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Erra; Irra
Erra is the god of war and plagues in the Babylonian folklore (Akkadian in particular), who later became closely associated with the underworld god Nergal.Erra, known from an 'epos' the eighth century...
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Ninhursag, Ninkharsag, Queen of the Mountain, Lady of bearth, Nintu,...
Ninhursag, the 'Queen of the Mountain', is the Sumerian earth and mother-goddess, and a goddess of fertility...She is the consort of the supreme god Enki (and is as such identified with...
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Magni
Magni (meaning mighty), the god of Strength in Norse folklore, has been following in the footsteps of his father Thor, god of Thunder, in ways that go beyond Norse mythos.As champions of humans and...
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Girra, Girru, Gerra
Girru, the son of Anu and Šala, according to the first-millennium incantation series Maqlû, tablet II, lines 136-7, is the light and fire god in the Akkadian folklore and the Sumerian Gibil's...
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Capricornus, Capricorn, See-Goat
The representation of CAPRICORNUS, The Sea-Goat or Goat-Fish, as a creature with the head and body of a goat and the tail of a fish, may well have originated from Assyro-Babylonian depictions of their...
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Huldra, Hulder, Hulla
Huldra is a seductive wood fairy or nymph of Norway that has the tail of an animal...The word "huldra" in Norwegian means "hidden" or "covered" and the huldra is adept at hiding her fox or cow's tail...
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Fylgjur
Remember the cats, ravens, and other familiar spirits who are often the companions of witches in Scandinavian folktales?These are fylgjur (pronounced “FILG-yur”) in the plural and fylgja (pronounced...
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Talos, Talon, Talôs
In the Greek folklore Talos, the Guardian of Crete, is the first 'bionic' ‘robot-like’ creature on earth... It is said that Talos was bull-headed and was forged by Hephaestus for King Minos, with the...
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Jinmenju, Ninmenj
Jinmenju is the human-face tree...Legend has it that the Jinmenju grows "in remote mountain valleys in China."...The jinmenju's fruit appear to be "human heads. The faces are always smiling or...
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Otso, Ohto, Kontio, Metsän kuningas, the king of the forest, Mesikämmen,...
Where was the bear born? Where was the beast made? By the moon, with the day, on the shoulders of the Plough Then lowered on silver chains, let down on golden cords http://bit.ly/1rs0rntIn Finish lore,...
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Sól, Sol, Sunna, Sun, Gull
In Norse lore, Sol is the sun goddess, daughter of Mundilfari. She is married to Glen. Some argue that Sól is the mother and Sunna is her daughter....Sol rides through the sky in a chariot pulled by...
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Alpan, Alpanu, Alpnu, Apan
Alpan is an Etruscan goddess about whom not much is known. She is probably one of theLasas (winged female guardians of graves with Underworld connections; sometimes collectively called the Bellarie...
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Ox-Head and Horse-Face
In Chinese lore, Horse Face and Ox Head are two creatures depicted over and over again in the hell scrolls.... "Each is firmly bound and tightly tied,Shackled by both ropes and cords.The slightest move...
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Keto, Kētō, Ceto,Crataeis, Krataiis,Trienus
In Greek lore, Keto, The daughter of Gaia and Pontus, is a marine goddess who personifies the dangers and horrors of the sea. She consorted the sea-god Phorkys, and produced the Gorgons (a brood of...
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Fukurokuju, Fukurokujin
Fukurokuju is the Shinto god of wealth, happiness, and longevity in Japanese lore...Fukurokuju is a personification of the southern polar star and he is often confused with Jurōjin (another god of...
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Sea Bishop, Bishop-Fish
The seabishop or bishop-fish is a type of sea monster reported in the 16th century.According to legend, it was taken to the King of Poland, who wished to keep it. It was also shown to a group of...
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Noppera-bō
A lazy fisherman who decided to fish in the imperial koi ponds near the Heian-kyō palace.Despite being warned by his wife about the pond being sacred and near a graveyard, the fisherman went anyway.On...
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Allocamelus, Ass-camel
The allocamelus is an heraldic monster described as having the head of an donkey and a body with a camel’s hump; it’s sometimes called an “ass-camel” in the heraldic literature... It is the legendary...
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Heryshaf, Hershef, Herishef, Herysaf, Heryshef, Terrible Face, Terrible Face,...
Heryshaf (Heri-shef, 'he who is on his lake') is an ancient ram-god whose cult was centered in Middle Egypt at Herakleopolis Magna (now Ihnasiyyah al-Madinah)...Heryshaf is a fertility god and said to...
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Kothar-wa-Khasis, Kothar, Kathar-Wa-Hasis, Kothar-u-Khasis, Kathar-Wa-Hassis,...
Kothar-wa-Khasis (“skill-and-cunning”), ancient West Semitic god of crafts, equivalent of the Greek god Hephaestus. Kothar was responsible for supplying the gods with weapons and for building and...
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Lorelei, Loreley
According to German legend, there was once a beautiful young maiden, named Lorelei, who threw herself headlong into the river in despair over a faithless lover.Upon her death she was transformed into a...
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Tugarin Zmeyevich, Zmey Tugarin, Zmey Tugaretin, Zmeishche Tugarishche
Tugarin Zmey is a creature which personifies evil and cruelty and has a dragon-like nature; originates from East Slavic lore... Tugarin Zmeyevich is best known from a bylina* about his duel with...
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Liluri
In the lore of the Levant, little is known about Liluri, the ancient Syrian mountain goddess, consort of the weather god Manuzi...It has been said that bulls were sacrificed to both of...
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Buer
The 10th spirit, wise in the art of medicine, one of the 72 Spirits of Solomon, Buer is a demon of the second order... Buer appears in Sagittary, and that is his shape when the Sun is there...Yet...
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Nikkal, Nikkal-wa-Ib
Nikkal, the Syrian moon-goddess of the Ugarits and later of the Phoenicians, is married to the moon-god Jarih, and their marriage is lyrically described in the Ugaritic text Nikkal and the Kathirat....
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Voltumna, Veltha
In Etruscan lore, Veltha was the chthonic (earth deity related to or inhabiting the underworld), who became the supreme god of the Etruscan pantheon, the deus Etruriae princeps, according to Varro....
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Far darrig, Fear dearg
The far darrig or fear dearg, a faerie of Irish lore, is a near relation to the leprechaun, with similar features and a short stocky body. His face is splotched yellow. He dresses in red from his hat...
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GEGENEES
....In the Propontis there is an island sloping steeply to the sea, close to the rich mainland of Phrygia, and parted from it only by a low isthmus barely raised above the waves. The isthmus, with its...
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Gula
Beyond the role of the ashipu and the asu, there were other means of procuring health care in ancient Mesopotamia. One of these alternative sources was the Temple of Gula. ▣ Gula is the Sumerian...
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Gefjon, Gefion, Gefn, Gefjun
As the poet Bragi the Old says: Gefion dragged with laughter from Gylfi liberal prince What made Denmark larger, so that beasts of draught the oxen reeked with...
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