Ba-Maguje
In Hausa mythology, Ba-Maguje is the spirit of drunkeness.

Bahram Gur
In Persian mythology, Bahram Gur is the legendary Sassanian king, renowned as a hunter and lover, credited with the invention of poetry, and a frequent figure in Persian poetry and iconography. He married the seven daughters of the Kings of the Seven Climates, sleeping with a different one each night of the week, and each one telling him a different tale. The tales, telling of natural and fantastic events, are seen in Persian Islamic tradition as symbolic of the purification of the mystic's soul on its way to God.

Bajang
In Malaysian mythology, the bajang is an evil spirit which usually takes the shape of a polecat. When it mews at night a child will die. It is said that a bajang is obtained from the newly buried body of a still-born child, and can be lured from it by incantations of a sorcerer.

Barong
In Balinese mythology, Barong is a protective spirit portrayed as a lion or tiger.

Batara Guru
In Indonesian mythology, Batara Guru is the great god who made the earth.

Begu
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.

Belam
In Melanau mythology, Belam are protective spirits who catch the souls of sick people and return them to their bodies thereby curing them.

Biloko
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.

Bimbogami
In Japanese mythology, Bimbogami is the god of poverty. He is an obstinate companion of families, who try hard to get rid of him and with him their poverty.

Bochica
In Chibcha mythology, Bochica was the supreme being.

Bodhisattva
A Bodhisattva is someone who has transmuted his personal human nature and raised it into impersonality.

Bokwus
In Kwakiutl mythology, Bokwus is a wild spirit of the woods who draws the spirits of the drowned to his home.

Bope
In Bororo mythology, Bope are evil spirits who attack the souls of the dead.

Boraspati ni Tano
In Batak mythology, Boraspati ni Tano is an earth spirit. Sacrifices are made to him when a new house is built.

Brownie
In Scotland, brownies are imaginary spirits believed to haunt houses, particularly farmhouses. Rather than doing damage, they are believed to be helpful to the family, particularly to the servants if they treat the brownie well.

Bulotu
In Tongan mythology, Bulotu is the paradise where the spirits of the dead live amidst richly laden fruit trees and blossoms in eternal bliss.

Ch'ang-O
In Chinese mythology, Ch'ang-O is the graceful moth-eyebrowed maiden goddess of the moon and immortality. The dispenser of life magic.

Chahuru
In Pawnee mythology, Chahuru is the spirit of water.

Chemosh
Chemosh was the god of the Moabites.

Chenoo
In Abnaki mythology, the Chenoo were stone giants versed in hunting who were invoked to assist the hunters.

Chia
In Chibcha mythology, Chia is the moon-goddess.

Chibchacum
In Chibcha mythology, Chibchacum was the god of farmers and merchants.

Chipiripa
In Curra mythology, Chipiripa is the rain god.

Chixu
In Pawnee mythology, Chixu are the spirits of the dead.

Chun-T'i
In Chinese mythology, Chun-T'i is a goddess of war. She who is capable of miraculous feats and she who excels in the magic arts.

Chutsain
In Tinneh mythology, Chutsain is an evil spirit presonifying death.

Cockatrice
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 1474 a Basel cock was sentenced to death for laying an egg!

Coyote
In North American Indian mythology, Coyote is the trickster deity who assumes innumerable names and forms. It is believed that it was his desire to make the life of man more interesting, which caused the creation of sickness, sorrow, and death. Destructive natural phenomena, as well as inventions which are of benefit to mankind, are believed to be the outcome of Coyote's creative but mischievous power.

Cupay
In Inca mythology, Cupay (or Supay) was a death-god whose speciality was to snatch babies at the moment of birth. His attentions could be wareded off by sacrificing live children to him.

Dagon
Dagon was the god of the Philistines. He had the upper torso of a man and the tail of a fish.

Dakaki
In Hausa mythology, the Dakaki is a serpant spirit which causes the evil eye resulting in stomach ulcers.

Dama
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.

Dama dagenda
In Huli mythology, dama dagenda are evil forest-spirits that attack travellers making their noses bleed and giving them sores.

Danhyang Desa
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.

Datagaliwabe
In Huli mythology, Datagaliwabe is a giant who punishes offences against kinship laws with illness, fatal accidents or death in battle.

Dayunsi
In Cherokee mythology, Dayunsi made the earth. In the days when no worlds existed but sky and ocean, all iving things were crammed together in sky, and were crying out for living space. Dayunsi alone lived in the ocean and dived to the bottom and brough up a speck of mud which the Powerful One, the Creator, hung from the sky on ropes one at each compass point. As soon as the earth was dry the creatures of sky let themselves down on ropes to tenant it.

Dazhbog
In Slavic mythology, Dazhbog (Dabog or Dadzbog) was the sun, the giver of happiness, justice, success and wealth.

Degei
In Fijian mythology, Degei is the serpant-god in the Kauvadra hills who interogates the souls of the dead and punishes the souls of lazy people while rewarding those of hard working people.

Dharmapalas
In Tibetan Buddhism, the Dharmapalas were eight giant warriors who defended the True Path against demons. Their heads extended from horizon to horizon and were equipped with razor sharp fangs, tongues of fire and a third eye in the midle of their forehead which seared all enemies of Truth with the light of perfect knowledge.

Di Jun
In Chinese mythology, Di Jun was the ruler of the eastern sky. He lived in a palace built in the branches of a mulberry tree and in the lower branches roosted his children, the ten suns.

Dido
Dido was a Phoenician princess. The legendary founder of Carthage, she committed suicide to avoid marrying a local prince.

Dievas
In Baltic mythology, Dievas was the father of the gods.

Digawina
In the mythology of Melanesia, Digawina is a demoness who steals food and stuffs it into her enormous vagina.

Dilwica
In Polish mythology, Dilwica was a hunting goddes, beautiful, radiant and unapproachable.

Dinditane
In Huli mythology, Dinditane is a fertility god of gardening.

Djanggau
In Australian mythology, Djanggau with Her sister Djunkgao, are dual fertility goddess who brought forth all life in the beginning.

Dunawali
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.

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.

Dzivaguru
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.

Eblis
In Islamic mythology, Eblis (Iblis) is the chief of the evil spirits, the equivalent of the Christian Satan. His original name was Azazil or Haris

Echidne
In Libyan mythology, Echidne (She-Viper) is part beauteous woman and part speckled serpent. She is a goddess of death, the underworld and prophesy.

Eeyeekalduk
In Eskimo mythology, Eeyeekalduk is a god of healing. He is depicted as a tiny old man, whose face was a speck of jet and who lived inside a pebble. He cured people by looking at them, drawing the sickness out along his line of sight.

Ekkekko
In Quecha mythology, Ekkekko is the god of good fortune.

El
In Canaanite mythology, El was the father of the gods.

Eve
In Syrian mythology, Eve is a life-giving goddess. The creatrix of all manifested forms, the mother womb and instructress of humanity.

Fatima
In Syrian Arab mythology, Fatima is the great goddess of the moon and fate. The source of the Sun and the virgin Queen of Heaven. She is represented as the Tree of Paradise.

Finweigh
In Bilan mythology, Finweigh was the god who with Melu made man.

Forso
In Gururumba mythology, the forso are ghosts of the dead. They are tiresome attracting attention and causing accidents and illness.

Fuji
In Japanese mythology, Fuji is the goddess of Mount Fuji and its rocks. She is the one to whose peak pilgrims climb to worship the rising sun.

Fura-Chogue
In Colombian mythology, Fura-Chogue is the first mother. The Spirit of the waters and goddess of vegetation and harvest. She is the teacher of order and peace.

Ga-oh
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.

Gans
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.

Gayomart
In Zoroastrianism, Gayomart was the first man, whose seed was buried in the earth for 40 years and then produced the first human couple.

Geyaguga
In Cherokee mythology, Geyaguga is the moon spirit.

Gilgamesh
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.

Gnomes
The Gnomes are elementals evolved in the realm of Earth.

hology, Gohone is the spirit of winter.

Great Head
In Iroquois mythology, Great Head was a malevolent enormous head poised on slender legs dwelling on a rugged rock.

Gu
In Fon mythology, Gu was a blacksmith-god who took not human form but the shape of a tool. At the beginning of creation his parent, Mawu-Lisa, made him in the form of a trowel, using him to mould human beings from the celestial dung-heap. When mortals were establishing themselves on earth. Mawu-Lisa changed Gu's shape to that of a metal blade embedded in a rock, and sent him to earth to teach humans how to make and use tools of their own.

Guanyin
In Chinese mythology, Guanyin is the goddess of mercy.

Gudratrigakwitl
In the myths of the Wiyot people of Northern California, Gudratrigakwitl
created the universe by the unusual method of putting his hands together and then spreading the palms and fingers wide, like wings. The whole created world lies safe between these outspread hands, and despite the evil and cruelty it contains, in his benevolence he has never yet been moved to clap them together and end it.

Guebres
The Guebres were Persian fire worshippers.

Ha Wen Neyu
In Iroquois mythology, Ha Wen Neyu is the great spirit.

Hadad
In Canaanite mythology, Hadad was the god of thunder and lightning.

Hafoza
In Jate mythology, Hafoza is the god of thunder and lightning.

Haiuri
In Hottentot mythology, Haiuri is the messenger of death. It was a half being with one arm, one leg, one ear, one eye and half invisible which hopped after its victims and carried them in its half mouth to the underworld.

Hanghepi
In Dakota mythology, Hanghepi is the spirit of the night moon.

Hantu Air
In Malaysian mythology, Hantu Air is the god of the sea.

Haoma
In Iranian mythology, Haoma was the son of Mazda and the physician to the gods and could be prevailed upon to come to dearth to cure mortal disease and drive out sin.

Hastsehogan
In Navajo mythology, Hastsehogan is the god of houses.

Hastseltsi
In Navajo mythology, Hastseltsi is the god of racing.

Hastsezini
In Navajo mythology, Hastsezini is the fire-god.

Hau
In Maori mythology, Hau is the god of wind.

Haumea
In Hawaiin mythology, Haumea is the goddess of procreation and childbirth.

Heammawihio
In Cheyenne mythology, Heammawihio is the great spirit.

Heise
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.

Heitsi-eibid
In Khoisi mythology, Heitsi-eibid is a hero. The son of a cow and of the grass she had eaten, he is renowned as a magician, hunter, and fearless fighter. Heitsi-eibid rid the Khoisi tribe of the monster Ga-gorib. Although allegedly killed on numerous occasions, he is believed to resurrect himself.

Heng
In Huron mythology, Heng is the god of thunder.

Herabe
In Huli mythology, Herabe is a god who causes insanity.

Hidesato
In Japanese legends, Hidesato is a fearless hero who killed the centipede and other monsters.

Hino
In Iroquois mythology, Hino is the thunder god, guardian of the skies.

Hiribi
In Canaanite mythology, Hiribi was the goddess of summer.

Hiro
In Easter Island mythology, Hiro is the god of rain and fertility.

Ho-Hsien-Ku
In Chinese mythology, Ho-Hsien-Ku is the virgin of the mountains, agility, immortality and mother reverence. She is one of the `eight immortals'.

Hokewingla
In Dakota mythology, Hokewingla is a turtle spirit who lives in the moon.

Hokhma
In Syrian mythology, Hokhma is the goddess of spiritual transformation. The mother of the stars and the inspiration of philosophers.

Holawaka
In Galla mythology, Holawaka was the messenger between heaven and earth.

Honabe
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.

Honoyeta
In Papua New Guinean mythology, Honoyeta was the demon who brought mortality to human beings. he had two wives, who mated with him as an enormous snake. But when they went to work each morning, he shed his snakeskin, became a handsome human and enjoyed sex with every pretty girl he found. One day the wives found out and burned his snakeskin. Honoyeta, condemned to human form for the rest of eternity, retaliated by introducing death to mankind.

Hoturu
In Pawnee mythology, Hoturu is the wind spirit.

Hou-T'u
In Chinese mythology, Hou-T'u is the goddess of the planet; Origin of people and all creation. She is the matron of the soil and its fertility.

Houris
In Islamic mythology the Houris were dark-eyed females who provided sexual services for the glorious male dead in paradise. There were seventy-ywo of them attending each man and their virginity was endlessly renewed.

Hu
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.

Huang Gun
In Chinese mythology, Huang Gun is a god of incense. He conceived the idea of burning incense.

Huitaca
In Chibcha mythology, Huitaca is the beautiful goddess of drunkeness and licentiousness.

Iamanja
In Brazilian mythology, Iamanja is the goddess of the sea. A merciful answerer of prayers and she whose waters salve the wounded spirit.

Idlirvirissong
In Eskimo mythology, Idlirvirissong is an evil spirit.

Ifa
Ifa is the Yoruba god of wisdom, knowledge and divining.

Igaluk
In Eskimo mythology, Igaluk is the moon spirit.

Iki-Ryo
In Japanese mythology, Iki-Ryo is a spirit of anger and jealousy which does harm to other people.

Ilara
In Tiwi mythology, Ilara is the underworld.

Imana
In Banyarwanda mythology Imana was the creator and supporter of the universe. He ruled all living beings, and guaranteed them immortality by hunting Death, a savage wild animal. When he was hunting, his orders were that everything in creation was to stay in hiding, so that Death would have no refuge. But one day in the quiteness of the hunt, an old woman crept out to hoe her vegetable garden - and Death hid under her skirt and was taken inside with her. Imana tried a second way of cheating Death by telling the old woman's relatives to bury her body but leave cracks in the earth above her, so that she could hear him calling her back to life. But the old woman's daughter-in-law who hated her, filled the cracks with earth and banged the surface hard with her pounding stick - and Death became endemic.

Ina
In Polynesian mythology, Ina (Hina) is a two-faced great goddess of the sea, healing and death. She is an enchanting tapa-beating woman of the moon.

Inari
In Japanese mythology, Inari is both the god of food and the goddess of rice. Inari is both male and female and takes both forms.

Incubus
In folk-lore, the Incubus were male spirits who raped women during their sleep, producing Witches and Demons as offspring.

Inti
In Inca mythology, Inti is the sun god.

Isitoq
In Eskimo mythology, Isitoq is a spirit who helps to find people who have broken taboos.

Ituana
In Amazon mythology, Ituana is the great goddess of the Amazon river. She is the many-breasted foster mother of the earth's innumerable children.

Iyatiku
In Keres mythology, Iyatiku is the earth mother. A Counselor and she who welcomes us home when we cast off our coil of flesh.

Jen-Shen
In Chinese mythology, Jen-Shen is a divine Shehe of man. The creator of thought, language, music and civilizations.

Jezanna
In Zimbabwean mythology, Jezanna is a glowing goddess of the golden moon, abundant crops, healthy children and plentiful cattle.

Jikininki
In Japanese mythology, jikininki are the spirits of dead people whose greed prevented their souls from entering a more peaceful existence after death and who lead a half-life by eating corpses.

Jinn
In Muslim mythology, a jinn is a spirit which is able to assume human or animal shape. They are supposed to have been created out of fire and maybe either good or bad and may be controlled by man by the use of Talismans.

Jogah
In Iroquois mythology, jogah are dwarf nature spirits.

Jubchas-Guaya
In Colombian mythology, Jubchas-Guaya was the rebellious, light-hearted, wild and lovely goddess of the moon, love, happiness and intoxication.

Jumala
In Finnish mythology, Jumala was the first sky god. He had no shape or identity, but was a creative impulse only.

Jyestha
In Dravidian mythology, Jyestha was the goddess of the cosmic energy which motivates evolution. She who dances the dance of life.

Kachina
In Pueblo Indian mythology, a kachina is a deified ancestral spirit.

Kadlu
In eskimo mythology, the Kadlu were three sisters who lived in the sky and made thunder and lightning by scrubbing sealskins together.

Kagutsuchi
In Japanese mythology, Kagutsuchi is the spirit of fire, the god of destructive and purifying fire, and of summer heat. When he was born he scorched the vagina of his mother Izanami so badly that she died. His father cut him into five pieces, and as his blood hit the ground it became five mountain spirits. Just like fire he rekindled himself and settled on the peak of Mount Atago.

Kahit
In Wintun mythology, Kahit is the wind god.

Kala
In Javanese and Balinese mythology, Kala is the god of time and death. He would appear to people when they were due to die.

Kalamainu
In Polynesian mythology, Kalamainu and Kilioa are two lizard women who keep the souls of the dead imprisoned.

Kalunga
In Ndonga mythology, Kalunga is the creator of all things, the supreme god.

Kalvaitis
In Lithuanian mythology, Kalvaitis was the blacksmith god who each day remade the sun disc, sending it red-hot across the sky.

Kanati
In Cherokee mythology, Kanati was the first man and ancestor of the Cherokee. He was married to Selu.

Kapo
In Hawaiin mythology, Kapo is a fertility god.

Kathirat
In Canaanite mythology, the Kathirat were the wise goddesses.

Kelpie
In Scottish mythology, a Kelpie is a being sometimes described as having the appearance of a man, and in that guise wooing maidens; and at other times resembling a shaggy horse. It is associated with the sea and with rivers, and was believed to proclaim the fate of those about to be drowned.

Keneun
In Iroquois mythology, Keneun is chief of the Thunderbirds. He is an invisible spirit. Thunder is the sound of his beating wings and lightning his flashing eyes.

Kerana
In Guarani mythology, Kerana is the goddess of sleep.

Khuno
In Aymara mythology, Khuno is the god of snowstorms.

Kianda
In Angolan mythology, Kianda is the god of the sea and the fish in it.

Kinie Ger
In Australian Aborigine mythology, Kinie Ger was a ruthless and murderous beast with the head and body of a cat but the limbs of a man who went around killing innocent people, animals and birds. He was killed by the owl and the crow who ambushed him when he came to drink at a water hole.

Kishi
In Angolan folklore, a Kishi is an evil spirit. It is a demon with two faces on its head. One face resembles that of a normal man, and the other is the face of a hyena with big strong teeth and powerful jaw muscles.

Kostrubonko
In Russian mythology, Kostrubonko is god of the spring.

Kothar-u-Khasis
In Canaanite mythology, Kothar-u-Khasis was the god of craftsmanship.

Kotoamatsukami
In Japanese mythology, Kotoamatsukami were the first five powers which came spontaneously into existence at the time of the creation of the universe. They were: Amenominakanushi (Sky), Takamimusubi (High Producer), Kamimusubi (Divine Producer), Umashiashikabihikoji (Reed) and Amenotokotachi (Heaven).

Kui
In Chinese mythology, Kui was the god who brought success in examinations. Originally he was a mortal youth who combined vast intelligence with a face so ugly that although he came top in the civil service exams, the Emperor refused to employ him, where upon he killed himself and the gods set him in the sky as a star, overseeing all examination candidates.

Kul
In Siryan mythology, the Kul were monsters - half fish and half human - which lurked at the bottom of lakes, and whose progeny infested wells, poisoning the water unless they were appeased. The Kul were susceptible to both singing and flattery, so they could be won over with songs of praise.

Kumush
In Modoc mythology, Kumush (Kemush) was the being that brought human beings to earth as bones from the spirit world which when scattered across the earth became the various peoples.

Kuri
In Hausa mythology, Kuri is a black hyena spirit who causes paralysis.

Kuu
In Finnish mythology, Kuu was the moon formed from the whites of the celestial duck-eggs laid in the crook of Luonnotar's knee. Kuu's light streamed across the world, glittering on the ice-fields and these glitters passing into the ground as silver.

Kwai-Yin
In Chinese mythology, Kwai-Yin is the wife of Shang Te. She is the mother of mothers, a goddess with a thousand arms and sits upon a throne made of the sacred Lotus.

Kyai Blorong
In Javanese mythology, Kyai Blorong is a servant of the Sea-Goddess. He has a fish tail and 1,000 arms and legs and is covered in golden scales. he lives in a palace on the sea-bed with a roof made of skeletons held aloft by pillars of living men, these men being the worse sinners who have become prisoners of their own greed.

Laima
Laima was the Baltic goddess of good luck. Originally she and her sisters Karta and Dekla controlled the destinies of all living things, and her particular function was to choose the moment of death.

Land of Cockaigne
The Land of Cockaigne is an imaginary Utopia in mediaeval legend where a life of luxury and idleness was possible. Cockaigne was a gourmand's paradise where the rivers flowed wine and the houses were made of cake and the pavements of pastry.

Leshy
In Slavic mythology, the Leshy (Ljeschi) was the spirit of the forest. he was jealous of his forest kingdom and tried to lose travellers in its depth. He could change his shape but could always be recognised by his face which remained blue.

Libanza
In Upoto mythology, Libanza is the creator. He created the sky and the gods that inhabit it, and the sun that contains the fire of life, then he made the moon, the earth and all its inhabitants. He made all people equal, but calling them together the Earth people dawdled and Libanza gave the moon people immortality and sent the Earth people death. However, the moon people begged him to change his mind and he relented sufficiently to grant Earth people immortality in his Heaven, but only after they had served a lifetime of pain and toil on earth.

Lilith
In Hebrew mythology, Lilith is a female demon hostile to children and to adults sleeping alone.

Limu
Limu is the Polynesian god of the dead.

Lisa
In Fon mythology, Lisa is the sun god who causes the day and its heat. He is the god of strength and endurance.

Long Hand of Huemac
In Toltec mythology, the long hand of Huemac represents the sun's rays.

Long Wang
In Chinese mythology, Long Wang was a god of water and the bringer of rain. When he appeared to humans he borrowed shape from a variety of Earth's creatures and was generous to mortals.

Losi
In Samoan mythology, Losi is the son of the creator Tangaloa. He was sent to earth with the taro as a present to the people, and as its protective god.

Lubangala
In Bakongo mythology, Lubangala is the protector of villages, men and the souls of the dead. He appears as a rainbow during and after storms.

Mahatara
Mahatara is the supreme god of the Dayaks. He remains aloof from humans, and when sacrificial food is set out for him sends his falcon, Antang, to collect it and bring it to the High Heavens where Mahatara enjoys the spirit of the food.

Mamlambo
In Zulu mythology, Mamlambo is the godess of the rivers.

Manabozho
In North American Indian mythology, Manabozho is a mischievious giant.

Mangalubulan
In Batak mythology, Mangalubulan is the god of thieves.

Mara
In Buddhism, the Mara is a supernatural being who tried to distract Buddha from the meditations which led to his enlightenment.

Marduk
Marduk was the Babylonian sun god, creator of Earth and humans.

Mbombo
In Zaire mythology, Mbombo is the White Giant who rules over the chaos of the universe and one day from his stomach comes the sun, the moon and the stars, and soon after the trees, animals and people of the earth.

Metempsychosis
Metempsychosis is the transmigration of the soul after death through the bodies of lower animals, plants or inanimate objects. Also called reincarnation.

Mithras
Mithras was the Persian god of light. Mithras represented the power of goodness, and promised his followers compensation for present evil after death. He was said to have captured and killed the sacred bull, from whose blood all life sprang. Mithraism was introduced into the Roman Empire in 68 BC. By about AD 250, it rivaled Christianity in strength. A bath in the blood of a sacrificed bull formed part of the initiation ceremony of the Mithraic cult, which spread rapidly, gaining converts especially among soldiers.

Modimo
In Zimbabwean mythology, Modimo was totality. He was all supernatural powers rolled into one and was so powerful that anyone speaking his name - except shamens, prophets and small children (because they are innocent) - were changed into spirits known as Badimos who had no spiritual or ethical identity, effectively children in adult bodies.

Mokosh
In Slav mythology, Mokosh or Makosh was a goddess of fertility widely worshipped north of the Black Sea. She made sure that semen was rich in sperm, and protected women and lambs during birth. With the encroachment of Christianity, her functions were passed to the Virgin Mary.

Molech
Molech was the tribal deiy of the Ammonites.

Monai
In Guarani mythology, Monai was god of the countryside and the air.

Mot
In Canaanite mythology, Mot was the god of sterility.

Mujaji
In Lovedu mythology, Mujaji is the Rain Queen. The character was the source of Rider Haggard's novel She published in 1887. According to Lovedu myth, Mujaji was the descendant of Mambo, a 17th-century king of Zimbabwe, whose daughter had fled south with his rain charm and sacred beads to found the Lovedu tribe. The Lovedu were ruled by a succession of queens called Mujaji, all believed to have power over the rain.

Nakir and Munkar
In Islam, Nakir and Munkar are the two angels who interrogate newly buried corpses about the Prophet Muhammad. Those who answer correctly are said to receive air from Paradise, while incorrect responses are met with beatings and ever-increasing pressure by the angels on the grave of the corpse.

Nantena
In Tinneh mythology, nantenas are a kind of spirit or fairies which inhabit the earth, sea and air and are responsible for both good and evil.

Nareau
In Gilbertese mythology, Nareau was the creator. Entering the primordial darkness, he created out of sand and water two beings, Na Atibu and Nei Teukez. From their union sprang the gods. The world of men and women was created from the dismembered parts of Na Atibu's body.

Ndara
In the mythology of Sulawesi Island, Ndara is the god of the underworld.

Nergal
Nergal was the Babylonian god of the underworld. He was represented by the figure of a winged lion with a human head.
In Mesopotamian mythology, Nergal was amorality personified and symbolized the unpredictability and risk in mortal life, and in particular brought death.
In Assyrian mythology, Nergal was the god of hunting and warfare. It was the Assyrians who first assigned the planet Mars to this god.

Ngendi
In Fiji mythology, Ngendi is a fertility god who showed men the use of fire.

Ni
In Huli mythology, the god Ni is the sole cause of leprosy.

Obatala
In Yoruba mythology, Obatala was the son of Olodumare. He created makind from the earth.

Olorun
In Nigerian mythology, Olorun is the god of the sky.

Omphale
In Lydian mythology, Omphale is a goddess of the earth, rebirth & augury. The universal womb and the hub of life.

Omuli
In Nande folklore, an Omuli is a woman or girl who consumes the soul of a living person, and causes that person to die of consumption.

Ostara
In Saxon mythology, Ostara was the goddess of sunrise and the east. The ruler of the vernal equinox and earth's springtime burgeoning.

Pinga
In Eskimo mythology, Pinga is a female spirit who watches carefully over men's actions, especially their treatment of animals.

Poia
In Blackfoot mythology, Poia was the son of the Morning Star and the mortal woman Soatsaki. The Morning Star took Soatsaki to the court of his father the Sun in Heaven, hoping to grant her immortality. But she preferred Earth to Heaven and the Sun, insulted, sent her back to Earth to bear her son, and then let her die. The child was born with a port-wine birthmark- hence his name - and grew up with the Blackfoot people. He asked to marry the chiefs daughter, but was rejected as 'blemished'. He set out to find his grandfather the Sun and ask for help, leaving the land and walking West across the sea on the path made by the Sun's reflection on the water. In Heaven he rescued his father Morning Star from seven birds of darkness, and the Sun rewarded him by removing his birthmark. He hurried down to Earth, along the Milky Way, and took his mortal beloved back into Heaven just as his father had fetched his mother there long before.

Poludnitsa
In Slavic and Russian mythology, Poludnitsa was a mischievous spirit who tormented people working in the fields, especially at midday in summer. She pinched them and pulled their hair, and if they failed to greet her politely, she took their children into the standing corn and lost them.

Puckowe
In Australian Aborigine folk-lore, Puckowe is the Grandmother spirit who lives in the sky and comes to the aid of medicine men.

Qi Yu
In Chinese mythology, Qi Yu is the rain god. He was the son, grandson or chief minister of Shen Nong. He was half bull and half giant and his head was fronted with iron.

Raicho
In Japanese mythology, Raicho is the Thunder-Bird. It looks like a rook and lives in a pine tree but makes a terrifying noise.

Raiden
In Japanese mythology, Raiden is the god of thunder. He is depicted with claws, a red skin and a demon's head.

Raiju
In Japanese mythology, Raiju is a demon of lightning. He is depicted as a badger, cat or a weasel. During thunderstorms he becomes agitated and jumps from tree to tree and likes to hide in people's navels.

Raja Angin
Raja Angin is the Malaysian Wind-God.

Raja Guru
In Batak mythology, Raja Guru is the gods' huntsman. He catches souls with his hounds Sordaudau and Auto Portburu. When he catches a soul that person dies suddenly.

Raja Indainda
In Batak mythology, Raja Indainda is the thunder god. He is the spy and messenger of the other gods.

Raja Jinn Peri
In Malay mythology, Raja Jinn Peri is the King of the Fairies.

Raka
in Polynesian mythology, Raka is the God of the Winds.

Rati-mbati-ndua
In Fiji mythology, Rati-mbati-ndua is the god of the underworld who devours the dead. He lacks arms, but has great wings.

Rauni
In Finnish mythology, Rauni (Mountain-Ash) was a goddess of air, clouds, thunder, life-giving rain and plant life. She who oversees the harvest.

Rozanica
In Slavic mythology, Rozanica is a white clothed and glistening goddess who comes at birth to prophesy the fate of the child.

Rupave
In Guarani mythology, Rupave was the first man, the father of the whole human race.

Rusalky
In Slavic mythology, Rusalky is a multiple goddess of spring and summer's plant growth. She is a water-sprite who lives in streams.

Sabians
The Sabians were a sect which arose about 830 and who followed a religion of the ancient Syrians modified by Hellenic influences.

Sajara
Sajara is the Rainbow-god of the Songhai people of eastern Mali. He is represented by a forked tree where a white ram is sacrificed to him.

Salamanders
The Salamanders are elementals evolved in the realm of Fire.

Shang Te
In Chinese mythology, Shang Te (or Shang Di) was the supreme being. He personified the power which generates life and causes growth.

Shango
In Yoruba mythology, Shango is an earth god. He was the King of Oyo, but because his citizens were dissatisfied with his tyranical rule he rode off into the forest and rose up into heaven where he became a god of thunder and lightning. He is the god of justice and fair play.

Shapash
In Caananite mythology, Shapash is the sun goddess.

Shing-moo
In Chinese mythology, Shing-moo was a nature goddess. She was the mother of perfect intelligence, and gave birth to a saviour son through an immaculate conception.

Shito Dama
In Japanese mythology, Shito Dama is an astral spirit. It is shaped like a fireball and is bright red in colour.

Sisiutl
In Kwakiutl and Bella Coola mythology (north-west Canada) Sisiutl was a water-snake with three heads: snake, human and snake. Its skin was so tough that no knife could pierce it and only a holly-leaf had sufficient magic. Sisiutl lived in a pool behind the home of the sky-goddess Qamaits, and could be seduced from it down to earth by magic rituals - to help or to harm people depending upon the kind of magic.

Sodza
In Hua mythology, Sodza is the great god who lives in heaven and to whom the priests pray for rain.

Sogbo
In Fon mythology, Sogbo is the god of thunder, lightning and fire.

Succubus
In folk-lore, Succubus were female spirits who seduced men and had intercourse with them whilst they slept.

Sussistanako
In Pueblo mythology, Sussistanako (Thinking-Woman) is a goddess of creation. A spider woman and a spirit and power of intelligence. She who thinks into being.

Sutalidihi
In Cherokee mythology, Sutalidihi is the sun-spirit.

Sylphs
The Sylphs are elementals evolved in the realm of Air.

Tahit
In Tlingit mythology, Tahit is the god of fate.

Taio
In Lakalai mythology, Taio is the moon goddess.

Takuskanskan
In Dakota mythology, Takuskanskan is the wind-spirit and trickster.

Tau
In Guarani mythology, Tau is the spirit of evil.

Taxet
In Haida mythology, Taxet is a sky-god who receives the souls of those who die by violence.

Tcolawitze
In Hopi mythology, Tcolawitze is the fire-spirit.

Teju-Jagua
In Guarani mythology, Teju-Jagua was a great lizard with seven dog heads. He was master of the caves and protector of the fruits.

Thardid Jimbo
In Australian mythology, Thardid Jimbo is a seven feet tall giant who lives in a cave and every morning goes hunting for food.

Tihugun
In Tinneh mythology, Tihugun is a good spirit who resides in the sun and the moon.

Tirawa
In Pawnee mythology, Tirawa created the world in the shape of a bowl floating in space. He gave the stars the task of supporting the world and protecting it. He ordered the Moon and Sun to mate and produce a son and he ordered the Evening and Morning stars to mate and produce a daughter, these became the parents of the human race.

Tom Thumb
In English folk tales, Tom Thumb is a tiny man. An old, childless couple wish for a son and are granted a thumb-sized boy. After many adventures he becomes a brave, miniature knight at the court of King Arthur.

Troglodyte
Troglodyte is a Greek term for a cave dweller, designating certain peoples in the ancient world. The
troglodytes of south Egypt and Ethiopia were a pastoral people.

Tule
In Zande mythology, Tule is the Spider god who brought from heaven the seeds of all the plants on earth which he scattered in all the countries.

Tuonela
In Finnish mythology, Tuonela was the underworld, a place tenanted by diseases and corpse-eating monsters in which every concept of the upper world was reversed.

Tupan
In Guarani mythology, Tupan was the son of the sky-goddess. When a flood swamped the universe he escaped by climbing a tree. Every day thereafter, he set out in his canoe to visit his mother, and the splashing of his paddles was heard by humans as thunder.

Tvashtri
In Vedic mythology, Tvashtri was the craftsman-god. In the earliest myths he was thought to contain the seeds of everything in creation and to grant them existence as he chose: he was thus the universal creator, the single principle from which all arose. He was regarded as the god of human fertility, giving people embryos and supervising the birth of healthy children.

Tzi-daltai
In Apache mythology, tzi-daltai are charms or fetishes carved from the wood of trees struck by lightning into a semblance of a human being and worn for good luck.

Uke-Mochi-No-Kami
In Japanese mythology, Uke-Mochi-No-Kami is the goddess of fertility and nourishment. The provider, through death, of life sustaining substances.

Ulala
In Haida mythology, Ulala was a man-eating ogress.

Uma
In Balinese mythology, Uma is the Rice-Goddess who causes the rice to germinate in the ground.

Una-Kuagsak
In Inuit mythology, Una-Kuagsak is the one-eyed Queen goddess of the Arctic Ocean. Mistress of life and death. The mother of sea-mammals.

Undines
The Undines are elementals evolved in the realm of Water.

Unicorn
The unicorn is a mythical horse with a straight horn projecting from the forehead.

Vainamoinen
In Finnish mythology, Vainamoinen was the son of the fertilizing sea and the creation-goddess Luonnotar. He spent 700 years reaching maturity in Luonnotar's womb, and a further 30 years as a grown man sitting there, becoming ever more bored and shouting vainly to the sun and stars to help him. But the sun and stars could not hear him and Luonnotar, innocent of sex and childbirth, had no idea she was even pregnant. Finally in desperation, Vainamoinen began hauling himself hand over hand out of her womb and clambered out of her before swimming ashore to the country that was to become Finland. He began clearing land for farming using magic as he had no tools. He fought, and defeated the giant Joukahainen using his magic.

Vampire
In Slav mythology, a Vampire is an undead corpse which lives by drinking the blood of the living.

Vete-Ema
In Finnish mythology, Vete-Ema is the goddess of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers and streams, the spirit of water and Queen of aquatic life.

Waitiri
In Maori mythology, Waitiri is a goddess who descended to earth, married a human and taught man how to fish with barbs.

Wakinyan
In Dakota mythology, Wakinyan is the thunder-spirit.

Wakonda
In Sioux mythology, Wakonda is the Great Spirit.

Walpurgisnacht
Walpurgisnacht is the German festival celebrated on May the 1st. It is the time when the witches of Central Europe rendezvous in the Harz Mountains, circling around the bare peak of the Brocken plotting evil. The festival is named after Saint Walburga.

Watu Gunung
In Javanese mythology, Watu Gunung was a king who unwittingly married his own mother.

Whowie
In Australian Aborigine mythology, the Whowie is the most terrible creature in existence. twenty feet long with six legs and the head of a frog and a tail. He would attack and devour anything that came his way.

Woo
In Australian mythology, Woo was a strange man like creature with a single arm formed from two arms and a single leg formed from two legs. He was an expert marksman and adept at balance.

Yagis
In Kwakiutl mythology, Yagis is a sea monster that overturns canoes and eats their crews.

Yarikh
In Canaanite mythology, Yarikh was the moon god.

Yata
In Japanese mythology, yata is the star-mirror of the sun goddess.

Zu
In Babylonian mythology, Zu is an evil lesser-god who steals the tablets of destiny from Enlil while he was washing, and flies away to his mountain. He was killed by Lugalbanda who was sent by the gods to retrieve the tables of destiny.