The name ‘Yowie’ is the rather affectionate term for an unidentified hominid reputed to stalk the Australian wilderness...

Yowie is native to the Australian Aboriginal folklore.

This Australian cryptid is similar to the Himalayan Yeti and the North American Bigfoot...

The Yowie is said to be a bizarre, hybrid beast, sometimes with big red eyes on the side of his head, big canine teeth and large fangs.

It emerges from the ground at night to eat whatever it can find, including humans.

This creature’s characteristics and legend are sometimes interchangeable with those of the bunyip...

Yowies have been reported by some witnesses to be unbelievably aggressive, and to pursue people with what was interpreted as predatory intent.

Yowies have sometimes been reported to peer into windows, hang around the outsides of houses, and to approach cars on remote roads – all motifs that sound familiar if you’ve read the sasquatch literature.

In further parallels with sasquatch, extremely bad, lingering smells have also been associated with Yowie sightings, and Yowies also seem to be good swimmers and waders...

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Amaterasu is a sun goddess of the Shinto religion.

It is believed that Amaterasu sent her grandson Jimmu to Earth 3,000 years ago to be the first ruler of Japan, beginning the divine family of Japanese emperors...

Amaterasu was given rule over the sky by Izangi when he handed to her his holy necklace...

Later, in a competition with her brother Susano, Amaterasu gave birth to three goddesses, who with Susano's offspring, are collectively the ancestors of Jimmu...

During this competition, Amaterasu was unwilling to admit defeat. This caused Susano to furiously wreak havoc throughout the heavens and the Earth. Amaterasu fled into a cave, and her absence caused darkness throughout Japan...

Amaterasu's absence caused much dismay on Earth. As the crops died off and the people suffered, the gods decided they needed to return Amaterasu to her position in the heavens.

They sought the help of several dieties, and performed ritualis and sacrifieces outside of Amaterasu's cave.

They also hung a mirror from a tree outside of the cave...

Amaterasu's presence illuminated the fields and life returned to Japan's land...

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See Hepit:

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See Shapash:

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Ogmios is a gaulish god of eloquence, and the personification of poetry, literature, learning and persuasiveness...

He was also a binding god who would use his powers of persuasion to bind men onto himself and then escort souls on their journey to the after-live...

It is he who invented the runic language of the Druids.

His attributes are a bow and stick.

The father of Ogham was Oghma; The mother of Ogham was the hand or knife of Oghma...

Roman sources describe Ogmios as an orator of remarkable charisma. Celtic sources from the same era describe Ogmios as a educator and the creator of the ogam writing system.

Combining these, Ogmios becomes a wise and charismatic teacher of Celtic ways and scholarly endevour.This was the guide and patron of the Druid Order of Teachers.

A Celt, in a discussion with Lucian, explained how the Celtic Ogmios, personifying the power of speech was represented by Heracles rather than Hermes.

This Celt made various references to Greek legends in the course of the conversation. - John Rhys, Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Celtic Heathendom, London 1898.

Stranger, I will tell you the secret of the painting, for you seem very much troubled about it.

We Celts do not consider the power of speech to be Hermes, as you Greeks do, but we represent it by means of Heracles, because he is much stronger than Hermes.

So if this old man Heracles, the power of speech, draws men after him, tied to his tongue by their ears you have no reason to wonder, as you must be aware of the close connection between the ears and the tongue.

...In a word, we Celts are of opinion that Heracles himself performed everything by the power of words, as he was a wise fellow, and that most of his compulsion was effected by persuasion.

His weapons ... are his utterances which are sharp and well aimed, swift to pierce the mind: and you too say that words have wings...

But, whereas Hercules was a  mortal with supernatural powers, Ogmios  seems more of a god to the Celts...

The German Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer depicted this deity. Commonly compared with the Irish Ogma...

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Ammit is the crocodile-headed goddess of the Underworld (Duat), the 'Devourer of the Dead' and 'Eater of Souls' in Ancient Egyptian folklore...

Although Ammit is often referred to as a goddess of the Underworld, a more accurate description is that of a demon, a supernatural and malevolent being...

She was depicted as having the head of a crocodile, the torso of a lioness and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus, a combination of the most terrifying and ferocious creatures known to the ancient Egyptians...

She features in the Book of the Dead as the punisher and executioner...

Ammit waited in the Judgement Hall of the Two Truths during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony, and devoured those deemed to be sinners...

Depiction of Ammit in Papyrus of Hunefer

The Papyrus of Hunefer is a historical document that gives a detailed account of the devourer of souls. It narrates that upon Hunefer’s death his heart was weighed at the head dress of Ma’at by Anubis.

The results were being recorded by Thoth who was believed to have an Ibis’s head.

It showed that if the results were bad then Hunefer would be restricted from entering the afterlife and would be passed on to Ammit who would devour his soul and keep him in a state of constant restlessness.

Ammit was also sometimes said to stand by a lake of fire.

In some traditions, the unworthy hearts were cast into the fiery lake to be destroyed.

Some scholars believe Ammit and the lake represent the same concept of destruction...

Probably Ammit has a link with the goddess Tawaret, who has a similar physical appearance and, as a companion of Bes, also protected others from evil...

It is possible that Ammit's lion characteristics, and the lake of fire, may be pointers to a connection with the goddess Sekhmet.

The relation to afterlife punishment and lake of fire location are also shared with the baboon deity Babi...

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Annubis:

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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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See Mars:

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See Minerva:

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Nerio might be actually Bellola:

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Bellona is the goddess of war among the Romans, similar to the Ancient Greek Enyo...

The name "Bellona" derived from the Latin word for "war" (bellum), and is directly related to the modern English words "belligerent" (lit., "war-waging"), "bellicose" and "antebellum"...

In earlier times she was called Duellona, the name being derived from a more ancient word for "battle"...

She is frequently mentioned by the Roman poets as the companion of Mars, or even as his sister or his wife...

Virgil describes her as armed with a bloody scourge...

The main object for which Bellena was invoked, was to grant a warlike spirit and enthusiasm which no enemy could resist...

Ammianus Marcellinus, in describing the Roman defeat at the Battle of Adrianople refers to "Bellona, blowing her mournful trumpet, was raging more fiercely than usual, to inflict disaster on the Romans"...

Today Bellona stands guard over the Military Affairs Committee of the United States Congress...

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Bellona might be actually Nerio:

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Brynhildr,the daughter of Budli, is a shieldmaiden and a valkyrie in Norse folklore, where she appears as a main character in the Völsunga saga and some Eddic poems treating the same events...

Under the name Brünnhilde she appears in the Nibelungenlied and therefore also in Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.

She may be inspired by the Visigothic princess Brunhilda of Austrasia.

The history of Brynhildr includes fratricide, a long battle between brothers, and dealings with the Huns...

According to the Völsunga saga, Brynhildr is a valkyrie  She was ordered to decide a fight between two kings, Hjalmgunnar and Agnar, and knew that Odin preferred the older king, Hjalmgunnar, yet she decided the battle for Agnar.

For this Odin condemned her to live the life of a mortal woman, and imprisoned her in a remote castle behind a wall of shields on top of mount Hindarfjall in the Alps, where she must sleep within a ring of fire until any man rescues and marries her...

The hero Sigurðr Sigmundson (Siegfried in the Nibelungenlied), heir to the clan of Völsung and slayer of the dragon Fafnir, entered the castle and awoke Brynhildr by removing her helmet and cutting off her chainmail armour.

He immediately fell in love with the shieldmaiden and proposed to her with the magic ring Andvaranaut...

Promising to return and make Brynhildr his bride, Sigurðr then left the castle and headed for the court of Gjuki, the King of Burgundy...

Gjuki's wife, the sorceress Grimhild, wanting Sigurðr married to her daughter Gudrun (Kriemhild in Nibelungenlied), prepared a magic potion that made Sigurðr forget about Brynhildr.

Sigurðr soon married Gudrun. Hearing of Sigurðr's encounter with the valkyrie, Grimhild decided to make Brynhildr the wife of her son Gunnar (Gunther in the Nibelungenlied)...

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In the Chilote folklore and Chilote legends of the Chiloé Island in southern Chile, the Imbunche is a vampirish monster that protects the entrance to a warlock's cave...

All the lore about the horrendous Imbunche is of macabre quality...

According to legend, the Imbunche was a little one kidnapped by, or sold by his parents to a Brujo Chilote (a type of sorcerer or warlock of Chiloé).

The Brujo chilote hideously transformed the child into a deformed hairy monster, applying a magic cream over the boy's back to cause thick hairs and, finally turning his tongue to snake-like one...

The Imbunche utters ugly grunts in place of speech.

When he goes in search of food it is on three feet, getting along in leaps and letting out bloodcurdling yells scaring anyone who hears them.

If anyone sees him they are frozen to the spot forever.

The only beings who can look at him without risk are witches.

When he has to leave the cavern for some foul purpose he is carried in the air between the witches...

As tough as this abomination may be, it is possible to eradicate the Imbunche.

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Because it was once human, the monster is still vulnerable to man-made weapons like cold steel and firearms. However, there is another difficult task to face beforehand: one must kill the Trelquehuecuve, the water beast that serves the Imbunche.

As this creature is said to be large in size and vicious towards humans, slaying the monster will not be an easy task...

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Tykhe, daughter of Aphrodite and Zeus or Hermes, is the spirit of originally fortune and chance, and then of prosperity in Greek folklore.

However, according to Hesiod, Tyche is an oceanide; daughter of the Sea Titans Oceanus and Tethys.

She is usually honoured in a more favourable light as Eutykhia, goddess of good fortune, luck, success and prosperity.

Tyche personified the combination of unexpected, random, circumstances that we call luck, fortune, chance or fluke can be good or evil. The element of ill fortune and bad luck is reflected by words such as disaster, misfortune and unlucky whereas good luck and fortune reflect success, and prosperity.

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Indeed, paired with her sister Eudora, she and her sibling together represent a combination of Bounty and Luck...

Tykhe is represented with different attributes. Holding a rudder, she is conceived as the divinity guiding and conducting the affairs of the world, and in this respect she is called one of the Moirai (Fates); with a ball she represented the varying unsteadiness of fortune--unsteady and capable of rolling in any direction; with Ploutos or the horn of Amalthea, she was the symbol of the plentiful gifts of fortune...

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Rhiannon is the Celtic goddess of Inspiration and the Moon...

She is a goddess of movement and change who remains steadfast, comforting us in times of crisis and of loss...

Rhiannon's name meant “Divine /Great/ Queen” of the fairies. She is probably a reflex of the Celtic Great Queen goddess Rigantona and may also be associated with the horse goddess Epona.

She is an inspiring figure to invoke for Poets, Artists, and Singers. 

She possesses deep magic and can manifest her dreams and desires for the good of all.

Rhiannon was married to Pwyll, the Lord of Dyfed. When Pwyll first saw her, she appeared as a golden goddess upon a magnificent white horse.

Rhiannon managed to outrun Pwyll for three days, and then allowed him to catch up, at which point she told him she'd be happy to marry him, because it would keep her from marrying Gwawl, who had tricked her into an engagement.

Rhiannon and Pwyll conspired together to fool Gwawl in return, and thus Pwyll won her as his bride. Most of the conspiring was likely Rhiannon's, as Pwyll didn't appear to be the cleverest of men.

In the Mabinogion, Rhiannon says of her husband, "Never was there a man who made feebler use of his wits." After Pwyll's death, Rhiannon married Manawyden.

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Later, after Pwyll's death, Rhiannon married Manawydan, brother of Bran and Branwen and son of Llyr, a great magician. One day, all of Dyfed turned into a wasteland, and only Rhiannon, Manawydan, Pryderi, and his wife Cigfa, were spared.

Manawydan and Pryderi out hunting followed an enormous white boar into a caer, where Pryderi saw a golden bowl; when he touched it, he was enspelled.

Rhiannon went after him and fell under the same spell the caer then vanished, taking them with it.

She was rescued when Manawydan captured the wife of their enemy, Llwyd, who was taking revenge for the illtreatment of Gwawl.

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The story of the Rhiannon reminds us of the healing power of humor, tears, and forgiveness...

She appears in both the first and third branches of the Mabinogi and is further mentioned in the early Arthurian prose tale Culhwch and Olwen...

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'The one on high' is Pinga, the Eskimo goddess of game, the hunt, helper of medicine, men and the living.

Pinga is also the Psychopomp (from the Greek word psuchopompos, literally meaning the "guide of souls"). She brings the souls of the recently deceased to (Adlivun), the transit area where souls are purified before moving on...

Pinga in Inuit folklore also watches over humans' treatment of animals.

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Sabazios, the nomadic horseman and the sky/father god of Phrygia, is an ancient Thracian being*, whose precise nature is much debated in academia, with many scholars claiming with certainty an understanding of his place in the Thracian mythos.

The confusion around Sabazios is not surprising, given the relatively unexamined nature of Thracian culture and religion in general.

Sabazios, whose various syncretisms will be addressed and explored elsewhere, is a god whose name most likely draws from related terms meaning freedom, and fluidity.

He is described at one point in modern scholarship as "the most changeable of gods", and again, "as the god of no mythology".

Sabazios is referred to as the "Unstoried One", for indeed, the documented stories pertaining to him directly are few and far between...

His cult spread from Thrace in the north of Greece to Attica and to Athens in the fifth century BCE. In Indo-European language, the element ' - zios' is precursor of Dyeus-Deus (god) and Zeus. The Greeks, by inherit of the Thrace around century V b.C., associated the phrygid Sabazios with Zeus and Dionysos.

An important symbol of his cult was a snake, which is a chthonian symbol as well as one of revival. Another symbol of Sabazius was a crown (with two small snakes raising their heads) worn by the god himself and by some of the members initiated into his cult.

*Thracians have been denigrated to the ranks (and rancor) of savage drunken barbarian neighbors to the North of the "civilized" Hellenic world. As Dr. Aleksandr Fol, late founder of the Institute of Thracology in Sofia, Bulgaria, points out in numerous academic publications, Thracians have yet to be definitively studied as anything but an "alien culture" through a Greco-Roman perspective.

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Nergal is the (southern) Mesopotamian god of death, pestilence, plague and the netherworld...

Nergal represents a very particular aspect of death, one that is often and rightly interpreted as inflicted death, for Nergal is also the god of plague and pestilence as well as being closely associated with warfare. It is quite likely that as Nergal ascends to power in Babylon and Assyria in the pantheon because of his connection with war, he becomes the most suitable consort to Ereshkigal...

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Nergal's warlike qualities identify him to a considerable extent with warrior gods such as Ninurta and Zababa.

His attributes are the club and the sickle...

This Sumero-Babylonian entity is sometimes regarded as representing the sinister aspect of the sun god Shamash...

In the late Babylonian astral-theological system Nergal is related to the planet Mars. As a fiery god of destruction and war, Nergal doubtless seemed an appropriate choice for the red planet, and he was equated by the Greeks either to the combative demigod Heracles (Latin Hercules) or to the war-god Ares (Latin Mars) -- hence the current name of the planet.

In Assyro-Babylonian ecclesiastical art the great lion-headed colossi serving as guardians to the temples and palaces seem to symbolise Nergal, just as the bull-headed colossi probably typify Ninurta...

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See Ereshkigal:

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Dewi Sri is the Indonesian Rice goddess, equivalent of the Indian Goddess Lakshmi. 

Sri is the goddess of the earth, the Rice Bride, and the Mother of the Javanese people. 

In the Javanese wayang cycle, Dewi Sri is reborn as the Goddess Sinta to marry her Wisnu in his incarnation as Rama. 

Dewi Sri is believed to have dominion over the underworld and the Moon. Thus, Dewi Sri encompasses the whole spectrum of the Mother Goddess- having dominion over birth and Life: she controls rice: the staple food of Indonesians; hence life and wealth or prosperity; most especially rice surpluses for the wealth of kingdoms in Java such as Mataram, Majapahit and Pajajaran; and their inverse: poverty, famine, hunger, disease (to a certain extent) and Death.

Dewi Sri is, as in this Balinese example, usually presented as a young, beautiful, slim yet curvaceous woman with stylized facial features idiosyncratic to the respective locale.

In Bali she is almost always depicted as a narrow-waisted woman at the height of her femininity and fertility, wearing what is essentially a typical dance costume with a finely detailed and elaborate headdress...

Reborn as Rukmini, she marries him in his new form as Kresna.  Reborn as Subadra, she once again marries him as Arjuna, son of King Pandu...

Dewi Sri is often associated with the rice paddy snake...

Another power held in high esteem by the Sundanese is Dewi Sri. This is clearly shown by the important role that Dewi Sri holds in the Sundanese ceremonies.

The function of Tali Paranti is to organize the life cycle of the Sundanese. The life cycle's ceremonies start before one is born and continue until t

he thousandth day after one's death. Out of all the life cycle ceremonies, the most important is circumcision for men and marriage for women. Circumcision is ranked first, followed by marriage.

In these ceremonies, Dewi Sri holds a vital position.

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See Gaia:

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See Cybele:

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See the Elder Mother:

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Yam, the Ugaritic-Canaanite sea god of the waters: the seas, rivers, lakes, and chaos and disorder, periodically battled the weather-storm god Baal for supremacy.

Yam represents the power of the tempestuous sea untamed and raging.

He lived in an undersea palace; a dragon, serpent, and Leviathan (Lotan) may have been in his following...

When Baal succeeded in killing his arch enemy, he scattered his remains as fertilizing rain...

Yam's defeat by Baal parallels the Mesopotamian legend of the storm god Marduk's victory over the primordial sea goddess Tiamat.

Numerous other parallel legends have been noted by mythologists and religion scholars, often interpreted as representing the triumph of heavenly order over primeval chaos...

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Mixcoatl is the god of the hunt and war. He is identified with the Milky Way, the stars, and the heavens in several Meso-American cultures.

Mixcoatl was part of the Aztec pantheon...

Mixcoatl is represented with a black mask over his eyes and distinctive red and white “candy-cane stripes” painted on his body. He can usually be distinguished by his hunting gear, which included a bow and arrows, and a net or basket for carrying dead game...

Scholars have identified Mixcoatl as a hunting god of the Otomi, Chichimec, and Toltec people and their descendants.

The legendary figure may have been based on the real-life warrior Eight Deer, who achieved greatness as a leader of the Pioneer...

Mixcoatl definately sired the four hundred Centzon Huitznahua by Coatlicue, but not Huitzilopochtli, a ball of feathers is responsible for that one, with Ometecuhtli spotted plucking a Quetzal bird just before Coatlicue set off for temple cleaning duties...

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Raiden, the father of Raitaro, is the god of thunder (rai) and lightning (den) in the Shinto and Japanese folklore...

He is fond of eating human navels.

Some Japanese parents tell their children to hide their belly buttons (or navels) during thunderstorms, so that they are not taken away...

It is said that the only protection against him is to hide under a mosquito net.

Raiden is also known by the following names:

>> Yakusa no ikazuchi no kami: Yakusa (八, eight) and ikazuchi (雷, thunder) and kami (神, spirit or deity)

>> Kaminari-sama: kaminari (雷, kaminari, thunder) and -sama (様, a Japanese honorific meaning "master")

>> Raiden-sama: rai (雷, thunder), den (電, lightning), and -sama (様, master)

>> Narukami: naru (鳴, thundering/rolling) and kami (神, spirit or deity)

Raiden is portrayed as a muscled sharp-clawed demon with red skin, sitting on a cloud, shooting arrows at the enemies of the people.

Raijin's companion is the demon Raiju. In Japanese art, the deity is known to challenge Fūjin, the wind god.

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He Bo, brother of the moon goddess Heng O, is from the Chinese folklore and is the god of the Yellow River.

He wasn't always He Bo however. Long ago he was originally called Feng Yi. Fen...

Feng Yi used to live beside the Yellow River and on one day he could see the waters rising.

He knew that soon his village would be washed away by the mighty currents, so in an effort to appease the river, he tied rocks to himself and threw himself into its depths.

The river was more than appeased, and turned Feng Yi into the god He Bo.

However, this act led to the ritual of sacrificing a young girl by throwing her into the river as a bride of He Bo (this lasted until the end of the Zhou dynasty in 256 BCE)...

Now He Bo rules over the Yellow River with wisdom and humility, always ready to turn away his enemies with the might of the river behind him...

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Hypnos, the son of Nyx (the goddess of the night and darkness), in Greek folklore is represented as a gentle young man, usually with wings attached to his temples or shoulders.

In Hesiod’s portray, Hypnos and his twin brother Thanatos, the god of Death, were both terrible gods and pretty much inseparable in their acts

Intangible as the sleep is, Hypnos himself could have been both, but in any case he had enormous power over mortals and immortals - including Zeus himself...

Hypnos resides in Erebos, the land of eternal darkness, beyond the gates of the rising sun. As such, he dwells in the underworld and never sets his eyes on the sun, and from there he rises into the sky each night in the train of his mother Nyx (Night)...

Hypnos was also the father of another powerful deity - Morpheus, deity of Dreams... It is also believed the Morpheus has siblings (some experts may say uncles) called the Oneiroi (Dreams)...

There is a delightful interlude in the Iliad that involves Hypnos, Hera, and Zeus:

Hera visits Hypnos, and asks him for a favor - you see, the goddess wants to distract her husband Zeus from the events taking place. So she requests that the god of sleep use his powers on Zeus. However, Hypnos is reluctant to meddle with the ruler of Olympus. Hera then offers Hypnos an irresistible bride as a bribe - Pasithea, one of the younger Graces or Charites. In the end, the god of sleep agrees to cast his spell on Zeus...

Hypnos gave Endymion the power of sleeping with open eyes so he could see his beloved, the moon goddess Selene...

The name of Hypons survives in the modern manifestation of hypnosis...

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"… whenever in his imagination a man sees delights, straightaway the vision, slipping through his arms, is gone, winging its flight along the paths of Sleep."

(Argive Elders. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 420)...

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Isis, in ancient Egyptian folklore, is the goddess of fertility.

She is a guardian of the dead, and the patroness of powerful magical abilities and nature...Isis is also a great enchantress...

Together with Thoth, she taught mankind the secrets of medicine.

Isis is the sister of Nephthys and Seth, and the daughter of Nut and Geb.

She is often depicted as the mother of Horus, the hawk-headed god of war and protection (although in some traditions Horus's mother was Hathor)

Isis is the wife of the god Osiris. Together they played a major role in many stories in Egyptian lore, particularly in legends about rebirth and resurrection...

Historically, Isis was often associated with the moon, which sometimes appeared in representations of her, typically held in a headdress that also included the horns of a cow...

According to legend, Isis was mortal once, but she tricked the sun god Ra into giving her some of his powers. She is also described as the sister to Osiris, as well as his wife.

The name “Isis” means “Queen of the throne,” linking her with Osiris in his role as ruler, and in some representations, she wears an empty throne as a headdress, symbolizing the severed link between herself and Osiris.

Isis was the friend of slaves, sinners, artisans, and the downtrodden...

Isis was the embalmer and gaurdian of Osiris. She is often rendered on the foot of coffins with long wings spread to protect the deceased...

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