbors...

Portumnes can appear as a man (possibly two-headed) with a key in his hand.

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The Amazons are a nation of women dwelling near the river Thermodon in Greek folklore... Other historiographers place them in Asia Minor,or more often Ancient Libyē.

They are, as a race, regarded as children of Ares and Harmonia.

The Amazons, described in the Iliad as "antianeirai", meaning: those who go to war like men, were about the Thermodon river were in their full vigour a little before the Trojan war...

The name Amazon is believed to descend from the word amazoi which in Greek means "breast less". They cultivated the manly virtues and pinched off the right breasts of all females so that they might not be hindered by them in throwing the javelin.

But they kept the left breasts so that they might suckle, as they gave birth to children through normal intercourse with the other gender...

Historically, Amazons were portrayed as beautiful women in Amazonomachies, which was an artform showing battles between the Amazons and Greeks.

Normally seen on horseback, the Amazons wore armor made of animal skins and carried either a bow or spear.

An Amazon warrior possessed the strength of a man and was as savage as a wild animal, but she was especially dangerous because she had reason and cunning.

Amazons were trained to use all weapons and especially in single combat. They were honorable, courageous, brave and represented rebellion against sexism.

The legend tells of the Amazons invading Attica to take back their queen, and on reaching Athens a great battle took place, but the Athenians were glorious.

This scene has been depicted in art by the Greeks in many forms, but probably the most famous are the architectural marble carvings from the Parthenon sculpture (Amazonomachy).

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(Sorath M. l, p. 637) The fire is also a great purifier. It purifles the metal.

Agni is one of the three chief gods in the Rig Veda.

Agni personifies fire; (Sanskrit: “Fire”).

He is one of the 8 Vasus, some say. Son of Kasyapa and Aditi or of Dyaus and Prithivi. Son of Urvashi, some say. Brother of Mara. Husband of Ambi or Agnayi. Father of Agneyi. Father of Subrahmanya by Svaha.

The fire altar was orientated towards the East, the direction of sunrise, the ever new beginning...

As the bestower of immortality and the cleanser from sin after death, Agni acts as a mediator between gods and men...

Agni is depicted as having exhausted his vigour by consuming too many oblations, he renewed his strength in consuming the Khandava forest, with the assistance of Krishna and Arjuna and in defiance of Indra...

No longer the object of a separate cult Agni is invoked by Hindu lovers and by men for virility...

When Agni is described in anthropomorphic form, he sometimes has two faces which are smeared with butter.

He sometimes appears with seven fiery tongues and sharpened, golden teeth. He is red in color, with black eyes and wild, black hair.

He has seven arms and three legs, and seven rays of light emanate from his body. He either rides on a ram, or on a chariot, pulled by goats or sometimes parrots...

'Wonderful is the fire which works wonders.' (Var Asa M. l, p. 464)

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Nagual or Nahual (both pronounced [na'wal]) is a human being who has the power to magically turn him- or herself into an animal form, most commonly donkeys, turkeys, and dogs, but also other and more powerful animals such as the jaguar and puma...

Such a Nagual is believed to use his powers for good or evil according to his personality...

Specific beliefs vary, but the general concept of nagualism is pan-Mesoamerican...

Nagualism is linked with pre-Columbian shamanistic practices through Preclassic Olmec depictions which are interpreted as humans transforming themselves into animals...

The system is linked with the Mesomerican calendrical system, used for divination rituals...

The birth date often determines if a person will be a Nagual. Mesoamerican belief in tonalism, wherein all humans have an animal counterpart to which their life force is linked, is also part of the definition of nagualism.

"Another legend of Mexico is "The Nahuales." This folktale is told from the viewpoint of a young man who heard the story from his uncle. It is about Nahuales, a people capable of morphing into animals like pigs, burros, and chickens in order to capture other animals.

A man delivering wood walks down the road and encounters a burro carrying a pig. He tells his companion that he will take the burro. As he neared the animal, he notices that the burro had no tail and the pig was unsecured on the animals back. When the man beats the burro, it speaks to him, admonishing the man to stop hitting him...

The man realizes that he has, in fact, come across a Nahuales.

The man delivers his wood and returns to the animals, bearing fried pork and fried pig skin for them to eat..."

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In English the word is often translated as "transforming witch," but translations without the negative connotations of the word witch would be "transforming trickster" or "shape shifter".

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Compare with:

*Werecat (Still werejaguar is a werecat):

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*Werehyena:

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*Wererat:

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Anapos is the river-god of eastern Sikelia (Sicily).

When Anapos opposed the kidnapping of Persephone along with the nymph Cyane, Hades turned them into a river (the river Anapo in southern Sicily) and a fountain...

The River Anapos flowed into the Mediterranean Sea near the Greek colony of Syrakousa.

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Ereshkigal is the "queen of darkness" in Sumerian folklore...

In Sumerian cosmogony, she is originally a sky goddess,  who was carried off by force to the  Sumerian Underworld by the dragon, Kur, and there enthroned as its lady...

Her world is a place of shadows and dust, a place where the the spirits of of the dead huddle in the darkness...

Ereshkigal rules over the magical arts, secret knowledge, and oracles. She was also the sister of the well known goddess, Inanna...

Ereshkigal was carried away to the underworld when heaven and earth separated. Although sisters, Ereshkigal and Ishtar were enemies, this representing the conflict of life versus death.

A conflict escalatd between the two sisters. This animosity caused the famous legend where Ereshkigal catches Inanna in the underworld, not releasing her until she sacrifices her husband Tammuz.

In another version of this legend, Tammuz rests with Ereshkigal half the year, the other half he is together with Inanna/Ishtar...

In early legends, her husband is Ninazu, later it is Nergal. Her son was Namtar, the demon (or god) of death.

Ereshkigal forced Nergal to become her consort, threatening to kill all life on earth if he didn't agree. Together, the two ruled the underworld...

It is written in the ancient Sumerian scripts that:

The pure Ereshkigal herself upon her throne,

The Annunake, the seven judges, pronounced judges, pronounce judgment before her,

They fastened their eyes upon her, they eyes of death.

At their word, the word which tortures the spirit...

The sick woman was turned into a corpse,

The corpse was hung from a stake…

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See Damuzi:

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 Hebat is the Hurrian mother goddess of beauty, fertility and royalty, and probably sun. She is the wife of the supreme god Teshub, and the mother of Sharrumas. She may be identical to the sky-goddess Hepit. 

The mother goddess is likely to have had a later counterpart in the Phrygian goddess Cybele.

 Hebat is sometimes depicted with a lion... 

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Coyote is a Trickster Figure and a symbol in Native American Culture and oral tradition...

The Coyote based on the coyote (Canis latrans) animal. This character is usually male and is generally anthropomorphic although he may have some coyote-like physical features such as fur, pointed ears, yellow eyes, a tail and claws.

He is a ubiquitous being and can be categorized in many types. He has also the ability of the transformer: in some stories he is a handsome young man; in others he is an animal; yet others present him as just a power, a sacred one...

The legends which include Coyote vary widely from culture to culture...

Among the Pueblo tribes, the coyote was believed to have hunting medicine. Zuni hunters kept stone effigies of coyotes as one of their six hunting fetishes, associating coyotes with the west and the color blue.

In many Wasco legends, Coyote rivals the Raven (Crow) about the same ordeal: in some stories, Multnomah Falls came to be by Coyote's efforts; in others, it is done by Raven.

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More often than not Coyote is a trickster, but he is always different.

In some stories, he is a noble trickster,

"Coyote takes water from the Frog people... because it is not right that one people have all the water."...

In others, he is mean, "Coyote determined to bring harm to Duck. He took Duck's wife and children, whom he treated badly...."...

“A Trickster is a mischievous or roguish figure in myth or folklore who typically makes up for physical weakness with cunning and subversive humor.

The Trickster alternates between cleverness and stupidity, kindness and cruelty, deceiver and deceived, breaker of taboos and creator of culture.”

The website “American Passages - Unit 8. Regional Realism: Context Activities” has this to say to add to the discussion of a Trickster definition:

“Characterized by paradox, duality, cleverness, shape-shifting, duplicity, and a knack for survival, trickster figures are appealing in their ability to assert their individuality and shatter boundaries and taboos…

Native American trickster tales are similarly interested in the inversion of social norms and the breaking of boundaries; their tales of Coyote and other supernatural characters celebrate the trickster as simultaneously vulgar and sacred, wise and foolish, but always surviving…

The identity of the trickster continues to resonate in Native American culture today…Coyote embodies the duality and flexibility of contemporary Indian culture, figuring both resistance and strategic accommodation to Euro-American culture.”

In Native American lore, Coyote was a fire-bringer and teacher, much like Prometheus in Classical Greek mythology. Tribe after tribe told tales of Coyote stealing fire from hostile beings for the benefit of humanity. In one tale, originally from the Karuk tribe of northern California, Coyote steals fire from the Three Fire Beings (called the Yellowjacket Sisters in some versions). He then passes the fire off to various other animals in a sort of impromptu relay-race to stay ahead of the angry fire beings, until the fire is trapped in a tree or piece of wood. Coyote then teaches humans how to make fire by rubbing two sticks together.

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