Deities

This thread consists of the individual threads on deities that are within the coven's forums as a way of cleaning the place up without destroying any information on them.

Rather than copying and pasting this particular thread I thought it would be more beneficial to keep the old post and just post a link.

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Encyclopedia:

Posted by Florence_ (Nov 15, 2009) :

Just A Reference Thing To Look At When You Need It.
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Ivan Bilibin's Alkonost
? Bao A Qu (Malay) - Entity that lives in the Tower of Victory in Chitor
Aatxe (Basque) - Spirit that takes the form of a bull
Abassy (Yakuts) - Demons that have teeth of iron
Abada (African) - Small type of unicorn reported to live in the lands of the African Congo
?b?d? (Tatar) - Forest spirit
Abaia (Melanesian) - Huge magical eel
Abarimon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage humanoid with backward feet
Abath (Malay) - One-horned animal
Abatwa (Zulu) - Little people that ride ants
Abura-b (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Shiga Prefecture, in which the shape of a monk can often be seen
Abura-sumashi (Japanese) - creature from a mountain pass in Kumamoto Prefecture
Acephali (Greek) - Headless humanoids
Acheri (Indian) - Disease-bringing ghost
Achiyalabopa (Puebloan) - Rainbow-feathered birds
Achlis (Roman) - Curious elk
Adar Llwch Gwin (Welsh) - Giant birds that understand human languages
Adaro (Solomon Islands) - Malevolent merfolk
Adhene (Manx) - Nature spirit
Adlet (Inuit) - Vampiric dog-human hybrid
Adroanzi (Lugbara) - Nature spirit
Adze (Ewe people) - African vampiric forest being
Aerico (Macedonian) - Disease demon
Afanc (Welsh) - Lake monster (exact lake varies by story)
Agathodaemon (Greek) - Spirit of vinefields and grainfields
Agloolik (Inuit) - Ice spirit that aids hunters and fishermen
Agogwe (East Africa) - Small, ape-like humanoid
Ahkiyyini (Inuit) - Animated skeleton that causes shipwrecks
Ahuizotl (Aztec) - Anthropophagous dog-monkey hybrid
Aigamuxa (Khoikhoi) - Anthropophagous humanoid with eyes in its instep
Aigikampoi (Etruscan) - Fish-tailed goat
Aigamuxa (Khoikhoi) - Man-eating Ogres
Aitu (Polynesian) - Malevolent spirits or demons
Aitvaras (Lithuanian) - Household spirit
Ajatar (Finnish) - Dragon
Akabeko (Japanese) - Red cow involved in the construction of Enz-ji in Yanaizu, Fukushima
Akamataa (Japanese) - Snake spirit from Okinawa
Akateko (Japanese) - Tree-dwelling monster
Akhlut (Inuit) - Orca-wolf shapeshifter
Akka (Finnish) - Female spirits or minor goddesses
Akki (Japanese) - Large, grotesque humanoid
Akkorokamui (Ainu) - Sea monster
Akuma (Japanese) - Evil spirit
Akupara (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
Akurojin-no-hi (Japanese) - Ghostly flame which causes disease
Al (Armenian and Persian) - Spirit that steals unborn babies and livers from pregnant women
Ala (Slavic) - Bad weather demon
Alal (Chaldean) - Demon
Alan (Philippine) - Winged humanoid that steals reproductive waste to make children
Al Basti (Turkish) - Female night-demon
Alce (Heraldic) - Wingless griffin
Alicanto (Chilean) - Bird that eats gold and silver
Alicorn - Technically a unicorn's horn. In modern times is commonly misapplied to winged unicorns
Alkonost (Slavic) - Angelic bird with human head and breasts
Allocamelus (Heraldic) - Ass-camel hybrid
Allu (Akkadian and Sumerian) - Faceless demon
Almas (Mongolian) - Savage humanoid
Al-mi'raj (Islamic) - One-horned rabbit
Aloja (Catalan) - Female water spirit
Alom-bag-winno-sis (Abenaki) - Little people and tricksters
Alp (German) - Male night-demon
Alphyn (Heraldic) - Lion-like creature, sometimes with dragon or goat forelegs
Alp-luachra (Irish) - Parasitic fairy
Al Rakim (Islamic) - Guard dog of the Seven Sleepers
Alseid (Greek) - Grove nymph
Al? (Assyrian) - Leprous demon
Alux (Mayan) - Little people
Amaburakosagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Shikoku
Amala (Tsimshian) - Giant who holds up the world
Amamehagi (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Hokuriku
Amanojaku (Japanese) - Small demon
Amarok (Inuit) - Giant wolf
Amarum (Quechua) - Water boa spirit
Amazake-babaa (Japanese) - Disease-causing hag
Amemasu (Ainu) - Lake monster
Amornagu (Japanese) - Tennyo from the island of Amami shima
Amphiptere (Heraldic) - Winged serpent
Amphisbaena (Greek) - Serpent with a head at each end
Anakim (Jewish) - Giant
Androsphinx (Ancient Egyptian) - Human-headed sphinx
Angel (Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Zoroastrian) - Heavenly being, usually depicted as a winged humanoid.
Angha (Persian) - Dog-lion-peacock hybrid
Ani Hyuntikwalaski (Cherokee) - Lightning spirit
Ankou (French) - Skeletal grave watcher with a lantern and a scythe.
Anmo (Japanese) - Ritual disciplinary demon from Iwate Prefecture
Antaeus (Greek) - A giant who was extremely strong as long as he remained in contact with the ground
Antero Vipunen (Finnish) - Subterranean giant
Ao Ao (Guaran?) - Anthropophagous peccary or sheep
Aobzu (Japanese) - Blue monk who kidnaps children
Apkallu (Sumerian) - Fish-human hybrid that attends the god Enki
Apsaras (Buddhist and Hindu) - Female cloud spirit
Aqrabuamelu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
Ardat-Lili (Akkadian) - Disease demon
Argus Panoptes (Greek) - Hundred-eyed giant
Arikura-no-baba (Japanese) - Old woman with magical powers
Arimaspi (Greek) - One-eyed humanoid
Arion (Greek) - Extremely swift horse with a green mane and the power of speech
Arkan Sonney (Manx) - Fairy hedgehog
Asag (Sumerian) - Hideous rock demon
Asakku (Sumerian) - Demon
Asanbosam (West Africa) - Iron-toothed vampire
Asena (Turkic) - Blue-maned wolf
A-senee-ki-wakw (Abenaki) - Stone-giant
Ashi-magari (Japanese) - Invisible tendril that impedes movement
Asiman (Dahomey) - Vampiric possession spirit
Askefrue (Germanic) - Female tree spirit
Ask-wee-da-eed (Abenaki) - Fire elemental and spectral fire
Asobibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Kchi Prefecture
Aspidochelone (Medieval Bestiaries) - Island-sized whale or sea turtle
Asrai (English) - Water spirit
Astomi (Hindu) - Humanoid sustained by pleasant smells instead of food
Aswang (Philippine) - Carrion-eating humanoid
Atomy (English) - Surprisingly small creature
Ato-oi-koz (Japanese) - Invisible spirit that follows people
Atshen (Inuit) - Anthropophagous spirit
Auloniad (Greek) - Pasture nymph
Avalerion (Medieval Bestiary) - King of the birds
Awa-hon-do (Abenaki) - Insect spirit
Axex (Ancient Egyptian) - Falcon-lion hybrid
Ayakashi (Japanese) - Sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil
Ayakashi-no-ayashibi (Japanese) - Spectral fire from Ishikawa Prefecture
Aziza (Dahomey) - Little people that help hunters
Azukiarai (Japanese) - Spirit that washes azuki beans along riversides
Azukibabaa (Japanese) - Bean-grinding hag who devours people
Azukitogi (Japanese) - Spirit that washes azuki beans along riversides
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Buraq from a 17th-century Mughal miniature
Baba Yaga (Slavic) - Forest spirit and hag
Backoo (Guyanese) - Malevolent little people
Bagiennik (Slavic) - Malevolent water spirit
Bahamut (Arabian) - Giant fish
Bashe (Chinese) - Elephant-swallowing serpent
Bai Ze (Chinese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
Ba Jiao Gui (Chinese) - Banana tree spirit
Bake-kujira (Japanese) - A ghostly whale skeleton that drifts along the coastline
Bakeneko (Japanese) - Magical cat
Bakezri (Japanese) - Animated straw sandal
Bakhtak (Iranian) - Night demon
Baku (Japanese) - Dream-devouring, tapir-like creature
Bakunawa (Philippine) - Sea serpent that causes eclipses
Balaur (Romanian) - Multi-headed dragon
Bannik (Slavic) - Bathhouse spirit
Banshee (Irish) - Death spirit
Barbegazi (Swiss) - Dwarf with giant, snowshoe-like feet
Bardi (Trabzon) - Shapechanging death spirit
Barghest - Yorkshire black dog
Bar Juchne (Jewish) - Gigantic bird
Barnacle Geese (Medieval folklore) - Geese which hatch from barnacles
Barong (Balinese) - Tutelary spirit
Basajaun (Basque) - Ancestral, megalith-building race
BasCelik (Serbian) - A powerful and very evil winged man whose soul is not held by his body and can be subdued only by causing him to suffer dehydration
Basilisco Chilote (Chilota) - Chicken-serpent hybrid
Basilisk (Medieval Bestiaries) - Multi-limbed, venomous lizard
Batibat (Philippine) - Female night-demon
Batsu (Chinese) - Drought spirit
Baubas (Lithuanian) - Malevolent spirit
Baykok (Ojibwa) - Flying skeleton
Bean Nighe (Irish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean S?dhe)
Behemoth (Jewish) - Primal, gigantic land animal
Bendigeidfran (Welsh) - Giant king
Bennu (Egyptian) - Heron-like, regenerative bird, equivalent to (or inspiration of) the Phoenix
Berehynia (Slavic) - Water spirit
Bergrisar (Norse) - Mountain giant
Bergsr? (Norse) - Mountain spirit
Bestial beast (Brazilian) - Centauroid specter
Betobeto-san (Japanese) - Invisible spirit which follows people at night, making the sound of footsteps
Bhta (Buddhist and Hindu) - Ghost of someone killed by execution or suicide
Bi-blouk (Khoikhoi) - Female, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
Bies (Slavic) - Demon
Bigfoot (American folklore) - Forest-dwelling apeman.
Binbgami (Japanese) - Spirit of poverty
Bishop-fish (Medieval Bestiaries) - Fish-like humanoid
Black Annis (English) - Blue-faced hag
Black Dog (British) - Canine death spirit
Black Shuck - Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk black dog
Blemmyae (Medieval Bestiary) - Headless humanoid with face in torso
Bloody Bones (Irish) - Water bogeyman
Bluecap (English) - Mine-dwelling fairy
Bodach (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Bogeyman (English) - Malevolent spirit
Boggart (English) - Malevolent household spirit
Boginki (Polish) - Nature spirit
Bogle (Scottish) - Malevolent spirit
Boi-tat? (Brazilian) - Giant snake
Bolla (Albanian) - Dragon
Bonnacon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Bull-horse hybrid with flaming dung
Boo Hag (American Folklore) - Vampire-like creature that steals energy from sleeping victims
Boobrie (Scottish) - Roaring water bird
Bozaloshtsh (Slavic) - Death spirit
Brag (English) - Malevolent water horse
Brownie (English and Scottish) - Benevolent household spirit
Broxa (Jewish) - Nocturnal bird that drains goats of their milk
Bokkenrijders (Dutch) - Damned bandits
Bugbear (English) - Bearlike goblin
Buggane (Manx) - Ogre-like humanoid
Bugul Noz (Celtic) - Extremely ugly, but kind, forest spirit
Bukavac (Serbia) - Six-legged lake monster
Bukit Timah Monkey Man (Singapore) - Forest dwelling immortal primate
Bunyip (Australian Aboriginal) - Horse-walrus hybrid lake monster
Buraq (Islamic) - Human-headed, angelic horse
Bush Dai Dai (Guyanese) - Spirit that seduces and kills men
Byangoma (Bengali) - Fortune-telling birds
Bysen (Scandinavian) - Diminutive forest spirit
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A representation of a Clurichaun in T. C. Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
Cabeiri (Greek) - Smith and wine spirits
Cacus (Roman) - Fire-breathing giant
Cadejo (Central America) - Cow-sized dog-goat hybrid in two varieties: benevolent and white, and malevolent and black
Caipora (Tupi) - Fox-human hybrid and nature spirit
Caladrius (Medieval Bestiary) - White bird that can foretell if a sick person will recover or die
Calingi (Medieval Bestiary) - Humanoids with an eight-year lifespan
Callitrix (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
Calydonian Boar (Greek) - Giant, chthonic boar
Calygreyhound (Heraldic) - Wildcat-deer/antelope-eagle-ox-lion hybrid
Camahueto (Chilota) - One-horned calf
Cambion (Medieval folklore) - Hybrid between a human and an incubus or succubus
Campe (Greek) - Dragon-human-scorpion hybrid
Candileja (Colombian) - Spectral, fiery hag
Canaima (Guyanese) - Were-jaguar
Canotila (Lakota) - Little people and tree spirits
Caoineag (Scottish) - Death spirit (a specific type of Banshee/Bean S?dhe)
Capa (Lakota) - Beaver spirit
Cpcun (Romanian) - Large, monstrous humanoid
Carbuncle (Latin America) - A small creature with a jewel on its head
Catoblepas (Medieval Bestiary) - Scaled buffalo-hog hybrid
Cat Sidhe (Scottish) - Fairy cat
Cecaelia - Modern term for mermaid-like, human-octopus hybrid
Ceffyl Dr (Welsh) - Malevolent water horse
Centaur (Greek) - Human-horse hybrid
Cerastes (Greek) - Extremely flexible, horned snake
Cerberus (Greek) - Three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld
Cercopes (Greek) - Mischievous forest spirit
Cericopithicus (Medieval Bestiary) - Apes who always bear twins, one the mother loves, the other it hates
Ceryneian Hind (Greek) - Hind with golden antlers and bronze or brass hooves
Cetan (Lakota) - Hawk spirit
Chakora (Hindu) - Lunar bird
Chamrosh (Persian) - Dog-bird hybrid
Chaneque (Aztec) - Little people and nature spirits
Changeling (European) - Non-human humanoid child (fairy, elf, troll, etc.) substituted for a kidnapped human child
Charybdis (Greek) - Sea monster in the form of a giant mouth
Chepi (Narragansett) - Ancestral spirit that instructs tribe members
Cherufe (Mapuche) - Volcano-dwelling monster
Chibaiskweda (Abenaki) - Ghost of an improperly buried person
Chichevache (Medieval folklore) - Human-faced cow that feeds on good women
Chickcharney (Bahaman) - Bird-mammal hybrid
Chimaera (Greek) - Lion-goat-snake hybrid
Chindi (Navajo) - Vengeful ghosts that cause dust devils
Chinthe (Burmese) - Temple-guarding feline, similar to Chinese Shi and Japanese Shisa
Chitauli (Zulu) - Human-lizard hybrid
Chchinobake (Japanese) - Animated paper lantern
Chollima (Korean) - Supernaturally fast horse
Chonchon (Mapuche) - Disembodied, flying head
Choorile (Guyanese) - Ghost of a woman that died in childbirth
Chromandi (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy savages with dog teeth
Chrysaor (Greek) - Son of the gorgon Medusa, imaged as a giant or a winged boar
Chukwa (Hindu) - Giant turtle that supports the world
Churel (Hindu) - Vampiric, female ghost
Ciguapa (Dominican Republic) - Malevolent seductress
Cihuateteo (Aztec) - Ghosts of women that died in childbirth
Cikavac (Serbian) - Bird that serves its owner
Cinnamon bird (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant bird that makes its nest out of cinnamon
Cipactli (Aztec) - Sea monster, crocodile-fish hybrid
Cirein cr?in (Scottish) - Sea serpent
Cluricaun (Irish) - Leprechaun-like Little people that are permanently drunk
Coblynau (Welsh) - Little people and mine spirits
Cockatrice (Medieval Bestiaries) - Chicken-lizard hybrid
Cofgod (English) - Old English term meaning ''cove-god''
Colo Colo (Mapuche) - Rat-bird hybrid that can shapeshift into a serpent
Corycian nymphs (Greek) - Nymph of the Corycian Cave
Cretan Bull (Greek) - Monstrous bull
Crinaeae (Greek) - Fountain nymph
Criosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Ram-headed sphinx
Crocotta (Medieval Bestiaries) - Monstrous dog-wolf
Cuco (Latin America) - Bogeyman
Cucuy (Latin America) - Malevolent spirit
Cuegle (Cantabrian) - Monstrous, three-armed humanoid
Cu?lebre (Asturian and Cantabrian) - Dragon
Curupira (Tupi) - Nature spirit
Cu Sith (Scottish) - Gigantic fairy dog
Cn Annwn (Welsh) - Underworld hunting dogs
Cyclops (Greek) - One-eyed giants
Cyhyraeth (Welsh) - Death spirit
Cynocephalus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-headed humanoid
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Chinese dragon, color engraving on wood, Chinese school, nineteenth century
Dactyl (Greek) - Little people and smith and healing spirits
Daemon (Greek) - Incorporeal spirit
Daidarabotchi (Japanese) - Giant responsible for creating many geographical features in Japan
Daitengu (Japanese) - The most powerful class of tengu, each of whom lives on a separate mountain
Daitya (Hindu) - Giant
Danava (Hindu) - Water demon
Daphnaie (Greek) - Laurel tree nymph
Datsue-ba (Japanese) - Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead
Dead Sea Apes (Islamic) - Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message
Deer Woman (Native American) - Human-deer hybrid
Deity (Global) - Preternatural or supernatural being
Demigod - Half human, half god.
Demon - Malevolent spirit
Dhampir (Balkans) - Hybrid between a human and a vampire
Diao Si Gui (Chinese) - Hanged ghost
Dilong (Chinese) - Chthonic dragon
Dip (Catalan) - Demonic and vampiric dog
Di Penates (Roman) - House spirit
Dipsa (Medieval Bestiaries) - Extremely poisonous snake
Dirawong (Australian Aboriginal) - Goanna spirit
Di sma undar jordi (Gotland) - Little people and nature spirits
Diwata (Philippine) - Tree spirit
Dobhar-chu (Irish) - Dog-fish hybrid
Do-gakw-ho-wad (Abenaki) - Little people
Dokkaebi (Korean) - Grotesque, horned humanoids
D?kk?lfar (Norse) - Male ancestral spirits
Dola (Slavic) - Tutelary and fate spirit
Domovoi (Slavic) - House spirit
Doppelg?nger (German) - Ghostly double
Drac (Catalan) - Lion or bull-faced dragon
Drac (French) - Winged sea serpent
Dragon (Many cultures worldwide)
Dragon turtle (Chinese) - Giant turtle with dragon-like head
Draugr (Norse) - Undead
Drekavac (Slavic) - Restless ghost of an unbaptised child
Drop bear (Australian) - a monstrous koala-like creature in Australian folklore
Drow (Scottish) - Cavern spirit
Drude (German) - Possessing demon
Druk (Bhutanese) - Dragon
Dryad (Greek) - Tree nymph
Duende (Spanish) - Little people and forest spirits
Duergar (English) - Malevolent little people
Dullahan (Irish) - Headless death spirit
Duwende (Philippine) - Little people, some are house spirits, others nature spirits
Dvergr (Norse) - Subterranean little people smiths
Dvorovoi (Slavic) - Courtyard spirit
Dwarf (Germanic) - Little people nature spirits
Dybbuk (Jewish) - A spirit (sometimes the soul of a wicked deceased) that possesses the living.
Dzee-dzee-bon-da (Abenaki) - Hideous monster
Dzunukwa (Kwakwaka'wakw) - Child-eating hag
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''The Erlking'', by Albert Sterner, ca. 1910
Each Uisge (Scottish) - Malevolent water horse
Eachy (English and Scottish) - Humanoid lake monster
Eagle Spirit (Many cultures worldwide) - Leadership or guidance totem
Ebu Gogo (Flores) - Diminutive humanoids, possibly inspired by Homo floresiensis
Echeneis (Medieval Bestiaries) - Remora, said to attach to ships to slow them down
Edimmu (Sumerian) - Ghosts of those not buried properly
Egbere (Yoruba) - Humanoid that carries a magical mat
Einherjar (Norse) - Spirits of brave warriors
Ekek (Philippine) - Flesh-eating, winged humanoids
Elbow Witch (Ojibwa) - Hags with awls in their elbows
Eldj?tnar (Norse) - Fire giant
Eleionomae (Greek) - Marsh nymph
Elemental (Alchemy) - Personification of one of the Classical elements
?Elepaio (Hawaiian) - Monarch flycatcher spirit that guides canoe-builders to the proper trees
Elf (Germanic) - Nature and fertility spirit
Eloko (Central Africa) - Little people and malevolent nature spirits
Emela-ntouka (Central Africa) - Gigantic, elephant-killing beast
Emere (Yoruba) - Child that can move back and forth between the material world and the afterlife at will
Emim (Jewish) - Giant
Empusa (Greek) - Female demon that waylays travelers and seduces and kills men
Encantado (Brazilian) - Dolphin-human shapeshifter
Enchanted Moor (Portuguese) - Enchanted princesses
Enfield (Heraldic) - Fox-greyhound-lion-wolf-eagle hybrid
Enk (Japanese) - Kappa of Shikoku and western Honsh
Epimeliad (Greek) - Apple tree nymph
Er Gui (Chinese) - Hungry ghost
Erlking (Germanic) - Death spirit
Erymanthian Boar (Greek) - Giant boar
Ethiopian Pegasus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Two-horned, winged horse
Ettin (English) - Three-headed giant
Eurynomos (Greek) - Blue-black, carrion-eater in the underworld
E?erinis (Lithuanian) - Lake spirit
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A Futakuchi-onna
Fachen (Irish and Scottish) - Monster with half a body
Fairy (Many cultures worldwide) - Nature spirits
Familiar (English) - Animal servant
Far darrig (Irish) - Little people that constantly play pranks
Faun (Roman) - Human-goat hybrid nature spirit
Fear gorta (Irish) - Hunger ghost
Feathered Serpent - Mesoamerican dragon
Fenghuang (Chinese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
Fenodyree (Manx) - House spirit
Fenris (Norse) - Gigantic, ravenous wolf
Fetch (Irish) - Double or doppelg?nger
Fext (Slavic) - Undead
Finfolk (Orkney) - Fish-human hybrid that kidnaps humans for servants
Fir Bolg (Irish) - Ancestral race
Fire Bird (Many cultures worldwide) - Regenerative, solar bird
Firedrake (Germanic) - Dragon
Fish-man (Cantabrian) - Amphibious, scaled humanoid
Fomorian (Irish) - Goat-headed giant
Forest Bull (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant, red cattle with swiveling horns
Freybug - Norfolk black dog
Fuath (Celtic) - Malevolent water spirit
Fucanglong (Chinese) - Underworld dragon
Funayrei (Japanese) - Ghosts of people who drowned at sea
Futakuchi-onna (Japanese) - Woman with a second mouth on the back of her head
Fylgja (Scandinavian) - Animal familiar
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Baroque Medusa (A gorgon) combined beauty and horror: Medusa, after 1590, by Caravaggio.
Gaasyendietha (Seneca) - Dragon
Gagana (Russian) - Bird with iron beak and copper talons
Gaki (Japanese) - Ghosts of especially greedy people
Gallu (Mesopotamian) - Underworld demons
Galtzagorriak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
Gamayun (Russian) - Prophetic bird with human head
Gana (Hindu) - Attendants of Shiva
Gancanagh (Irish) - Male fairy that seduces human women
Gandaberunda (Hindu) - Double-headed bird
Gandharva (Hindu) - Male nature spirits, often depicted as part human, part animal
Gargouille (French) - Water dragon
Garmr (Norse) - Giant, ravenous wolf
Garuda (Hindu) - Human-eagle hybrid
Gaueko (Basque) - Wolf capable of walking upright
Ged (Heraldic) - The fish pike
Gegenees (Greek) - Six-armed giant
Genie (Arabian) - Elemental spirit
Genius loci (Roman) - Spirit that protects a specific place
German (Slavic) - Male spirit associated with bringing rain and hail
Geryon (Greek) - Giant with three heads, six arms, three torsos and (in some sources) six legs
Ghillie Dhu (Scottish) - Tree guardian
Ghost - Disembodied spirits, specifically of those that have died
Ghoul (Arabian) - Earth genie. Also a shapeshifting desert anthropophagus
Giant (mythology)
Giant animal (mythology)
Gichi-anami'e-bizhiw (Ojibwa) - Bison-snake-bird-cougar hybrid and water spirit
Gidim (Sumerian) - Ghost
Gigantes (Greek) - Race of giants that fought the Olympian gods, sometimes depicted with snake-legs
Gigelorum (Scottish) - Smallest animal
Girtablilu (Akkadian) - Human-scorpion hybrid
Gjenganger (Scandinavian) - Corporeal ghost
Glaistig (Scottish) - Human-goat hybrid
Glashtyn (Manx) - Malevolent water horse
Gnome (Alchemy) - Diminutive Earth elemental
Goblin (Medieval) - Grotesque, mischievous little people
Gog (English) - Giant protector of London
Gold-digging ant (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dog-sized ant that digs for gold in sandy areas
Golem (Jewish) - Animated construct
Gorgades (Medieval Bestiary) - Hairy humanoid
Gorgon (Greek) - Fanged, snake-haired humanoids that turn anyone who sees them into stone
Gory (Japanese) - Vengeful ghosts, usually of martyrs
Gremlin (Folklore) - Goblins that sabotage airplanes
Griffin (Heraldic) - Lion-eagle hybrid
Grigori (Christian) - Fallen angels
Grim (English and Scandinavian) - Tutelary spirits of churches
Grindylow (English) - Malevolent water spirit
Grine (Moroccan) - Genie duplicate of a person. Lives in a parallel world
Gualichu (Mapuche) - Malevolent spirit
Gud-elim (Akkadian) - Human-bull hybrid
Guhin (Japanese) - Anthropomorphic bird
Gui Po (Chinese) - Ghost that manifests as an old woman
Gui Shu (Chinese) - Ghostly tree that confuses travelers by moving
Gulon (Germanic) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Gumiho (Korean mythology)- A demon fox with thousands of tails. Believed to possess an army of spirits and magic in its tails.
Gwyllgi (Welsh) - black dog
Gwyllion (Welsh) - Malevolent spirit
Gyascutus (American folklore) - Four-legged herbivore
Gytrash (Lincolnshire and Yorkshire) - black dog
Gyki (Japanese) - Bull-headed monster
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Hippocampus drawn from a fresco in Pompeii
Hadhayosh (Persian) - Gigantic land animal
Haetae (Korean) - Dog-lion hybrid
Hag (Many cultures worldwide) - Wizened old woman, usually a malevolent spirit with this specific form, or a goddess in disguise
Haietlik (Nuu-chah-nulth) - Water serpent
Hai-uri (Khoikhoi) - Male, anthropophagous, partially invisible monster
Hakutaku (Japanese) - Talking beast which handed down knowledge on harmful spirits
Hkuturi (Mori) - Nature guardian
Half-elf (Norse) - Hybrid of a human and an elf
Haltija (Finnish) - Spirit that protects a specific place
Hamadryad (Greek) - Oak tree nymph
Hamingja (Scandinavian) - Personal protection spirit
Hamsa (Buddhist, Hindu, and Jainism) - Mystical bird
Hanau epe (Rapa Nui) - Long-eared humanoid
Hantu Air (Malay) - Shapeshifting water spirit
Hantu Demon (Philippine) - Demon
Hantu Raya (Malay) - Demonic servant
Harionago (Japanese) - Humanoid female with barbed, prehensile hair
Harpy (Greek) - Death spirit with the form of a bird with a human head
Haugbui (Norse) - Undead who cannot leave its burial mound
Havsr? (Norse) - Saltwater spirit
Headless Mule (Brazilian) - Fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule
Hecatonchires (Greek) - Primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
Heikegani (Japanese) - Crabs with human-faced shells, the spirits of the warriors killed in the Battle of Dan-no-ura
Heinzelm?nnchen (German) - Household spirit
Helead (Greek) - Fen nymph
Hellhound (Many cultures worldwide) - Dog from underworld
Hercinia (Medieval Bestiaries) - Glowing bird
Herensuge (Basque) - Dragon
Hesperides (Greek) - Nymph daughters of Atlas
Hiderigami (Japanese) - Drought spirit
Hieracosphinx (Ancient Egypt) - Falcon-headed sphinx
Hihi (Japanese) - Baboon monster
Hiisi (Finnish) - Nature guardian
Hippocamp (Etruscan, Greek, and Phoenician) - Horse-fish hybrid
Hippogriff (Medieval Bestiaries) - Hybrid of a griffon and horse, that is a lion-eagle-horse hybrid
Hippopodes (Medieval Bestiary) - Horse-hoofed humanoid
Hircocervus (Medieval Bestiary) - Deer-goat hybrid
Hitodama (Japanese) - Ghosts of the newly dead, which take the form of fireballs
Hitotsume-koz (Japanese) - One-eyed child-like spirit
Hob (English) - House spirit
Hobbididance (English) - Malevolent spirit
Hobgoblin (Medieval) - Friendly or amusing goblin
Hodag (Native American) - part frog, part mammoth, part lizard, from Native American mythology
Hk (Japanese) - Dog-like tree spirit from China
Homa (Persian) - Eagle-lion hybrid, similar to a griffin
Hombre Caiman (Colombian) - Human-alligator hybrid
Hombre Gato (Latin America) - Human-cat hybrid
Homunculus (Alchemy) - Diminutive, animated construct
H- (Japanese) - Rooster-swallow-fowl-snake-goose-tortoise-stag-fish hybrid
Hoopoe - A near passerine bird common to Africa and Eurasia that features in many mythologies in those continents
Horned Serpent (Native American) - Serpentine rain spirit
Hotoke (Japanese) - Deceased person
Houri (Islamic) - Heavenly beings
Hr?m?ursar (Norse) - Frost Giant
Huaychivo (Mayan) - Human-deer hybrid
Huldra (Norse) - Forest spirit
Huli jing (Chinese) - Nine-tailed fox spirit
Huma (Persian) - Regenerative fire bird
Humbaba (Akkadian) - Lion-faced giant
Hundun (Chinese) - Chaos spirit
Hupia (Ta?no) - Nocturnal ghost
Hyakume (Japanese) - Creature with a hundred eyes
Hydra (Greek) - Multi-headed water serpent/dragon
Hydros (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake whose poison causes the victim to swell up
Hydrus (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake from the Nile River that would kill crocodiles from the inside
Hysube (Japanese) - Hair-covered kappa
Hypnalis (Medieval Bestiary) - Snake that kills its victims in their sleep
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Incubus, 1870
Iannic-ann-?d (Breton) - Ghost of a drowned person
Iara (Brazilian) - Female water spirit
Ibong Adarna (Philippine) - Bird that changes color each time it finishes a song
Ichimoku-nyd (Japanese) - One-eyed kappa from Sado Island
Ichiren-Bozu (Japanese) - Animated prayer beads
Ichneumon (Medieval Bestiaries) - Dragon-killing animal
Ichthyocentaur (Greek) - Human-fish hybrid
Iele (Romanian) - Female nature spirits
Ifrit (Arabian) - Fire genie
Ijiraq (Inuit) - Spirit that kidnaps children
Ikiry (Japanese) - can be considered a 'living ghost', as it is a person's spirit outside their body
Ikuchi (Japanese) - Sea-serpent that travels over boats in an arc while dripping oil
Iku-Turso (Finnish) - Sea monster
Il-Belliega (Maltese) - Malevolent well spirit
Imp (Medieval) - Diminutive, demonic servant
Impundulu (Southern Africa) - Avian, vampiric lightning spirit
Imugi (Korean) - Flightless, dragon-like creatures (sometimes thought of as proto-dragons)
Inapertwa (Aboriginal) - Simple organisms, used by creator-gods to make everything else
Incubus (Medieval folklore) - Male night-demon and rapist
Indrik (Russian) - One-horned horse-bull hybrid
Indus Worm (Medieval Bestiaries) - Giant, white, carnivorous worm
Inkanyamba (Zulu) - Horse-headed serpent
Inugami (Japanese) - Dog spirit
Ipotane (Greek) - Horse-human hybrid, two-legged (as opposed to the four-legged centaur)
Ippon-datara (Japanese) - One-legged mountain spirit
Iratxoak (Basque) - Diminutive, demonic servants
Irin (Jewish) - Fallen angels
Ishigaq (Inuit) - Little people
Island Satyr (Medieval Bestiaries) - Savage human-goat hybrid from a remote island chain
Isonade (Japanese) - Shark-like sea monster
Ittan-momen (Japanese) - Ghostly aerial phenomenon that attacks people
Iwana-bzu (Japanese) - Char which appeared as a Buddhist monk
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Thor goes fishing for J?rmungandr in this picture from an 18th century Icelandic manuscript.
Jack-In-Irons (English) - Malevolent giant
Jaculus (Medieval Bestiaries) - Winged serpent or small dragon
Jasconius (Medieval folklore) - Island-sized fish
Jasy Jaterei (Guaran?) - Nature guardian and bogeyman
Jatayu (Hindu mythology) - A demi-god who has the form of a vulture
Jaud (Slavic) - Vampirised premature baby
Jenglot (Java) - Vampiric little people
Jengu (Sawa) - Water spirit
Jentil (Basque) - Megalith-building giant
Jenu (Mi'kmaq) - Anthropophagous giant
Jerff (Swedish) - Gluttonous dog-cat-fox hybrid
Jian (Chinese) - One-eyed, one-winged bird who requires a mate for survival

Posted by imthebest (Nov 17, 2009) :

WOW dont yu just love this, its a really big list isnt it. BUt i suggest, you read alittle more about these creatures. These are just Really quick definitions. There is much more to each of these creatures. Its funny, becuase each have their own little stories and histories. ESPECIALLY THE GREEK MYTHICAL CREATURES, like the harpie, it is mentioned in alot of stories. Like this island which this man was cursed on, and everyday this banquet was set up in the middle of the island, and everytime he sat down to eat, Harpies would fly down and steal and destroy all the food before he could have one bite. HOW INTERESTING IS THAT. AAANNND, sum creatures are spread through alot of cultures like vampires, and each culture has its own desciption. I find this FASCINATINGGGGG =] , becuase i own books on these creatures, i own an encyclopedia on mythical creatures and i borrowed a book from the library about CRYPTOZOOLOGY
look it up, its also very FASCINATING, its the study of these creatures^^
IM just saying, pick one of these creatures today, and look it up, and i bet you that you will find sum stories or sum more history of this creature. Like in this country, it is believed that an incubus still huants it, and they do special rituals everyday to protect them. This is now in the 21st centurary. COOL HUH?
oh, i also think it would be good that after you found abit more info on these creatures you should put down wat you find. MAYBE YOU will find a way to protect oneself from this creature or maybe how it came about. Come on i dare you:)
Great work Florie, i will put sum info on sum of the creaures within 2 weeks, im moving soon YEY
Blessed be and thanx again Florie^^


Posted by Britty_55 (Nov 17, 2009) :

I agree with imthebest.

Especially, especially with greek myths.
A quick little thing to know is that Greek Myths are all created in this ENORMOUS epic story. Everything ties into everything, and I know that Egyptian mythology is a bit like that as well (not quite as epic though).

lol the most deffective family in all the Universe's history are the Greek Gods. The second most defective family, the Egyptian Gods.

Who killed who?- Egyptian
Who is who's brother/sister?- Greek
Who is sleeping with who?- Both

Very epic indeed. XD


Posted by imthebest (Nov 26, 2009) :

Adaro

''the adaro are malevolent mermen like sea spirits in the mythology of the solomon islands. Believed to embody the wicked part of a dead mans spirit, the creatures are human in shape, with gills behind tghe ears, fins instead of feet, a shark like dorsal fin and a swordfish-like spear growing out of the head.''
Said to live in the sun
and travel back and from earth via rainbows, sun showers, and waterspouts.Adaros are dangerous, shooting poisonous fish at ppls necks.
They have a chief named Ngorieru who is said to live off the coast of San Christobal. Canoes which go by this little spot generally stay quiet and speak in low voices so they dont attract his attention towards them.
And apperently, they visit men in their dreams and teach them new songs and dances.
ok, thats one done^^

Bibliograpghy ''the mythical creatures bible'' author Brenda Rosen


Posted by imthebest (Nov 27, 2009) :

Apsaras, [plural=apsarases]
hindu buddihst mythology
Female spirits of the clouds and waters, they are the servants of Indra, the king of demi-gods. The Gandharvas are male spirits with musical skills and play music for the Apsarases to dance to.
Apsaras are depicted as beautiful dancer chicks, who wear fine silks and wear those big fancy head sets, and they often entertain the courts of the gods, dancing to the music produced by their husbands, the Gadharvas, who are somtime depicted as being part-bird or part-horse.
A tale of the apsaras
The god Indra sends an apsaras named Menaka to distract the sage Viswamitra from his ascetic practices in order to prevent the sage from gaining enough power to challenge the authority of the gods. at first, the sage ignores Menakas sensuous dance, but then a gust of wind blows away her only garment and the sage succumbs to her charms.
Blessed be^^


Posted by imthebest (Nov 27, 2009) :

Aswang
These are preditory creatures from folklore of the phillipines and are shapeshifters with many guises. The common appearance being of a witch like woman with leathery wings and bloody fangsm but they may also apear as a bat, snake or dog.
They rob graves and eat the dead bodies. Then replace the body with a banana tree trunk carved to resemble the dead body. They have also been known to eat children savouring the livers and hearts.
some believe they live amoung humans and prefer to work in butchers or suasage makers. [they probably mush up there food in the grinders before they eat them] wen they hunt at night, they takle their true forms and walk with their feet backwards and their toenails reversed. i dont know why though, they just do.
anyway, good ways to defend yourself are using the tail of a stingray, a shiny sword [preferably sharp id assumne] and for sum weird reason a picture of your grandmother is also said to be an effective weapon against them. and sum say they are allergic to salt, so throwing it at them will burn their skin.
ok help this helps in the unlikly event of meeting one, unkess ur in the phillipines
blessed be

Posted by imthebest (Nov 29, 2009) :

Baku, a creature from japanese Folklore. Its suppose to look like an enormous tapir or wild pig [ i have no idea wat a tapir is but yeah] . Sum describe it as having a body of a horse, face of a lion, trunks and tusks of an elephant, tail of a cow and tthe feet of a tiger. Seems quite deadly dont it. BUt ive read no where that it is dangerous to humans. IN fact it repels wickedness, and protects one from evil spirits.
Aparently it originated in China where they believed that sleeping on a BAku belt could protect somone from pestilence [sumting harmful, destructable, evil]
It was also believed in cvhina that the image was a powerful talisman against evil.
IN japan It is known as the dream eater, bad dreams that were thought to be caused by evil spirits
and if sumone awoke from a nightmare, saying ''baku it my dreams'' which would summon the baku which woukd turn bad omens into good fortune by devouring evil influences.


Posted by ginseng (Jun 07, 2010) :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures

Norse Creation Myth

Posted by CorpseWood (Sep 11, 2009) :

The Norse Creation Myth

In the beginning there was nothing except for the ice of Niflheim, to the north, and the fire of Muspelheim, to the south. Between them was a yawning gap (the phrase is sometimes left untranslated as a proper name: Ginnungagap), and in this gap a few pieces of ice met a few sparks of fire. The ice melted to form Eiter, which formed the bodies of the hermaphrodite giant Ymir and the cow Au??umbla, whose milk fed Ymir. Au??umbla fed by licking the rime ice, and slowly she uncovered a man's hair. After a day, she had uncovered his face. After another day, she had uncovered him completely: B??ri.

Ymir fathered Thrudgelmir, as well as two humans, one man and one woman. B??ri fathered Borr. Borr had three sons, Vili, Ve, and Odin, who killed the giant Ymir. In the vast flood of Ymir's blood, ??r????gelmir was also drowned, although not before he had fathered Bergelmir. Bergelmir and his wife hid in a hollow tree trunk and survived. Odin and his brothers used Ymir's body to create the universe : they ground his flesh into dirt, and the maggots that appeared in his flesh became the dwarves that live under the earth. His bones became the mountains, and Odin strewed his brains into the sky to create the clouds. The universe comprises nine worlds, of which this earth (Midgard) is central.

They placed four dwarves: Nor??ri (North), Su??ri (South), Austri (East), and Vestri (West) to hold up Ymir's skull and create the heavens. Then using sparks from Muspelheim, the gods created the sun, moon and stars. As Odin and two others (differing between the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda) walked along the beach, they found two pieces of driftwood. From these, they created the first human beings: Ask and Embla. Ymir's eyebrows were used to create a place where the human race could live in; a place called Midgard.

The gods regulated the passage of the days and nights, as well as the seasons. S??l is the personified sun, a daughter of Mundilfari, and wife of Glen. Every day, she rides through the sky on her chariot, pulled by two horses named ??rvakr and Alsvi??r. S??l is chased during the day by Sk??ll, a wolf that wants to devour her. It is foretold that Sk??ll will eventually catch Sol and eat her during Ragnar??k; however, she will first give birth to a daughter as fair as she. S??l's brother M??ni, the personified moon, is chased by Hati Hr????vitnisson, another wolf. The earth is protected from the full heat of the sun by the shield Svalinn, which is placed before S??l.




The Voluspa(The Prophecy of the Volva)

The Voluspa is the first poem from the Poetic Edda. It tells the story of the creation of the world and the ending as well. It is told to the norse god Odin by a volva that is addressing him.
This is the Sophus Bugges normalized version that contains 66 stanzas.

1. Hearing I ask | from the holy races,
From Heimdall's sons, | both high and low;
Thou wilt, Valfather, | that well I relate
Old tales I remember | of men long ago.

2. I remember yet | the giants of yore,
Who gave me bread | in the days gone by;
Nine worlds I knew, | the nine in the tree
With mighty roots | beneath the mold.

3. Of old was the age | when Ymir lived;
Sea nor cool waves | nor sand there were;
Earth had not been, | nor heaven above,
But a yawning gap, | and grass nowhere.

4. Then Bur's sons lifted | the level land,
Mithgarth the mighty | there they made;
The sun from the south | warmed the stones of earth,
And green was the ground | with growing leeks.

5. The sun, the sister | of the moon, from the south
Her right hand cast | over heaven's rim;
No knowledge she had | where her home should be,
The moon knew not | what might was his,
The stars knew not | where their stations were.

6. Then sought the gods | their assembly-seats,
The holy ones, | and council held;
Names then gave they | to noon and twilight,
Morning they named, | and the waning moon,
Night and evening, | the years to number.

7. At Ithavoll met | the mighty gods,
Shrines and temples | they timbered high;
Forges they set, and | they smithied ore,
Tongs they wrought, | and tools they fashioned.

8. In their dwellings at peace | they played at tables,
Of gold no lack | did the gods then know,--
Till thither came | up giant-maids three,
Huge of might, | out of Jotunheim.

9. Then sought the gods | their assembly-seats,
The holy ones, | and council held,
To find who should raise | the race of dwarfs
Out of Brimir's blood | and the legs of Blain.

10. There was Motsognir | the mightiest made
Of all the dwarfs, | and Durin next;
Many a likeness | of men they made,
The dwarfs in the earth, | as Durin said.

11. Nyi and Nithi, | Northri and Suthri,
Austri and Vestri, | Althjof, Dvalin,
Nar and Nain, | Niping, Dain,
Bifur, Bofur, | Bombur, Nori,
An and Onar, | Ai, Mjothvitnir.

12. Vigg and Gandalf | Vindalf, Thrain,
Thekk and Thorin, | Thror, Vit and Lit,
Nyr and Nyrath,-- | now have I told--
Regin and Rathsvith-- | the list aright.

13. Fili, Kili, | Fundin, Nali,
Hepti, Vili, | Hannar, Sviur,
(Billing, Bruni, | Bildr and Buri,)
Frar, Hornbori, | Fr??g and Loni,
Aurvang, Jari, | Eikinskjaldi.

14. The race of the dwarfs | in Dvalin's throng
Down to Lofar | the list must I tell;
The rocks they left, | and through wet lands
They sought a home | in the fields of sand.

15. There were Draupnir | and Dolgthrasir,
Hor, Haugspori, | Hlevang, Gloin,
Dori, Ori, | Duf, Andvari,
Skirfir, Virfir, | Skafith, Ai.

16. Alf and Yngvi, | Eikinskjaldi,
Fjalar and Frosti, | Finn and Ginnar;
So for all time | shall the tale be known,
The list of all | the forbears of Lofar.

17. Then from the throng | did three come forth,
From the home of the gods, | the mighty and gracious;
Two without fate | on the land they found,
Ask and Embla, | empty of might.

18. Soul they had not, | sense they had not,
Heat nor motion, | nor goodly hue;
Soul gave Othin, | sense gave H??nir,
Heat gave Lothur | and goodly hue.

19. An ash I know, | Yggdrasil its name,
With water white | is the great tree wet;
Thence come the dews | that fall in the dales,
Green by Urth's well | does it ever grow.

20. Thence come the maidens | mighty in wisdom,
Three from the dwelling | down 'neath the tree;
Urth is one named, | Verthandi the next,--
On the wood they scored,-- | and Skuld the third.
Laws they made there, and life allotted
To the sons of men, and set their fates.

21. The war I remember, | the first in the world,
When the gods with spears | had smitten Gollveig,
And in the hall | of Hor had burned her,
Three times burned, | and three times born,
Oft and again, | yet ever she lives.

22. Heith they named her | who sought their home,
The wide-seeing witch, | in magic wise;
Minds she bewitched | that were moved by her magic,
To evil women | a joy she was.

23. On the host his spear | did Othin hurl,
Then in the world | did war first come;
The wall that girdled | the gods was broken,
And the field by the warlike | Wanes was trodden.

24. Then sought the gods | their assembly-seats,
The holy ones, | and council held,
Whether the gods | should tribute give,
Or to all alike | should worship belong.

25. Then sought the gods | their assembly-seats,
The holy ones, | and council held,
To find who with venom | the air had filled,
Or had given Oth's bride | to the giants' brood.

26. In swelling rage | then rose up Thor,--
Seldom he sits | when he such things hears,--
And the oaths were broken, | the words and bonds,
The mighty pledges | between them made.

27. I know of the horn | of Heimdall, hidden
Under the high-reaching | holy tree;
On it there pours | from Valfather's pledge
A mighty stream: | would you know yet more?

28. Alone I sat | when the Old One sought me,
The terror of gods, | and gazed in mine eyes:
''What hast thou to ask? | why comest thou hither?
Othin, I know | where thine eye is hidden.''

29. I know where Othin's | eye is hidden,
Deep in the wide-famed | well of Mimir;
Mead from the pledge | of Othin each mom
Does Mimir drink: | would you know yet more?

30. Necklaces had I | and rings from Heerfather,
Wise was my speech | and my magic wisdom;
. . . . . . . . . .
Widely I saw | over all the worlds.

31. On all sides saw I | Valkyries assemble,
Ready to ride | to the ranks of the gods;
Skuld bore the shield, | and Skogul rode next,
Guth, Hild, Gondul, | and Geirskogul.
Of Herjan's maidens | the list have ye heard,
Valkyries ready | to ride o'er the earth.

32. I saw for Baldr, | the bleeding god,
The son of Othin, | his destiny set:
Famous and fair | in the lofty fields,
Full grown in strength | the mistletoe stood.

33. From the branch which seemed | so slender and fair
Came a harmful shaft | that Hoth should hurl;
But the brother of Baldr | was born ere long,
And one night old | fought Othin's son.

34. His hands he washed not, | his hair he combed not,
Till he bore to the bale-blaze | Baldr's foe.
But in Fensalir | did Frigg weep sore
For Valhall's need: | would you know yet more?

35. One did I see | in the wet woods bound,
A lover of ill, | and to Loki like;
By his side does Sigyn | sit, nor is glad
To see her mate: | would you know yet more?

36. From the east there pours | through poisoned vales
With swords and daggers | the river Slith.
. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .

37. Northward a hall | in Nithavellir
Of gold there rose | for Sindri's race;
And in Okolnir | another stood,
Where the giant Brimir | his beer-hall had.

38. A hall I saw, | far from the sun,
On Nastrond it stands, | and the doors face north,
Venom drops | through the smoke-vent down,
For around the walls | do serpents wind.

39. I saw there wading | through rivers wild
Treacherous men | and murderers too,
And workers of ill | with the wives of men;
There Nithhogg sucked | the blood of the slain,
And the wolf tore men; | would you know yet more?

40. The giantess old | in Ironwood sat,
In the east, and bore | the brood of Fenrir;
Among these one | in monster's guise
Was soon to steal | the sun from the sky.

41. There feeds he full | on the flesh of the dead,
And the home of the gods | he reddens with gore;
Dark grows the sun, | and in summer soon
Come mighty storms: | would you know yet more?

42. On a hill there sat, | and smote on his harp,
Eggther the joyous, | the giants' warder;
Above him the cock | in the bird-wood crowed,
Fair and red | did Fjalar stand.

43. Then to the gods | crowed Gollinkambi,
He wakes the heroes | in Othin's hall;
And beneath the earth | does another crow,
The rust-red bird | at the bars of Hel.

44. Now Garm howls loud | before Gnipahellir,
The fetters will burst, | and the wolf run free;
Much do I know, | and more can see
Of the fate of the gods, | the mighty in fight.

45. Brothers shall fight | and fell each other,
And sisters' sons | shall kinship stain;
Hard is it on earth, | with mighty whoredom;
Axe-time, sword-time, | shields are sundered,
Wind-time, wolf-time, | ere the world falls;
Nor ever shall men | each other spare.

46. Fast move the sons | of Mim, and fate
Is heard in the note | of the Gjallarhorn;
Loud blows Heimdall, | the horn is aloft,
In fear quake all | who on Hel-roads are.

47. Yggdrasil shakes, | and shiver on high
The ancient limbs, | and the giant is loose;
To the head of Mim | does Othin give heed,
But the kinsman of Surt | shall slay him soon.

48. How fare the gods? | how fare the elves?
All Jotunheim groans, | the gods are at council;
Loud roar the dwarfs | by the doors of stone,
The masters of the rocks: | would you know yet more?

49. Now Garm howls loud | before Gnipahellir,
The fetters will burst, | and the wolf run free
Much do I know, | and more can see
Of the fate of the gods, | the mighty in fight.

50. From the east comes Hrym | with shield held high;
In giant-wrath | does the serpent writhe;
O'er the waves he twists, | and the tawny eagle
Gnaws corpses screaming; | Naglfar is loose.

51. O'er the sea from the north | there sails a ship
With the people of Hel, | at the helm stands Loki;
After the wolf | do wild men follow,
And with them the brother | of Byleist goes.

52. Surt fares from the south | with the scourge of branches,
The sun of the battle-gods | shone from his sword;
The crags are sundered, | the giant-women sink,
The dead throng Hel-way, | and heaven is cloven.

53. Now comes to Hlin | yet another hurt,
When Othin fares | to fight with the wolf,
And Beli's fair slayer | seeks out Surt,
For there must fall | the joy of Frigg.

54. Then comes Sigfather's | mighty son,
Vithar, to fight | with the foaming wolf;
In the giant's son | does he thrust his sword
Full to the heart: | his father is avenged.

55. Hither there comes | the son of Hlothyn,
The bright snake gapes | to heaven above;
. . . . . . . . . .
Against the serpent | goes Othin's son.

56. In anger smites | the warder of earth,--
Forth from their homes | must all men flee;-
Nine paces fares | the son of Fjorgyn,
And, slain by the serpent, | fearless he sinks.

57. The sun turns black, | earth sinks in the sea,
The hot stars down | from heaven are whirled;
Fierce grows the steam | and the life-feeding flame,
Till fire leaps high | about heaven itself.

58. Now Garm howls loud | before Gnipahellir,
The fetters will burst, | and the wolf run free;
Much do I know, | and more can see
Of the fate of the gods, | the mighty in fight.

59. Now do I see | the earth anew
Rise all green | from the waves again;
The cataracts fall, | and the eagle flies,
And fish he catches | beneath the cliffs.

60. The gods in Ithavoll | meet together,
Of the terrible girdler | of earth they talk,
And the mighty past | they call to mind,
And the ancient runes | of the Ruler of Gods.

61. In wondrous beauty | once again
Shall the golden tables | stand mid the grass,
Which the gods had owned | in the days of old,
. . . . . . . . . .

62. Then fields unsowed | bear ripened fruit,
All ills grow better, | and Baldr comes back;
Baldr and Hoth dwell | in Hropt's battle-hall,
And the mighty gods: | would you know yet more?

63. Then H??nir wins | the prophetic wand,
. . . . . . . . . .
And the sons of the brothers | of Tveggi abide
In Vindheim now: | would you know yet more?

64. More fair than the sun, | a hall I see,
Roofed with gold, | on Gimle it stands;
There shall the righteous | rulers dwell,
And happiness ever | there shall they have.

65. There comes on high, | all power to hold,
A mighty lord, | all lands he rules.
(''Rule he orders, | and rights he fixes,
Laws he ordains | that ever shall live.'')

66. From below the dragon | dark comes forth,
Nithhogg flying | from Nithafjoll;
The bodies of men on | his wings he bears,
The serpent bright: | but now must I sink.

Norse Creation Myth

Posted by CorpseWood (Sep 11, 2009) :

The Runes were won by the god Odin when he sacrificed himself upon the world-tree, Yggdrasil. He hung himslf by noose and the spear Gungir,which enabled him to win the runes and the mysteries of the roots of being.
There are exactly 24 Runes in the Elder futhark.

The Runes are as follows:
The letter equivalent is included.

Fehu(f)
Uruz(u)
Thurisaz(th)
Ansuz(a)
Raido(r)
Kenaz(k)
Gebo(g)
Wunjo(w,v)
Hagalaz(h)
Nauthiz(n)
Isa(i)
Jera(j,y)
Eihwaz(e)
Perthro(p)
Algiz(z)
Sowulo(s)
Telwaz(t)
Berkana(b)
Ehwaz(e)
Mannaz(m)
Laguz(l)
Inguz(ng)
Othila(o)
Dagaz(d)

The shapes of each rune is found here...
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd140/Tahira_08/runes .jpg

The runes are in correct order upon this picture and it states the name as well.

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Enuma Elish (Sumerian Legend of Creation):

Posted by ginseng (Feb 28, 2010) :

http://history-world.org/sumerian_legend_of_creation.htm

Sumerian Legend of Creation
ENUMA ELISH

TABLET I
When skies above were not yet named
Nor earth below pronounced by name,
Apsu, the first one, their begetter
And maker Tiamat, who bore them all,
Had mixed their waters together,
But had not formed pastures, nor discovered reed-beds;
When yet no gods were manifest,
Nor names pronounced, nor destinies decreed,
Then gods were born within them.
Lahmu and Lahamu emerged, their names pronounced.
As soon as they matured, were fully formed,
Anshar and Kisar were born, surpassing them.
They passed the days at length, they added to the years.
Anu their first-born son rivalled his forefathers:
Anshar made his son Anu like himself,
And Anu begot Nudimmud in his likeness.
He, Nudimmud, was superior to his forefathers:
Profound of understanding, he was wise, was very strong at arms.
Mightier by far than Anshar his father's begetter,
He had no rival among the gods his peers.
The gods of that generation would meet together
And disturb Tiamat, and their clamour reverberated.
They stirred up Tiamat's belly,
They were annoying her by playing inside Anduruna.
Apsu could not quell their noise
And Tiamat became mute before them;
However grievous their behaviour to her,
However bad their ways, she would indulge them.
Finally Apsu, begetter of the great gods,
Called out and addressed his vizier Mummu,
?O Mummu, vizier who pleases me!
Come, let us go to Tiamat!'
They went and sat in front of Tiamat,
And discussed affairs concerning the gods their sons.
Apsu made his voice heard
And spoke to Tiamat in a loud voice,
?Their ways have become very grievous to me,
By day I cannot rest, by night I cannot sleep.
I shall abolish their ways and disperse them!
Let peace prevail, so that we can sleep.'
When Tiamat heard this,
She was furious and shouted at her lover;
She shouted dreadfully and was beside herself with rage,
But then suppressed the evil in her belly.
?How could we allow what we ourselves created to perish?
Even though their ways are so grievous, we should bear it patiently.'
(Vizier) Mummu replied and counselled Apsu;
The vizier did not agree with the counsel of his earth mother.
?O father, put an end to (their) troublesome ways, so that she may be allowed to rest by day and sleep at night.'
Apsu was pleased with him, his face lit up
At the evil he was planning for the gods his sons.
(Vizier) Mummu hugged him,
Sat on his lap and kissed him rapturously.
But everything they plotted between them
Was relayed to the gods their sons.
The gods listened and wandered about restlessly;
They fell silent, they sat mute.
Superior in understanding, wise and capable,
Ea who knows everything found out their plot,
Made for himself a design of everything, and laid it out correctly,
Made it cleverly, his pure spell was superb.
He recited it and it stilled the waters.
He poured sleep upon him so that he was sleeping soundly,
Put Apsu to sleep, drenched with sleep.
Vizier Mummu the counsellor (was in ) a sleepless daze.
He (Ea) unfastened his belt, took off his crown,
Took away his mantle of radiance and put it on himself.
He held Apsu down and slew him;
Tied up Mummu and laid him across him.
He set up his dwelling on top of Apsu,
And grasped Mummu, held him by a nose-rope.
When he had overcome and slain his enemies,
Ea set up his triumphal cry over his foes.
Then he rested very quietly inside his private quarters
And named them Apsu and assigned chapels,
Founded his own residence there,
And Ea and Damkina his lover dwelt in splendour.
In the chamber of destinies, the hall of designs,
Bel, cleverest of the clever, sage of the gods, was begotten.
And inside Apsu, Marduk was created;
Inside pure Apsu, Marduk was born.
Ea his father created him,
Damkina his mother bore him.
He suckled the teats of goddesses;
The nurse who reared him filled him with awesomeness.
Proud was his form, piercing his stare,
Mature his emergence, he was powerful from the start.
Anu his father's begetter beheld him,
And rejoiced, beamed; his heart was filled with joy.
He made him so perfect that his godhead was doubled.
Elevated far above them, he was superior in every way.
His limbs were ingeniously made beyond comprehension,
Impossible to understand, too difficult to perceive.
Four were his eyes, four were his ears;
When his lips moved, fire blazed forth.
The four ears were enormous
And likewise the eyes; they perceived everything.
Highest among the gods, his form was outstanding.
His limbs were very long, his height (?) outstanding.
(Anu cried out)
?Mariutu, Mariutu, Son, majesty, majesty of the gods!'
Clothed in the radiant mantle of ten gods, worn high above his head
Five fearsome rays were clustered above him.
Anu created the four winds and gave them birth,
Put them in his (Marduk's) hand, ?My son, let them play!'
He fashioned dust and made the whirlwind carry it;
He made the flood-wave and stirred up Tiamat.
Tiamat was stirred up, and heaved restlessly day and night.
The gods, unable to rest, had to suffer . . .
They plotted evil in their hearts, and
They addressed Tiamat their mother, saying,
?Because they slew Apsu your lover and
You did not go to his side but sat mute,
He has created the four, fearful winds
To stir up your belly on purpose, and we simply cannot sleep!
Was your lover Apsu not in your heart?
And (vizier) Mummu who was captured? No wonder you sit alone!
Are you not a mother? You heave restlessly
But what about us, who cannot rest? Don't you love us?
Our grip (?) [is slack] , (and) our eyes are sunken.
Remove the yoke of us restless ones, and let us sleep!
Set up a [battle cry] and avenge them!
Con [quer the enemy] and reduce them to nought!'
Tiamat listened, and the speech pleased her.
?Let us act now, (?) as you were advising!
The gods inside him (Apsu) will be disturbed,
Because they adopted evil for the gods who begot them.'
They crowded round and rallied beside Tiamat.
They were fierce, scheming restlessly night and day.
They were working up to war, growling and raging.
They convened a council and created conflict.
Mother Hubur, who fashions all things,
Contributed an unfaceable weapon: she bore giant snakes,
Sharp of tooth and unsparing of fang(?).
She filled their bodies with venom instead of blood.
She cloaked ferocious dragons with fearsome rays
And made them bear mantles of radiance, made them godlike,
(chanting this imprecation)
?Whoever looks upon them shall collapse in utter terror!
Their bodies shall rear up continually and never turn away!'
She stationed a horned serpent, a mushussu-dragon, and a lahmu-hero,
An ugallu-demon, a rabid dog, and a scorpion-man,
Aggressive umu-demons, a fish-man, and a bull-man
Bearing merciless weapons, fearless in battle.
Her orders were so powerful, they could not be disobeyed.
In addition she created eleven more likewise.
Over the gods her offspring who had convened a council for her
She promoted Qingu and made him greatest among them,
Conferred upon him leadership of the army, command of the assembly,
Raising the weapon to signal engagement, mustering combat-troops,
Overall command of the whole battle force.
And she set him upon a throne.
?I have cast the spell for you and made you greatest in the gods' assembly!
I have put into your power rule over all the gods!
You shall be the greatest, for you are my only lover!
Your commands shall always prevail over all the Anukki!'
Then she gave him the Tablet of Destinies and made him clasp it to his breast.
?Your utterance shall never be altered! Your word shall be law!'
When Qingu was promoted and had received the Anu-power
And had decreed destinies for the gods his sons, (he said),
?What issues forth from your mouths shall quench Fire!
Your accumulated venom (?) shall paralyze the powerful!

Titan Profiles:

Posted by Themis (Mar 23, 2010) :

First off the Primordial/Archaic Titans:

Kronos/Cronos: First Generation Titane
Roman Equivalent: Saturn
Symbolic: Sickle and Scythe (sickle on a long stick)
Reference: Keeper of Time, Lord of the Titans
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Rhea, Oceanus, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Lapetus, Crius, Mnemosyne, Tethys
Consort: Rhea
Children: The first generation Olympians and Chiron

Rhea: First Generation Titaness
Reference: Mother of Gods
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Cronos, Oceanus, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Lapetus, Crius, Mnemosyne, Tethys
Consort: Cronos
Children: The first generation gods

Oceanus: First Generation Titane
Reference: Ruler of the Atlantic, the World Sea/Ocean
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Rhea, Cronos, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Lapetus, Crius, Mnemosyne, Tethys
Consort: Tethys
Children: Major River Systems, Perse, Metis, Dione, Asia and the Oceanids

Tethys: First Generation Titaness
Reference: Poetry
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Rhea, Cronos, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Lapetus, Crius, Mnemosyne, Oceanus
Consort: Oceanus
Children: Major River Systems, Perse, Metis, Dione, Asia and the Oceanids

Hyperion: First Generation Titane
Reference: God of Light, Watcher from Above, God or Pillar of the East
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Rhea, Cronos, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Lapetus, Crius, Mnemosyne, Oceanus
Consort: Theia
Children: Helios, Selene, possibly Eos

Theia: First Generation Titaness
Reference: Mother of the Sun, Theia of Many Names
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Rhea, Cronos, Hyperion, Coeus, Phoebe, Lapetus, Crius, Mnemosyne, Oceanus
Consort: Hyperion
Children: Helios, Selene, Eos

Coeus: First Generation Titane
Roman Equivalent: Polus
Reference: God of Wisdom and Intellect
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Rhea, Cronos, Hyperion, Phoebe, Lapetus, Crius, Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Theia
Consort: Phoebe
Children: Leto

Phoebo: First Generation Titaness
Roman Equivalent: Phoebus
Reference: The Shining, Associated with the Moon
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Rhea, Cronos, Hyperion, Coeus, Lapetus, Crius, Mnemosyne, Oceanus, Theia
Consort: Coeus
Children: Leto

Mnemosyne: First Generation Titaness
Reference: Memory
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Rhea, Oceanus, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Lapetus, Crius, Cronos, Tethys, Themis
Consort: Zeus
Children: 9 Muses

Themis: First Generation Titaness
Reference: Order and Law, Of Good Counsel, Lady Justice
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Rhea, Oceanus, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Lapetus, Crius, Cronos, Tethys, Mnemosyne
Consorts: Zeus, Lapetus
Children: The Fates, The Hours, Auxo, Carpo, Tallo, Dike, Eirene,
Eumonia, Prometheus

Crius: First Generation Titane
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Rhea, Oceanus, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Lapetus, Cronos, Tethys, Themis, Mnemosyne
Consort: Eurybia
Children: Astraios, Pallas, Perses

Lapetus: First Generation Titane
Parents: Gaia and Uranus
Siblings: Rhea, Oceanus, Hyperion, Theia, Coeus, Phoebe, Crius, Cronos, Tethys, Themis, Mnemosyne
Consort: Themis
Children: Atlas, Prometheus, Epimethus, Menoetius



Note:

There was once the rein of Uranus and Gaia.
Uranus- The Sky and Father of the Titans
Gaia- The Earth and Mother of the Titans

Then there was the Gigantonomarchy, a battle held of which Cronos overthrew his father and the ruler.
Cronos was infamous for his response to his parents telling him of what will come of him by his own children.
They told him that that his own children would overtake him the way he overtook them.

With this, Cronos then begin to devour his own children by Rhea.

Then, Rhea became pregnant with baby Zeus; she hid him away from Cronos to protect him from being consumed like his older siblings.

Once grown, Zeus got Cronos to hack up his 2 brothers; Poseidon and and Hades.

Together they began the Titanomarchy; an epic battle between gods and titans.

The Gods were just able to defeat the titans and Zeus too over as the king and ruler banishing the titans to the pits of Tartarus.
Tartarus- a pit or void, the deepest part of the underworld (the trashcan of the gods)

Also during this time the rest of Zeus's siblings had been freed.

Zeus and his 2 brothers (referred to in the Percy Jackson series as the Big Three ;D) divided the world into kingdoms they would rule.
Zeus- Ruler of the Sky
Poseidon- Ruler of the Ocean
Hades- Ruler of the Underworld

Introducing Greek Deities:

Posted by Themis (Feb 24, 2010) :

To Start Off With:
You wouldn't believe the number of people who don't know who the Olympians are. XD

Well, for starters you need to know who the VIG (very important gods) are.

There are typically 12 Olympian Gods, although there are technically 13.

Here they are the First Generation of the Olympian Gods (the oldest):

Zeus: King of the Gods
Roman Name: Jupiter
Duties: God of the Sky and of Weather (for the most part), ?Keeper of Oaths? he didn?t like liars?
Symbolic Representation: Lightening Bolt, Eagle, Bull, Oak, and Scepter
Commonly Known Consorts: Hera, Nyx, Themis, Demeter, Gaia, Mnemosyne, Persephone, Selene, Europa (there are many more, these are just the more ''famous'' ones)

Poseidon: ''Earth Shaker'' & ''Storm Bringer''
Roman Name: Neptune
Duties: God of the Sea, the occasional earthquake (bad tempers run in the family), and nasty storms
Symbolic Representation: Trident, Dolphins, and Horses
Contributions: Horses, Earthquakes (yay -_-), and Springs
Commonly Known Consorts: Amphitrite, Canace, Demeter, Europa, Gaia, Libia, and Medusa

Hades: ''He who has many names''
Roman Name: Orcus/Pluto
Duties: God of the Underworld, God the Dead, and God the Hidden Riches of the Earth (precious metals and minerals)-''The Rich One''
Symbolic Representation: Helm of Darkness, Cerberus (3 headed father of the hell-hounds)
Commonly Known Consorts: Persephone

Hera:
Roman Name: Juno
Duties: Goddess of families, child birth, and marriage
Symbolic Representation: Peacock, Scepter, and Diadem
Contributions: Possibly Matriarchy
Commonly Known Consort: Zeus (just one, she is completely monogamous)

Demeter:
Roman Name: Ceres
Duties: Goddess of the Harvest, hidden/unwritten law, protector of marriage.
Symbolic Representation: Scepter/Staff, Torch, and Corn
Contributions: Wheat, and Corn
Commonly Known Consorts: Zeus, and Poseidon

Hestia:
Roman Name: Vesta
Duties: Goddess of ?Hearth?, and Family Ties
Symbolic Representation: ?Fireside/Hearth?, and a Pig
Commonly Known Consorts: None Hestia is one of the Sworn Maiden Goddesses (she?s a virgin)
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All of these listed gods are siblings. Offspring of the mighty Titans Cronos/Kronos and Rhea.

They are the first generation. The second generation of Olympians are all offspring of Zeus, a few by Hera.
-Second Generation Profiles coming soon!


Posted by darkermaster (Feb 25, 2010) :

I agree this is very intresting :) about the olympians, Dindt Plato connect the typical 12 Olympians with the 12 months of the year ? dont really know which one was for which month though
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Posted by Themis (Feb 25, 2010) :

No not Plato, possibly Socrates if anyone (I'll have to look into it).

Anyway, a little about that of which Plato had to do with the Gods he didn't particularly do much on them as he was a philosopher and scientist so he often tried not to rely on Greek Religion. Although, he did support theories of the existence of Atlantis, saying it had been a Classical Greek city name after the Titan Atlas- also that it had been destroyed by natural disasters.