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Mercury
Mercury is a messenger who wore winged sandals, and a god of trade, merchants, and travel, the son of Maia Maiestas and Jupiter in Roman Folklore. The root of the idea of Mercury lies in Greek...
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Lampetia, Lampetie
Lampetie is the personification of light in Greek folklore... Lampetia (meaning shining) and (Phaethousa) were two nymph siblings who pastured the sacred herds of Helios the sun on the legendary...
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Trauco, El Trauco
Trauco is a legendary goblin that lives in the woods of Chiloé... In Chilean folklore El Trauco is described as a deformed dwarf-like spirit that is dressed in a suit and hat made of natural...
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Mihos, Maahes, Mahes, Mios, Miysis, Myusis
Mihos is the son of Bastet or, more rarely, Sekhmet and Atem-Re, was a local lion god at Taremu, Greek Leontopolis, known since the New Kingdom in Ancient Egypt. He was depicted as as a lion or a man...
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Nótt
In Norse folklore, Nótt (Old Norse "night") is night personified. In both the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, and the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century...
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Ugallu
Ugallu means ‘Big Weather Creature’ ‘Great Lion’. He is a Babylonian (Especially Akkadian) humanoid storm-demon... He wields two weapons, a dagger and a mace. Ugallu has a curly lion’s mane. The...
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Ophiotaurus, Stygian Bull: Serpent-tailed bull of Tartarus
Ophiotaurus is the "serpent-bull" in Greek folklore... He is a monster born with the foreparts of a black bull and the tail of a serpent.... It was slain by an ally of the Titanes in their search for a...
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Tyr, Tir, Tiv, Tiw, Tiwaz
Tyr is the god of war in Norse folklore... He is the son of Odin and Frigg; an Asgardian Aesir (Aesir are warrior deities of the sky who lived in Asgard).http://bit.ly/ZFdO1M He is the god of single...
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Apsu, Absu, Abzu, Apason, Engur, Engurru
Apsu in Sumerian-Babylonian folklore, is a primeval abyss of sweet water from which all things sprang... He is the consort of Tiamat, the primordial abyss of salt waters of Chaos. In the later legends...
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Abaasy, Abaahy, Abasy, Abassy
The Abaasy are demons in the folklore of the Sakha (also known as the Yakuts)... Yakut Shamanism divides the universe into upper and lower layers, with the earth being "a kind of indeterminate space or...
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Metis
Metis in Greek folklore is the Titan generation and, like several primordial figures, an Oceanid/Okeanides (three thousand goddess Nymphs who presided over the sources of earth's fresh-water, ranging...
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Eir, Eil, Eira, Eria, Eyra
Eir ("mercy") is a goddess of healing and medicine in Norse folklore.... Eir is a master physician who wields power in the healing of the mind, body, and spirit. Eir knows the secret powers of the...
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Geb,Seb, Keb, Kebb, Gebb
In Ancient Egypt Geb was a god of the earth and one of the Ennead of Heliopolis. His grandfather was Atum, his father was Shu (the god of air) and his mother was Tefnut (the goddess of moisture)....
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Uttu
Uttu is a Sumerian spider-goddess of domestic arts including weaving, plants and earth... some say daughter of Enki and Ninkurra. Enki fathered Ninsar on Ninhursaga, then Ninkurra on Ninsar and finally...
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Epona; seldom Rhiannon, Macha
Epona is an important goddess of the ancient Continental Celts, always linked to the horse; her name is implied by the expressions ‘Divine Horse’ and ‘Horse-goddess’. She is com-memorated in more...
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Vanara, Vānara
In the Hindu epic Ramayana, the Vānara were brave and inquisitive by nature. They possessed supernatural powers and could change their shapes. The term Vanara can be described as forest-dweller (vane...
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Pomona
In Roman Pantheon, Pomona is the goddess of plenty, fruit trees, garden, and orchards... Her name comes from the Latin word, pomum, meaning "fruit." She was said to be a wood nymph and a part of the...
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Hundun, Hùndùn, Hun-tun, Muddled confusion
Hundun is an obscure figure in Chinese folklore. The word hundunis used in Chinese language as both a noun and an adjective that literally refers to the primeval chaos as well as a person who is...
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Rokurokubi, The Long-Necked Woman
Rokurokubi are Japanese monsters, a type of cursed human or demonic beings. While they resemble normal humans, their heads can detach from their spines and float around while stretching their necks to...
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Nêsos, Nesus, Nêsoi, Nesi
The Nesoi were the goddesses of the islands in Greek folklore. Each island was believed to have its own personified divinity. They were numbered among the Protogenoi*, the primordial gods. According to...
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