Abira
Abominable snowman
Achiyalatopa
Adekagagwaa
Adonis
Agla
Agni
Ahriman
Ahura Mazda
Airsekui
Aktunowihio
Akycha
Amaterasu
Amitolane
An
Angpetu Wi
Anguta
Aningan
Anpao
Anu
Anulap
Apsu
Aratron
Ashera
Ashnan
Ashtaroth
Asrael
Astarte
Ataentsic
Atanua
Atea
Ateshga
Au
Aum
Avali
Avatar
Ba-Maguje
Baal
Babamik
Barong
Batara Guru
Begu
Belam
Biloko
Bochica
Bodhisattva
Bokwus
Bope
Boraspati ni Tano
Brahma
Cavillaca
Chahuru
Chenoo
Chia
Chibchacum
Chipiripa
Chixu
Cockatrice
Coniraya
Dagon
Dakaki
Dama
Dama dagenda
Danhyang Desa
Datagaliwabe
Dido
Dinditane
Dumuzi
Dunawali
Duppies
Duppy
Durga
Dyaus
Dzivaguru
Ea
Eblis
Ekkekko
El
Eloko
Enki
Enkidu
Enkimdu
Enlil
Finweigh
Forso
Ga-oh
Gahonga
Gandayah
Ganesa
Gans
Geyaguga
Gikuyu
Gilgamesh
Gnomes
Gohone
Guanyin
Guebres
Ha Wen Neyu
Hadad
Hafoza
Hanghepi
Hanuman
Hastsehogan
Hastseltsi
Hastsezini
Haumea
Heammawihio
Heise
Helabe
Helahuli
Heng
Herabe
Het-Her
Hindu
Hinduism
Hino
Hiribi
Hiro
Hokewingla
Honabe
Hoturu
Houmea
Hu
Huitaca
Idlirvirissong
In Antioquia mythology, Abira is the creator.
The Abominable snowman is a legendary creature, said to resemble a human, with long arms and a thickset body covered with reddish gray hair. Reports of its existence in the Himalayas have been made since 1832, and they gained substance from a published photograph of a huge footprint in the snow in 1951. No further "evidence" has been found.
In Zuni mythology, Achiyalatopa is a celestial giant monster with feathers of flint knives.
In Iroquois mythology, Adekagagwaa is the spirit of summer who rests during the winter in the south.
Adonis was a Phoenician god, adopted by Greek mythology as a mortal favourite of Aphrodite. He was killed by a wild boar and upon finding him Aphrodite caused the plant the anemone to rise from his blood.
An agla is a talisman used by the rabbis to exorcise evil spirits.
Agni is the Hindu god of fire, the guardian of homes, and the protector of humans against evil.
In Zoroastrianism the Ahriman is the supreme evil spirit, lord of the darkness and death.
In Zoroastrianism Ahura Mazda is the spirit of supreme good, god of light and life.
In Huron mythology, Airsekui is the great spirit. He is invoked at times of great danger.
In Cheyenne mythology, Aktunowihio is the soul of the earth. A subterranean spirit.
In Eskimo mythology, Akycha is the sun spirit.
In Japanese mythology, Amaterasu is the sun goddess, grandmother of Jimmu Tenno, the first ruler of Japan.
In Zuni mythology, Amitolane is the rainbow spirit.
In Sumerian mythology, An was the personification of heaven.
In Dakota mythology, Angpetu Wi is the sun spirit.
In Eskimo mythology, Anguta is a god who lives under the sea and drags down the dead.
In Eskimo mythology, Aningan is the moon spirit.
In Dakota mythology, Anpao is the spirit of the dawn.
In Babylonian mythology, Anu is the god of the sky. He is the son of Anshar and Kishar.
In Truk Island mythology, Anulap is the sky god and the husband of Ligougubfanu.
In Babylonian mythology, Apsu is the sweet-water ocean. It is the union of Apsu with Tiamat which brings forth the first gods.
In magic, Aratron is ruler of the affairs of Saturn. It is a spirit which can be invoked on the 1st hour of saturday.
Ashera was an ancient Semetic goddess symbolised by the phallus.
In Sumerian mythology, Ashnan was the goddess of grain. She was created by Enlil to provide food and clothes for the gods.
Ashtaroth was a goddess worshipped by the ancient Canaanites. She was regarded as symbolising the productive power of nature.
In Islam, Asrael is the angel of death who takes the soul from the body.
Astarte is a Syrian goddess representing the productive power of nature. She was a moon goddess.
In Iroquois mythology, Ataentsic is the goddess of the earth.
In the mythology of The Marquesas Islands, Atanua is the dawn goddess. She was the wife of Atea, and it was her miscarriage that created the seas.
In the mythology of the Marquesas Islands, Atea is the god of light and husband of Atanua.
Ateshga was a sacred site for the Guebres. It was on the peninsular of Apsheron on the west coast of the Caspian sea. Pilgrims would bow before the sacred flames which issued forth from the bituminous soil.
In the mythology of the Gilbert Island, Au is the sun god and lord of the skies.
Aum is the sacred mystical syllable representing the Hindu trinity.
Avali is the plural of Omuli.
Avatar (Avatara) in Hindu mythology is an incarnation of a deity.
In Hausa mythology, Ba-Maguje is the spirit of drunkeness.
In Canaanite mythology, Baal was the god of fertility. He was the son of El.
In Arapesh mythology, Babamik is a cannibal ogress who is eventually lured to her death and she then becomes a crocodile.
In Balinese mythology, Barong is a protective spirit portrayed as a lion or tiger.
In Indonesian mythology, Batara Guru is the great god who made the earth.
In Batak mythology, begu are ghosts which wander the afterworld formless and starving. They approach humans by way of mediums demanding sacrifices to feed on. They may also steel the soul of a living person for a husband/wife.
In Melanau mythology, Belam are protective spirits who catch the souls of sick people and return them to their bodies thereby curing them.
In Zaire mythology, Biloko are spirits which live in hollow trees in the forest. They dress only in leaves and are devoid of hair, instead grass grows on their body. They have piercing eyes and a snout with a mouth which can open wide enough to swallow a man dead or alive. They have long sharp claws and can put a spell on passers by except those protected by strong counter magic.
In Chibcha mythology, Bochica was the supreme being.
A Bodhisattva is someone who has transmuted his personal human nature and raised it into impersonality.
In Kwakiutl mythology, Bokwus is a wild spirit of the woods who draws the spirits of the drowned to his home.
In Bororo mythology, Bope are evil spirits who attack the souls of the dead.
In Batak mythology, Boraspati ni Tano is an earth spirit. Sacrifices are made to him when a new house is built.
Brahma is the Hindu supreme god and creator of the cosmos.
In Quecha mythology, Cavillaca was a goddess loved by Coniraya.
In Pawnee mythology, Chahuru is the spirit of water.
In Abnaki mythology, the Chenoo were stone giants versed in hunting who were invoked to assist the hunters.
In Chibcha mythology, Chia is the moon-goddess.
In Chibcha mythology, Chibchacum was the god of farmers and merchants.
In Curra mythology, Chipiripa is the rain god.
In Pawnee mythology, Chixu are the spirits of the dead.
The Cockatrice is a fictious creature said to be hatched from a cock's egg by a serpant. It is an ugly creature with a crested head, glittering eyes, a barbed tongue and a serpants tail. Mention is made of the Cockatrice in several passages of the bible. It probably has as its origin the hermaphroditic fowl - a crowing hen - which is known to occur in nature.
In Quecha mythology, Coniraya is the creator of all things and the founder of agriculture. He came to earth as a beggar, fell in love with the goddess Cavillaca and secretly impregnated her by turning some of his sperm into fruit which she ate. Cavillaca later turned herself and her child into stone at the shame of mothering the child of a beggar.
Dagon was the god of the Philistines. He had the upper torso of a man and the tail of a fish.
In Hausa mythology, the Dakaki is a serpant spirit which causes the evil eye resulting in stomach ulcers.
In Huli mythology, dama are invisible deities which control the weather and attack people causing illness, sterility or death. Most of them can also bring good fortune, but a small minority are completely evil.
In Huli mythology, dama dagenda are evil forest-spirits that attack travellers making their noses bleed and giving them sores.
In Java mythology, each village has a Danhyang Desa which is a spirit who lives in a large tree near to or in the village. All blessings emanate from him. Any disasters occuring to the village are seen as a sign that he has been neglected.
In Huli mythology, Datagaliwabe is a giant who punishes offences against kinship laws with illness, fatal accidents or death in battle.
Dido was a Phoenician princess. The legendary founder of Carthage, she committed suicide to avoid marrying a local prince.
In Huli mythology, Dinditane is a fertility god of gardening.
In Sumerian mythology, Dumuzi is the shepherd god.
In Huli mythology, Dunawali is an evil goddess who lodges herself in a woman's internal organs making the victim the innocent vehicle of the goddesses evil power.
see "Duppy"
In Jamaican folklore, Duppies are the ghosts of deceased people. An Obeah man will summon a Duppy and plant it in a home to curse the occupants. A sample of the victim's clothing, hair or especially menstrual fluid may be obtained so that a Duppy may rape a femal victim while she sleeps and make her ill.
Durga is a Hindu deity. She is depicted as having ten arms. Her most famous exploit was slaying Mahisha. The festival of Durga puja is celebrated annually in her honour.
In Bali mythology, Durga is the goddess of death.
In Hindu mythology, Dyaus is the god of the sky.
In Korekore mythology, Dzivaguru was the great earth goddess. She lived in a valley near Dande, kept cattle and goats and dressed in goatskins. She posessed a long horn which gave he whatever she wished for.
In Babylonian mythology, Ea was the god of wisdom and magic.
In Islamic mythology, Eblis is the chief of the evil spirits.
In Quecha mythology, Ekkekko is the god of good fortune.
In Canaanite mythology, El was the father of the gods.
In Zaire mythology, the Eloko are dwarves who live in the densest and darkest parts of the forest guarding their treasure, which is the fruits and animals of the forest.
Enki was the Sumerian water god. Enki supplied clear drinking water to the town of Dilmun at the request of Ninhursag.
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enkidu is the wild man created by the goddess Aruru who becomes a companion to Gilgamesh. After Gilgamesh has provoked the anger of the goddess Ishtar, Enkidu sickens and dies.
In Sumerian mythology, Enkimdu was the farmer god.
In Sumerian mythology, Enlil was the son of Ki and An. He was the god of the sky and separated the earth from the heaven.
In Bilan mythology, Finweigh was the god who with Melu made man.
In Gururumba mythology, the forso are ghosts of the dead. They are tiresome attracting attention and causing accidents and illness.
In Iroquois mythology, Ga-oh is the wind-giant. His house is guarded by a bear, whose prowling brings the north wind; a panther whose whining brings the westerly wind; a moose whose breathing brings the wet east wind and a fawn whose returning to its mother brings the gentle south wind.
In Iroquois mythology, the Gahonga are the jogah of rocks and rivers.
In Iroquois mythology, the Gandayah are the jogah who tend the earth's fertility.
Ganesa is an elephant headed Hindu god. He is the son of Siva and Parvati.
In Apache mythology, the Gans were mountain spirits sent to teach the Apache the arts of civilisation. But they went away because they were distressed by the corruption of people.
In Cherokee mythology, Geyaguga is the moon spirit.
Gikuyu and Mumbi were the spiritual ancestors of all the Kikuyu people. They had 9 daughters. For the daughters, Gikuyu found 9 husbands beneath a large fig tree at Murang'a for the daughters. These husbands then became the ancestors of the 9 Kikuyu clans.
Gilgamesh was a hero of Sumerian, Hittite, Akkadian and Assyrian legend. He was one-third mortal and two-thirds divine. Gilgamesh was Lord of the Sumerian city of Uruk.
The Gnomes are elementals evolved in the realm of Earth.
In Iroquois mythology, Gohone is the spirit of winter.
In Chinese mythology, Guanyin is the goddess of mercy.
The Guebres were Persian fire worshippers.
In Iroquois mythology, Ha Wen Neyu is the great spirit.
In Canaanite mythology, Hadad was the god of thunder and lightning.
In Jate mythology, Hafoza is the god of thunder and lightning.
In Dakota mythology, Hanghepi is the spirit of the night moon.
In Hindu mythology, Hanuman is the monkey god and King of Hindustan. He assisted Rama in the recovery of his wife, Sita, from Ravana of Lanka.
In Navajo mythology, Hastsehogan is the god of houses.
In Navajo mythology, Hastseltsi is the god of racing.
In Navajo mythology, Hastsezini is the fire-god.
In Hawaiin mythology, Haumea is the goddess of procreation and childbirth.
In Cheyenne mythology, Heammawihio is the great spirit.
In Ju mythology, Heise was half man and half god. He created the forests from his own hair so that his own delicate son could have shelter from the searing sun.
In Huli mythology, Helabe is a son of Honabe.
In Huli mythology, Helahuli is a son of Honabe. His four sons were the founders of mankind and the four tribes bear their names.
In Huron mythology, Heng is the god of thunder.
In Huli mythology, Herabe is a god who causes insanity.
see "Athor"
see "Hinduism"
Hinduism is a religion that originated in India.
In Iroquois mythology, Hino is the thunder god, guardian of the skies.
In Canaanite mythology, Hiribi was the goddess of summer.
In Easter Island mythology, Hiro is the god of rain and fertility.
In Dakota mythology, Hokewingla is a turtle spirit who lives in the moon.
In Huli mythology, Honabe is the primaeval goddess and the first inhabitant of the land. She was seduced by the god Timbu and bore five deities.
In Pawnee mythology, Hoturu is the wind spirit.
In Maori mythology, Houmea was a cannibal who swallowed her own children, but was forced to disgorge them by her husband, Uta. She later persued him and the children in the form of a stag and he killed her by throwing hot stones down her mouth.
Hu was the giver of mead and wine to man. He holds a plough to show men that the noblest of the arts is to control and to guide.
In Chibcha mythology, Huitaca is the beautiful goddess of drunkeness and licentiousness.
In Eskimo mythology, Idlirvirissong is an evil spirit.