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# Gods and Monsters

A comprehensive encyclopedia of mythology and folklore featuring over 2,300 entries on gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures worldwide.

## Sitemaps

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## Posts

- [Articles](https://godsandmonsters.info/articles/) - Long-form articles and essays from Gods & Monsters — deep dives into the world's myths, gods, monsters, and the cultures that shaped them.
- [The Wise and the Wild: Legendary Wizards Across Cultures](https://godsandmonsters.info/the-wise-and-the-wild-legendary-wizards-across-cultures/) - Merlin, Solomon, Thoth and Abe no Seimei are all called wizards, but the sources describe four very different jobs. What the legendary sages actually did.
- [Tools of the Arcane: Wands, Staffs, Books, Familiars, and Symbols](https://godsandmonsters.info/tools-of-the-arcane-wands-staffs-books-familiars-and-symbols/) - The wizard's staff can be dug out of the ground: iron staffs in Viking women's graves. The athame is from the 1950s. Sorting the old tools from the new.
- [The Feet We Never Drew: Three Years of Redrawing This Site](https://godsandmonsters.info/the-feet-we-never-drew-three-years-of-redrawing-this-site/) - We have drawn the Curupira four times in three years and never once drawn his backward feet. What an audit of this site's own artwork actually turned up.
- [Words of Power: Naming the Wizard, Witch, Mage, and Sorcerer](https://godsandmonsters.info/words-of-power-naming-the-wizard-witch-mage-and-sorcerer/) - Wizard is not an Old English word. Sorcerer means caster of lots. What we call a magic-worker decides whether they are consulted, paid, feared or killed.
- [The Birth of Magic: Ancient Sorcerers and Shamanic Roots](https://godsandmonsters.info/the-birth-of-magic-ancient-sorcerers-and-shamanic-roots/) - The first magic we can actually read is about 4,000 years old, and it belonged to salaried professionals with a syllabus. Mesopotamia, Egypt and Siberia.
- [The Magic Instinct: Why We Tell Stories of Wizards and Witches](https://godsandmonsters.info/the-magic-instinct-why-we-tell-stories-of-wizards-and-witches/) - Every culture produced a magic specialist, but the oldest written magic is not noble balance-keeping. It is curse tablets, lawsuits and buried grudges.
- [Who Comes for You When You Die: The Guides Between Worlds (Part 1)](https://godsandmonsters.info/who-comes-for-you-when-you-die-the-guides-between-worlds-part-1/) - Every culture invented someone to meet you at death — jackal, ferryman, winged goddess, shield-maiden, hound. Here's who does death's administrative work.
- [Trickster Gods (Part 2): Where the Rule-Breaking Is the Doctrine](https://godsandmonsters.info/trickster-gods-part-2-where-the-rule-breaking-is-the-doctrine/) - Part 2 of Trickster Gods: Māui, Krishna, Tezcatlipoca, Eshu — the figures whose rule-breaking isn't deviation from doctrine. It IS the doctrine.
- [Trickster Gods (Part 1): What Each Culture Lets the Rule-Breaker Break](https://godsandmonsters.info/trickster-gods-part-1-what-each-culture-lets-the-rule-breaker-break/) - Every culture has a trickster. The rules each one breaks reveal what that culture defended hardest — and the differences are sharper than the similarities.
- [Dragons Across Cultures: Why Every Civilization Invented Giant Serpents](https://godsandmonsters.info/dragons-across-cultures-why-every-civilization-invented-giant-serpents/) - Every civilization invented dragons — but a Chinese Lóng and a Norse Níðhöggr have almost nothing in common. What the differences reveal.
- [Who Comes for You When You Die: The Hunters and Reapers (Part 2)](https://godsandmonsters.info/who-comes-for-you-when-you-die-the-hunters-and-reapers-part-2/) - The psychopomps of folk nightmare — wailing women, headless horsemen, the man in the top hat, and the hooded skeleton who came after the Black Death.
- [The Drowners: Why Every Culture Built a Monster Out of Its Worst Body of Water](https://godsandmonsters.info/the-drowners-why-every-culture-built-a-monster-out-of-its-worst-body-of-water/) - The Kelpie kills with adhesive hide. The Nuckelavee with skinless rage. Every culture's water monsters are shaped by the specific way its waters drown.
- [Brides Beneath the Waves: Why So Many Cultures Imagined Marrying the Sea](https://godsandmonsters.info/brides-beneath-the-waves-why-so-many-cultures-imagined-marrying-the-sea/) - From Selkies to Mami Wata to Iara, every culture imagined marrying water spirits—and every story extracts a price the human partner never sees coming.
- [Blood-Drinkers: How Vampires Evolved from Ancient Demons to Pop Culture Icons](https://godsandmonsters.info/blood-drinkers-how-vampires-evolved-from-ancient-demons-to-pop-culture-icons/) - Vampires didn't start with Dracula. Bloodthirsty demons, flying intestines, and witch-spirits drained the living for 4,000 years before Stoker arrived.
- [Fox Spirits Across Cultures: Why the Same Animal Became a Lover, a Killer, and a God](https://godsandmonsters.info/fox-spirits-across-cultures-why-the-same-animal-became-a-lover-a-killer-and-a-god/) - Fox spirits appear across Asian and European mythology — but Japan's kitsune, Korea's gumiho, and China's huli jing are radically different creatures.

## Pages

- [Explore Mythology: Gods, Monsters, and Legends Unveiled | Gods and Monsters](https://godsandmonsters.info/) - Explore ancient mythology with 'Gods and Monsters.' Discover Olympian gods, shadowy creatures, and legends in our guide. Read stories that shaped civilizations.
- [Keukegen](https://godsandmonsters.info/keukegen/) - Keukegen is a hair-covered yokai from Toriyama Sekien's 1781 picture book, named for its rarity. Its reputation as a spirit of sickness came much later.
- [Kelpie](https://godsandmonsters.info/kelpie/) - The Kelpie is a Scottish water demon of rivers and fords, a black horse that drowns whoever mounts it and stops mill wheels against the water.
- [Kawa-zaru](https://godsandmonsters.info/kawa-zaru/) - Kawa-zaru is a river yokai of Japanese folklore from Tōtōmi and Aki, a fish-reeking kappa-kin so feared that horses were said to drop dead on sight of it.
- [Kawa-uso](https://godsandmonsters.info/kawa-uso/) - Kawa-uso is the shape-shifting otter yokai of Japanese folklore, an aged river otter that snuffs lanterns, mimics voices and fails every direct question.
- [Katsura-otoko](https://godsandmonsters.info/katsura-otoko/) - Katsura-otoko is a Japanese yokai seen as the dark patch on the moon. Stare too long at a moon short of full and his beckoning hand costs you years.
- [Katawa-guruma](https://godsandmonsters.info/katawa-guruma/) - Katawa-guruma is a Japanese yōkai, a single flaming ox-carriage wheel with a face at its hub that curses anyone curious enough to watch it pass.
- [Kasha](https://godsandmonsters.info/kasha/) - Kasha is the Japanese fire-cart yokai, an aged cat that rides thunder and black cloud into funerals to steal the body before it reaches the grave.
- [Kasa-obake](https://godsandmonsters.info/kasa-obake/) - Kasa-obake is the one-eyed, one-legged umbrella yokai of Japanese folklore, famous from Edo prints and card games yet almost absent from real legend.
- [Karnabo](https://godsandmonsters.info/karnabo/) - Karnabo is a monster of French Ardennes folklore, walled inside a slate quarry near Regniowez, whose nasal whistling paralyses passers-by and kills cattle.
- [A](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-a/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter A. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Ashwatthama](https://godsandmonsters.info/ashwatthama/) - Ashwatthama is Drona's son in the Mahabharata, who massacred the sleeping Pandava camp and was cursed by Krishna to wander the earth for 3,000 years.
- [P](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-p/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter P. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Paikea](https://godsandmonsters.info/paikea/) - Paikea is the Māori ancestor who survived his half-brother Ruatapu's drowning of Uenuku's sons and rode a whale from Hawaiki to Whāngārā on the East Coast.
- [Okiku](https://godsandmonsters.info/okiku/) - Okiku is the plate-counting ghost of Japanese folklore, a servant murdered over a missing heirloom dish who rises from her well each night and counts to nine.
- [Onryō](https://godsandmonsters.info/onryo/) - Onryō are the vengeful spirits of Japanese folklore, ghosts whose grudges brought plague, fire and lightning on the men who wronged them and had to be appeased.
- [Yūrei](https://godsandmonsters.info/yurei/) - Yūrei are the spirits of Japanese folklore, footless ghosts in white burial robes held to the world by unfinished emotion.
- [Karasu-tengu](https://godsandmonsters.info/karasu-tengu/) - Karasu-tengu is the crow-headed, yamabushi-robed tengu of Japanese mountain folklore, a bird-formed spirit that raises winds, throws illusions and steals the proud away.
- [Karakura](https://godsandmonsters.info/karakura/) - Karakura is the night demon of Turkish folk belief, blamed for sleep paralysis, drawn to crumbs in the bedding, and catchable only at the moment of sunrise.
- [Karakoncolos](https://godsandmonsters.info/karakoncolos/) - Karakoncolos is the black winter demon of Turkish folklore that stops travellers with a riddling question, mimics familiar voices at the window and carries a comb.
- [Kapre](https://godsandmonsters.info/kapre/) - Kapre, the cigar-smoking tree giant of Philippine folklore, is younger and stranger than it looks: the name, the cigar and the tree all arrived separately.
- [Kallikantzaroi](https://godsandmonsters.info/kallikantzaroi/) - Kallikantzaroi are the goblins of the Greek Twelve Days, sawing at the world tree all year, wrecking houses at Christmas, and beaten by fire and bad arithmetic.
- [Kabouter](https://godsandmonsters.info/kabouter/) - Kabouter, the shy household gnome of Dutch and Flemish folklore, worked farms by night for milk and bread and punished anyone who spied on him.
- [Jorogumo](https://godsandmonsters.info/jorogumo/) - Jorogumo is the spider yokai of Japanese folklore, owner of waterfall pools and wearer of a woman's face, whose traps only work on men who panic.
- [Jólakötturinn](https://godsandmonsters.info/jolakotturinn/) - Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat of Icelandic folklore, is a giant beast that eats anyone without a new garment at Christmas. Its record begins in 1862.
- [Jikininki](https://godsandmonsters.info/jikininki/) - Jikininki, the corpse-eating spirit of Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan: a Japanese priest reborn as a hungry ghost, condemned to devour the dead he once buried.
- [Jibakurei](https://godsandmonsters.info/jibakurei/) - Jibakurei are the earthbound spirits of Japanese folklore, souls pinned by attachment to the exact ground where they died and unable to leave it.
- [Jengu](https://godsandmonsters.info/jengu/) - Jengu are water spirits of Cameroon's Sawa coast whose attention arrives as sickness, answered by a year-long cult rite and honoured each December at the Ngondo.
- [Jasconius](https://godsandmonsters.info/jasconius/) - Jasconius is the island-sized fish of the Irish voyage of Saint Brendan, whose back the monks mistook for land until their Easter cooking fire woke him.
- [Jadis, The White Witch](https://godsandmonsters.info/jadis-the-white-witch/) - Jadis, the White Witch of C. S. Lewis's Narnia, murdered her own world with a single spoken word, and then froze another one for a hundred joyless years.
- [Jackalope](https://godsandmonsters.info/jackalope/) - The jackalope, Wyoming's antlered rabbit, was built by two taxidermist brothers in Douglas in the 1930s and handed a biography the West could not resist.
- [Jack-o'-lantern](https://godsandmonsters.info/jack-o-lantern/) - Jack-o'-lantern began as Irish folklore's Stingy Jack, barred from Heaven and Hell, condemned to wander with an ember of hellfire in a hollowed turnip.
- [Jack-In-Irons](https://godsandmonsters.info/jack-in-irons/) - Jack-In-Irons is a ten-foot town ghost of West Riding Yorkshire folklore, gaunt and hung with chains, who springs from dark corners to carry people off.
- [Iwana-bōzu](https://godsandmonsters.info/iwana-bozu/) - Iwana-bōzu is a Japanese yokai, a giant mountain char that takes a monk's shape to talk anglers out of poisoning its pool, then gives itself away.
- [Isonade](https://godsandmonsters.info/isonade/) - Isonade is a shark-like sea monster of Japanese folklore that strokes the surface unseen off Kyushu, then hooks fishermen away with its needled tail.
- [Irin](https://godsandmonsters.info/irin/) - Irin are the watcher-angels of Jewish myth, the sleepless heavenly court whose decree in Daniel stripped a Babylonian king of his mind for seven seasons.
- [Ippon-datara](https://godsandmonsters.info/ippon-datara/) - Ippon-datara is a one-legged yokai of Japan's Kii mountains, harmless for most of the year and deadly only on the twentieth day of the twelfth month.
- [Indrik](https://godsandmonsters.info/indrik/) - Indrik, the father of all beasts in Russian folklore, travels beneath the mountains like the sun crosses the sky, opening every spring and well as he passes.
- [Imp](https://godsandmonsters.info/imp/) - The imp is a small demon of English and German folklore, kept as a witch's blood-fed familiar or corked in a bottle to bring its owner luck.
- [Ikuchi](https://godsandmonsters.info/ikuchi/) - Ikuchi is a sea serpent of Japanese folklore, recorded off Hitachi in the 1790s, so long that its oily crossing could sink a ship the crew failed to bail.
- [Ichchhadhari Nag](https://godsandmonsters.info/ichchhadhari-nag/) - Ichchhadhari Nag, the shape-shifting cobra of Hindu folklore, takes human form, guards the naagmani gem in its hood, and hunts whoever kills its mate.
- [Ibong Adarna](https://godsandmonsters.info/ibong-adarna/) - Ibong Adarna is the enchanted bird of Philippine legend whose seven songs cure any sickness, drop every listener asleep, then leave them turned to stone.
- [Iannic-ann-ôd](https://godsandmonsters.info/iannic-ann-od/) - Iannic-ann-ôd is the Breton name for the unburied drowned, howling along the night shore. Answer the cry three times and it breaks your neck.
- [Hyōsube](https://godsandmonsters.info/hyosube/) - Hyōsube is a hairy river yokai of Japanese folklore from Kyushu, kin to the kappa, notorious for fouling baths, killing horses and stealing eggplants.
- [Huldufólk](https://godsandmonsters.info/huldufolk/) - The huldufólk are Iceland's hidden people, a second society of farmers living inside boulders and cliffs, invisible unless they choose to be seen.
- [Hound of Tindalos](https://godsandmonsters.info/hound-of-tindalos/) - The Hound of Tindalos, from Frank Belknap Long's 1929 weird tale, lives in the angles of time and hunts any mind that travels too far into the past.
- [Hō-ō](https://godsandmonsters.info/ho-o/) - Hō-ō is the phoenix of Japanese mythology, a five-coloured bird that lands only in a justly ruled country and leaves the moment the rule turns bad.
- [Heinzelmännchen](https://godsandmonsters.info/heinzelmannchen/) - The Heinzelmännchen were Cologne's invisible night workers, doing the whole city's labour until a tailor's wife laid peas on her stairs to catch a look at them.
- [Hedley Kow](https://godsandmonsters.info/hedley-kow/) - The Hedley Kow was a Northumbrian bogie that turned into straw, cows and grey horses, then vanished with a horse-laugh. Its record starts in 1835.
- [Havsrå](https://godsandmonsters.info/havsra/) - Havsrå is the sea rå of Swedish folk belief, owner of a stretch of salt water and everything in it, paid in returned catch for seals, fish and fair weather.
- [Haugbúi](https://godsandmonsters.info/haugbui/) - Haugbúi is the mound-dwelling undead of Norse and Icelandic saga, a dead man who stays in his barrow and kills whoever digs down for his gold.
- [Harimau Jadian](https://godsandmonsters.info/harimau-jadian/) - Harimau Jadian is the Malay and Indonesian weretiger, a person who puts on a tiger's body by magic and is betrayed by wounds, feathers and a smooth upper lip.
- [Hantu](https://godsandmonsters.info/hantu/) - Hantu is the Malay and Indonesian word for a harmful spirit, covering semangat, mambang, orang bunian and jinn, and the bomoh called in to drive them out.
- [Hamingja](https://godsandmonsters.info/hamingja/) - Hamingja is the Norse luck a person owned, proved and passed on at death, appearing once in the sagas as a woman taller than the mountains.
- [Half-elf](https://godsandmonsters.info/half-elf/) - The Half-elf has no Old Norse name, only saga phrases for elf descent. Meet Skuld, Ragnar's elf-blooded line, and the word Tolkien gave them.
- [Hakutaku](https://godsandmonsters.info/hakutaku/) - Hakutaku is the nine-eyed, six-horned beast of Japanese folklore whose printed charm named eighteen household omens and the demon behind each one.
- [Haetae](https://godsandmonsters.info/haetae/) - Haetae, the horned guardian beast of Korean mythology, gores the guilty and guards Gyeongbokgung. Its fire-quelling reputation dates only from 1886.
- [Hadúr](https://godsandmonsters.info/hadur/) - Hadúr, the "ancient" Hungarian war god, was coined by a poet in 1822 and made famous by Vörösmarty. Here is how a nation acquired a pantheon on paper.
- [Gwyllion](https://godsandmonsters.info/gwyllion/) - Gwyllion are the Welsh mountain fairies of Monmouthshire folklore, hags who walk ahead in the mist, take away the road, and vanish at the sight of a knife.
- [Guhin](https://godsandmonsters.info/guhin/) - Guhin are the lowest tengu of Japanese folklore, unseen mountain spirits blamed for phantom falling trees, thrown stones and vanished children, and appeased with grilled mochi.
- [Zirnitra](https://godsandmonsters.info/zirnitra/) - Zirnitra, the black dragon god of Slavic sorcery, was invented twice over. The 1771 book that named him called him a battle standard, not a god.
- [Vadātājs](https://godsandmonsters.info/vadatajs/) - Vadātājs, the misleading spirit of Latvian folklore, is the ghost of someone dead before their time, walking lone travellers off the road into bog and water.
- [Upinis](https://godsandmonsters.info/upinis/) - Upinis is the Lithuanian river god known from a single line of a 1582 chronicle: snow-white piglets went into the water so the river would run clear.
- [Tzitzimitl](https://godsandmonsters.info/tzitzimitl/) - Tzitzimitl were Aztec star deities in bone-marked skirts, feared to descend and devour humanity if the sun failed, and petitioned by midwives to heal.
- [Trentren-Vilu](https://godsandmonsters.info/trentren-vilu/) - Trentren-Vilu is the earth serpent of Mapuche and Chilote myth who raised the hills against Caicai-Vilu's flood and shaped southern Chile's islands.
- [Green Knight](https://godsandmonsters.info/green-knight/) - The Green Knight is the green-skinned giant of English Arthurian legend who rides into Camelot with an axe, loses his head, and picks it up again.
- [Gashadokuro](https://godsandmonsters.info/gashadokuro/) - Gashadokuro is Japan's giant skeleton of the unburied dead, and one of the great modern inventions: coined in 1960s magazines, dressed in a Kuniyoshi print.
- [Gagana](https://godsandmonsters.info/gagana/) - Gagana is the iron-beaked, copper-clawed bird of a Russian charm printed in 1841, set on the island of Buyan to guard a house of captured ants.
- [Freybug](https://godsandmonsters.info/freybug/) - Freybug is a black dog built from fray-bug, a Tudor English word for a bogy. A martyr wrote it in 1555; a 1996 encyclopedia gave the word four legs.
- [Fossegrim](https://godsandmonsters.info/fossegrim/) - Fossegrim is the Norwegian waterfall spirit who teaches the fiddle to anyone who throws stolen meat into a north-running falls on a Thursday night.
- [Firefox](https://godsandmonsters.info/firefox/) - Firefox, the tulikettu of Finnish folklore, is the fire-tailed fox whose sparks became the northern lights, and whose pelt made any hunter rich for life.
- [Finfolk](https://godsandmonsters.info/finfolk/) - Finfolk are the sea people of Orkney folklore: dark rowers who steal wives, hoard silver, and lost the island of Eynhallow to nine rings of salt.
- [Feu Follet](https://godsandmonsters.info/feu-follet/) - The feu follet is the ghost light of Cajun Louisiana, held to be the soul of an unbaptized child, that walks ahead of travellers and loses them in the marsh.
- [Fear gorta](https://godsandmonsters.info/fear-gorta/) - Fear Gorta, the man of hunger in Irish folklore, is the sudden weakness that drops on a traveller crossing cursed ground, cured by a crumb of oat bread.
- [Farfadet](https://godsandmonsters.info/farfadet/) - The farfadet is a French lutin of Poitou and Provence that works by night in byres and quarries, and in Poitou is an older people living in the rocks.
- [Fairy](https://godsandmonsters.info/fairy/) - Fairy: the Good People of Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English folklore, flattered by name, feared for theft, and held off with bread, a Bible or cold iron.
- [Etiäinen](https://godsandmonsters.info/etiainen/) - Etiäinen is a spirit double in Finnish folk belief that reaches a place before the person does, heard as footsteps or a door and counted as an omen.
- [Esege Malan](https://godsandmonsters.info/esege-malan/) - Esege Malan is the Buryat sky father of Lake Baikal, who squeezed the sun and moon from wet earth, then left the world to his nine sons in the Sayans.
- [Each Uisge](https://godsandmonsters.info/each-uisge/) - The each uisge is the water horse of Scottish Highland lochs. It stands quiet until you mount it, then sticks fast and drowns you, leaving only the liver.
- [Dvorovoi](https://godsandmonsters.info/dvorovoi/) - Dvorovoi is the Slavic courtyard spirit of the byre and stable, who fattens the animals he likes, torments the ones he does not, and answers to the domovoi.
- [Dullahan's Horse](https://godsandmonsters.info/dullahans-horse/) - The Dullahan's Horse is the headless steed of Irish folklore, carrying the death-herald and drawing the silent coach that stops where someone will die.
- [Dullahan](https://godsandmonsters.info/dullahan/) - Dullahan: the headless coachman of Irish folklore, first written down in 1820s Munster, whose black coach halts at the door where a death is due.
- [Taiwanese Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/taiwanese-mythology/) - Taiwanese mythology: sea goddess Mazu, plague-expelling Wang Ye and their burning king-boats, mountain tricksters, and the island's older Austronesian gods.
- [Chinese Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/chinese-mythology/) - Chinese mythology guide: the Jade Emperor's celestial bureaucracy, Pangu's cosmic body, benevolent dragons, fox spirits, and the ten courts of Diyu explained.
- [Yuan Gui](https://godsandmonsters.info/yuan-gui/) - Yuan Gui are the wronged ghosts of Chinese folklore, spirits of the unjustly killed who return to force their case into the open and see the guilty punished.
- [You Hun Ye Gui](https://godsandmonsters.info/you-hun-ye-gui/) - You Hun Ye Gui are the restless wandering ghosts of Chinese folklore, the unclaimed dead who roam each Ghost Month.
- [Wu Tou Gui](https://godsandmonsters.info/wu-tou-gui/) - Wu Tou Gui, the headless ghost of Chinese folklore, is the spirit of the beheaded. It walks execution grounds at night asking strangers where its head is.
- [Tek-ko-kui](https://godsandmonsters.info/tek-ko-kui/) - Tek-ko-kui, the bamboo pole ghost of Taiwanese folklore, lays a culm across the night path and snatches the soul of anyone careless enough to step over it.
- [Nü Gui](https://godsandmonsters.info/nu-gui/) - Nü Gui is the vengeful female ghost of Chinese folklore, a wronged woman in white or red who returns from a wrongful death to take revenge on the living.
- [Meng Po](https://godsandmonsters.info/meng-po/) - Meng Po, the old woman of the Chinese underworld, hands every soul a five-flavoured broth at the Tenth Court so it forgets its life before rebirth.
- [Jiangshi](https://godsandmonsters.info/jiangshi/) - Jiangshi, the "stiff corpse" of Chinese folklore, is a reanimated undead creature that hops on rigid legs and drains the life force of the living. Discover its origins, powers, and weaknesses.
- [G](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-g/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter G. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Er Gui](https://godsandmonsters.info/er-gui/) - Er Gui are the hungry ghosts of Chinese Buddhist and folk tradition, condemned to endless hunger as karmic payment for greed in life.
- [Diao Si Gui](https://godsandmonsters.info/diao-si-gui/) - Diao Si Gui, the hanged ghost of Chinese folklore, wears red, drags its noose, and coaxes the grieving into the rope so it can be reborn in their place.
- [Ba Jiao Gui](https://godsandmonsters.info/ba-jiao-gui/) - Ba Jiao Gui is the banana-tree ghost of Chinese Malaysian folklore, bound with red thread and needles until she pays her captor in winning numbers.
- [Drow](https://godsandmonsters.info/drow/) - Drow is not a separate creature. Jakobsen and the Scottish National Dictionary both call it a variant form of trow. The metalworking dark elf came later.
- [Trasgo](https://godsandmonsters.info/trasgo/) - The Trasgo is the red-capped house goblin of Asturian folklore, driven out not by force but by three chores his holed left hand can never finish.
- [Sugaar](https://godsandmonsters.info/sugaar/) - Sugaar is the male serpent of Basque myth, a sickle of fire crossing the sky before a storm and the consort whose meetings with Mari make the weather.
- [Spiriduş](https://godsandmonsters.info/spiridus/) - Spiriduş, in Romanian folklore, is a small devil hatched from an abandoned egg under the arm, kept in a bottle and sent out to fetch its owner money.
- [Sky Woman](https://godsandmonsters.info/sky-woman/) - Sky Woman fell from the Haudenosaunee sky world onto a turtle's back, and the land grew under her dancing feet. Meet the first mother of Turtle Island.
- [Skookum](https://godsandmonsters.info/skookum/) - Skookum is the Chinook Jargon word for the evil spirits of the Pacific Northwest, beings with no fixed body that got inside people and caused illness.
- [Samodiva](https://godsandmonsters.info/samodiva/) - Samodiva, the Bulgarian forest and water fairy: a winged, white-clad woman who dances on mountain meadows, rides winged stags, locks up springs and heals heroes.
- [Saci](https://godsandmonsters.info/saci/) - Saci is the one-legged, red-capped trickster of Brazilian folklore who rides the dust devils, smokes a clay pipe, and carries slavery's marks on his body.
- [Ruha](https://godsandmonsters.info/ruha/) - Ruha is the Mandaean queen of the World of Darkness, mother of the seven planets and the twelve signs, who works on the living through lust and illusion.
- [Ramidreju](https://godsandmonsters.info/ramidreju/) - Ramidreju: a Cantabrian animal born once in a hundred springs from weasel and marten, whose gall was said to cure any illness and reveal buried treasure.
- [Ragana](https://godsandmonsters.info/ragana/) - Ragana is the Baltic night witch of Latvian and Lithuanian folklore: not a village woman but a restless female spirit who steals milk and haunts graveyards.
- [Perchta](https://godsandmonsters.info/perchta/) - Perchta, the belly-slitter of Alpine folklore, walks the twelve nights inspecting distaffs and dinner bowls, rewarding the diligent and cutting open the idle.
- [Pachamama](https://godsandmonsters.info/pachamama/) - Pachamama is the earth mother of the Quechua and Aymara Andes, first named by Polo de Ondegardo in the 1560s and still fed with coca and chicha every August.
- [Ochopintre](https://godsandmonsters.info/ochopintre/) - Ochopintre is the Georgian god who owns the souls of wild animals. Khevsur hunters begged his leave before every shot and called him shepherd of the beasts.
- [Obatala](https://godsandmonsters.info/obatala/) - Obatala, the Yoruba orisha of white cloth, sculpted the first human bodies from clay. The palm wine, the theft of his world, and why his shrines stay dry.
- [Nawao](https://godsandmonsters.info/nawao/) - Nawao: a large, wild hunting people of Hawaiian myth who lived on wild bananas in the upland forest until the Menehune destroyed nearly all of them.
- [Nahuelito](https://godsandmonsters.info/nahuelito/) - Nahuelito is the lake monster of Argentina's Nahuel Huapi, born from a 1922 newspaper subheading, a failed plesiosaur hunt and a carnival float in Bariloche.
- [Muma Pădurii](https://godsandmonsters.info/muma-padurii/) - Muma Pădurii, the Mother of the Forest in Romanian belief, is a shape-shifting forest spirit who steals children's sleep and lends her name to an illness.
- [Moddey Dhoo](https://godsandmonsters.info/moddey-dhoo/) - The Moddey Dhoo is the spectral black dog of Peel Castle, set down once by George Waldron in the 1720s and steadily improved by everyone since.
- [Mictlan](https://godsandmonsters.info/mictlan/) - Mictlan is the Aztec land of the dead, reached by a four-year road across the cold north, where a yellow dog carries the soul over the last river.
- [Mher](https://godsandmonsters.info/mher/) - Mher is the last hero of the Armenian epic of Sasun, cursed deathless and childless, shut inside a cliff above Van until the world becomes just.
- [Mbói Tu'ĩ](https://godsandmonsters.info/mboi-tui/) - Mbói Tu'ĩ is the parrot-headed serpent of Guaraní folklore, second of Tau and Keraná's seven cursed sons, who guards Paraguay's marshes and eats only fruit.
- [Manutara](https://godsandmonsters.info/manutara/) - Manutara, the sooty tern of Rapa Nui, laid the first egg of spring that made a man the Birdman of Easter Island. It no longer nests on the island.
- [Mairu](https://godsandmonsters.info/mairu/) - The Mairu are the non-Christian people of the Basque past, credited with raising the dolmens and stone circles of the mountains and driven out by Roland.
- [Maero](https://godsandmonsters.info/maero/) - Maero are the feared wild beings of Māori tradition, said to haunt the depths of New Zealand's forests and to pounce on travellers in the high ranges.
- [Madremonte](https://godsandmonsters.info/madremonte/) - Madremonte, the Mother of the Mountain, is the great forest spirit of the Colombian Andes, who sickens, strands and tears apart those who abuse the wild.
- [Lusca](https://godsandmonsters.info/lusca/) - Lusca is the Bahamian sea monster of the Andros blue holes, a giant octopus with 75-foot arms said to drag divers and whole boats into the dark.
- [Lono](https://godsandmonsters.info/lono/) - Lono is the Hawaiian god of rain, farming and peace, whose four-month Makahiki festival halted all war while his long god image circled the island.
- [Lietuvēns](https://godsandmonsters.info/lietuvens/) - Lietuvēns is the Latvian nightmare spirit, a restless dead soul that presses sleepers and rides horses to exhaustion until a five-cornered cross turns it.
- [Leyak](https://godsandmonsters.info/leyak/) - Leyak are living Balinese sorcerers who take magical power down its left-hand road, serve the widow-witch Rangda, and are blamed for unexplained illness.
- [Leimarel Sidabi](https://godsandmonsters.info/leimarel-sidabi/) - Leimarel Sidabi is the supreme earth and household goddess of Meitei mythology in Manipur, worshipped with no image at all, as water in a plain clay pot.
- [Leanan sidhe](https://godsandmonsters.info/leanan-sidhe/) - Leanan Sídhe, the fairy sweetheart of Irish, Manx and Scottish folklore, gives one man inspiration and foresight, then spends his life paying for it.
- [Lauma](https://godsandmonsters.info/lauma/) - Lauma, the Baltic fairy of Latvian and Lithuanian folklore, spins and weaves at inhuman speed, rewards kindness with endless cloth, and steals babies.
- [Laukų dvasios](https://godsandmonsters.info/lauku-dvasios/) - Laukų dvasios are the field spirits of Lithuanian folk belief, said to live in growing rye, gather in the last sheaf, and snatch children who wander in.
- [Laran](https://godsandmonsters.info/laran/) - Laran is the Etruscan god of war, a beardless youth in a crested helmet known almost entirely from engraved bronze mirrors rather than any surviving story.
- [Lamiak](https://godsandmonsters.info/lamiak/) - Lamiak are the water fairies of Basque folklore: golden combs, duck feet, and overnight bridges built for a wage that nobody in the stories ever paid.
- [Lạc Long Quân](https://godsandmonsters.info/lac-long-quan/) - Lạc Long Quân, dragon lord of Vietnamese myth, killed the Fish Demon, fathered a hundred sons from a sack of eggs, and took half of them back to the sea.
- [La Tunda](https://godsandmonsters.info/la-tunda/) - La Tunda wears your mother's face to walk you into the mangroves of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Pacific. Only her wooden molinillo leg gives her away.
- [La Mojana](https://godsandmonsters.info/la-mojana/) - La Mojana is the golden-haired water spirit of Colombia's Caribbean rivers, the female of the Mohán, who takes children down to her stone house underwater.
- [Kushtaka](https://godsandmonsters.info/kushtaka/) - Kushtaka, the kóoshdaa káa of Tlingit Southeast Alaska, is the land otter man who saves drowning people by taking them and remaking them as otters.
- [Kulshedra](https://godsandmonsters.info/kulshedra/) - Kulshedra is the many-headed she-dragon of Albanian folklore, a fire-spitting storm demon who dries up the springs until a drangue kills her.
- [Kukudh](https://godsandmonsters.info/kukudh/) - Kukudh: an Albanian revenant that walks in January laden with chains, its breath deadly, and in the south a blind female demon who carries the plague.
- [Kokopelli](https://godsandmonsters.info/kokopelli/) - Kokopelli is a Hopi fertility katsina named after a fly, not the flute player on the souvenirs. The Hopi record is clear and the icon is a modern mistake.
- [Kigatilik](https://godsandmonsters.info/kigatilik/) - Kigatilik is an Inuit spirit known from one drawing by the Iglulik shaman Anarqâq, who fled it on the spring ice instead of taking it as a helper.
- [Khyāh](https://godsandmonsters.info/khyah/) - Khyāh is the hairy household ghost of Nepal's Newar people, an attendant of Lakshmi and the black-clad tumbling jester of Kathmandu Valley masked dance.
- [Kholomodumo](https://godsandmonsters.info/kholomodumo/) - Kholomodumo is the shapeless Basotho monster that swallowed every person and animal in the valley, then grew too vast to squeeze back out through the pass.
- [Keibu Keioiba](https://godsandmonsters.info/keibu-keioiba/) - Keibu Keioiba is the tiger-headed man of Meitei folklore in Manipur, a beast who wanted cooked food, stole Thabaton, and was undone by a hollow bamboo pipe.
- [Keelut](https://godsandmonsters.info/keelut/) - Keelut is an Inuit spirit said to take the form of a hairless dog. Its entire record is one encyclopedia line, and the rest was borrowed from elsewhere.
- [Kāne](https://godsandmonsters.info/kane/) - Kāne, highest of the Hawaiian gods, shaped the first man from red earth and struck springs from bare rock. Every form fresh water takes is his body.
- [Kamuy](https://godsandmonsters.info/kamuy/) - Kamuy are the deities of the Ainu of Hokkaido, visiting the human world inside borrowed animal bodies and trading meat and fur for gifts and ceremony.
- [Jumbee](https://godsandmonsters.info/jumbee/) - Jumbee is the Caribbean word for a spirit of the dead, a whole class rather than one creature, from Angolan nzumbi to Montserrat's drummed jombee dance.
- [Jievaras](https://godsandmonsters.info/jievaras/) - Jievaras is the Lithuanian braid of uncut rye left standing at harvest's end, pinned to the earth over buried bread and salt so the grain returns.
- [Isten](https://godsandmonsters.info/isten/) - Isten is the Hungarian word for God and the creator of Hungarian folk legend, who moulds the world from silt scraped out from under the Devil's fingernails.
- [Iratxoak](https://godsandmonsters.info/iratxoak/) - Iratxoak are the imps of Basque folklore, born from fern seed on Saint John's Night, kept in a needle case, and known for fire, fright and tireless work.
- [Inugami](https://godsandmonsters.info/inugami/) - Inugami is a dog spirit of western Japanese folklore, made by a cruel rite, inherited down a family line, and blamed for fevers, rage and fits of barking.
- [Inkanyamba](https://godsandmonsters.info/inkanyamba/) - Inkanyamba is the tornado snake of Zulu and Xhosa belief, a black serpent lying in the pool below Howick Falls that rises each summer to bring hail and ruin.
- [Imugi](https://godsandmonsters.info/imugi/) - Imugi is the hornless serpent of Korean myth, a dragon in waiting that must last a thousand years in deep water, and one broke heaven's law to bring rain.
- [Impundulu](https://godsandmonsters.info/impundulu/) - Impundulu, the lightning bird of Xhosa and Zulu belief, is a witch's familiar that comes as a white bird with red legs and as a beautiful young man.
- [Ilamatecuhtli](https://godsandmonsters.info/ilamatecuhtli/) - Ilamatecuhtli, the Aztec Old Woman Lord, held the winter month of Tititl, when a woman in her shell-fringed star skirt danced, wept, and was killed.
- [Ijiraq](https://godsandmonsters.info/ijiraq/) - The ijiraq is a shapeshifting spirit of Inuit tradition, a caribou-hunting inland being that outruns any animal, turns invisible, and takes your memory with it.
- [Ifrit](https://godsandmonsters.info/ifrit/) - The ifrit of Arabic and Islamic lore is a demon of smoke and fire that haunts ruins, rises from a murdered man's blood, and yields only to magic.
- [Iele](https://godsandmonsters.info/iele/) - The Iele are Romanian fairy women who dance the hora by moonlight, scorch the ground where they pass, and strike watchers mute, mad or paralysed.
- [Ichneumon](https://godsandmonsters.info/ichneumon/) - The Ichneumon of Egyptian and medieval lore bakes Nile mud into armour, kills asps and dragons, and goes down a sleeping crocodile's throat to gut it.
- [Iara](https://godsandmonsters.info/iara/) - Iara, the Mãe-d'Água of the Brazilian Amazon, sings men off their canoes. A nineteenth-century figure built on the Tupi ipupiara and the European siren.
- [Hwanung](https://godsandmonsters.info/hwanung/) - Hwanung of Korean myth came down from heaven with three seals and 3,000 followers, founded the city of Sinsi on Mount Taebaek, and fathered Dangun.
- [Hupia](https://godsandmonsters.info/hupia/) - Hupia are the Taíno dead, shut in Coaybay by day and loose at night for guava. They can wear any face, so the Taíno felt for the navel that was missing.
- [Hraesvelg](https://godsandmonsters.info/hraesvelg/) - Hraesvelg is the Norse jotunn who sits in eagle's shape at the sky's northern end, and every wind on earth comes out from under his beating wings.
- [Hombre Caiman](https://godsandmonsters.info/hombre-caiman/) - Hombre Caimán is a Colombian legend from Plato, Magdalena: a man who drank a sorcerer's potion to spy on bathing women and stayed half caiman for good.
- [Helloi](https://godsandmonsters.info/helloi/) - Helloi are seven sisters of Meitei myth, expelled from heaven and loose in Manipur's meadows and crossroads, where they take men's minds and bargain them back.
- [Haietlik](https://godsandmonsters.info/haietlik/) - Haietlik is the Nuu-chah-nulth lightning serpent, one of the thunderbird's hunting dogs, whose scale was a whaler's charm on the coast of Vancouver Island.
- [Gytrash](https://godsandmonsters.info/gytrash/) - The Gytrash is the shape-changing road spectre of West Riding Yorkshire, a death omen recorded as a black dog, a headless man and an evil cow.
- [Gun Ana](https://godsandmonsters.info/gun-ana/) - Gün Ana is the Sun Mother of Turkic mythology, seated above the moon on the seventh sky. Her career as a goddess, though, is barely a century old.
- [Guaicaipuro](https://godsandmonsters.info/guaicaipuro/) - Guaicaipuro, the 16th-century Venezuelan cacique known almost entirely from one 1723 chronicle, is now a spirit of the tres potencias in the Maria Lionza cult.
- [Gong Gong](https://godsandmonsters.info/gong-gong/) - Gong Gong is the water god of Chinese myth who lost a war for heaven, drove his head into Mount Buzhou, and left the sky and earth tilted for good.
- [Garkain](https://godsandmonsters.info/garkain/) - Garkain is a man-eating spirit of Aboriginal Arnhem Land who flies on flaps of loose skin and smothers anyone who walks into his patch of jungle.
- [Erchitu](https://godsandmonsters.info/erchitu/) - The Erchitu of Sardinian folklore is a murderer cursed into a white ox with steel horns, whose triple bellow at a door marks that household for death.
- [Draugr](https://godsandmonsters.info/draugr/) - The draugr is the Norse walking corpse of the Icelandic sagas, a swollen blue-black body that guards its grave-goods and kills until beheaded and burned.
- [Djall](https://godsandmonsters.info/djall/) - Djall is the Albanian devil, a Latin loanword laid over folk belief: sparks on a night path, barn fires blamed on him, and a cock crow that ends him.
- [Dirawong](https://godsandmonsters.info/dirawong/) - Dirawong is the goanna Creator Being of the Bundjalung Nation, who chased the Rainbow Serpent to the sea and now lies at Evans Head as Goanna Headland.
- [Dip](https://godsandmonsters.info/dip/) - The Dip is a lame black dog of Catalan folklore that bled livestock by night around Pratdip, and still walks on the village's coat of arms.
- [Dhul-Qarnayn](https://godsandmonsters.info/dhul-qarnayn/) - Dhul-Qarnayn, the Two-Horned One of Islamic tradition, sealed Gog and Magog behind iron and molten metal, then warned that his barrier will fall to dust.
- [Devi (Georgian Giant)](https://godsandmonsters.info/devi-georgian/) - Devi are the many-headed man-eating giants of Georgian folklore, ogre brothers who hoard wishing-stones, boast from doorways, and lose to boys with arrows.
- [Datsue-ba](https://godsandmonsters.info/datsue-ba/) - Datsue-ba, the hag of Japanese Buddhist myth, strips the dead at the Sanzu River, where the bend of a branch weighs the sins of every garment she takes.
- [Dames Blanches](https://godsandmonsters.info/dames-blanches/) - Dames Blanches are the white ladies of French folklore, fairy women who hold ravines, fords and bridges in Normandy and Lorraine until a traveller pays.
- [Dali](https://godsandmonsters.info/dali/) - Dali is the golden-haired hunting goddess of Georgia's Svan highlands, mistress of the ibex, who took hunters as lovers and destroyed the ones who betrayed her.
- [Dakini](https://godsandmonsters.info/dakini/) - Dakini: Indian flesh-eating spirits first named in a temple inscription of 423 CE, later reborn in Tibetan Buddhism as sky-going goddesses of wisdom.
- [Dajjal](https://godsandmonsters.info/dajjal/) - Dajjal is the one-eyed false messiah of Islamic tradition, absent from the Quran, who works inverted miracles until Jesus kills him at the gate of Ludd.
- [Cyhyraeth](https://godsandmonsters.info/cyhyraeth/) - The Cyhyraeth is a Welsh death omen, an unseen spirit that groans three times before a burial and moans off the Glamorgan coast before a shipwreck.
- [Curupira](https://godsandmonsters.info/curupira/) - Curupira is the backward-footed forest guardian of Brazilian and Tupi tradition, first recorded in 1560, who strands hunters who take more than the forest can spare.
- [Culsu](https://godsandmonsters.info/culsu/) - Culsu is an Etruscan underworld demoness known from a single named carving at Chiusi, stepping out of the door of death with a torch and a pair of shears.
- [Choorile](https://godsandmonsters.info/choorile/) - The Choorile is an Indo-Caribbean jumbie of Guyana and Trinidad, the ghost of a woman dead in childbirth who returns to grieve, possess and take revenge.
- [Chonchon](https://godsandmonsters.info/chonchon/) - The Chonchón of Mapuche and Chilean folklore is a sorcerer's head flown as a grey night bird, crying tué tué to announce a coming death.
- [Chōchinobake](https://godsandmonsters.info/chochinobake/) - Chōchinobake is the paper lantern ghost of Japanese folklore, a tsukumogami that splits its paper into a grinning mouth after a century of service.
- [Chickcharney](https://godsandmonsters.info/chickcharney/) - The chickcharney is a red-eyed, three-toed tree spirit of Andros in the Bahamas, said to bless the courteous and ruin anyone who fells its nest.
- [Chichevache](https://godsandmonsters.info/chichevache/) - Chichevache is a lean medieval French and English beast that devoured only patient, obedient wives, and starved. Chaucer and Lydgate both put her to work.
- [Cheval Mallet](https://godsandmonsters.info/cheval-mallet/) - The Cheval Mallet is a saddled night horse of Vendée and Poitou folklore that tempts exhausted travellers into the saddle and kills them by dawn.
- [Cheval Gauvin](https://godsandmonsters.info/cheval-gauvin/) - The Cheval Gauvin is a night horse of Franche-Comté and the Swiss Jura that looks perfectly ordinary, lets itself be mounted, and drowns whoever trusts it.
- [Cherufe](https://godsandmonsters.info/cherufe/) - Cherufe is the Mapuche fire-being of southern Chile: a meteor that carries plague, a red stone kept by sorcerers, and a serpent that vomits fire.
- [Čhápa](https://godsandmonsters.info/chapa/) - Čhápa is the Lakota beaver spirit, named in one sentence of James Walker's Oglala record as patron of work, provision and domestic faithfulness.
- [Chalkydri](https://godsandmonsters.info/chalkydri/) - Chalkydri are twelve-winged solar creatures from the Jewish Book of 2 Enoch, crocodile-headed and rainbow-coloured, who haul the sun's heat and sing up the dawn.
- [Chakora](https://godsandmonsters.info/chakora/) - The Chakora is a partridge of Sanskrit literature said to live on moonbeams alone, and whose eyes redden at poisoned food in Hindu texts on kingship.
- [Ceasg](https://godsandmonsters.info/ceasg/) - The ceasg is a Scottish Highland mermaid, half woman and half young salmon, who grants three wishes to whoever catches her and can swallow a man whole.
- [Cat Sidhe](https://godsandmonsters.info/cat-sidhe/) - Cat Sìth is the black fairy cat of Scottish Highland folklore, dog-sized with a white breast spot, and taken by many Highlanders for a witch in disguise.
- [Carbuncle](https://godsandmonsters.info/carbuncle/) - The Carbuncle is a small glowing animal of Chilean and Guarani folklore whose head gem promised endless wealth, and one Chilean labourer got rich off it.
- [Căpcăun](https://godsandmonsters.info/capcaun/) - The Căpcăun is Romanian folklore's dog-headed man-eater, given two mouths in some tellings: one to swallow a child whole, one to pass the bones back out.
- [Caoineag](https://godsandmonsters.info/caoineag/) - The caoineag is a Scottish Highland death spirit heard weeping before violent death. She warned Clan MacDonald for nights before the Glencoe massacre.
- [Candileja](https://godsandmonsters.info/candileja/) - La Candileja is a Colombian fire spirit, three flames that were once a grandmother and the grandsons she spoiled, hunting wrongdoers on dark country roads.
- [L](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-l/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter L. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
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- [Lainingthou Sanamahi](https://godsandmonsters.info/lainingthou-sanamahi/) - Lainingthou Sanamahi, household god of the Meitei of Manipur, built the universe, lost its throne to his brother's riddle, and was given every home instead.
- [Uchek Langmeidong](https://godsandmonsters.info/uchek-langmeidong/) - Uchek Langmeidong is a girl in Meitei folklore who stitched hornbill feathers to her body and flew away forever.
- [Pakhangba](https://godsandmonsters.info/pakhangba/) - Pakhangba is the serpent-dragon god of Meitei Manipur who won the throne of the world by outthinking his brother, and whose coils became a kingdom's heraldry.
- [Akkadian/Assyrian/Babylonian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/akkadian-assyrian-babylonian-mythology/) - The world's oldest mythology explained: Marduk slays Tiamat in the Enuma Elish, Gilgamesh seeks immortality, demons like Pazuzu prowl, and all souls eat dust.
- [Indian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/indian-mythology/) - Indian mythology isn't one tradition but hundreds: the Hindu mainstream, indigenous Meitei gods, and the monster-haunted India of ancient Greek writers.
- [Hindu Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/hindu-mythology/) - Hindu mythology explained: Vishnu's ten avatars, the Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva trinity, the cosmic yugas, karma and rebirth, and the war of devas and asuras.
- [Alû](https://godsandmonsters.info/alu/) - Alû is a faceless Akkadian demon with no mouth, limbs or ears. It covers sleepers like a garment, stealing speech, movement and consciousness.
- [Vishvamitra](https://godsandmonsters.info/visvamitra/) - Vishvamitra, the Hindu sage who began as a warrior king, composed most of Rigveda Book 3, built a rival heaven, and gave Rama his divine weapons.
- [Cambion](https://godsandmonsters.info/cambion/) - The cambion is the demon-fathered child of medieval Christian belief, born of an incubus and a mortal, and blamed for infants who wailed and never thrived.
- [Caleuche](https://godsandmonsters.info/caleuche/) - The Caleuche, a ghost ship of Chilote mythology in southern Chile, sails lit and loud through the fog, crewed by the drowned, trading wealth for people.
- [Caipora](https://godsandmonsters.info/caipora/) - Caipora is the peccary-riding forest guardian of Brazilian folklore who protects small game, punishes greedy hunters, and leaves a lifetime of bad luck behind.
- [Cadejo](https://godsandmonsters.info/cadejo/) - The Cadejo is a Central American spirit dog that walks with night travellers: a white one guards the road, a black one hunts it with red eyes and chains.
- [Błudnik](https://godsandmonsters.info/bludnik/) - Błudnik is the Wendish will-o'-the-wisp of Lusatia, a marsh light that guides a lost traveller home for three pfennigs and drowns him if he cheats.
- [Bysen](https://godsandmonsters.info/bysen/) - Bysen is Gotland's own forest spirit, a small grey man with an axe who turns walkers' sight and steals their lunch. Learn his curse and the way out.
- [Byangoma](https://godsandmonsters.info/byangoma/) - Byangoma and Byangomi are the deathless talking birds of Bengali folklore, prophets in a tree whose overheard predictions save lives and petrify anyone who repeats them.
- [Bunny Man](https://godsandmonsters.info/bunny-man/) - The Bunny Man is a Fairfax County, Virginia urban legend built from two real 1970 nights when a man in a rabbit suit attacked a car and a house.
- [Bukavac](https://godsandmonsters.info/bukavac/) - Bukavac is a demon of Serbian folklore from Srem, kin to the vampire, that leaves the marsh at night with a boom and strangles what it lands on.
- [Bugul Noz](https://godsandmonsters.info/bugul-noz/) - Bugul Noz is the night shepherd of Breton folklore, a tall figure in a cart-wheel hat who rides the sunken lanes and carries off anyone still out after dark.
- [Buggane](https://godsandmonsters.info/buggane/) - The Buggane is a place-bound Manx fiend that tore the roof off St Trinian's church three times, until a tailor beat it by refusing to look up.
- [Bugbear](https://godsandmonsters.info/bugbear/) - The bugbear is an English nursery terror first recorded in 1552, a word for fear in the dark. Despite the name, no early source gives it the shape of a bear.
- [Broxa](https://godsandmonsters.info/broxa/) - Broxa is the medieval Iberian night-spirit whose name, once a word for an unwholesome night-bird, came to mean witch in Portugal, Catalonia and Jewish texts.
- [Brigid](https://godsandmonsters.info/brigid/) - Brigid, daughter of the Dagda, is the Irish goddess of poetry, healing and smithcraft, whose cry over her dead son gave Ireland its first keening.
- [Borborygmus](https://godsandmonsters.info/borborygmus/) - Borborygmus is future mythology's bloated god of flatulence, stench and decay, assembled from centuries of human embarrassment and undone by honest laughter.
- [Boobrie](https://godsandmonsters.info/boobrie/) - The Boobrie is a monstrous water bird of Argyllshire folklore, a shapeshifting loch creature that carried off calves, sheep and otters into deep water.
- [Boo Hag](https://godsandmonsters.info/boo-hag/) - The Boo Hag is the Gullah Geechee witch who sheds her skin, slips into a dark house through any crack, and rides a sleeper until the breath goes out.
- [Bolla](https://godsandmonsters.info/bolla/) - Bolla is the blind serpent of Albanian folklore, cursed by Saint George to open its eyes on his feast day alone and eat the first person it sees.
- [Boiúna](https://godsandmonsters.info/boiuna/) - Boiúna, the Cobra Grande of Amazonian folklore, is a colossal black serpent who owns the river bottom, takes the shape of boats and people, and once kept night.
- [Knocker](https://godsandmonsters.info/knocker/) - The Knocker is a sprite of the Cornish tin mines whose knocking led tinners to rich ore and warned of cave-ins, paid in crusts of pasty and punished by bad luck.
- [Hemera](https://godsandmonsters.info/hemera/) - Hemera is the Greek primordial goddess of day, daughter of Night, who crosses a bronze threshold at the world's edge as her mother comes home.
- [Gud-elim](https://godsandmonsters.info/gud-elim/) - Gud-elim, the Mesopotamian bull-man or kusarikku, was a chaos-monster beaten by Marduk and Ninurta, then buried in clay at the gates of houses to turn evil back.
- [Boi-tatá](https://godsandmonsters.info/boi-tata/) - Boitatá is the fire serpent of Brazilian folklore, a blinding light that guards the fields and was first recorded by Anchieta in 1560 as a thing of fire.
- [Bogle](https://godsandmonsters.info/bogle/) - Bogle is the Scots and northern English name for a terrifying spirit that, in Border belief, troubles only the guilty. Recorded in Scots writing since 1500.
- [Bloody Bones](https://godsandmonsters.info/bloody-bones/) - Bloody Bones is an English nursery bogey named in print since the 1540s, used to keep children clear of marl-pits and dark stairs, and given no myth of his own.
- [Blafard](https://godsandmonsters.info/blafard/) - The Blafard was an imaginary pale, night-seeing creature invented by 18th-century European writers as proof that the New World degenerated all life.
- [Biwa-bokuboku](https://godsandmonsters.info/biwa-bokuboku/) - Biwa-bokuboku is a Japanese tsukumogami, a lute with a blind priest's body, drawn and named by Toriyama Sekien in 1784 after the court lute Bokuba.
- [Binbōgami](https://godsandmonsters.info/binbogami/) - Binbōgami is the ragged poverty kami of Japanese folklore who settles into a house and drains its luck. Grilled miso sent him off, but some families kept him.
- [Bigfoot](https://godsandmonsters.info/bigfoot/) - Bigfoot is North America's most famous cryptid, named by loggers at Bluff Creek in 1958. The tracks, the 1967 film, and the Sts'ailes sasq'ets behind it.
- [Bies](https://godsandmonsters.info/bies/) - Bies is the old Slavic demon of forests, bogs and deep water, a body-harming spirit whose name Christian translators handed to the devil himself.
- [Bergsrå](https://godsandmonsters.info/bergsra/) - Bergsrå is the mountain spirit of Swedish folklore who owned the ore of Bergslagen, warned miners before a rockfall, and punished anyone who was rude.
- [Bergrisar](https://godsandmonsters.info/bergrisar/) - Bergrisar are the mountain giants of Norse myth, rock-dwelling kin of the frost giants that Asgard's wall, the fire on Bifröst and Heimdallr all guard against.
- [Beast of Gévaudan](https://godsandmonsters.info/beast-of-gevaudan/) - The Beast of Gévaudan killed around a hundred people in 1760s France before Jean Chastel shot it in 1767. French folklore never settled what it was.
- [Beast of Bray Road](https://godsandmonsters.info/beast-of-bray-road/) - The Beast of Bray Road is a wolf-headed creature seen walking upright near Elkhorn, Wisconsin, and named in a local newspaper story in December 1991.
- [Baykok](https://godsandmonsters.info/baykok/) - Baykok, or Pauguk, is the Ojibwe skeleton of death: fire in the eye sockets, skin over the bones, and a warrior-and-liver legend that rests on one 1981 page.
- [Bauk](https://godsandmonsters.info/bauk/) - Bauk is the Serbian bogey that waits in dark corners and derelict houses for stray children, and folklorists read it as the bear under a safer name.
- [Baubas](https://godsandmonsters.info/baubas/) - Baubas is the Lithuanian bugbear parents named to frighten children, an amorphous being of Baltic folklore who exists only where it is too dark to see.
- [Batibat](https://godsandmonsters.info/batibat/) - Batibat is the Ilocano house-post demon blamed for bangungot, the fatal nightmare. One folklorist's record, and the 1957 tale that made it a fat woman.
- [Basilisco Chilote](https://godsandmonsters.info/basilisco-chilote/) - Basilisco Chilote, the rooster-crested serpent of Chiloé folklore, hatches from a yolkless egg, nests beneath the floorboards and dries a whole family to death.
- [Basajaun](https://godsandmonsters.info/basajaun/) - Basajaun is the hairy forest lord of Basque mythology, guardian of shepherds and flocks, and the first farmer and smith whose secrets humans stole.
- [Baš Čelik](https://godsandmonsters.info/bas-celik/) - Baš Čelik, the winged captive of Serbian folklore, buys three cups of water with three lives, then bursts his irons and carries off the hero's bride.
- [Balaur](https://godsandmonsters.info/balaur/) - The balaur is Romania's many-headed serpent, a well-dwelling dragon ridden through the storm clouds by the solomonari and cut apart by heroes with a mace.
- [Bai Ze](https://godsandmonsters.info/bai-ze/) - Bai Ze, the White Marsh of Chinese myth, met the Yellow Emperor by the sea and named all 11,520 spirits under heaven. His picture guarded Tang doorways.
- [Bathala](https://godsandmonsters.info/bathala/) - Bathala is the supreme creator of Tagalog mythology, named by Spanish chroniclers from 1589 as maker of all things, yet given almost no myth of his own.
- [Basan](https://godsandmonsters.info/basan/) - Basan is a fire-breathing bird of Japanese folklore, known from one 1841 book. Its flame gives off no heat, and it vanishes before the door opens.
- [Baron Samedi](https://godsandmonsters.info/baron-samedi/) - Baron Samedi is the Haitian Vodou lwa of the cemetery, head of the Gede, and the spirit who must trace a grave before anyone can die in it.
- [Bannik](https://godsandmonsters.info/bannik/) - Bannik is the Russian bathhouse spirit who claims the fourth steam. Cross him and he scalds, strangles or flays you; honour him and he reads your future.
- [Bandua](https://godsandmonsters.info/bandua/) - Bandua was a pre-Roman god of Galicia and Portugal, named on fifty altars beside a hillfort. Scholars still dispute the sex, meaning and function.
- [Baloz](https://godsandmonsters.info/baloz/) - Baloz is the black sea monster of Albania's Songs of the Frontier Warriors, an overseas extortionist demanding maidens in tribute until a hero kills it.
- [Bakunawa](https://godsandmonsters.info/bakunawa/) - Bakunawa, the moon-eating serpent of Visayan and Bicol myth, was blamed for every eclipse, and Filipinos banged pots and gongs to make it spit the moon back.
- [Baku](https://godsandmonsters.info/baku/) - Baku, the dream-eating creature of Japanese folklore, is called three times at the bedside to swallow a nightmare. Call too often and it eats your hopes too.
- [Bakeneko](https://godsandmonsters.info/bakeneko/) - Bakeneko is a Japanese cat yokai from village folklore: an aged house cat that kills the woman who fed it, takes her shape, and hides her bones.
- [Bake-kujira](https://godsandmonsters.info/bake-kujira/) - Bake-kujira is the skeletal ghost whale of Japanese folklore, known from one Shimane tale that Mizuki Shigeru recorded and drew in the 20th century.
- [Bak](https://godsandmonsters.info/bak/) - Bak, the water spirit of Assamese folklore, haunts dying ponds, robs fish traps, drowns night fishermen and comes home wearing the dead man's face.
- [Wihwin](https://godsandmonsters.info/wihwin/) - Wihwin is a horse-shaped water demon of Miskito folklore that leaves the sea each dry season to hunt the mountain ridges at night.
- [Baucis and Philemon](https://godsandmonsters.info/baucis-and-philemon/) - Baucis and Philemon, the poor Phrygian couple of Greek and Roman myth who fed Jupiter and Mercury unknowing, survived the flood, and became two trees.
- [B](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-b/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter B. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Bahamut](https://godsandmonsters.info/bahamut/) - Bahamut is the colossal fish of Arabic and Islamic cosmology who holds up the bull, the ruby rock and the angel that carry the earth on their backs.
- [Badalisc](https://godsandmonsters.info/badalisc/) - The Badalisc is a goat-horned beast of Italy's Val Camonica, hunted every Epiphany eve so its speech can air a year of village secrets in rhymed dialect.
- [Babi ngepet](https://godsandmonsters.info/babi-ngepet/) - Babi ngepet is the Javanese were-boar of Indonesian folklore, a wealth-pact shapeshifter that steals a village's money by rubbing against its walls.
- [Babi](https://godsandmonsters.info/babi/) - Babi, the Egyptian baboon god, bolts the doors of heaven, eats the entrails of the great at the judgement, and lends the dead his own raw potency.
- [Azukibabaa](https://godsandmonsters.info/azukibabaa/) - Azukibabaa is a Japanese yokai heard grinding azuki beans at dusk by streams and bridges, asking passers-by whether to wash the beans or eat them instead.
- [Azukiarai/Azukitogi](https://godsandmonsters.info/azukiarai-azukitogi/) - Azukiarai is a Japanese yokai known by sound alone, azuki beans washed at a night stream. Follow the noise in Ōita and you end up in the water.
- [Aziza](https://godsandmonsters.info/aziza/) - The Aziza are the small, hairy forest spirits of the Fon and Ewe of Benin and Togo, credited with handing hunters the charms that actually work.
- [Azathoth](https://godsandmonsters.info/azathoth/) - Azathoth is the blind idiot god at the centre of H. P. Lovecraft's cosmos, a mindless daemon-sultan lulled by flutes and first named in a note in 1919.
- [Ayakashi](https://godsandmonsters.info/ayakashi/) - Ayakashi is the Japanese sailors' name for whatever goes wrong at sea: ghost fires, the drowned dead, a false mountain, and Sekien's oil-shedding serpent.
- [Ay Ata](https://godsandmonsters.info/ay-ata/) - Ay Ata is the Turkic Moon Father, a cold male moon paired with a female sun, and in the oldest telling the first human baked from cave clay.
- [Božalość](https://godsandmonsters.info/bozalosc/) - Božalość is a weeping death-omen spirit of Wendish Sorbian folklore who cries from the elder bush beneath the window of someone about to die.
- [Domovoi](https://godsandmonsters.info/domovoi/) - Domovoi, the household guardian spirit of Slavic and Russian folklore, lives behind the stove and protects a family's home, livestock, and fortune when respected.
- [Kikimora](https://godsandmonsters.info/kikimora/) - Kikimora is the female house spirit of Slavic folklore who tidies a well-kept home or, rising from the swamp, spins death, sends nightmares, and steals children.
- [Lady Midday](https://godsandmonsters.info/lady-midday/) - Lady Midday, or Poludnitsa, is a Slavic noon demon who stalks sunlit fields, striking down harvest workers with heatstroke, madness, and her scythe.
- [Likho](https://godsandmonsters.info/likho/) - Likho is the one-eyed embodiment of evil fate in Slavic folklore, a black-clad crone who latches onto her victims and drags ruin and death behind her.
- [Ovinnik](https://godsandmonsters.info/ovinnik/) - The Ovinnik is the Slavic drying-barn spirit, a huge black cat with coal-red eyes who guards the grain and burns the barn down when crossed.
- [Rusalka](https://godsandmonsters.info/rusalka/) - Rusalka, the Slavic water spirit, is the restless soul of a drowned or wronged young woman who lures men into the river and tickles her victims to death.
- [Topielec](https://godsandmonsters.info/topielec/) - Topielec, the drowner of Polish and Slavic folklore, is the soul of someone the water kept, waiting to pull bathers, rafters and children under.
- [Vodyanoy](https://godsandmonsters.info/vodyanoy/) - Vodyanoy, the water spirit of Slavic folklore, rules rivers, ponds and mill races. Millers paid him in blood, and swimmers who forgot the cross paid too.
- [Slavic Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/slavic-mythology/) - Slavic mythology explained: Perun vs Veles, the World Tree's three realms, Baba Yaga, Koschei, vampires and firebirds, and the spirits of field and hearth.
- [Chibaiskweda](https://godsandmonsters.info/chibaiskweda/) - Chibaiskweda is the marsh-light of Abenaki mythology, the ghost-fire of a soul whose burial was left unfinished.
- [Abenaki Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/abenaki-mythology/) - Abenaki mythology explained: the dreaming creator Tabaldak, the transformer Gluskabe, Pamola of Katahdin, ice-hearted Tsi-noo, stone giants, and aurora spirits.
- [Native American Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/native-american-mythology/) - Native American mythology isn't one tradition but hundreds—from Sky Woman's fall to Raven stealing the sun. A guide to its gods, monsters, and worlds.
- [Siberian/Arctic Peoples' Mythologies](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/siberian-arctic-peoples-mythologies/) - Siberian and Arctic mythology explained: shamans climbing the World Tree, the sea-mother Sedna, the Raven creator Kutkh, Erlik's underworld, and earth-diver.
- [Aboriginal Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/aboriginal-mythology/) - Aboriginal mythology explained: the Dreaming, the Rainbow Serpent, Baiame and Bunjil, the Bunyip and Yowie, songlines, totems, and what happens after death.
- [Germanic Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/germanic-mythology/) - Germanic mythology, reconstructed from Tacitus, the Merseburg Charms, and folklore: the gods hidden in weekday names, sacred groves, and the Wild Hunt.
- [Inuit Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/inuit-mythology/) - Inuit mythology has no ruling gods—only Sedna beneath the sea, the angakkuq who bargains with her, and spirits in every rock, animal, and gust of Arctic wind.
- [Maski'-k'su (Toad Woman)](https://godsandmonsters.info/maski-ksu/) - Maski'-k'su, the Penobscot toad woman, is a small moss-clad forest spirit who cries near camps for the company of children and whose nursing brings a sleep with no waking.
- [Augerino](https://godsandmonsters.info/augerino/) - The augerino is a creature of Colorado ranching folklore: a giant, indestructible corkscrew worm blamed for boring through dams and draining irrigation ditches dry.
- [Asobibi](https://godsandmonsters.info/asobibi/) - The asobibi is a ghost-fire of Tosa that comes near, flees far, splits and regathers, and harms nobody. Four facts, from a single 1969 folklore volume.
- [Arikura-no-baba](https://godsandmonsters.info/arikura-no-baba/) - An old woman of Arikura near Takayama, recorded once, in a 1935 local journal: she quieted a rumbling mountain with an awl, and cooled a hot spring with a horse's hoof.
- [Amaburakosagi](https://godsandmonsters.info/amaburakosagi/) - One sentence in one 1984 dictionary is the whole record of the amaburakosagi: a being said to take away the hearth-burns of the idle in the Uwajima country of Ehime.
- [Senpoku-Kanpoku](https://godsandmonsters.info/senpoku-kanpoku/) - The senpoku-kanpoku is known from a single 1941 field note from Toyama: a human-faced toad that keeps watch at a house where somebody has died, then goes to the grave.
- [Plakavac](https://godsandmonsters.info/plakavac/) - In Herzegovinian belief the plakavac is a newborn killed by its mother, returning at night to weep around the house. The whole record is one dictionary entry of 1970.
- [Orabou](https://godsandmonsters.info/orabou/) - The orabou is a book-monster: an armour-plated fish described on one page of André Thevet's Cosmographie universelle of 1575, and nowhere else with certainty.
- [Qalupalik](https://godsandmonsters.info/qalupalik/) - Qalupalik is a green-skinned sea creature of Inuit myth that hums to lure children to the ice edge, then carries them off underwater in its amautik.
- [Ke'lets](https://godsandmonsters.info/kelets/) - Ke'lets are the evil spirits of Chukchi mythology in Siberia, invisible bringers of disease and cannibal ogres who hunt humans they call "little seals."
- [Aulanerk](https://godsandmonsters.info/aulanerk/) - Aulanerk is the benevolent Inuit sea god who rules the tides, waves, and joy from within the ocean.
- [Nanook](https://godsandmonsters.info/nanook/) - Nanook, or nanuq, is the polar bear of Inuit belief: an animal person with a soul, honoured for five days after death so that he will come back.
- [Merman](https://godsandmonsters.info/merman/) - Explore the enduring allure, symbolism, and cultural impact of mermen across mythology, literature, art, and modern media.
- [Avalerion](https://godsandmonsters.info/avalerion/) - The avalerion of medieval bestiaries is a fire-coloured bird larger than an eagle. Only one pair exists, and both parents drown the day their eggs hatch.
- [Âu Cơ](https://godsandmonsters.info/au-co/) - Âu Cơ, the immortal mountain fairy of Vietnamese myth, bore a sac of a hundred eggs, split her sons with a dragon lord, and mothered a nation.
- [Aswang](https://godsandmonsters.info/aswang/) - The aswang of Philippine folklore is not one monster but five, from viscera-suckers to village sorcerers, and Spanish friars were writing it down by 1589.
- [Asrai](https://godsandmonsters.info/asrai/) - The Asrai is a gentle water fairy of English folklore that melts to a puddle in daylight, though its trail leads back to a Victorian poem, not a village.
- [Aspidochelone](https://godsandmonsters.info/aspidochelone/) - Aspidochelone, the island-whale of medieval Christian bestiaries, floated like a dune-ringed shore until sailors moored, lit a fire, and it dived.
- [Asiman](https://godsandmonsters.info/asiman/) - Asiman is the English name for the Fon vampire witch of Dahomey, an azètɔ́ who holds azè and consumes the souls of her own relatives by night.
- [Asanbosam (Sasabonsam)](https://godsandmonsters.info/asanbosam/) - The Asanbosam or Sasabonsam of Akan Ghana waits in the high forest crowns and hooks passers-by with its dangling legs. The truth behind the iron teeth.
- [Arkan Sonney](https://godsandmonsters.info/arkan-sonney/) - The Arkan Sonney is a small white pig of Manx folklore whose appearance promised luck. Catch it, islanders said, and your pocket never runs out of silver.
- [Ao Ao](https://godsandmonsters.info/ao-ao/) - Ao Ao is a sheep-like man-eater of Paraguayan Guarani folklore that hunts in packs and digs down any tree you climb. Only the sacred pindó palm saves you.
- [Pygmalion](https://godsandmonsters.info/pygmalion/) - Pygmalion, the Cypriot sculptor of Greek myth, carved an ivory woman and loved her. Venus made her flesh, and their daughter Paphos named the city.
- [Pushpaka Vimana](https://godsandmonsters.info/pushpaka-vimana/) - The Pushpaka Vimana is the golden flying palace of Hindu myth, built for Kubera, stolen by Ravana, and flown home to Ayodhya by Rama himself.
- [Plat-Eye](https://godsandmonsters.info/plat-eye/) - The plat-eye is a dreaded shape-changing ghost of the Gullah-Geechee Lowcountry, known by its burning eyes and the roads and graves it will not leave.
- [Plant of Immortality](https://godsandmonsters.info/plant-of-immortality/) - The Plant of Immortality is the thorny herb Gilgamesh hauled from the Mesopotamian deep, a cure for old age that a snake stole before he could taste it.
- [Pharamond](https://godsandmonsters.info/pharamond/) - Pharamond, the legendary first king of the Franks, appears in no source before 727, yet his invented reign anchored French royal law for a thousand years.
- [Penglai](https://godsandmonsters.info/penglai/) - Penglai is the Chinese isle of the immortals in the Bohai Sea, where deathless fruit grows and emperors sent fleets that never once made landfall.
- [Pelican](https://godsandmonsters.info/pelican/) - The medieval pelican killed its own chicks, then opened its breast and raised them with its blood. How a Christian bestiary bird became the emblem of Christ.
- [Pehtra Baba](https://godsandmonsters.info/pehtra-baba/) - Pehtra Baba is the Slovenian midwinter hag who walks the Alpine ridges at Epiphany, leads the wild hunt, blinds the rude, and sends rain to herders.
- [Peaches of Immortality (Pantao)](https://godsandmonsters.info/peaches-of-immortality/) - The peaches of immortality, or pantao, grow in the Queen Mother of the West's orchard on Kunlun. In Chinese myth they ripen once in three thousand years.
- [Panchajanya](https://godsandmonsters.info/panchajanya/) - Panchajanya is Krishna's conch in Hindu myth, taken from an asura who lived inside a shell at Prabhasa and blown to open the war at Kurukshetra.
- [Palladium](https://godsandmonsters.info/palladium/) - The Palladium was a wooden image of Athena that fell from the sky and kept Troy unconquerable, until Odysseus and Diomedes carried it off in the dark.
- [Pair Dadeni (Cauldron of Rebirth)](https://godsandmonsters.info/pair-dadeni/) - The Pair Dadeni is the Welsh cauldron of rebirth that returned slain warriors to life overnight, whole and fighting fit, but silent for good.
- [Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche)](https://godsandmonsters.info/padmasambhava/) - Padmasambhava, or Guru Rinpoche, is the eighth-century tantric master of Tibetan Buddhism who bound Tibet's demons by name and hid treasures for the future.
- [Pāoa](https://godsandmonsters.info/paoa/) - Pāoa is the digging staff of Hawaiian myth, the divining rod Pele's company drove into island after island until it found ground the sea could not drown.
- [O](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-o/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter O. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Olodumare (Olorun)](https://godsandmonsters.info/olodumare/) - Olodumare is the Yoruba supreme being: creator, owner of life and breath, judge of character, and the one power in the pantheon with no priesthood.
- [O Del (Devel)](https://godsandmonsters.info/o-del/) - O Del, or Devel, is God in Romani belief. He spoke his own name over sand raised from the deep to make the earth, and burned the devil who copied him.
- [O Beng](https://godsandmonsters.info/o-beng/) - O Beng is the Romani devil, the dark half of a bipolar universe. He dived for the sand that made the earth, and burned his hands trying to steal it.
- [N](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-n/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter N. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Nüwa's Five-Colored Stones](https://godsandmonsters.info/nuwas-five-colored-stones/) - Nüwa's five-colored stones are the smelted rock she used to patch a broken sky in Chinese myth, holding heaven shut after its four poles collapsed.
- [Nectar](https://godsandmonsters.info/nectar/) - Nectar is the red drink of the Greek gods, mixed like wine in a krater, poured by Hebe and Ganymede, and never once handed to a mortal in Homer.
- [Necklace of Harmonia](https://godsandmonsters.info/necklace-of-harmonia/) - The Necklace of Harmonia is a cursed Greek wedding gift forged by Hephaestus, a golden hormos that ruined the house of Thebes and bought a war.
- [Ndomadyiri](https://godsandmonsters.info/ndomadyiri/) - Ndomadyiri is the heavenly blacksmith of Bambara myth in Mali, the fourth creator god, who gave the world its edges and drew healing out of trees.
- [Nanaue](https://godsandmonsters.info/nanaue/) - Nanaue, the Hawaiian shark-man of Waipiʻo, was born with a shark's mouth in his back. His father warned against meat. His grandfather fed him anyway.
- [Namtar](https://godsandmonsters.info/namtar/) - Namtar is the Mesopotamian god whose name means fate, vizier to Ereshkigal, carrying disease in one hand and the door-bolt of the dead in the other.
- [Naglfar](https://godsandmonsters.info/naglfar/) - Naglfar is the Norse ship built from the fingernails of the dead, moored until the flood of Ragnarök floats it free with the giant Hrymr at the helm.
- [M](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-m/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter M. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Muso Koroni](https://godsandmonsters.info/muso-koroni/) - Muso Koroni is the first woman of Bamana myth in Mali, who bore the whole living world in haste and left behind the impurity that Bamana initiation cuts away.
- [Mullo (Mulo)](https://godsandmonsters.info/mullo/) - The mullo is the returning dead of Romani belief, a relative who comes back at night to settle accounts, warn the living, or take them by the throat.
- [Mount Taebaek (Taebaeksan)](https://godsandmonsters.info/mount-taebaek/) - Mount Taebaek is the Korean sacred peak where Hwanung is said to have descended from heaven, crowned by the country's largest stone altar to the sky.
- [Mount Meru (Sumeru)](https://godsandmonsters.info/mount-meru/) - Mount Meru is the golden mountain at the centre of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain universe, where the gods keep their cities and the sun never sets.
- [Mount Kunlun](https://godsandmonsters.info/mount-kunlun/) - Mount Kunlun is the cosmic mountain of Chinese mythology: the god-emperor's capital on earth, guarded by nine-headed beasts and climbable only by gods.
- [Mount Kailash (Ti-se)](https://godsandmonsters.info/mount-kailash/) - Mount Kailash in western Tibet is Shiva's abode, Demchok's mandala and a Bon god's seat. Four faiths claim it, nobody climbs it, and its fame is younger than you think.
- [Mount Damavand](https://godsandmonsters.info/mount-damavand/) - Mount Damavand is Iran's highest peak, the Persian volcano where the tyrant Zahhak lies chained until the end of the world, breathing sulfur into the valley.
- [Moongazer](https://godsandmonsters.info/moongazer/) - The Moongazer is a jumbie of Guyanese folklore: a giant who stands astride country roads under a full moon and kills anyone who disturbs his gaze.
- [Moko Jumbie (Mocko Jumbie)](https://godsandmonsters.info/moko-jumbie/) - Moko Jumbie is the stilt-walking guardian spirit of Trinidadian and Caribbean Carnival, first recorded in 1791 and said to have walked across the Atlantic.
- [Millalobo](https://godsandmonsters.info/millalobo/) - The Millalobo is the golden owner of the sea in the mythology of Chiloe, southern Chile. Meet the austral Poseidon, his sea horses, and his contested royal family.
- [Merovech](https://godsandmonsters.info/merovech/) - Merovech, the semi-legendary Frankish king who gave the Merovingian dynasty its name, was said by the Chronicle of Fredegar to be fathered by a sea beast.
- [Melqart](https://godsandmonsters.info/melqart/) - Melqart was the Phoenician god of Tyre, burned and woken every spring, carried to Carthage and Cadiz, and known to the Greeks as the Tyrian Heracles.
- [Medeina (Žvorūna)](https://godsandmonsters.info/medeina/) - Medeina, the Lithuanian forest goddess, once stopped a king with a single hare. Baltic myth's Žvorūna runs with wolves and hinders hunters rather than helping.
- [Mead of Poetry (Óðrerir)](https://godsandmonsters.info/mead-of-poetry/) - The Mead of Poetry is the Norse drink of skaldship, brewed from Kvasir's blood and honey, hidden inside a mountain, and stolen by Odin in eagle form.
- [Matsieng](https://godsandmonsters.info/matsieng/) - Matsieng is the first ancestor of the Batswana, who came up out of a hole at Ga-Loowe near Rasesa in Botswana, leaving footprints cut into the sandstone.
- [Marime (Mochadi)](https://godsandmonsters.info/marime/) - Marime is the Romani law of ritual pollution, dividing clean from unclean in body, home and conduct, and enforced by a court that can expel you for life.
- [Maquetaurie Guayaba](https://godsandmonsters.info/maquetaurie-guayaba/) - Maquetaurie Guayaba is the Taíno lord of Coaybay, the land of the dead, whose subjects hide by day and slip out at night to eat guava among the living.
- [Manna](https://godsandmonsters.info/manna/) - Manna, the white flaking bread from heaven of Jewish, Christian and Islamic scripture, fed Israel for forty years, melted in the sun and could never be hoarded.
- [Manaiakalani](https://godsandmonsters.info/manaiakalani/) - Manaiakalani is Māui's great bone fishhook in Hawaiian myth, baited with Hina's sacred mud hen and used to haul the islands up from the ocean floor.
- [Makonaima (Makunaima)](https://godsandmonsters.info/makonaima/) - Makonaima, the great transformer of Guyana's Cariban peoples, planted the world tree, loosed the flood, and turned thieves to stone across the highlands.
- [Lua-o-Milu](https://godsandmonsters.info/lua-o-milu/) - Lua-o-Milu is the Hawaiian underworld, the pit ruled by Milu, entered from cliff-edge leaping places where a deceiving breadfruit tree sends souls down.
- [Lobisomem](https://godsandmonsters.info/lobisomem/) - The lobisomem is the Luso-Brazilian werewolf, a fated seventh son who rolls in an animal's bed and runs the night, seldom as a wolf and most often as a pig.
- [Living Water and Dead Water](https://godsandmonsters.info/living-water-and-dead-water/) - Living water and dead water are the paired resurrection waters of Russian folktale: dead water knits a cut-apart corpse whole, living water makes it stand up.
- [Lia Fáil](https://godsandmonsters.info/lia-fail/) - Lia Fáil, the Stone of Fál at Tara, shrieked under Ireland's rightful kings. Inside the Irish myth, the Scone dispute, and the wrong-stone problem.
- [Letiche](https://godsandmonsters.info/letiche/) - The letiche is a Cajun Louisiana bayou spirit, the soul of a child who died unbaptised, carrying a Norman French name that once meant a white ermine.
- [Lethe](https://godsandmonsters.info/lethe/) - Lethe, the river of oblivion in the Greek underworld, stripped the memory from every soul that drank it, and Roman poets used it to send the dead back to life.
- [Lebe Serou](https://godsandmonsters.info/lebe-serou/) - Lebe Serou, the Dogon ancestor buried in the Mande, was found again as a great snake. His earth altar still holds every village on the Bandiagara cliffs.
- [Lamya (Sura Lamya)](https://godsandmonsters.info/lamya/) - Lamya is the many-headed she-dragon of Bulgarian folklore, a drought demon who swallows a district's harvest until Saint George takes off all three heads.
- [Lada (Lado)](https://godsandmonsters.info/lada/) - Lada, the Slavic goddess of marriage and spring, may never have existed. Her name is a wedding-song refrain that medieval Polish priests took for an idol.
- [La Voladora](https://godsandmonsters.info/la-voladora/) - La Voladora is the Chilote witch who leaves her entrails in a bowl, takes the shape of a night heron and carries the brujos' messages across Chiloé.
- [La Siguanaba](https://godsandmonsters.info/la-siguanaba/) - La Siguanaba is a Central American spirit who lures lone men from the road at night, then turns to show them the face of a horse or a bare skull.
- [La Lechuza](https://godsandmonsters.info/la-lechuza/) - La Lechuza is the witch owl of northern Mexico and South Texas, a wronged woman in owl form who hunts cruel men, late drunks and disobedient children.
- [K](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-k/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter K. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Kūʻīlioloa](https://godsandmonsters.info/kuilioloa/) - Kūʻīlioloa is the shapeshifting dog-man of Hawaiian myth, a man-eater on the trails and a protector of voyagers on the Waiʻanae coast of Oʻahu.
- [Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi (Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi)](https://godsandmonsters.info/kusanagi-no-tsurugi/) - Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi is the sword Susanoo cut from a serpent's tail, the martial token of Japan's imperial regalia, and the enshrined deity of Atsuta Jingu.
- [Krabat](https://godsandmonsters.info/krabat/) - Krabat is the great sorcerer of Sorbian folklore, a Lusatian magician tied by one chronicle to a real Croatian colonel buried at Wittichenau in 1704.
- [Koroglu](https://godsandmonsters.info/koroglu/) - Koroglu is the Azerbaijani and Turkish outlaw-minstrel of the great Turkic dastan, a real 16th-century bandit whose blinded father set him on the road.
- [Gesar of Ling (King Gesar)](https://godsandmonsters.info/gesar-of-ling/) - Gesar of Ling is the warrior king at the heart of Tibet's Gesar epic, the longest poem in the world, still sung by bards who say it came to them in dreams.
- [Kim-un-kamuy (Nupuri-kor-kamuy)](https://godsandmonsters.info/kim-un-kamuy/) - Kim-un-kamuy is the Ainu mountain deity who visits the human world wearing a bear's hide, bringing meat and fur, and must be killed to return home.
- [Alp](https://godsandmonsters.info/alp/) - The Alp is German folklore's nightmare spirit, an elf that slips through keyholes to crouch on a sleeper's chest, steal the voice, and ride horses ragged.
- [Alkonost](https://godsandmonsters.info/alkonost/) - Alkonost is the crowned bird-maiden of Russian legend, born from a scribe's slip, whose song empties the mind and whose eggs still the winter sea.
- [Anush](https://godsandmonsters.info/anush/) - Anush, or Anush Uthra, is a Mandaean being of light who healed the sick in Jerusalem, raised the dead, and named Christ a shape-changing impostor.
- [Antü](https://godsandmonsters.info/antu/) - Antü is the Mapuche sun, the plain word for sun and day, prayed to for life in the 1600s and named in field testimony as the one who takes the dead.
- [Anmo](https://godsandmonsters.info/anmo/) - Anmo is a visiting spirit of coastal Iwate in Japanese folklore, flying in from the sea each Little New Year to peel the hearth-marks off lazy children.
- [Ankou](https://godsandmonsters.info/ankou/) - Ankou is the Breton worker of death, the parish's last dead returned to drive the corpse cart. Hear his ungreased axle and a death follows within days.
- [Anjana](https://godsandmonsters.info/anjana/) - The Anjana are the good fairies of Cantabrian mythology: healers of springs and woods, enemies of the Ojáncanu, and descendants of the Roman Diana.
- [Andrianerinerina](https://godsandmonsters.info/andrianerinerina/) - Andrianerinerina is the Malagasy sky-child stranded among the Vazimba by a broken mutton taboo, and the divine ancestor Merina kings ruled through.
- [Amorōnagu](https://godsandmonsters.info/amoronagu/) - Amorōnagu is the heaven-descended woman of Japan's Amami Ōshima, who walks night roads with a white bundle and takes the life of any man who answers her.
- [Amazake-babaa](https://godsandmonsters.info/amazake-babaa/) - Amazake-babaa is a Japanese yokai who knocks after dark asking for sweet sake. Answer her, yes or no, and you fall sick. Cedar at the door keeps her out.
- [Amaru](https://godsandmonsters.info/amaru/) - Amaru, the giant serpent of Inca and Andean belief, came out of the mountains, shook the ground as it moved, and was stopped only by turning to stone.
- [Amalanhig](https://godsandmonsters.info/amalanhig/) - The amalanhig is a revenant of Panay folklore, an aswang who could not pass on her power and rose from the grave, stiff-jointed and unable to turn.
- [Amala](https://godsandmonsters.info/amala/) - Amala, the ash-covered Tsimshian youth who trained in secret, holds up the pole the flat world turns on and is greased yearly with wild-duck oil.
- [Alux](https://godsandmonsters.info/alux/) - Alux: knee-high guardian spirits of Yucatec Maya belief who watch over milpas and ruins, take offerings of food and drink, and punish anyone who forgets them.
- [Alphyn](https://godsandmonsters.info/alphyn/) - The alphyn is a rare English heraldic beast with a tyger's body, eagle talons and a knotted tail, worn as a badge by the Lords de la Warre.
- [Aloja](https://godsandmonsters.info/aloja/) - Aloja, the water-woman of Catalan folklore, washes linen by moonlight and marries mortal men, vanishing the moment a husband names her river origin.
- [Alicorn](https://godsandmonsters.info/alicorn/) - Alicorn was the unicorn's horn of medieval Europe, worth ten times its weight in gold, said to sweat in the presence of poison. It was narwhal tusk.
- [Aleya](https://godsandmonsters.info/aleya/) - Aleya are the ghost lights of Bengali folklore, pale flames over marsh and delta said to be the souls of drowned fishermen luring boatmen astray.
- [Alan](https://godsandmonsters.info/alan/) - The Alan are winged Itneg forest spirits of Abra with backward hands and feet, who turn miscarried blood and afterbirth into children and raise them in golden houses.
- [Ala](https://godsandmonsters.info/ala/) - Ala is the South Slavic demon of bad weather, steering hail clouds over ripening fields, drinking the crops and biting at the sun until dragons drive her off.
- [Al-‘Uzzá](https://godsandmonsters.info/al-uzza/) - Al-‘Uzzá was the mightiest goddess of pre-Islamic Arabia, worshipped at Nakhla and at Petra, named in the Qur'an, and destroyed on Muhammad's order in 630.
- [Aerico](https://godsandmonsters.info/aerico/) - Aerico is an air demon of Greek and Albanian folklore that strikes sleepers and swells the limbs of anyone who steps into the shadow of an old tree.
- [Glashtyn](https://godsandmonsters.info/glashtyn/) - The glashtyn of Manx folklore is a hairy water spirit who threshes barns by night, appears as a grey colt, and vanishes the moment he is offered clothes.
- [Futakuchi-onna](https://godsandmonsters.info/futakuchi-onna/) - Futakuchi-onna is a Japanese yokai with a second mouth in the back of her skull, opened by an axe blow after she let her stepdaughter starve.
- [Akkorokamui](https://godsandmonsters.info/akkorokamui/) - Akkorokamui is the giant red octopus of Ainu folklore, lord of Hokkaido's Funka Bay, whose glow stains the sky and whose arms can pull a whole ship under.
- [Akateko](https://godsandmonsters.info/akateko/) - Akateko is a yokai of Hachinohe, Aomori: a small red child's hand that hangs from an old honey locust tree, with a fever-bringing woman at its roots.
- [Ajogun](https://godsandmonsters.info/ajogun/) - The Ajogun are the malevolent forces of Yoruba belief, led by Iku the spirit of death, and only sacrifice offered through Esu turns them off your road.
- [Ajatar](https://godsandmonsters.info/ajatar/) - Ajatar, or Ajattara, is the female forest spirit of Finnish folklore who led hunters astray. The famous dragon and her plagues are a later mistake.
- [Aitu](https://godsandmonsters.info/aitu/) - Aitu are the ancestral spirits of Polynesian belief, especially Samoa, appearing as owls, sharks and eels, bringing sickness, omens and possession.
- [Aigamuxa](https://godsandmonsters.info/aigamuxa/) - Aigamuxa are man-eating beings of Nama folklore in southern Africa whose eyes sit in their feet, so they must kneel in the sand before they can see you.
- [Ahuizotl](https://godsandmonsters.info/ahuizotl/) - The Ahuizotl is an Aztec water monster with a human hand on its tail. It wept like a lost child to draw victims in, drowned them, and took their eyes.
- [Adze](https://godsandmonsters.info/adze/) - Adze is the Ewe word for witchcraft in Ghana and Togo, a devouring force of family envy that English retellings turned into a blood-drinking firefly.
- [Adhene](https://godsandmonsters.info/adhene/) - Adhene means "themselves" in Manx. These fallen angels of Isle of Man folklore fell for three days for the sin of pride, and the Manx never spoke their name.
- [Adgilis Deda](https://godsandmonsters.info/adgilis-deda/) - Adgilis Deda is the place-mother of Georgian highland belief, a goddess for every hill and ravine, guarding villages, travellers, women and livestock.
- [Abaangui](https://godsandmonsters.info/abaangui/) - Abaangui, the Guarayo Grandfather of eastern Bolivia, knocked off his own huge nose while shaping himself into a man, then made the land his grandchildren live on.
- [Aatxe](https://godsandmonsters.info/aatxe/) - Aatxe is the red calf-bull of Basque mythology, a fire-breathing cave guardian and one of the shapes the goddess Mari wears when she comes up from below.
- [Á Bao A Qu](https://godsandmonsters.info/a-bao-a-qu/) - Á Bao A Qu is a translucent stair-spirit invented by Jorge Luis Borges in 1957, said to wake on Chittor's Tower of Victory and climb close behind you.
- [H](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-h/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter H. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Indonesian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/indonesian-mythology/) - Indonesian mythology spans 17,000 islands: the rice goddess Dewi Sri, the world-bearing turtle Bedawang, and the eternal, unwinnable dance of Barong and Rangda.
- [Hantu Raya](https://godsandmonsters.info/hantu-raya/) - Hantu Raya is the great kept spirit of Malay folklore, a shapeshifting familiar that gives its master strength and turns violent the moment it goes unfed.
- [Hantu Air](https://godsandmonsters.info/hantu-air/) - Hantu Air, the water spirit of Malay folklore, holds the rivers, tideways and sea, drowning the careless and sending chills until fishermen paid it off.
- [Bajang](https://godsandmonsters.info/bajang/) - The bajang is a Malay familiar spirit shaped like a civet, conjured from a stillborn child's grave, kept in bamboo and sent to sicken children.
- [Guarani Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/guarani-mythology/) - Guarani mythology: the Land Without Evil sought on foot through dance, the seven monstrous children of Tau and Kerana, and Tupã, god of thunder and creation.
- [Luison](https://godsandmonsters.info/luison/) - The Luison is the Guaraní lord of death, a corpse-eating hound and cursed seventh son of Tau and Kerana, later fused with the South American werewolf legend.
- [Kurupi](https://godsandmonsters.info/kurupi/) - Kurupi is a fertility spirit of Guaraní mythology, a short, hairy Paraguayan forest-dweller feared for abducting women with his prehensile, belt-long phallus.
- [Misi-ginebig](https://godsandmonsters.info/misi-ginebig/) - Misi-ginebig, the Cree Misi-kinepikw, is the Algonquian Great Serpent: a horned, copper-scaled monster that drowns the careless and fights the Thunderbird.
- [Unhcegila](https://godsandmonsters.info/unhcegila/) - Unhcegila is the monstrous water serpent of Lakota and Dakota myth, a flint-scaled beast whose fiery gaze kills and whose crystal heart hides a fatal flaw.
- [Sisiutl](https://godsandmonsters.info/sisiutl/) - Sisiutl, the double-headed serpent of Kwakwaka'wakw tradition, kills anyone who sees it and armours the warriors entitled to approach it.
- [Sint Holo](https://godsandmonsters.info/sint-holo/) - Sint Holo is the horned serpent of Chickasaw and Choctaw belief, a cave and creek dweller that calls rain to raise rivers and rewards those who fast.
- [Pita-skog](https://godsandmonsters.info/pita-skog/) - Pita-skog is the great horned water serpent of Abenaki myth, a man-eating monster lurking in Lake Champlain's depths and enemy of the Thunder Beings.
- [Jipijka'm](https://godsandmonsters.info/jipijkam/) - Jipijka'm is the great horned serpent of Mi'kmaq mythology, a one-horned lake monster that drags people beneath the water into the world below.
- [Yara-ma-yha-who](https://godsandmonsters.info/yara-ma-yha-who/) - The Yara-ma-yha-who is a small red creature of southeastern Aboriginal Australian lore that drops from fig trees, drinks blood, and swallows people whole.
- [Minka Bird](https://godsandmonsters.info/minka-bird/) - The Minka Bird, or mingka, is a night bird of the Ngarrindjeri people of South Australia whose cry in the dark foretells the death of a loved one.
- [Mimi](https://godsandmonsters.info/mimi/) - The Mimi are needle-thin spirit beings of Aboriginal Arnhem Land who taught the first people to hunt, cook, and paint, and who made its oldest rock art.
- [Julunggul](https://godsandmonsters.info/julunggul/) - Julunggul is the great python of Aboriginal Arnhem Land who swallowed the Wagilag Sisters, spat out the first monsoon, and left the Yolngu their law.
- [Wakan Tanka](https://godsandmonsters.info/wakan-tanka/) - Wakan Tanka is the Lakota great mystery: sixteen sacred persons who are somehow one, called the four times four by shamans and mistranslated for centuries.
- [Rainbow Crow](https://godsandmonsters.info/rainbow-crow/) - Rainbow Crow was the most beautiful bird alive, until he carried fire from the Creator to save the freezing animals. Learn about this Native American tale of sacrifice.
- [Palraiyuk](https://godsandmonsters.info/palraiyuk/) - Palraiyuk is a six-legged, horned, fur-covered monster of Yup'ik Alaska that ambushed people from delta marshes and was painted on kayaks to keep it away.
- [Nanabozho](https://godsandmonsters.info/nanabozho/) - Nanabozho, the Anishinaabe trickster and culture hero, survived the great flood and remade the earth from a muskrat's mouthful of mud. Creator and fool both.
- [Mateguas](https://godsandmonsters.info/mateguas/) - Mateguas is the Rabbit of Abenaki and Wabanaki folklore, a hopeless imitator who studied magic until he became the most dangerous conjurer in the winter woods.
- [Gluskabe](https://godsandmonsters.info/gluskabe/) - Gluskabe is the benevolent culture hero of the Wabanaki and Abenaki peoples, a shape-shifting transformer who tamed the wind, freed the world's water, and taught the arts of survival.
- [Eagle Spirit](https://godsandmonsters.info/eagle-spirit/) - Eagle Spirit is the sacred Native American messenger between humans and the Creator, carrying prayers skyward on feathers earned through bravery and ritual.
- [Dzunukwa](https://godsandmonsters.info/dzunukwa/) - Dzunukwa is the Kwakwaka'wakw wild woman of the woods, a child-eating giantess who also brings supernatural wealth at potlatches.
- [Azeban](https://godsandmonsters.info/azeban/) - Azeban is the raccoon trickster of Abenaki and Penobscot mythology, a mischievous but harmless spirit whose foolish schemes taught children humility and the cost of greed.
- [Onza](https://godsandmonsters.info/onza/) - The Onza is northwestern Mexico's legendary third big cat, lighter than a puma and far fiercer, reported since the 1700s and never once confirmed by science.
- [Hombre Gato](https://godsandmonsters.info/hombre-gato/) - Hombre Gato is Argentina's cat-masked phantom of 1984: a black-clad attacker who climbed Brandsen rooftops, meowed in the dark, and slashed with metal claws.
- [Canaima](https://godsandmonsters.info/canaima/) - Canaima is the malevolent spirit and dark sorcery of Venezuela's Pemón and Carib peoples, blamed for all death and feared as a jaguar that stalks the living.
- [Tipua](https://godsandmonsters.info/tipua/) - Tipua are the uncanny beings of Māori tradition: shape-shifting spirits, supernatural rocks and trees that obey no law and are placated with a green twig.
- [Taniwha](https://godsandmonsters.info/taniwha/) - Taniwha are supernatural water beings of Māori tradition, guardian to some tribes and man-eater to others, lurking in deep pools and dangerous currents.
- [Tangaroa](https://godsandmonsters.info/tangaroa/) - Tangaroa is the Māori atua of the sea and the father of every fish, and his long war with Tāne of the forest is why the ocean still swallows canoes.
- [Roc](https://godsandmonsters.info/roc/) - The Roc is a colossal bird of prey from Arabic and Persian myth, vast enough to snatch elephants in its talons and darken the sky over Sinbad's seas.
- [Polynesian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/polynesian-mythology/) - Polynesian mythology explained: Tangaroa and the sky-severing gods, the trickster Māui who fished up islands, mana, tapu, Hawaiki and the Pacific afterlife.
- [Nuku-mai-tore](https://godsandmonsters.info/nuku-mai-tore/) - Nuku-mai-tore are tree-dwelling beings of Māori tradition who never aged, ate raw food and cut children from their mothers until the voyager Tura taught them better.
- [Maori Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/maori-mythology/) - Māori mythology: how Rangi and Papa were torn apart, the demigod Māui who fished up an island and stole fire, taniwha, patupaiarehe, and the path of the dead.
- [Hanau epe](https://godsandmonsters.info/hanau-epe/) - The Hanau epe were Easter Island's "long-ears," a semi-legendary ruling race destroyed by fire in the Rapa Nui civil war at the Poike ditch.
- [Raven](https://godsandmonsters.info/raven-spirit/) - Raven is the shapeshifting trickster and creator of Pacific Northwest Coast myth, who stole daylight, fresh water, and the rivers from those who hoarded them.
- [R](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-r/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter R. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [T](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-t/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter T. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Wanagemeswak](https://godsandmonsters.info/wanagemeswak/) - Wanagemeswak are the river-dwelling little people of Abenaki and wider Wabanaki folklore, so narrow-faced they can only be seen from the side.
- [Wassan-mon-ganeehla-ak](https://godsandmonsters.info/wassan-mon-ganeehla-ak/) - Wassan-mon-ganeehla-ak are a race of beings in Abenaki mythology whose celestial ball game creates the aurora borealis, dwelling in a luminous sky country beyond the Milky Way.
- [W](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-w/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter W. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [N-dam-keno-wet](https://godsandmonsters.info/n-dam-keno-wet/) - N-dam-keno-wet is a small part-fish, part-human creature of Abenaki folklore that lurks in rivers and lakes where women bathe.
- [A-senee-ki-wakw](https://godsandmonsters.info/a-senee-ki-wakw/) - A-senee-ki-wakw are the stone giants of Abenaki myth, the first race shaped by Gluskab, too heavy for the world and unmade when their weight broke it.
- [Mokuy (Mokoi)](https://godsandmonsters.info/mokoi/) - The Mokuy is the shadow-soul of Yolŋu Aboriginal belief, the spirit left behind at death and sent by sorcerers to bring sickness and fatal accidents.
- [Tigre Capiango](https://godsandmonsters.info/tigre-capiangos/) - Tigre Capiangos are the jaguar-men of northwestern Argentine folklore, sorcerers who roll on a hidden jaguar hide to change shape and raid by night.
- [Quinkan](https://godsandmonsters.info/quinkan/) - Quinkan are the spirit beings of Aboriginal Cape York, split between the tall protective Timara and the squat, child-stealing Imjim of the red mountain.
- [Pouākai](https://godsandmonsters.info/poukai/) - The Pouākai, or Poukai, is a giant man-eating bird of Māori legend from New Zealand's South Island, likely a memory of the extinct Haast's eagle.
- [White Buffalo Calf Woman](https://godsandmonsters.info/white-buffalo-calf-woman/) - White Buffalo Calf Woman, Ptesáŋwiŋ, brought the Lakota the sacred pipe and seven rites, then walked away as a white buffalo. Her bundle is still kept today.
- [Wakinyan](https://godsandmonsters.info/wakinyan/) - Wakinyan, the winged thunder god of the Lakota and Dakota, whose voice is thunder and whose one eye throws lightning at the monsters under the rivers.
- [S](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-s/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter S. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Rain Bird](https://godsandmonsters.info/rain-bird/) - Rain Bird is a Pueblo rain-summoning spirit of the American Southwest, embodied in doves, swallows, swifts, and hummingbirds.
- [Gaasyendietha](https://godsandmonsters.info/gaasyendietha/) - Gaasyendietha is the fire-breathing serpent of Seneca myth, hatched from serpent's eggs or fallen from a meteor, that haunts the deep water of Lake Ontario.
- [Achiyalabopa](https://godsandmonsters.info/achiyalabopa/) - Achiyalabopa is the Zuni warrior sky god whose wings, pinions, and tail are made of razor-sharp flint knives.
- [Yawkyawk](https://godsandmonsters.info/yawkyawk/) - Yawkyawk are the fish-tailed water spirits of Kuninjku Arnhem Land, living in freshwater pools, ruling the weather, and bound to the Rainbow Serpent.
- [Wondjina](https://godsandmonsters.info/wondjina/) - Wondjina are the mouthless cloud and rain creator spirits of the Kimberley in Aboriginal Australia, painted into living sandstone galleries.
- [Whowie](https://godsandmonsters.info/whowie/) - The Whowie was a six-legged, frog-headed goanna of Australian Aboriginal story, a Murray River man-eater the river tribes finally smoked out of its cave.
- [Wati-kutjara](https://godsandmonsters.info/wati-kutjara/) - The Wati-kutjara are two ancestral goanna-men of Aboriginal Australian tradition who sang the Western Desert into being and killed the Moon-man Kidili.
- [Q](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-q/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter Q. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Masalai](https://godsandmonsters.info/masalai/) - Masalai are the place-bound bush spirits of Papua New Guinea, owning waterholes, rocks and old trees. Trespass on one and it answers with sickness or storm.
- [Bunjil](https://godsandmonsters.info/bunjil/) - Bunjil is the eaglehawk creator god of Victoria's Kulin Nation, who shaped the land, formed the first people from clay, and rose into the sky as a star.
- [Guaraci](https://godsandmonsters.info/guaraci/) - Guaraci is the Tupi sun and creator of all living things in Brazilian myth, though his whole pantheon rests on a single hedged page written in 1876.
- [Sun Goddess of Arinna](https://godsandmonsters.info/sun-goddess-of-arinna/) - The Sun Goddess of Arinna was the chief deity of the Hittite state, queen of all lands, whose holy city is still lost and whose real name was a job title.
- [Hortdan (Hortlak)](https://godsandmonsters.info/hortdan/) - The Hortdan is the Azerbaijani revenant, a buried corpse that rises at night in its shroud to torment the living. Turkish folklore calls it hortlak.
- [Gáe Bolg (Gáe Bulga)](https://godsandmonsters.info/gae-bolg/) - Gáe Bolg was Cú Chulainn's barbed spear in Irish myth, set on a stream and cast from between the toes. It went in as one wound and opened into thirty barbs.
- [Kilibob (Kulbob)](https://godsandmonsters.info/kilibob/) - Kilibob, culture-maker of Madang in Papua New Guinean myth, was hunted by his own brother, vanished inside a falling tree, and came back making islands.
- [Kawelo (Kaweloleimakua)](https://godsandmonsters.info/kawelo/) - Kawelo, the kupua warrior chief of Kauaʻi in Hawaiian legend, felled a giant armed with a whole koa tree, was stoned to death, and stood up off the altar.
- [Kaupe](https://godsandmonsters.info/kaupe/) - Kaupe is the Hawaiian dog-man kupua who seized Nuʻuanu, ate the people of Oʻahu and Maui, and still gathers as a dog-shaped mist on the Koʻolau peaks.
- [Kamuy Fuchi (Ape-huci-kamuy)](https://godsandmonsters.info/kamuy-fuchi/) - Kamuy Fuchi is the Ainu hearth goddess, an elderly woman living in the fire who carries every human prayer onward to the other kamuy and mends it if it falls short.
- [J](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-j/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter J. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Jasy](https://godsandmonsters.info/jasy/) - Jasy, also spelled Jachy or Yasy, is the Guaraní moon: the younger twin built from his murdered mother's bones, eaten monthly and put back together.
- [Jannah](https://godsandmonsters.info/jannah/) - Jannah is the garden of Islamic paradise, with rivers of milk, wine and honey, eight gates and a hundred degrees. What the sources say, and what they doubt.
- [I](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-i/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter I. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Iram of the Pillars](https://godsandmonsters.info/iram-of-the-pillars/) - Iram of the Pillars, or Irem, is the Arabian paradise city named once in the Quran, built of gold by King Shaddad, and lost when its road was erased.
- [Hoodoo and the Conjure Doctor](https://godsandmonsters.info/hoodoo/) - Hoodoo is the African American conjure tradition, and the conjure doctor is its paid professional: divining trouble, working roots, and turning a fix back.
- [Hill of Tara (Teamhair)](https://godsandmonsters.info/hill-of-tara/) - The Hill of Tara, Teamhair in Irish, is the sacred seat of Ireland's high kings: a Meath ridge of passage tombs, roaring stones and buried arguments.
- [High John de Conquer](https://godsandmonsters.info/high-john-de-conquer/) - High John de Conquer, trickster spirit of African American folklore, walked the plantations as a laugh and left his power in the High John the Conqueror root.
- [Hawaiki](https://godsandmonsters.info/hawaiki/) - Hawaiki is the Polynesian ancestral homeland, called ʻAvaiki, Havaiʻi and Savaiʻi across the Pacific, where Māori say each life begins and ends.
- [Halemaʻumaʻu](https://godsandmonsters.info/halemaumau/) - Halemaʻumaʻu Crater is the fire pit at Kīlauea's summit where Hawaiian tradition places the goddess Pele herself, and where offerings were left at the rim.
- [Gungnir](https://godsandmonsters.info/gungnir/) - Gungnir is Odin's spear in Norse mythology, forged by Ivaldi's Sons, carved with runes on its point, and carried against the Fenris-wolf at Ragnarok.
- [Gulyabani](https://godsandmonsters.info/gulyabani/) - The Gulyabani is the shape-changing wilderness ghoul of Turkish and Azerbaijani folklore, calling lone travellers off the night road. Its feet always give it away.
- [Golden Fleece](https://godsandmonsters.info/golden-fleece/) - The Golden Fleece of Greek myth was no treasure but a talisman of kingship, nailed to an oak in the grove of Ares and guarded by a sleepless serpent.
- [Gleipnir](https://godsandmonsters.info/gleipnir/) - Gleipnir is the dwarf-made ribbon that binds Fenrir in Norse myth, spun from six impossible things, soft as silk and stronger than any iron chain.
- [Gjallarhorn](https://godsandmonsters.info/gjallarhorn/) - Gjallarhorn, the resounding horn of the Norse watchman god Heimdallr, lies hidden beneath Yggdrasil until its blast wakes the gods and opens Ragnarök.
- [Gayomart (Kayumars)](https://godsandmonsters.info/gayomart-kayumars/) - Gayomart is the shining first man of Zoroastrian myth, whose corpse gave the world its metals and whose seed grew into the rhubarb plant that became the first couple.
- [Gandiva](https://godsandmonsters.info/gandiva/) - Gandiva is Arjuna's celestial bow in Hindu myth, handed over by Varuna before the burning of Khandava, sworn over in war, and thrown back into the sea.
- [Cup of Jamshid (Jam-e Jam)](https://godsandmonsters.info/cup-of-jamshid/) - The Cup of Jamshid, or Jam-e Jam, is the world-seeing cup of Persian legend. It was never Jamshid's, and Hafez says you are already holding one.
- [Cheonbu-in (Three Heavenly Seals)](https://godsandmonsters.info/cheonbu-in/) - Cheonbu-in, the three heavenly seals of Korean myth, gave Hwanung the right to rule the earth. The Samguk yusa names them and never says what they were.
- [Thyestes](https://godsandmonsters.info/thyestes/) - Thyestes of Greek myth stole his brother's throne with a golden lamb and was repaid with a banquet of his own sons, laying the curse that destroyed Agamemnon.
- [Busgosu](https://godsandmonsters.info/busgosu/) - The Busgosu is the horned, goat-legged forest lord of Asturian folklore, protector of trees and animals, and the subject of a century-old argument about whether he is real.
- [Bacchus](https://godsandmonsters.info/bacchus/) - Bacchus is the Roman god of wine and ecstatic mystery, whose secret night rites the Senate crushed in 186 BC, executing thousands and licensing what survived.
- [Maruts](https://godsandmonsters.info/maruts/) - The Maruts are the Vedic storm gods, a golden-armed host on deer-drawn chariots who ride with Indra against Vritra and have no leader among themselves.
- [X](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-x/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter X. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Xibalba](https://godsandmonsters.info/xibalba/) - Xibalba is the Maya underworld of the Popol Vuh, a court of twelve disease lords with houses of darkness, frost, jaguars, bats and blades, defeated by the Hero Twins.
- [Xbalanque](https://godsandmonsters.info/xbalanque/) - Xbalanque is the younger Maya Hero Twin, the planner who carved his beheaded brother a new head from a squash and tricked the lords of Xibalba into dying.
- [V](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-v/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter V. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Völva](https://godsandmonsters.info/volva/) - The völva was a Norse seeress named for the staff she carried, who prophesied from a raised platform while a ring of women sang the spirits in for her.
- [Tmolus](https://godsandmonsters.info/tmolus/) - Tmolus is the Greek mountain-god of Lydia who umpired the music contest between Apollo and Pan, and whose verdict cost King Midas his human ears.
- [Tityus](https://godsandmonsters.info/tityus/) - Tityus is the Greek giant who attacked Leto and was shot by Apollo and Artemis, then pegged out across nine acres of the underworld with birds eating his liver.
- [Telipinu](https://godsandmonsters.info/telipinu/) - Telipinu is the Hittite god of growth who walked out in a temper with his boots on the wrong feet, and took every crop, calf and lamb with him.
- [Tarhunna](https://godsandmonsters.info/tarhunna/) - Tarhunna is the Hittite storm god whose name means to prevail, the true owner of the Hittite kingdom, and the deity a serpent beat before a goddess rescued him.
- [Pactolus](https://godsandmonsters.info/pactolus/) - The Pactolus is the Lydian river where Midas washed away the golden touch, and whose real gold funded Sardis and the first coined money in the world.
- [Marsyas](https://godsandmonsters.info/marsyas/) - Marsyas is the Phrygian satyr who found Athena's discarded flute, out-played Apollo, lost on a technicality, and was flayed alive and hung from a pine tree.
- [Liber](https://godsandmonsters.info/liber/) - Liber Pater is the old Italian god of wine and male fertility, worshipped by the Roman plebs on the Aventine and named in the ceremony that made boys into men.
- [Hunahpu](https://godsandmonsters.info/hunahpu/) - Hunahpu is the elder Hero Twin of the Maya Popol Vuh, beheaded by a death bat in Xibalba, restored with a squash, and finally the destroyer of the lords of death.
- [Gordias](https://godsandmonsters.info/gordias/) - Gordias was the poor Phrygian farmer whose ox-wagon fulfilled an oracle and made his son Midas king, and whose knot defeated everyone until Alexander arrived.
- [Berserker](https://godsandmonsters.info/berserker/) - Berserkers were Norse warriors who fought without armour in a fury called berserksgangr, taking neither fire nor iron, until Icelandic law made going berserk a crime.
- [Atreus](https://godsandmonsters.info/atreus/) - Atreus, king of Mycenae in Greek myth, served his brother Thyestes a banquet of his own sons, and the curse that answered it destroyed Agamemnon and his line.
- [Ah Puch](https://godsandmonsters.info/ah-puch/) - Ah Puch is the Maya god of death, drawn as a bloated skeleton wearing human eyes on their nerve cords, and even his famous name is probably a scribal mistake.
- [Valhalla](https://godsandmonsters.info/valhalla/) - Valhalla is Odin's hall of the slain in Norse myth, roofed with shields and raftered with spears, where an army of the dead trains daily for Ragnarök.
- [Nuberu](https://godsandmonsters.info/nuberu/) - The Nuberu is the ugly, skin-clad storm lord of Asturian folklore, argued with by parish priests, driven off by church bells, and still remembered by name.
- [F](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-f/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter F. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Francus](https://godsandmonsters.info/francus/) - Francus is the Trojan exile Frankish chroniclers made their founder, giving France a Homeric ancestry and costing one scholar three months in the Bastille.
- [Fairmaid](https://godsandmonsters.info/fairmaid/) - The Fairmaid is Guyana's mermaid, a beautiful water spirit who combs her hair at the riverbank, leaves the comb as bait, and drowns the men who follow her.
- [E](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-e/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter E. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Elysium](https://godsandmonsters.info/elysium/) - Elysium, the Greek afterlife paradise of no snow, no storm and no work, was reserved for a favoured few. Discover Homer's plain, Pindar's rules and Virgil's fields.
- [Riviel](https://godsandmonsters.info/riviel/) - The Riviel is a drowned soul from Afro-Ecuadorian Esmeraldas who rows a coffin-canoe by lamplight, capsizing night fishermen and laughing while they sink.
- [Lake Guatavita](https://godsandmonsters.info/lake-guatavita/) - Lake Guatavita, the Muisca shrine high in the Colombian Andes where gilded chiefs offered gold and emeralds, and where the legend of El Dorado began.
- [El Dorado](https://godsandmonsters.info/el-dorado/) - El Dorado began as a Muisca chief coated in gold dust on Lake Guatavita and became the golden city that swallowed a century of Spanish expeditions.
- [Cucuy](https://godsandmonsters.info/cucuy/) - El Cucuy is the faceless bogeyman of Mexican folklore, invoked to frighten children into bed. Its power comes from having no shape at all.
- [Charro Negro](https://godsandmonsters.info/charro-negro/) - El Charro Negro is the Devil of Mexican folklore, a black-clad horseman who offers gold and buried treasure on lonely roads in exchange for a soul.
- [Bambero](https://godsandmonsters.info/bambero/) - The Bambero is the Afro-Ecuadorian forest owner of Esmeraldas, a cigar-smoking spirit who counts every animal and punishes hunters killing for sport.
- [Egungun](https://godsandmonsters.info/egungun/) - Egungun are the Yoruba ancestral dead, returning to their own towns sealed inside layered cloth to bless, judge and terrify the descendants who feed them.
- [Eglė the Queen of Serpents](https://godsandmonsters.info/egle-the-queen-of-serpents/) - Eglė the Queen of Serpents is the Lithuanian folk heroine who married a grass snake king beneath the sea and became a spruce when her brothers killed him.
- [D](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-d/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter D. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Dyrnwyn](https://godsandmonsters.info/dyrnwyn/) - Dyrnwyn, White-Hilt, was the flaming sword of Rhydderch Hael in Welsh legend. He lent it to anyone who asked, and every borrower handed it straight back.
- [Tammuz](https://godsandmonsters.info/tammuz/) - Tammuz, the Akkadian consort of Ishtar, was mourned across Babylonia every midsummer in the month named for him, a rite that outlived its own story.
- [Duat](https://godsandmonsters.info/duat/) - The Duat is the Egyptian netherworld: a twelve-hour passage of rivers, dragging sand and serpents where the sun is remade each night and the dead are judged.
- [Druon Antigoon](https://godsandmonsters.info/druon-antigoon/) - Druon Antigoon, the giant of Antwerp who took a hand as toll on the Scheldt, was invented by Brabantine chroniclers to explain a city name they misread.
- [Draupnir](https://godsandmonsters.info/draupnir/) - Draupnir is Odin's gold ring in Norse myth. Every ninth night eight rings of equal weight drip from it. Dwarf-forged, and burned on Baldr's pyre.
- [Donar (Thunar)](https://godsandmonsters.info/donar-thunar/) - Donar, the continental Germanic thunder god known to the Saxons as Thunar, survives only in a felled oak, a baptismal renunciation and a runic brooch.
- [Djed Pillar](https://godsandmonsters.info/djed-pillar/) - The djed pillar was ancient Egypt's sign of stability and the backbone of Osiris, hauled upright by priests each year to stand the dead god back on his feet.
- [Ditaolane](https://godsandmonsters.info/ditaolane/) - Ditaolane, the Sotho hero born full-grown with divining bones at his neck, killed the swallowing monster Khodumodumo and freed a nation from inside it.
- [Dilmun](https://godsandmonsters.info/dilmun/) - Dilmun, the pure land of Sumerian myth and a real Bronze Age kingdom on Bahrain, where Enki raised sweet water and the flood survivor was sent to live forever.
- [Derafsh Kaviani](https://godsandmonsters.info/derafsh-kaviani/) - Derafsh Kaviani, the royal banner of Persian myth, began as a blacksmith's leather apron and ended in a caliph's fire after the battle of Qadisiyya.
- [Dearg Due](https://godsandmonsters.info/dearg-due/) - Dearg Due, the female vampire of Waterford legend, was assembled from a 1914 footnote, a misread word and a beetle. Here is where she really came from.
- [Dakshin Ray](https://godsandmonsters.info/dakshin-ray/) - Dakshin Ray, the tiger god of the Sundarbans, commands every tiger in the Bengal delta. Hero of one poem, human-sacrifice-demanding villain of another.
- [Crook and Flail](https://godsandmonsters.info/crook-and-flail/) - The crook and flail of Egyptian kingship: a herdsman's staff, a beaded object nobody can identify, and the four real examples Howard Carter pulled from a box.
- [Connla's Well](https://godsandmonsters.info/connlas-well/) - Connla's Well is the Irish Otherworld well of wisdom, ringed by nine hazels whose nuts feed the salmon and send imbas down the rivers of Ireland.
- [Cobra Norato](https://godsandmonsters.info/cobra-norato/) - Cobra Norato is the enchanted serpent of Brazilian Amazon folklore who becomes a man in white to dance all night, and begs strangers to break his spell.
- [Cinyras](https://godsandmonsters.info/cinyras/) - Cinyras, the Cypriot priest-king of Aphrodite at Paphos, armoured Agamemnon, cheated him of forty-nine ships, and fathered Adonis on his own daughter.
- [Cintamani (Wish-Fulfilling Jewel)](https://godsandmonsters.info/cintamani/) - Cintamani is the wish-fulfilling jewel of Hindu and Buddhist myth, taken from a dragon king's brain or a Buddha's ashes, granting whatever its owner asks.
- [Chovihani](https://godsandmonsters.info/chovihani/) - The chovihani is the Romani witch, a woman who cures, foresees and kills with one skill, feared for claiming a power her tradition reserves for God alone.
- [Charun](https://godsandmonsters.info/charun/) - Charun is the blue-skinned Etruscan demon who guards the door of the dead with a heavy mallet. He is not the Greek ferryman, and he has no boat.
- [Chaife](https://godsandmonsters.info/chaife/) - Chaife, god of the CHamoru underworld, forged souls from fire inside the mountain Sasalåguan until one escaped and became the first person on Guam.
- [Cauldron of the Dagda (Coire Ansic)](https://godsandmonsters.info/cauldron-of-the-dagda/) - The Cauldron of the Dagda, or Coire Ansic, is the Irish treasure from Murias that no company ever left unsatisfied. The only Tuatha De treasure that feeds.
- [Cauldron of Ceridwen](https://godsandmonsters.info/cauldron-of-ceridwen/) - The Cauldron of Ceridwen boiled a year and a day to make three drops of awen, Welsh poetic inspiration. A servant boy stole them and became Taliesin.
- [Castalian Spring](https://godsandmonsters.info/castalian-spring/) - Castalian Spring, the cold water in the gorge below Delphi where every pilgrim washed before consulting Apollo's oracle, and the nymph it was named for.
- [Cantre'r Gwaelod](https://godsandmonsters.info/cantrer-gwaelod/) - Cantre'r Gwaelod is the sunken Welsh kingdom of Cardigan Bay, drowned when a well-keeper let the waters loose, its bells still ringing under the sea.
- [Brú na Bóinne](https://godsandmonsters.info/bru-na-boinne/) - Brú na Bóinne, the mansion of the Boyne in Irish mythology, is the síd Óengus won from his father with a trick about days and nights.
- [Brísingamen](https://godsandmonsters.info/brisingamen/) - Brísingamen is Freyja's golden torc in Norse myth, bought from four dwarfs, stolen by Loki, won back by Heimdallr, and ransomed for an endless war.
- [Brahmastra](https://godsandmonsters.info/brahmastra/) - The Brahmastra is Hindu mythology's weapon of last resort, a mantra fired from a blade of grass. Only the pure could recall it, and Ashvatthama could not.
- [Br'er Rabbit](https://godsandmonsters.info/brer-rabbit/) - Br'er Rabbit is the trickster hero of African American folklore who beats fox, wolf and bear with talk alone. Meet the rabbit behind the Tar-Baby.
- [Bonbibi](https://godsandmonsters.info/bonbibi/) - Bonbibi is the forest guardian of the Sundarbans, venerated by Hindu and Muslim honey collectors who call her name for protection from man-eating tigers.
- [Boinayel and Márohu](https://godsandmonsters.info/boinayel-and-marohu/) - Boinayel and Márohu are the Taíno twin cemís of rain and clear sky, sons of a grey serpent, kept as sweating stones in a painted cave on Hispaniola.
- [Bifröst](https://godsandmonsters.info/bifrost/) - Bifröst is the three-coloured bridge from earth to heaven in Norse myth, one band burning with fire, watched by Heimdallr and fated to break at Ragnarök.
- [Bhishma](https://godsandmonsters.info/bhishma/) - Bhishma of the Mahabharata gave up a throne and a bloodline for a vow, could not be killed in battle, and lay on a bed of arrows waiting to die.
- [Behula](https://godsandmonsters.info/behula/) - Behula, heroine of the Bengali Manasamangal, floated her snakebitten husband downriver for six months to win his life back from the snake goddess Manasa.
- [Badimo](https://godsandmonsters.info/badimo/) - Badimo are the ancestral spirits of Sotho-Tswana belief, fed with beer and smoke, holding the personal force called seriti and carrying appeals up to Modimo.
- [Bachué](https://godsandmonsters.info/bachue/) - Bachué, mother goddess of the Muisca of Colombia, walked out of Lake Iguaque with a child, peopled the highlands, then returned as a serpent.
- [Aztlán](https://godsandmonsters.info/aztlan/) - Aztlán is the island homeland of Aztec myth, a lake-bound place of egrets and seven caves that the Mexica left forever and never managed to find again.
- [Avalon](https://godsandmonsters.info/avalon/) - Avalon is the apple island of Arthurian legend, ruled by nine healing sisters, where the mortally wounded King Arthur was carried after the battle of Camlann.
- [Aušrinė](https://godsandmonsters.info/ausrine/) - Aušrinė is the Lithuanian morning star goddess, the Moon's lover and the Sun's rival, whose affair split the moon and set the country's working day.
- [Atlantis](https://godsandmonsters.info/atlantis/) - Atlantis, the ringed island empire of Greek myth, was invented by Plato around 360 BC: ten kings, red orichalcum walls, and a sinking in one day and night.
- [Ashur](https://godsandmonsters.info/ashur/) - Ashur, the national god of Assyria, had no myths, no family and no domain. He was the city itself made divine, and an empire was built on him.
- [Asgard](https://godsandmonsters.info/asgard/) - Asgard is the walled stronghold of the Norse gods, its rampart raised by a giant on credit, its rainbow bridge Bifröst built to break at the world's end.
- [Asema](https://godsandmonsters.info/asema/) - The asema is Suriname's vampire witch: an old neighbour by day who steps out of her skin at night and flies as a blue light to drink blood.
- [Ark of the Covenant](https://godsandmonsters.info/ark-of-the-covenant/) - The Ark of the Covenant was a gilded acacia chest from Jewish tradition that toppled Dagon, plagued the Philistines, killed Uzzah, and then vanished from the record.
- [Argo](https://godsandmonsters.info/argo/) - The Argo of Greek myth was a fifty-oared ship built by Argus with a beam of Dodona oak that spoke aloud, sailed to Colchis, and finally killed Jason.
- [Apollo Hylates](https://godsandmonsters.info/apollo-hylates/) - Apollo Hylates was the woodland god of ancient Cyprus, worshipped at Kourion for eight centuries and known long before that simply as "the god".
- [Ankh](https://godsandmonsters.info/ankh/) - The ankh is the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for life, held out by gods to the pharaoh's nose as the breath of life. Nobody knows what it originally pictured.
- [Anhangá](https://godsandmonsters.info/anhanga/) - Anhangá is the Tupi spirit of the restless dead and guardian of forest game, a white deer with fiery eyes that Brazil's Jesuits turned into the devil.
- [Ambrosia](https://godsandmonsters.info/ambrosia/) - Ambrosia is the food of the Greek gods, a fragrant substance that preserves flesh, cancels stench and confers deathlessness. No ancient source says what it was.
- [Amani (Amun of Napata)](https://godsandmonsters.info/amani/) - Amani is the Nubian Amun of Jebel Barkal, the ram-headed god of Kush whose oracle at Napata chose and crowned kings for nearly a thousand years.
- [Amalivaca](https://godsandmonsters.info/amalivaca/) - Amalivaca, creator god of the Carib-speaking Tamanaco, came by canoe after the Orinoco flood, carved the painted rocks, and took back eternal life.
- [Yu Huang](https://godsandmonsters.info/yu-huang/) - Yu Huang, the Jade Emperor of Chinese mythology, is the supreme ruler of heaven, governing gods, mortals, and dragons through a vast celestial bureaucracy.
- [Utnapishtim](https://godsandmonsters.info/utnapishtim/) - Utnapishtim outlived the Mesopotamian flood and was made deathless for it. The older poem calls him Atrahasis, the Sumerian one Ziusudra. One man, four names.
- [Alatyr Stone (Alatyr)](https://godsandmonsters.info/alatyr-stone/) - The Alatyr stone is the white-burning rock at the centre of the world in Slavic myth, where healing rivers rise and Russian charms travel to be sealed.
- [Aku-Aku](https://godsandmonsters.info/aku-aku/) - Aku-Aku are the guardian spirits of Rapa Nui, fixed to stones, streams and clan land, protecting their own families and punishing anyone who crosses in.
- [Afek](https://godsandmonsters.info/afek/) - Afek is the founding ancestress of Papua New Guinea's Mountain Ok peoples, who bore the animals and the taro, founded the Telefolip cult house, and then died.
- [Abhartach](https://godsandmonsters.info/abhartach/) - Abhartach, the magician chieftain of County Derry in Irish folklore, was killed three times and buried head downwards to stop him rising again.
- [Aaru](https://godsandmonsters.info/aaru/) - Aaru, the Egyptian Field of Reeds, was the farmland paradise beyond judgement, where the justified dead ploughed, reaped and sent shabtis to do the work.
- [!Khwa](https://godsandmonsters.info/khwa/) - !Khwa is the living rain of the /Xam San of South Africa, a bull of cloud and mist who courts women by scent and turns rule-breakers into frogs.
- [Étaín](https://godsandmonsters.info/etain/) - Étaín of Irish myth was struck into water, worm and fly by a jealous rival, blown across Ireland for fourteen years, then reborn to marry a king of Tara.
- [Z](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-z/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter Z. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Zhongli Quan](https://godsandmonsters.info/zhongli-quan/) - Zhongli Quan, eldest of China's Eight Immortals, was a defeated Han general who found the inner elixir and spent centuries hunting for one worthy student.
- [Zhong Kui](https://godsandmonsters.info/zhong-kui/) - Zhong Kui is the demon queller of Chinese mythology, a disgraced examination candidate turned ghost-eating god whose portrait guards doorways at New Year.
- [Zhang Guolao](https://godsandmonsters.info/zhang-guolao/) - Zhang Guolao, the oldest of China's Eight Immortals, folded his white donkey into paper, rode it backwards, and died on command to dodge three emperors.
- [Zal](https://godsandmonsters.info/zal/) - Zal was born with an old man's white hair and left on a mountain to die. The Simurgh raised him, and he grew into Iran's shrewdest counsellor.
- [Y](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-y/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter Y. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Yushamin](https://godsandmonsters.info/yushamin/) - Yushamin, the Second Life of Mandaean belief, was the first being the Great Life made, and the first to try to build a world without asking permission.
- [Yeomra](https://godsandmonsters.info/yeomra/) - Yeomra is the fifth of the Ten Kings who judge the dead in Korean myth, a robed magistrate of the underworld with a register of lifespans and a mirror.
- [Yamantaka](https://godsandmonsters.info/yamantaka/) - Yamantaka, the buffalo-headed wrathful form of Manjushri in Tibetan Buddhism, put an end to the Lord of Death and bound him as a protector of the faith.
- [Yam (Yamm)](https://godsandmonsters.info/yam/) - Yam, the Canaanite sea god, was El's pick for king of the gods until Baal struck him down with two named clubs. The Ugaritic story, and the real cult behind it.
- [Velnias (Velns)](https://godsandmonsters.info/velnias/) - Velnias, or Velns, is the Baltic god of the dead and twin of Dievs. Lithuanian and Latvian folklore make him a shapeshifting devil who loses every deal.
- [U](https://godsandmonsters.info/index-of-mythological-gods-and-monsters/gods-and-monsters-u/) - Browse every Gods & Monsters entry that starts with the letter U. Gods, monsters, and mythical creatures from cultures across the world.
- [Thunderbird](https://godsandmonsters.info/thunderbird/) - Thunderbird, the storm spirit of many Native American traditions, makes thunder with its wings and lightning with its eyes, and wars on the beings below.
- [Poubi Lai](https://godsandmonsters.info/poubi-lai/) - Poubi Lai is the two-horned, fire-breathing dragon python of Meitei mythology, a giant serpent of Manipur's Loktak Lake slain by the shaman Kabui Salang Maiba.
- [Piasa](https://godsandmonsters.info/piasa/) - The Piasa is a horned, man-eating monster painted on the Mississippi bluffs near Alton, Illinois, half Native American pictograph and half 1836 tall tale.
- [Mishibizhiw](https://godsandmonsters.info/mishibizhiw/) - Mishibizhiw, the Anishinaabe underwater panther of the Great Lakes, is a horned water-lynx that guards Lake Superior's copper and battles the Thunderbird.
- [Whiro](https://godsandmonsters.info/whiro/) - Whiro is the Maori atua of darkness, disease and death, the elder brother who fought Tane for the baskets of knowledge, lost, and fell into the underworld.
- [Wepwawet](https://godsandmonsters.info/wepwawet/) - Wepwawet, the Egyptian canid god whose standard led kings, armies and the dead. Opener of the Ways, champion of Osiris, and keeper of an emblem nobody can name.
- [Wayland the Smith](https://godsandmonsters.info/wayland-the-smith/) - Wayland the Smith, the crippled master craftsman of Germanic and Norse legend, forged wonders for the king who enslaved him and took a monstrous revenge.
- [Vritra](https://godsandmonsters.info/vritra/) - Vritra is the Vedic serpent of Hindu mythology who penned the world's waters inside a mountain, until Indra broke him open and the seven rivers ran.
- [Vittra](https://godsandmonsters.info/vittra/) - Vittra are the invisible underground folk of northern Swedish folklore, herding cattle that never run dry and punishing anyone who blocks their roads.
- [Vertumnus](https://godsandmonsters.info/vertumnus/) - Vertumnus, the Etruscan-born Roman god of change and ripening fruit, wooed Pomona in disguise and watched the Forum from a bronze street statue.
- [Verethragna](https://godsandmonsters.info/verethragna/) - Verethragna is the Zoroastrian god of victory who came to Zarathushtra in ten bodies, from a golden-horned bull to a swordsman with a blade of gold.
- [Veliona](https://godsandmonsters.info/veliona/) - Veliona, the Lithuanian goddess of souls named once by Jan Łasicki in 1582, was fed cakes alongside the dead. Scholars still argue whether she ever existed.
- [Vazimba](https://godsandmonsters.info/vazimba/) - The Vazimba of Malagasy tradition are Madagascar's first inhabitants and the dangerous ancestral water spirits they became, still fed and feared today.
- [Vasuki](https://godsandmonsters.info/vasuki/) - Vasuki, the naga king of Hindu myth, was the living rope wound around Mount Mandara to churn the ocean of milk. Shiva wears him around his neck still.
- [Vasilisa the Beautiful](https://godsandmonsters.info/vasilisa-the-beautiful/) - Vasilisa the Beautiful is the Russian folktale heroine sent to Baba Yaga's hut for fire, who survives the witch's tasks with a doll her mother left her.
- [Vasanta](https://godsandmonsters.info/vasanta/) - Vasanta, the Hindu god of spring, was born from Brahma's sigh to serve Kamadeva. He made the Himalaya bloom out of season, then watched his friend burn.
- [Vamana](https://godsandmonsters.info/vamana/) - Vamana, the dwarf avatar of Vishnu in Hindu mythology, asked King Bali for three paces of land, then grew until two steps covered the whole universe.
- [Urcuchillay](https://godsandmonsters.info/urcuchillay/) - Urcuchillay was the Inca star god of herders, a multicoloured celestial llama who watched over the flocks. The Spaniard who recorded him got his star wrong.
- [Ungnyeo](https://godsandmonsters.info/ungnyeo/) - Ungnyeo, the bear-woman of Korean mythology, ate mugwort and garlic in a dark cave for twenty-one days, became human, and gave birth to Dangun.
- [Tūmatauenga](https://godsandmonsters.info/tumatauenga/) - Tūmatauenga, the Māori god of war, beat his brothers and ate them, making the world fit to eat. He is the ancestor of humankind and lord of the marae ātea.
- [Tāwhaki](https://godsandmonsters.info/tawhaki/) - Tāwhaki is the Māori ancestor-hero who destroyed the Ponaturi with daylight and climbed a rooted vine to the tenth heaven, trailing lightning behind him.
- [Tu Di Gong](https://godsandmonsters.info/tu-di-gong/) - Tu Di Gong, the earth god of Chinese folk religion, rules one patch of ground and nothing beyond it. Meet the lowest official of the celestial bureaucracy.
- [Tromba](https://godsandmonsters.info/tromba/) - Tromba are the spirits of dead Sakalava royalty in Madagascar, returning through living mediums to heal, advise and remember. Malagasy possession explained.
- [Tonatiuh](https://godsandmonsters.info/tonatiuh/) - Tonatiuh, the Aztec sun god, was born from a god who leapt into a fire at Teotihuacan and then refused to cross the sky until he was fed with blood.
- [Tohil](https://godsandmonsters.info/tohil/) - Tohil is the K'iche' Maya fire god of the Popol Vuh, who gave the first people fire, charged the rest their hearts for it, and turned to stone at first dawn.
- [Tishtrya](https://godsandmonsters.info/tishtrya/) - Tishtrya is the Zoroastrian yazata of rain and the star Sirius, who takes the shape of a white stallion to fight the drought demon Apaosha for the waters.
- [Tinirau](https://godsandmonsters.info/tinirau/) - Tinirau, son of Tangaroa, is the Māori and Polynesian guardian of all fish. When the priest Kae killed his tame whale, forty women went to take revenge.
- [Tiki](https://godsandmonsters.info/tiki/) - Tiki is the first man of Maori and wider Polynesian tradition, and in other tellings the god who made him. The stories have never agreed which.
- [Tiddalik](https://godsandmonsters.info/tiddalik/) - Tiddalik, the giant frog of Gunaikurnai tradition, drank every drop of fresh water in the land. Only laughter got it back, and the flood drowned the coast.
- [Thủy Tinh](https://godsandmonsters.info/thuy-tinh/) - Thủy Tinh is the Vietnamese water god who lost a Hùng princess to the mountain spirit Sơn Tinh and has raised the flood against him every year since.
- [Tarakasura](https://godsandmonsters.info/tarakasura/) - Tarakasura, the Hindu asura who seized heaven, asked Brahma to be killable only by a son of Shiva. It took a marriage, a war and a six-faced boy to do it.
- [Tantalus](https://godsandmonsters.info/tantalus/) - Tantalus, the rich Greek king of Sipylus, cooked his own son for the gods and stands chin-deep in water he can never drink. His crime, curse and legacy.
- [Tano](https://godsandmonsters.info/tano/) - Tano, or Ta Kora, is the Akan river god of Ghana who cheated his twin Bia out of the fertile land and fought Death to a draw for a hunter's life.
- [Tanit](https://godsandmonsters.info/tanit/) - Tanit was the chief goddess of Carthage, worshipped by vow on twenty thousand stones. Her origin, her sign, and the fierce dispute over her tophet.
- [Taliesin](https://godsandmonsters.info/taliesin/) - Taliesin, the radiant-browed bard of Welsh mythology, began as Gwion Bach, stole three drops from Ceridwen's cauldron and was reborn in a salmon weir.
- [Sơn Tinh](https://godsandmonsters.info/son-tinh/) - Sơn Tinh, the mountain spirit of Vietnamese myth, won a Hùng king's daughter and has fought the water spirit Thủy Tinh every flood season since.
- [Huracán](https://godsandmonsters.info/huracan/) - Huracán, the K'iche' Maya Heart of Sky, spoke the earth out of the sea, drowned the wooden people in black rain, and fogged human sight with mist.
- [Ataegina](https://godsandmonsters.info/ataegina/) - Ataegina is the Iberian goddess the Romans called Proserpina, known only from Latin altars, bronze goats and a Mérida curse tablet demanding vengeance for stolen clothes.
- [Kaveh the Blacksmith](https://godsandmonsters.info/kaveh-the-blacksmith/) - Kaveh the Blacksmith is the Persian hero of the Shahnameh who tore up a tyrant's decree, raised his leather apron as a banner, and brought down Zahhak.
- [Mary](https://godsandmonsters.info/mary/) - Mary, the mother of Jesus, is the Theotokos of Christian tradition and the Maryam of the Qur'an: a Galilean girl whose yes to an angel reshaped two faiths.
- [Marzanna](https://godsandmonsters.info/marzanna/) - Marzanna, the Slavic goddess of winter, death and plague, is drowned in effigy every spring across Poland, Czechia and Slovakia. Her rite is older than her myth.
- [Maria Lionza](https://godsandmonsters.info/maria-lionza/) - María Lionza is the goddess at the heart of Venezuela's largest folk religion: a green-eyed queen who rides a tapir and became the Sorte mountain itself.
- [Mari](https://godsandmonsters.info/mari/) - Mari, the Lady of Anboto, is the great power of Basque mythology. She makes the hail, keeps the truth, and takes everything people lie about into her cave.
- [Māra](https://godsandmonsters.info/mara-latvia/) - Māra, the great goddess of Latvian folk song, guards cows, milk, childbirth and the dead. Her name came from Mary, but almost nothing else about her did.
- [Manjushri](https://godsandmonsters.info/manjushri/) - Manjushri is the bodhisattva of wisdom in Buddhist mythology, carrying a flaming sword that cuts ignorance. He drained the lake that became the Kathmandu Valley.
- [Kueyen](https://godsandmonsters.info/kueyen/) - Kueyen is the moon in Mapuche belief: a fourfold power of fertility and healing whose 28-day round set the calendar, and whose eclipse is called a death.
- [Ilmarinen](https://godsandmonsters.info/ilmarinen/) - Ilmarinen is the eternal smith of Finnish myth and the Kalevala, who forged the vault of heaven and the Sampo, a mill that grinds endless wealth, but could not forge a living wife.
- [Hepat](https://godsandmonsters.info/hepat/) - Hepat is the Hurrian queen of heaven and wife of the storm god Teshub, worshipped from Aleppo to Hattusa and declared one with the sun goddess of Arinna.
- [Fuxi](https://godsandmonsters.info/fuxi/) - Fuxi, the serpent-bodied first sovereign of Chinese myth, drew the eight trigrams from the patterns of heaven and earth and gave humanity nets, writing and marriage.
- [Batara Kala](https://godsandmonsters.info/batara-kala/) - Batara Kala is the giant god of time in Javanese and Balinese myth, born from Shiva's spilt seed, who eats the marked and is bought off with a puppet play.
- [Bai-Ülgen](https://godsandmonsters.info/bai-ulgen/) - Bai-Ülgen is the Turkic creator god of the Altai, a bearded sky father in a house above the sun whose shamans climbed a notched birch through nine heavens to reach him.
- [Marmennill](https://godsandmonsters.info/marmennill/) - The marmennill is the prophetic sea-dwarf of Norse and Icelandic folklore, hooked by fishermen, who laughs three times and buys his freedom with the truth.
- [Marid](https://godsandmonsters.info/marid/) - The marid is the unsubmitting devil of the Quran and the Arabian Nights: a jinni sealed in a copper jar by Solomon, and never once a genie of water.
- [Mares of Diomedes](https://godsandmonsters.info/mares-of-diomedes/) - The Mares of Diomedes were the man-eating horses of Thracian myth, chained in bronze mangers and fed on strangers until Heracles came to take them.
- [Marduk](https://godsandmonsters.info/marduk/) - Marduk, patron god of Babylon, killed the chaos-sea Tiamat and built the world from her body. A ditch-digger's god who ended up king of the Mesopotamian pantheon.
- [Mara](https://godsandmonsters.info/mara/) - The Mara of Norse and Scandinavian folklore kneels on a sleeper's chest and presses out the breath. She killed a king of Uppsala, and she named the nightmare.
- [Mannegishi](https://godsandmonsters.info/mannegishi/) - Mannegishi, the mêmêkwêsiw of Cree folklore, are little people who live inside cliffs, rob fish nets and painted the red rock art of the Canadian Shield.
- [Manitou](https://godsandmonsters.info/manitou/) - Manitou is the Algonquian word for spirit power, alive in fire, water and thunder. Not a god, but the presence Ojibwe and Narragansett people met everywhere.
- [Manasa](https://godsandmonsters.info/manasa/) - Manasa is the Hindu snake goddess of Bengal, who sank a merchant's ships and killed his sons until he worshipped her. Born from a sage's mind, mother of Astika.
- [Lempo](https://godsandmonsters.info/lempo/) - Lempo, the demon of Finnish mythology who slips the knife and turns the axe, wounded Väinämöinen in the Kalevala and hammers sickness into the body.
- [Lamashtu (Labartu)](https://godsandmonsters.info/labartu/) - Lamashtu, the Mesopotamian demoness long read as Labartu, killed infants and their mothers. Cast out of heaven by Anu, she was fought with amulets and Pazuzu.
- [Kupua](https://godsandmonsters.info/kupua/) - Kupua are the shapeshifting demigods of Hawaiian myth, beings with a second body of hog, shark or stone, ranging from cannibal monsters to heroes like Māui.
- [Kudan](https://godsandmonsters.info/kudan/) - Kudan is a prophecy beast of Japanese folklore, a human-faced calf that speaks one unfailing prophecy of famine, plague or war, then dies within days of its birth.
- [Kuda-gitsune](https://godsandmonsters.info/kuda-gitsune/) - Kuda-gitsune is the pipe fox of Japanese folklore, a tiny fox familiar kept in a bamboo tube by Shinano sorcerers to divine, curse, and steal for its master.
- [Kubikajiri](https://godsandmonsters.info/kubikajiri/) - Kubikajiri is a Japanese yokai said to be a starved old person who digs up the grave of whoever refused them food. Its real origin is a 1966 magazine feature.
- [Krampus](https://godsandmonsters.info/krampus/) - Krampus is the horned, fur-suited devil of Alpine folklore who walks with Saint Nicholas on 5 December, switching wicked children and threatening to carry them off in his basket.
- [Koro-pok-guru](https://godsandmonsters.info/koro-pok-guru/) - The Koro-pok-guru are the little people of Ainu tradition, said to shelter beneath giant butterbur leaves and to have been clubbed out of Hokkaido by the Ainu.
- [Konaki-jiji](https://godsandmonsters.info/konaki-jiji/) - The Konaki-jiji is a Japanese mountain yōkai that cries like a baby and turns to crushing stone in the arms of anyone who pities it. Its real origins are stranger.
- [Kokakuchō](https://godsandmonsters.info/kokakucho/) - The Kokakuchō, or guhuoniao, is the night-flying bird of Chinese and Japanese folklore, the spirit of a woman dead in childbirth who marks infants with a drop of blood.
- [Kodama](https://godsandmonsters.info/kodama/) - The Kodama is a tree spirit of Japanese folklore, a forest kami turned yokai whose voice returns as a mountain echo and whose felling brings a ruinous curse.
- [Kobalos](https://godsandmonsters.info/kobalos/) - Kobalos, the mischievous sprite of Greek myth, was invoked by rogues in Aristophanes and glossed as a jesting daimon of Dionysus. Its goblin shape is modern.
- [Klabautermann](https://godsandmonsters.info/klabautermann/) - Klabautermann is the ship kobold of North German and Baltic sailors, an unseen carpenter who mends the hull by night and abandons a vessel that is doomed.
- [Kiyohime](https://godsandmonsters.info/kiyohime/) - Kiyohime is the serpent woman of Japanese legend, whose rage at the monk Anchin turned her into a fire-breathing snake that burned him alive inside the Dōjōji bell.
- [Kitsune-Tsuki](https://godsandmonsters.info/kitsune-tsuki/) - Kitsune-tsuki is Japanese fox possession: an invisible fox enters the body, speaks in its own voice, craves tofu, and must be argued out by an exorcist.
- [Kitsune](https://godsandmonsters.info/kitsune/) - Kitsune are the shapeshifting foxes of Japanese folklore: messengers of the rice god Inari, kindlers of foxfire, and spirits that bewitch and possess.
- [Kinnara](https://godsandmonsters.info/kinnara/) - Kinnara are the celestial musicians of Hindu and Buddhist myth, half human and half bird or horse, whose playing sets mountains reeling and monks dancing.
- [Kijimunaa](https://godsandmonsters.info/kijimunaa/) - Kijimunaa is the red-haired tree spirit of Okinawa's ancient banyans, a spirit that walks on water, fills a fisherman's nets, and eats only the eyes of the catch.
- [Kee-wakw](https://godsandmonsters.info/kee-wakw/) - Kee-wakw is the cannibal forest giant of Abenaki and Wabanaki folklore, tree-tall, caked in pitch and moss, with a lump of ice where its heart should be.
- [Kesaran-pasaran](https://godsandmonsters.info/kesaran-pasaran/) - Kesaran-pasaran is the white fluffball of Japanese folklore, kept in a box, fed face powder, and said to breed and bring its owner good fortune.
- [Kangla Sha](https://godsandmonsters.info/kangla-sha/) - Kangla Sha is the lion-bodied, dragon-headed guardian beast of Meitei Manipur, twice destroyed by invading armies and twice rebuilt at the Kangla fort.
- [Karura](https://godsandmonsters.info/karura/) - Karura is the golden, fire-breathing bird god of Japanese Buddhism, a converted Hindu Garuda who devours dragons and whose flames halo Fudō Myōō.
- [Jaculus](https://godsandmonsters.info/jaculus/) - The Jaculus is the javelin snake of Roman and medieval legend, a serpent that hurled itself from trees and killed by sheer impact rather than venom.
- [Inara](https://godsandmonsters.info/inara/) - Inara, the Hittite goddess of the wild steppe, beat the serpent Illuyanka with a feast, a rope and a mortal lover, in the myth recited at the purulli festival.
- [Ikiryō](https://godsandmonsters.info/ikiryo/) - The ikiryō is a living ghost of Japanese folklore, the soul of a breathing person that leaves the body in jealousy and sickens or kills the object of its grudge.
- [Humbaba](https://godsandmonsters.info/humbaba/) - Humbaba, the Cedar Forest guardian of Mesopotamian myth, wore seven auras of terror and was tricked out of every one of them by Gilgamesh before Enkidu killed him.
- [Huaychivo](https://godsandmonsters.info/huaychivo/) - The Huaychivo is a Yucatec Maya wáay, a neighbour who leaves his head behind, takes the body of a goat and raids the livestock pens after dark.
- [Homa](https://godsandmonsters.info/homa/) - Homa is the Persian bird of fortune whose passing shadow crowns kings. In Attar's poem, the one king it crowned curses it from beyond the grave.
- [Hitodama](https://godsandmonsters.info/hitodama/) - Hitodama are the soul fires of Japanese folklore, pale orbs that leave the body at death and drift low toward temples and the homes of those the dead loved.
- [Hitotsume-kozō](https://godsandmonsters.info/hitotsume-kozo/) - Hitotsume-kozō is the one-eyed child yōkai of Japanese folklore who walks the villages each December, writing down a household's faults and repaying them in sickness.
- [Hippogriff](https://godsandmonsters.info/hippogriff/) - The Hippogriff was invented by Ludovico Ariosto in 1516, a flying steed sired by a griffin on a mare and built from a Roman poet's joke about the impossible.
- [Hiderigami](https://godsandmonsters.info/hiderigami/) - Hiderigami, the drought spirit of Chinese and Japanese folklore, began as a goddess who stopped a storm to win a war and ended as a corpse villagers burned for rain.
- [Hippalectryon](https://godsandmonsters.info/hippalectryon/) - The Hippalectryon, a horse-rooster hybrid of Greek art, has no myth at all. It survives on Attic vases, on a smashed Acropolis statue, and as an insult in Aristophanes.
- [Heracles (Hercules)](https://godsandmonsters.info/heracles-hercules/) - Heracles, or Hercules, is the son of Zeus whose Twelve Labours were penance for killing his own children, and who was worshipped as both dead hero and god.
- [Helios](https://godsandmonsters.info/helios/) - Helios is the Greek sun god who drives a four-horse chariot across the sky and sees every deed beneath it, yet he never saw the theft of his own cattle.
- [Hebe](https://godsandmonsters.info/hebe/) - Hebe is the Greek goddess of youth who poured nectar for the gods, married Heracles, and whose grove at Phlius pardoned every suppliant who reached it.
- [Headless Mule](https://godsandmonsters.info/headless-mule/) - The Headless Mule is a woman of Brazilian folklore cursed for loving a priest, who gallops the countryside every Thursday night with fire where her head should be.
- [Harionago](https://godsandmonsters.info/harionago/) - Harionago is a yokai of southern Ehime who smiles at men on dark roads and, if they smile back, hunts them down with hair that ends in fish hooks.
- [Haltija](https://godsandmonsters.info/haltija/) - The haltija is the guardian spirit of Finnish folklore, the unseen owner of a house, a grove, a lake or a person, lending luck to anyone who respects it.
- [Gwyllgi](https://godsandmonsters.info/gwyllgi/) - Gwyllgi, the Welsh Dog of Darkness, is a spectral mastiff of lonely lanes. Despite its reputation, the earliest Welsh accounts make it no omen of death.
- [Gulon](https://godsandmonsters.info/gulon/) - The Gulon is a beast of Scandinavian legend that gorges on carrion, squeezes between two trees to empty itself, and starts again. Olaus Magnus made it the emblem of gluttony.
- [Gremlin](https://godsandmonsters.info/gremlin/) - The Gremlin is the impish saboteur of RAF aviation folklore, blamed by wartime aircrews for the inexplicable faults that wrecked engines and instruments in flight.
- [Gold-digging ant](https://godsandmonsters.info/gold-digging-ant/) - The gold-digging ant is a fox-sized, furry miner of ancient Indian legend, reported by Herodotus and Pliny, that threw up gold-laced sand and killed to keep it.
- [Gjenganger](https://godsandmonsters.info/gjenganger/) - The gjenganger is the walking dead of Norwegian folklore: a corpse that comes back for justice, and the reason bodies were carried out through a hole in the wall.
- [Girtablilu](https://godsandmonsters.info/girtablilu/) - Girtablilu, the scorpion-man of Mesopotamian myth, was bred by Tiamat for war, beaten by Marduk, and set to guard the gate of Mount Mashu where the sun rises.
- [Funayūrei](https://godsandmonsters.info/funayurei/) - Funayūrei are the boat ghosts of Japanese coastal folklore, the drowned who ask passing crews for a ladle and use it to sink them. The trick is a bottomless one.
- [Finn mac Cumhal](https://godsandmonsters.info/finn-mac-cumhal/) - Finn mac Cumhal led the fianna of Irish legend. A burnt thumb and a salmon gave him hidden knowledge, and a failed leap over the Boyne killed him.
- [Mapinguari](https://godsandmonsters.info/mapinguari/) - The Mapinguari of Brazilian folklore is a stinking, one-eyed giant with backwards feet and a mouth in its belly, and it hunts the Amazon by daylight.
- [Manticore](https://godsandmonsters.info/manticore/) - The manticore of Persian and Greek legend has a lion's body, a man's face, three rows of teeth and a scorpion tail that shoots venomous stings like arrows.
- [Jasy Jatere](https://godsandmonsters.info/jasy-jatere/) - Jasy Jatere is the golden-haired Guarani spirit of the Paraguayan siesta, who whistles children into the forest and sends them home unable to speak.
- [Hulder](https://godsandmonsters.info/hulder/) - The hulder is a beautiful woman of Norwegian folk belief who hides a cow's tail beneath her skirt and lures men into the mountain, never to return.
- [Hippocampus](https://godsandmonsters.info/hippocampus/) - The Hippocampus of Greek mythology is a horse from the breast forward and a fish behind, the animal that drew Poseidon's chariot and carried the Nereids.
- [Grootslang](https://godsandmonsters.info/grootslang/) - The Grootslang is a giant serpent of Nama folklore on South Africa's Orange River, said to take cattle and guard a diamond hoard in a bottomless Richtersveld pit.
- [Lich](https://godsandmonsters.info/lich/) - The lich is an undead sorcerer of modern fantasy who sealed its soul in a hidden vessel to cheat death. Its name is Old English for corpse.
- [Lamia](https://godsandmonsters.info/lamia/) - Lamia, the child-devouring monster of Greek myth, was a Libyan queen whose children Hera destroyed, and whose grief turned her into the terror of every nursery.
- [Aeaea](https://godsandmonsters.info/aeaea/) - Aeaea is the wooded island of the Greek goddess Circe, where Odysseus lost his crew to a wand, rested a year, and learned the way to the dead.
- [Circe](https://godsandmonsters.info/circe/) - Circe, the Greek goddess of Aeaea, drugged Odysseus's men and struck them into pigs with her wand, then gave him the only route home past Scylla.
- [Reynard the Fox](https://godsandmonsters.info/reynard-the-fox/) - Reynard the Fox is the red trickster of medieval European beast epic, a talking fox who lies his way off the gallows and whose name replaced goupil.
- [Sântoaderi](https://godsandmonsters.info/santoaderi/) - Sântoaderi are the hoofed night riders of Romanian folklore, a band that walks the first week of Lent and tramples anyone caught spinning after dark.
- [Stribog](https://godsandmonsters.info/stribog/) - Stribog is a Slavic god of Vladimir's 980 pantheon at Kyiv, grandfather of the winds, named in three medieval texts that never once say what he did.
- [Sraosha](https://godsandmonsters.info/sraosha/) - Sraosha, the Zoroastrian yazata of obedience, never sleeps. Meet the club-bearing guardian of the night, his rooster herald, and his war on the demon of wrath.
- [Sohrab](https://godsandmonsters.info/sohrab/) - Sohrab, the son Rostam never knew, rode out of Turan to find his father and died on his blade. The cruellest tragedy in Persian mythology.
- [Snallygaster](https://godsandmonsters.info/snallygaster/) - The Snallygaster, a one-eyed winged blood-drinker of Maryland's South Mountain, was invented by a Frederick County newspaper in 1909 and ran for decades.
- [Skunk Ape](https://godsandmonsters.info/skunk-ape/) - The Skunk Ape is Florida's Bigfoot, a rank red-haired biped reported from Everglades swamps since the 1950s and blamed on black bears by every expert who checks.
- [Skadi](https://godsandmonsters.info/skadi/) - Skadi is the Norse goddess of skis, winter and the bow, a giant's daughter who marched into Asgard in full armour to avenge her father and left married.
- [Silvanus](https://godsandmonsters.info/silvanus/) - Silvanus, Roman god of woods and field boundaries, had no temple and no festival day, yet left more inscriptions than almost any other god of Rome.
- [Sila](https://godsandmonsters.info/sila/) - Sila is the Inuit spirit of air, weather and breath, a world-upholding power who speaks through storms and, in Netsilik telling, is an orphaned giant child.
- [Shtriga](https://godsandmonsters.info/shtriga/) - The shtriga is a vampiric witch of Albanian folklore who shrinks to insect size, slips through a keyhole and drains sleeping children of their blood.
- [Shoggoth](https://godsandmonsters.info/shoggoth/) - The shoggoth is H. P. Lovecraft's protoplasmic slave-creature, bred by the Elder Things to build an Antarctic city and destined to rise against them.
- [Sheol](https://godsandmonsters.info/sheol/) - Sheol is the underworld of the Hebrew Bible, a dark and dusty pit beneath the earth that takes the righteous and the wicked alike and never gives them back.
- [Sha Wujing](https://godsandmonsters.info/sha-wujing/) - Sha Wujing, the ogre of the Flowing-Sand River in Chinese myth, wore nine skulls and ate pilgrims before Guanyin made him Tripitaka's third disciple.
- [Seraphim](https://godsandmonsters.info/seraphim/) - Seraphim are the six-winged burning ones of Isaiah's temple vision, angels of Jewish and Christian tradition whose name once meant a fiery desert serpent.
- [Sarutahiko](https://godsandmonsters.info/sarutahiko/) - Sarutahiko is the towering Japanese kami who blazed at heaven's eight-forked road, guided Ninigi to earth, then drowned at Azaka with his hand in a shell.
- [Samichlaus](https://godsandmonsters.info/samichlaus/) - Samichlaus is the Swiss Saint Nicholas, a red-robed, mitred figure who walks into homes on 6 December with Schmutzli, a donkey and a book of good and bad deeds.
- [Sambara (Shambara)](https://godsandmonsters.info/sambara/) - Sambara, the asura of Hindu myth, threw the infant Pradyumna into the sea to escape a prophecy, then had his own killer raised in his kitchen for twenty years.
- [Samael](https://godsandmonsters.info/samael/) - Samael, the blind accusing angel of Jewish tradition, rode the serpent in Eden, came for Moses, and rules the sitra ahra with Lilith at his side.
- [Ryūjin](https://godsandmonsters.info/ryujin/) - Ryūjin, the dragon king of Japanese mythology, rules the sea from a palace of fish scales and moves the tide with two jewels. Meet Japan's oldest sea god.
- [Rukmini](https://godsandmonsters.info/rukmini/) - Rukmini, chief queen of Krishna and an incarnation of Lakshmi, wrote a letter arranging her own elopement. The Hindu goddess worshipped at Dwarka.
- [Rongo](https://godsandmonsters.info/rongo/) - Rongo is the Polynesian god of cultivated food and peace, atua of the kūmara in Māori tradition and the fearsome pre-eminent deity of Mangaia.
- [Rashnu](https://godsandmonsters.info/rashnu/) - Rashnu is the Zoroastrian yazata of justice who waits at the Chinvat Bridge with golden scales, weighing every soul's deeds and showing favour to nobody.
- [Ragnarök](https://godsandmonsters.info/ragnarok/) - Ragnarök is the Norse end of the world: Fenrir swallows Odin, Thor falls to the serpent's venom, Surtr burns everything, and a green earth rises again.
- [Radha](https://godsandmonsters.info/radha/) - Radha is the Hindu goddess of love and Krishna's chief consort, a Braj cowherd girl whose longing became the beating heart of Vaishnava devotion.
- [Qasavara](https://godsandmonsters.info/qasavara/) - Qasavara is the man-eating giant of Melanesian mythology in Vanuatu, killed by the spirit Qat and turned to a stone where men asked for courage.
- [Père Fouettard](https://godsandmonsters.info/pere-fouettard/) - Père Fouettard is Saint Nicholas's dark companion in French folklore, a murdering butcher sentenced to carry the whip and hand out coal every December.
- [Princess Bari](https://godsandmonsters.info/princess-bari/) - Princess Bari, thrown away at birth for being a girl, walked to the Western Heaven for the Water of Life and became the Korean goddess who guides the dead.
- [Prahlada](https://godsandmonsters.info/prahlada/) - Prahlada, the asura prince of Hindu myth, survived poison, snakes, elephants and fire because he would not stop worshipping Vishnu, his father's enemy.
- [Pradyumna](https://godsandmonsters.info/pradyumna/) - Pradyumna, Krishna's eldest son in Hindu myth, was stolen at six days old, swallowed by a fish, and raised by the wife he would later marry and avenge.
- [Pomona](https://godsandmonsters.info/pomona/) - Pomona, the Roman goddess of orchards, kept a pruning knife and a walled garden. Only one surviving myth tells her story, and a shapeshifter got in.
- [Poliʻahu](https://godsandmonsters.info/poliahu/) - Poliʻahu is the Hawaiian snow goddess of Mauna Kea, whose white kapa mantle chills Pele's lava to stone and holds the mountain against fire.
- [Phi Pop](https://godsandmonsters.info/phi-pop/) - Phi Pop is a ravenous spirit of Thai and Lao folklore that hides inside a living host and eats the organs of neighbours, children and livestock.
- [Pecos Bill](https://godsandmonsters.info/pecos-bill/) - Pecos Bill, the coyote-raised cowboy of Texas tall tales who roped a cyclone, was invented for a 1923 magazine article. The stories are wilder than the truth.
- [Pariacaca](https://godsandmonsters.info/pariacaca/) - Pariacaca, the Andean storm god of Huarochiri, hatched from five eggs as five falcons and drowned the man-eating fire god Huallallo Carhuincho in hail.
- [Oya](https://godsandmonsters.info/oya/) - Oya is the Yoruba orisha of wind, lightning and storms, a buffalo-shifting warrior who commands the ancestral dead and rules the Niger River.
- [Osanyin](https://godsandmonsters.info/osanyin/) - Osanyin is the one-legged Yoruba orisha of herbal medicine, owner of every leaf and the incantations that make them work. No orisha rite happens without him.
- [Ori](https://godsandmonsters.info/ori/) - Ori is the Yoruba inner head, the personal destiny each person picks blind from the potter Ajala's storehouse before birth. No orisha can overrule it.
- [Ora](https://godsandmonsters.info/ora/) - Ora are the guardian fate spirits of Albanian mythology. One is born with every person, and on the third night the orët gather to speak a newborn's destiny.
- [Ookuninushi](https://godsandmonsters.info/ookuninushi/) - Ookuninushi, the Japanese god of Izumo, healed the White Hare of Inaba, died twice, built the earthly world, then traded it away for the unseen one.
- [Olentzero](https://godsandmonsters.info/olentzero/) - Olentzero is the red-eyed Basque charcoal burner of Christmas Eve, last of the giants, who once came down the mountain with a sickle instead of gifts.
- [Og](https://godsandmonsters.info/og/) - Og, giant king of Bashan, was the last of the Rephaim. Jewish tradition has him outlive the Flood, hurl a mountain at Israel, and fall to Moses at Edrei.
- [Oduduwa](https://godsandmonsters.info/oduduwa/) - Oduduwa descended a chain from the sky, poured sand on the water and made the first land at Ile-Ife. The Yoruba progenitor, orisha and first king.
- [Oba](https://godsandmonsters.info/oba/) - Oba is the Yoruba orisha of the Oba River and senior wife of Shango, tricked into serving him her own ear and worshipped in Nigeria, Cuba and Brazil.
- [Nāmaka](https://godsandmonsters.info/namaka/) - Nāmaka, or Nāmakaokahaʻi, is the Hawaiian sea goddess who chased her sister Pele across the islands, tore her apart on Maui, and still lost.
- [Nzambi a Mpungu](https://godsandmonsters.info/nzambi-a-mpungu/) - Nzambi a Mpungu is the supreme god of Kongo tradition, a bodiless sky-dweller who guarded the heavenly fire until a spider climbed up and asked for it.
- [Nyai Roro Kidul](https://godsandmonsters.info/nyai-roro-kidul/) - Nyai Roro Kidul, spirit queen of Java's Southern Sea in Indonesian myth: an exiled princess who rules the waves and weds the kings of Mataram.
- [Nunnehi](https://godsandmonsters.info/nunnehi/) - The Nunnehi are the immortal spirit people of Cherokee tradition, living inside the Appalachian mountains, guiding the lost and fighting for the Cherokee unseen.
- [Nun](https://godsandmonsters.info/nun/) - Nun is the boundless primeval water of Egyptian myth, the dark, inert ocean that existed before creation and still surrounds, floods and outlasts the world.
- [Numbakulla](https://godsandmonsters.info/numbakulla/) - Numbakulla, the Arrernte creator being of Central Australia, made the world from nothing, planted the sacred pole, then climbed it into the sky and vanished.
- [Nommo](https://godsandmonsters.info/nommo/) - Nommo are the water spirits of the Dogon of Mali, feared in every pond, and cast by Marcel Griaule as the sacrificed twin who redeemed a spoiled world.
- [Nogitsune](https://godsandmonsters.info/nogitsune/) - Nogitsune are the masterless field foxes of Japanese folklore, blamed across Kyushu for sudden illness, possession and curses that run in families.
- [Ninkasi](https://godsandmonsters.info/ninkasi/) - Ninkasi, the Sumerian goddess of beer, was both the brewer and the brew. Her 1800 BCE hymn praises her while walking through the making of Mesopotamian beer.
- [Ningishzida](https://godsandmonsters.info/ningishzida/) - Ningishzida, the Sumerian lord of the good tree, was drawn as twined serpents, taken to the underworld by a demon, and left guarding the gate of heaven.
- [Ngillatun](https://godsandmonsters.info/ngillatun/) - Ngillatun is the great communal ceremony of the Mapuche, a rite of thanks, sacrifice and dance offered to Ngenechen at an open canelo altar in southern Chile.
- [Nang Kwak](https://godsandmonsters.info/nang-kwak/) - Nang Kwak is the Thai beckoning lady, the kneeling red-dressed spirit on every shop counter in Thailand, summoning customers and money with one raised hand.
- [Nammu](https://godsandmonsters.info/nammu/) - Nammu is the Sumerian creator goddess of the deep water, mother of Enki, who bore heaven and earth alone and shaped the first humans out of clay.
- [Nabu](https://godsandmonsters.info/nabu/) - Nabu, the Babylonian god of writing and prophecy, held the stylus that recorded mortal fates. Son of Marduk, lord of Borsippa, patron of every scribe.
- [Mēness](https://godsandmonsters.info/meness/) - Mēness is the armed, star-cloaked moon god of Latvian mythology, a war god and rival suitor whose reach for the Sun's daughter brought Pērkons down on him.
- [Mot](https://godsandmonsters.info/mot/) - Mot, the Canaanite god of death, ruled a city of mire and ate the storm god Baal alive. Ugarit's tablets give him no body at all, only an endless mouth.
- [Mixcoatl](https://godsandmonsters.info/mixcoatl/) - Mixcoatl, the Cloud Serpent of Aztec myth, is the god of the hunt and the Milky Way who slaughtered his four hundred brothers and fathered Quetzalcoatl.
- [Midir](https://godsandmonsters.info/midir/) - Midir of Brí Léith, a king of the Tuatha Dé in Irish myth, lost an eye to a holly spit and won his wife Étaín back from the king of Tara at chess.
- [Mictlantecuhtli](https://godsandmonsters.info/mictlantecuhtli/) - Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of death, ruled Mictlan's nine levels and lost the bones of humanity to Quetzalcoatl, a conch full of bees and a startled quail.
- [Michael](https://godsandmonsters.info/michael/) - Michael is the archangel of Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition: prince of Israel, dragon-slayer of Revelation, and the angel who weighs the dead.
- [Metatron](https://godsandmonsters.info/metatron/) - Metatron is the fiery scribe of Jewish mysticism, the patriarch Enoch remade as an angel, seated in heaven and flogged for looking too much like God.
- [Menhit](https://godsandmonsters.info/menhit/) - Menhit, the Nubian lioness goddess of war worshipped at Esna, went before Egypt's armies with arrows of fire and had to be danced calm by an emperor.
- [Medea](https://godsandmonsters.info/medea/) - Medea, the Colchian princess of Greek myth, gave Jason the drug that won the Golden Fleece, then turned her sorcery on the household that betrayed her.
- [Mayahuel](https://godsandmonsters.info/mayahuel/) - Mayahuel is the Aztec goddess of the maguey, carried down from the sky by Ehecatl and torn apart by the tzitzimime so the first agave could grow.
- [Mavka](https://godsandmonsters.info/mavka/) - Mavka, the forest spirit of Ukrainian folklore: a dead unbaptised child returned as a beautiful girl with no back, who tickles men to death in the Carpathians.
- [Math Fab Mathonwy](https://godsandmonsters.info/math-fab-mathonwy/) - Math fab Mathonwy is the enchanter king of Gwynedd in Welsh myth, unable to live unless a maiden held his feet, and pitiless when his kin betrayed him.
- [Mariang Makiling (Maria Makiling)](https://godsandmonsters.info/mariang-makiling/) - Mariang Makiling is the diwata of Mount Makiling in Philippine mythology, a mountain guardian who turned ginger to gold and withdrew when greed arrived.
- [Marawa](https://godsandmonsters.info/marawa/) - Marawa is the spider spirit of Vanuatu's Banks Islands, friend and rival to the hero Qat, whose botched copy of Qat's first people brought death.
- [Manda d-Hayyi](https://godsandmonsters.info/manda-d-hayyi/) - Manda d-Hayyi is the Mandaean uthra whose name means Knowledge of Life, the messenger who taught Adam, descended into darkness and baptised John the Baptist.
- [Mamlambo](https://godsandmonsters.info/mamlambo/) - Mamlambo is the wealth-giving river snake of Xhosa and Zulu belief, a shape-shifting familiar that makes its owner rich and then takes his family.
- [Mama Quilla](https://godsandmonsters.info/mama-quilla/) - Mama Quilla is the Inca moon goddess, wife of the sun and keeper of the month. Her Cusco shrine was plated in silver, and an eclipse meant she was dying.
- [Mama Cocha](https://godsandmonsters.info/mama-cocha/) - Mama Cocha, the Mother Sea of Inca and Andean belief, fed the Peruvian coast with fish and was fed red shell so she would not devour the land.
- [Mahuika](https://godsandmonsters.info/mahuika/) - Mahuika is the Maori goddess of fire, whose burning fingernails Maui tricked out of her one by one until only sparks in the kaikomako tree were left.
- [Mago Halmi](https://godsandmonsters.info/mago-halmi/) - Mago Halmi is the giant grandmother of Korean myth who shaped mountains, islands and rivers with the soil that spilled from her skirt as she walked.
- [Machi](https://godsandmonsters.info/machi/) - Machi are the ritual healers of the Mapuche of southern Chile, climbing a carved canelo pole into the sky world to bargain for the sick and the land.
- [Lü Dongbin](https://godsandmonsters.info/lu-dongbin/) - Lü Dongbin, best known of China's Eight Immortals, woke from a dream of total ruin to become a sword-carrying Daoist patriarch and a god who works in disguise.
- [The story of Sundiata Keita](https://godsandmonsters.info/the-story-of-sundiata-keita/) - Discover Sundiata Keita's epic journey from adversity to triumph, founding the Mali Empire and shaping history.
- [Anansi and the pot of wisdom](https://godsandmonsters.info/anansi-and-the-pot-of-wisdom/) - Anansi's quest to hoard wisdom teaches the timeless lesson that true knowledge must be shared, not hidden.
- [How Death Came into the World](https://godsandmonsters.info/how-death-came-into-the-world/) - Ghanaian myth teaches that death is essential for life's cycle, emphasizing balance and the wisdom of acceptance.
- [Ajax the Great (Telamonian Ajax)](https://godsandmonsters.info/ajax/) - Ajax, the towering Greek hero of the Trojan War, held the line at the ships behind a seven-hide shield, then lost Achilles' armour and his mind.
- [Native Brazilian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/native-brazilian-mythology/) - Native Brazilian mythology guide: forest guardians with backward feet, shapeshifting river dolphins, sacred flutes, and the Tupi-Guarani search for a Land Without Evil.
- [Brazilian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/welcome-to-gods-and-monsters/brazilian-mythology/) - Brazilian mythology where forest monsters are the heroes: Curupira, the shapeshifting Boto, river-mother Iara, and African orixás hidden inside Catholic saints.
- [Lugat](https://godsandmonsters.info/lugat/) - The lugat is the Albanian vampire, a sinner's corpse the earth will not keep. It returns to its own house, sickens the cattle, and only fire ends it.
- [Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp](https://godsandmonsters.info/lizard-man-of-scape-ore-swamp/) - The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp is a seven-foot red-eyed reptilian said to haunt a South Carolina swamp, born from one teenager's 1988 police report.
- [Li Tieguai](https://godsandmonsters.info/li-tieguai/) - Li Tieguai, Iron-Crutch Li of Chinese myth, lost his handsome body to a funeral pyre and woke in a dead beggar's. Meet the Eight Immortals' healer.
- [Lemminkäinen](https://godsandmonsters.info/lemminkainen/) - Lemminkäinen, the reckless hero of Finnish mythology, was killed hunting the swan of Tuonela and raked out of the death river in pieces by his mother.
- [Laozi](https://godsandmonsters.info/laozi/) - Laozi, the Old Master of Chinese mythology, wrote the Daodejing at a border pass and vanished. Centuries later, emperors were sacrificing to him as a god.
- [Langsuir](https://godsandmonsters.info/langsuir/) - The langsuir is a Malay revenant, a woman who died at her child's stillbirth and now hunts as a green-robed beauty or a night-owl, drinking blood at the neck.
- [Lange Wapper](https://godsandmonsters.info/lange-wapper/) - Lange Wapper is the shape-shifting giant of Antwerp folklore, a night spirit who grew from fist-high to taller than the cathedral and tormented drunks.
- [Lakapati](https://godsandmonsters.info/lakapati/) - Lakapati, the Tagalog deity of cultivated land, was worshipped with a child held over a flooded field. Spanish friars recorded the prayer in 1613.
- [Kupala](https://godsandmonsters.info/kupala/) - Kupala is the Slavic midsummer figure named as a harvest god by a 17th-century Ukrainian chronicle. The fires are ancient; the god was invented at a desk.
- [Kresnik](https://godsandmonsters.info/kresnik/) - Kresnik, the caul-born night fighter of Slovene and Croatian folklore, whose soul left his body as a white beast to battle witches for the harvest.
- [Khors](https://godsandmonsters.info/khors/) - Khors stood second among Volodymyr's six idols at Kyiv in 980 and is named more often than any Slavic god but Perun. Nobody knows what he did.
- [Kanaloa](https://godsandmonsters.info/kanaloa/) - Kanaloa is the Hawaiian god of the deep ocean, voyaging and healing, symbolised by the octopus, and the constant travelling companion of Kāne.
- [Kamapuaʻa](https://godsandmonsters.info/kamapuaa/) - Kamapuaʻa, the hog-man kupua of Hawaiian myth, rooted up Oʻahu, killed his chief on the altar, and battled Pele until they split Hawaiʻi between them.
- [Jumong](https://godsandmonsters.info/jumong/) - Jumong, founder of Goguryeo in Korean myth, was born from an egg to a river god's daughter, outshot every rival, and crossed a river on fish and turtles.
- [Jumis](https://godsandmonsters.info/jumis/) - Jumis is the Latvian god of the grain field, found in any stalk bearing two ears. Latvian farmers left him the last strip of rye, then caught and tied him.
- [Joukahainen](https://godsandmonsters.info/joukahainen/) - Joukahainen, the young Finnish singer of the Kalevala, challenged old Väinämöinen to a duel of spells, sank chin-deep in a swamp, and sold his sister to get out.
- [John the Baptist](https://godsandmonsters.info/john-the-baptist/) - John the Baptist is the greatest prophet of Mandaeism, revered as Yahia-Yuhana, and a major figure in Christianity and Islam. His Mandaean death is unlike any other.
- [John Henry](https://godsandmonsters.info/john-henry/) - John Henry, the steel-drivin' man of African American folklore, outdrilled a steam engine and died winning. Meet the convict labourer historians think he was.
- [Joe Magarac](https://godsandmonsters.info/joe-magarac/) - Joe Magarac, the steel-bodied steelworker of Pittsburgh folklore, stirred molten metal bare-handed and melted himself down. His surname means jackass.
- [Jarilo](https://godsandmonsters.info/jarilo/) - Jarilo is the Slavic god of spring and fertility, buried in straw every summer. His festivals are real. Whether he was ever a god at all is still argued.
- [Jaci](https://godsandmonsters.info/jaci/) - Jaci is the moon of Tupi and Amazonian myth, a goddess who takes girls into the sky as stars and made the giant water lily out of a drowned one.
- [Ixion](https://godsandmonsters.info/ixion/) - Ixion, king of the Lapiths in Greek myth, murdered his father-in-law and then reached for Hera, so Zeus bound him to a wheel that never stops turning.
- [Israfil](https://godsandmonsters.info/israfil/) - Israfil is the archangel of Islamic tradition who holds the trumpet whose blast ends the world, waiting with it at his lips for a command not yet given.
- [Iphigenia](https://godsandmonsters.info/iphigenia/) - Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon in Greek myth, was led to an altar at Aulis under the pretence of a wedding so that the fleet could sail for Troy.
- [Idun](https://godsandmonsters.info/idun/) - Idun is the Norse goddess whose ash-wood box holds the fruit that keeps the Aesir young. When a giant in eagle form stole her, the gods began to grey.
- [Iblis](https://godsandmonsters.info/iblis/) - Iblis is the devil of Islamic tradition, a jinn of fire who refused God's command to bow before Adam and won a reprieve until Judgment Day.
- [Höðr (Hodr)](https://godsandmonsters.info/hodr/) - Höðr is the blind Norse god who threw the mistletoe that killed his brother Baldr, guided by Loki, and who returns beside him after Ragnarök.
- [Hxub Niux](https://godsandmonsters.info/hxub-niux/) - Hxub Niux is the horned, rhinoceros-like beast of the Guizhou Miao creation songs who levered the mountains apart, opened the rivers, and hatched into Pangu.
- [Hiʻiaka](https://godsandmonsters.info/hiiaka/) - Hiʻiaka, Pele's youngest sister in Hawaiian mythology, is the goddess of hula, chant and healing who crossed the islands to fetch the chief Lohiʻau.
- [Hiranyakashipu](https://godsandmonsters.info/hiranyakashipu/) - Hiranyakashipu, the gold-clad Daitya king of Hindu myth, won a boon against every death he could name, then died in the one gap he had left open.
- [Hine-nui-te-pō (Hine-tītama)](https://godsandmonsters.info/hine-nui-te-po/) - Hine-nui-te-pō is the Māori goddess of death, born as the dawn maiden Hine-tītama. She rules Rarohenga and she is the reason Māui failed to end mortality.
- [Hera](https://godsandmonsters.info/hera/) - Hera is the Greek queen of the gods and goddess of marriage, the jealous wife of Zeus whose vengeance hunted his lovers and their children, including Heracles.
- [Athena](https://godsandmonsters.info/athena/) - Athena is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, strategic warfare, and craft, and the patron deity of Athens.
- [Agamemnon](https://godsandmonsters.info/agamemnon/) - Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, led the Greek forces at Troy but returned home to murder. Discover the cursed House of Atreus and the tragedy that followed.
- [Zeus](https://godsandmonsters.info/zeus/) - Zeus, the Greek sky god who overthrew his father Cronus, ruled Olympus by the thunderbolt, guarded oaths and guests, and still bowed to fate.
- [Varuna](https://godsandmonsters.info/varuna/) - Varuna is the Hindu Vedic god of cosmic order, oaths, oceans, and the western direction, armed with a binding noose.
- [Ushas](https://godsandmonsters.info/ushas/) - Ushas is the Vedic goddess of dawn, praised in more Rigvedic hymns than any other goddess and feared as the light that quietly wears mortal lives away.
- [Priam](https://godsandmonsters.info/priam/) - Priam, last king of Troy, crossed the battlefield at night to kiss the hands of the man who killed his son. He was named for a ransom and died buying one.
- [Paris (Alexandros)](https://godsandmonsters.info/paris-alexandros/) - Paris of Troy took Helen and killed Achilles with an arrow. Homer mentions his famous Judgement exactly once, and was not much interested in it.
- [Odysseus (Ulysses)](https://godsandmonsters.info/odysseus-ulysses/) - Odysseus, called Ulysses by the Romans, spent ten years taking Troy by trickery and ten more getting back to Ithaca, losing every man he sailed with.
- [Jupiter](https://godsandmonsters.info/jupiter/) - Jupiter, chief god of Rome, held the lightning, the auspices and every sworn oath, and no consul could march until his Alban festival had been completed.
- [Indra](https://godsandmonsters.info/indra/) - Indra is the Vedic king of the gods in Hindu mythology, wielder of the thunderbolt vajra who slew the drought-serpent Vritra to free the world's waters.
- [Helenus](https://godsandmonsters.info/helenus/) - Helenus, twin of Cassandra, prophesied as accurately as she did and was believed every time. Captured by Odysseus, he told the Greeks how to take Troy.
- [Helen](https://godsandmonsters.info/helen/) - Helen of Troy was the Spartan queen and daughter of Zeus whose beauty and flight to Troy with Paris launched the ten-year Trojan War of Greek myth.
- [Hecuba](https://godsandmonsters.info/hecuba/) - Hecuba, queen of Troy, survived the sack, lost every child she had, blinded the man who killed the last one, and was prophesied to end as a dog.
- [Hector](https://godsandmonsters.info/hector/) - Hector, prince of Troy, was the city's greatest warrior and noblest defender in Greek mythology. Killed by Achilles in the Iliad, his story remains one of myth's most human tragedies.
- [Eris](https://godsandmonsters.info/eris/) - Eris is the Greek goddess of discord who started the Trojan War with a quarrel, not an apple. Hesiod insisted there were two of her, and that one was good.
- [Cassandra](https://godsandmonsters.info/cassandra/) - Cassandra of Troy was given true prophecy by Apollo and cursed so that nobody would believe her. She foresaw the horse, the sack of the city and her own murder.
- [Aphrodite](https://godsandmonsters.info/aphrodite/) - Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty, and desire, born from sea foam off the coast of Cyprus.
- [Aeneas](https://godsandmonsters.info/aeneas/) - Aeneas is the Trojan hero of Roman myth who fled the ruins of Troy and fathered the Roman line.
- [Achilles](https://godsandmonsters.info/achilles/) - Achilles is the greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan War, hero of Homer's Iliad, killed by Paris's arrow to his heel.
- [Dyaus](https://godsandmonsters.info/dyaus/) - Dyaus Pita shares one inherited name with Zeus and Jupiter, the surest link in Indo-European myth. The Rigveda gives him no hymn of his own at all.
- [Dione](https://godsandmonsters.info/dione/) - Dione is Aphrodite's mother in Homer and nobody else, bears the feminine of Zeus's own name, and shared his oldest oracle at Dodona. The three facts do not fit.
- [Tiresias](https://godsandmonsters.info/tiresias/) - Tiresias, the blind prophet of Thebes, spent seven years as a woman, was blinded by two different goddesses depending on the source, and kept his mind after death.
- [Butterfly Mother (Mais Bangx)](https://godsandmonsters.info/butterfly-mother/) - Butterfly Mother, Mais Bangx of the Guizhou Miao, hatched from a felled sweet gum, laid twelve eggs and mothered humans, thunder, dragon and tiger alike.
- [Hibil Ziwa](https://godsandmonsters.info/hibil-ziwa/) - Hibil Ziwa is the radiant Mandaean uthra sent down into the World of Darkness, where he outwitted its kings, sealed their gates and came home unclean.
- [Herensuge](https://godsandmonsters.info/herensuge/) - Herensuge is the dragon of Basque folklore, a fire-breathing serpent of the mountain chasms whose seventh head sends it burning into the western sea.
- [Hel](https://godsandmonsters.info/hel/) - Hel, Loki's daughter in Norse mythology, rules the dead beneath Yggdrasil. Half living flesh, half corpse-blue, she alone could have given Baldr back.
- [He Xiangu](https://godsandmonsters.info/he-xiangu/) - He Xiangu is the only woman among China's Eight Immortals, a Tang maiden who ate powdered mica, refused to marry, and rose into the sky in daylight.
- [Hayagriva](https://godsandmonsters.info/hayagriva/) - Hayagriva is the horse-headed avatar of Vishnu in Hindu mythology, the god of knowledge who sang the stolen Vedas back out of the underworld to Brahma.
- [Hastur](https://godsandmonsters.info/hastur/) - Hastur began as Ambrose Bierce's kindly god of shepherds in 1891, then Chambers, Lovecraft and Derleth rebuilt him into an unnameable cosmic horror.
- [Haoma](https://godsandmonsters.info/haoma/) - Haoma is the Zoroastrian god of the sacred pressed plant, a golden-green divine priest whose bitter drink grants healing, strength and long life.
- [Hang Tuah](https://godsandmonsters.info/hang-tuah/) - Hang Tuah, the legendary admiral of Malacca, won the kris Taming Sari, killed his own sworn brother on his sultan's orders, and threw his luck in a river.
- [Guabancex](https://godsandmonsters.info/guabancex/) - Guabancex is the Taíno storm cemí of the Caribbean, a woman carved in stone whose rage sends the wind and the mountain flood through two servants.
- [Gráinne](https://godsandmonsters.info/grainne/) - Gráinne, daughter of High King Cormac mac Airt, drugged her own betrothal feast to escape Fionn mac Cumhaill in Irish mythology's greatest elopement.
- [Goatman](https://godsandmonsters.info/goatman/) - Goatman is the axe-carrying half-goat of Prince George's County, Maryland, a 1971 student folklore project that a newspaper turned into a state monster.
- [Giltinė](https://godsandmonsters.info/giltine/) - Giltinė is the Lithuanian goddess of death, a gaunt woman in white whose name means to sting. She kills by tongue, sting and scythe, and can be tricked.
- [Geshtinanna](https://godsandmonsters.info/geshtinanna/) - Geshtinanna is the Sumerian goddess who read her brother Dumuzi's death in a dream, kept the register of the dead, and served half his sentence below.
- [Ganymede](https://godsandmonsters.info/ganymede/) - Ganymede, the Trojan prince Zeus carried off to Olympus, became cupbearer to the gods and won deathless youth while his father was paid in divine horses.
- [Frigg](https://godsandmonsters.info/frigg/) - Frigg, the highest of the Norse goddesses and Odin's wife, knew every fate and never spoke one. She bound the world by oath to save Baldr, and missed the mistletoe.
- [Fouke Monster](https://godsandmonsters.info/fouke-monster/) - The Fouke Monster is Arkansas' Bigfoot, a seven-foot hairy biped that reportedly attacked a family near Boggy Creek in 1971 and launched a cult film.
- [Flora](https://godsandmonsters.info/flora/) - Flora, the Roman goddess of the flowering, held a temple by the Circus Maximus and a six-day festival of lamplight, hares and indecent mime: the Floralia.
- [Fereydun](https://godsandmonsters.info/fereydun/) - Fereydun, hero-king of Persian and Zoroastrian myth, hid from Zahhak as a child, then bound the serpent-king in Mount Damavand with an ox-headed mace.
- [Fer Díad](https://godsandmonsters.info/fer-diad/) - Fer Díad, the horn-skinned Connacht champion of Irish myth, was shamed into fighting his foster-brother Cú Chulainn at the ford, and died there.
- [Emela-Ntouka](https://godsandmonsters.info/emela-ntouka/) - Emela-Ntouka is a one-horned, elephant-sized cryptid of the Congo's Likouala swamps, first reported in 1954 and said to gore elephants without eating them.
- [Eguzkilore](https://godsandmonsters.info/eguzkilore/) - Eguzkilore, the Basque sun flower, is a dried carline thistle nailed to farmhouse doors to hold witches, storms and night spirits outside until dawn.
- [Dôn](https://godsandmonsters.info/don/) - Dôn is the Welsh ancestor figure behind the Children of Dôn, Gwydion and Arianrhod among them, named in every genealogy yet absent from every story.
- [Dumuzid](https://godsandmonsters.info/dumuzid/) - Dumuzid, the Sumerian shepherd god and husband of Inanna, was handed to the underworld's demons as her substitute and mourned across Mesopotamia for centuries.
- [Dover Demon](https://godsandmonsters.info/dover-demon/) - The Dover Demon was seen by four Massachusetts teenagers over 25 hours in April 1977: watermelon head, orange eyes, no face. Nobody has explained it since.
- [Donn Cúailnge (The Brown Bull of Cooley)](https://godsandmonsters.info/donn-cuailnge/) - Donn Cúailnge, the Brown Bull of Cooley, was the prize Queen Medb went to war for. A reborn swineherd who killed his rival bull and died of the wounds.
- [Deucalion](https://godsandmonsters.info/deucalion/) - Deucalion is the Greek flood survivor who rode out Zeus's deluge in a wooden chest and repopulated the earth by throwing stones over his shoulder.
- [Dede Korkut](https://godsandmonsters.info/dede-korkut/) - Dede Korkut, the grandfather-sage of Oghuz Turkish myth, named heroes, bargained with a one-eyed giant, and held death off with a kobyz until he slept.
- [Dazhbog](https://godsandmonsters.info/dazhbog/) - Dazhbog is the Slavic god raised on Vladimir's hill in Kyiv in 980, called the Sun, son of Svarog, and named ancestor of the Rus in the Igor Tale.
- [Damballa](https://godsandmonsters.info/damballa/) - Damballa is the great white serpent of Haitian Vodou, the oldest Rada lwa. He shaped the world with his coils, speaks only in hisses, and takes white offerings.
- [Daji](https://godsandmonsters.info/daji/) - Daji was the consort blamed for the fall of China's Shang dynasty, later recast in Chinese myth as a nine-tailed fox wearing a murdered girl's body.
- [Cthulhu](https://godsandmonsters.info/cthulhu/) - Cthulhu is H. P. Lovecraft's star-born god, a mountain-sized horror entombed in the sunken city of R'lyeh, dead and dreaming until the stars come right.
- [Coniraya](https://godsandmonsters.info/coniraya/) - Coniraya, the Incan trickster-creator of the Huarochirí Manuscript, built terraces in beggar's rags, chased Cavillaca to the sea and filled the ocean with fish.
- [Clytemnestra](https://godsandmonsters.info/clytemnestra/) - Clytemnestra, queen of Mycenae in Greek myth, avenged her daughter Iphigenia by trapping Agamemnon in a sewn-shut robe and killing him the day he came home.
- [Chử Đồng Tử](https://godsandmonsters.info/chu-dong-tu/) - Chử Đồng Tử, one of Vietnam's Four Immortals, was a naked fisherman who married a Hùng princess, raised a palace with a staff and hat, then rose to heaven.
- [Chi You](https://godsandmonsters.info/chi-you/) - Chi You, the bronze-headed rebel of Chinese myth, fought the Yellow Emperor at Zhuolu with fog and storm, and was worshipped afterward as a god of war.
- [Cherubim](https://godsandmonsters.info/cherubim/) - Cherubim are the winged guardians of Jewish and Christian myth, posted at Eden's gate with a sword of fire and hammered in gold over the Ark of the Covenant.
- [Chasca](https://godsandmonsters.info/chasca/) - Chasca is the Inca name for Venus, the morning star honoured as the sun's page and later written up as a dawn goddess who shook dew from her hair.
- [Catequil](https://godsandmonsters.info/catequil/) - Catequil is the Andean thunder god and oracle of Huamachuco, hatched from an egg, armed with a sling, and smashed by Atahualpa for telling the truth.
- [Brollachan](https://godsandmonsters.info/brollachan/) - The Brollachan of Scottish Highland folklore is a fuath's shapeless child, with eyes, a mouth and only two words of speech: myself and thyself.
- [Bres](https://godsandmonsters.info/bres/) - Bres, the beautiful half-Fomorian king of Irish myth, ruled the Tuatha Dé Danann so meanly that a poet's satire brought him down and cost him his crown.
- [Branwen](https://godsandmonsters.info/branwen/) - Branwen of Welsh myth was married to Ireland to make peace, beaten in a kitchen for three years, and tamed a starling to carry word home. It ended in ruin.
- [Bodb Derg](https://godsandmonsters.info/bodb-derg/) - Bodb Derg, son of the Dagda, was elected king of the Tuatha Dé Danann in Irish myth and ruled the sídhe from Slievenamon with a druid's wand.
- [Boann](https://godsandmonsters.info/boann/) - Boann is the Irish river goddess who broke the rule of Nechtan's forbidden well of wisdom. The flood that maimed and drowned her became the River Boyne.
- [Blue Men of the Minch](https://godsandmonsters.info/blue-men-of-the-minch/) - The Blue Men of the Minch are Scottish sea spirits who raise storms in the Hebrides and sink any ship whose skipper cannot finish their verse.
- [Bloody Mary](https://godsandmonsters.info/bloody-mary/) - Bloody Mary is the mirror ghost of American children's folklore, summoned by chanting her name in a dark bathroom. Here is where the ritual really came from.
- [Blodeuwedd](https://godsandmonsters.info/blodeuwedd/) - Blodeuwedd was conjured from oak, broom and meadowsweet to be a bride in Welsh myth, then turned into an owl for plotting her husband's murder.
- [Bia](https://godsandmonsters.info/bia/) - Bia is the Akan river god of Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire, the obedient son of Nyame who was tricked out of the fertile lands and left with the wild bush.
- [Benzaiten](https://godsandmonsters.info/benzaiten/) - Benzaiten is the Japanese goddess of water, music and wealth, a Buddhist import from Sarasvati who wears a white snake with an old man's face.
- [Beelzebub](https://godsandmonsters.info/beelzebub/) - Beelzebub, the Lord of the Flies, began as a Philistine oracle god at Ekron and became the prince of demons in Jewish and Christian tradition.
- [Batara Guru](https://godsandmonsters.info/batara-guru/) - Batara Guru is the four-armed, fanged ruler of the heavens in Indonesian mythology, a Javanese Shiva marked by curses whose every spoken word becomes fact.
- [Bao Si](https://godsandmonsters.info/bao-si/) - Bao Si, the unsmiling consort of King You, was born from dragon spittle in Chinese legend and blamed for 2,800 years for the fall of the Western Zhou.
- [Bangpūtys](https://godsandmonsters.info/bangputys/) - Bangpūtys is the Lithuanian storm god of the Curonian Lagoon, a vindictive Baltic deity who raised the north wind and capsized the boats of Nemunas fishermen.
- [Babaylan](https://godsandmonsters.info/babaylan/) - Babaylan were the spirit mediums and healers of the precolonial Philippines, mostly women, who spoke with the voice of the diwata and led revolts.
- [Babalú-Ayé](https://godsandmonsters.info/babalu-aye/) - Babalú-Ayé, the Yoruba orisha of smallpox and healing, whose true name Ṣọ̀pọ̀nná is never spoken and whose exile Cuban pilgrims still crawl to repeat.
- [Azrael](https://godsandmonsters.info/azrael/) - Azrael is the angel of death in Islamic tradition, a being of countless eyes who reads a falling leaf, takes every soul at its hour, and dies himself.
- [Azazel](https://godsandmonsters.info/azazel/) - Azazel is the desert power of Jewish myth who received the Yom Kippur scapegoat, taught men to forge swords, and was chained under rocks until judgement.
- [Auseklis](https://godsandmonsters.info/auseklis/) - Auseklis is the morning star of Latvian myth, betrothed to the Sun's daughter and robbed of her by the moon while he lay hidden below the horizon.
- [Atar](https://godsandmonsters.info/atar/) - Atar is the Zoroastrian fire yazata, son of Ahura Mazda. He speaks aloud in the Avesta, asks passers-by for firewood, and once backed down from a dragon.
- [Arianrhod](https://godsandmonsters.info/arianrhod/) - Arianrhod, the Welsh enchantress of the Mabinogi, laid three unbreakable curses on the son she refused to name, and left her name on a drowned fort.
- [Apsu](https://godsandmonsters.info/apsu/) - Apsu is the Mesopotamian god of the freshwater deep beneath the earth, killed in his sleep by Ea, who built his own house on the dead god's body.
- [Andriamahilala](https://godsandmonsters.info/andriamahilala/) - Andriamahilala, the first woman of Malagasy myth, asked for the moon's death: fade away and return whole. Her husband chose the banana, and humanity got his answer.
- [Amirani](https://godsandmonsters.info/amirani/) - Amirani is the chained hero of Georgian myth, a fire-bringer bound beneath the Caucasus whose dog gnaws his chain while smiths forge it whole again.
- [Ame-no-Uzume](https://godsandmonsters.info/ame-no-uzume/) - Ame-no-Uzume is the Japanese goddess whose stamping, indecent dance outside the Heavenly Rock Cave made eight hundred deities laugh and lured the sun back.
- [Alfred Bulltop Stormalong](https://godsandmonsters.info/alfred-bulltop-stormalong/) - Alfred Bulltop Stormalong is the giant sailor of American tall tales, a four-fathom bosun who knotted a kraken's arms and outran a steamship to his death.
- [Ajé](https://godsandmonsters.info/aje/) - Ajé is the Yoruba deity of money and profit, worshipped at a shrine inside Ile-Ife's oldest market and honoured on Mondays across Yorubaland.
- [Aino](https://godsandmonsters.info/aino/) - Aino, the maiden of Finland's Kalevala, was promised to old Väinämöinen by her brother. She walked into the sea instead, and came back as a fish.
- [Utgarda-Loki](https://godsandmonsters.info/utgarda-loki/) - Utgarda-Loki, the giant king of Norse myth, beat Thor without a blow: a drinking horn joined to the sea, and a cat that was the world serpent.
- [Tsukuyomi](https://godsandmonsters.info/tsukuyomi/) - Tsukuyomi is the Japanese moon god, born from Izanagi's right eye, who killed the food goddess Uke Mochi and split day from night forever after.
- [Tlaltecuhtli](https://godsandmonsters.info/tlaltecuhtli/) - Tlaltecuhtli is the Aztec earth deity whose dismembered body became the world. Discover the creation myth, the hunger for blood, and the Templo Mayor monolith.
- [Siv Yis](https://godsandmonsters.info/siv-yis/) - Siv Yis is the first shaman of Hmong tradition, a mortal armed by the creator Saub to fight the death deity Ntxwj Nyoog and heal the sick.
- [Sif](https://godsandmonsters.info/sif/) - Sif is the golden-haired Norse goddess and wife of Thor, whose stolen hair set the dwarves forging Mjöllnir, Gungnir and the treasures of the gods.
- [Saulė](https://godsandmonsters.info/saule/) - Saulė is the female sun of Latvian and Lithuanian myth, a golden farm mother who grows the rye, shelters orphans and ferries the dead past sunset.
- [Saub](https://godsandmonsters.info/saub/) - Saub is the kindly Hmong creator god who supplied the first seeds, told the flood survivors to marry, and gave the first shaman his healing power.
- [Rhitta Gawr](https://godsandmonsters.info/rhitta-gawr/) - Rhitta Gawr is the Welsh giant of Eryri who wove a mantle from the beards of conquered kings, then demanded King Arthur's and lost his skull for it.
- [Panhu](https://godsandmonsters.info/panhu/) - Panhu, the five-coloured dog of Chinese and Miao-Yao myth, took an enemy general's head, married a king's daughter, and fathered the twelve Yao clans.
- [Ntxwj Nyoog](https://godsandmonsters.info/ntxwj-nyoog/) - Ntxwj Nyoog is the Hmong ruler of heaven blamed for all illness and death, who judges the dead at his mountain gate and holds every human term of life.
- [Mímir](https://godsandmonsters.info/mimir/) - Mímir, the Norse keeper of the well beneath Yggdrasil, took Odin's eye as the price of one drink, then lost his head and carried on giving counsel anyway.
- [Miluotuo](https://godsandmonsters.info/miluotuo/) - Miluotuo, creator goddess of the Bunu Yao of Guangxi, woke inside a bronze drum, prised heaven from earth, and moulded the first people out of beeswax.
- [Mielikki](https://godsandmonsters.info/mielikki/) - Mielikki, the Mistress of the Forest in Finnish mythology, held the keys to Tapio's game-store and rocked the first bear to life on a pine bough.
- [Manco Cápac](https://godsandmonsters.info/manco-capac/) - Manco Cápac, the first Inca, came out of a cave or a lake with a rod of gold and founded Cuzco. Two rival origin myths, one contested founder.
- [Kalanoro](https://godsandmonsters.info/kalanoro/) - Kalanoro are the small, long-haired spirits of Malagasy belief. They haunt caves and rivers, dictate taboos in dreams, and can be bought as servants.
- [Jangx Vangb](https://godsandmonsters.info/jangx-vangb/) - Jangx Vangb is the first human of the Miao creation epics of Guizhou, hatched from one of Butterfly Mother's twelve eggs and brother to the Thunder God.
- [Jan Tregeagle](https://godsandmonsters.info/jan-tregeagle/) - Jan Tregeagle is the damned steward of Cornish folklore, summoned back from the grave and bound to bail Dozmary Pool with a broken limpet shell.
- [Jack the Giant Killer](https://godsandmonsters.info/jack-the-giant-killer/) - Jack the Giant Killer is the Cornish farm boy of English chapbook legend who trapped the giant Cormoran in a pit and never once beat a giant fairly.
- [Ix Chel](https://godsandmonsters.info/ix-chel/) - Ix Chel is the aged Maya goddess of childbirth, curing and rain, worshipped at Cozumel. She was never a moon goddess until a scholar made her one.
- [Idris Gawr](https://godsandmonsters.info/idris-gawr/) - Idris Gawr, the giant of Welsh folklore who used Cadair Idris as his chair, left a stone bed on its summit that gives sleepers poetry or madness.
- [Hymir](https://godsandmonsters.info/hymir/) - Hymir is the Norse giant whose ale cauldron Thor carried off, and whose fishing boat held the god when he hooked the Midgard Serpent on an ox head.
- [Hrungnir](https://godsandmonsters.info/hrungnir/) - Hrungnir was the strongest of the Norse jotnar, a giant with a head and heart of stone whose duel with Thor left a whetstone shard in the god's skull.
- [Gwydion](https://godsandmonsters.info/gwydion/) - Gwydion, the great magician of Welsh mythology, conjured armies from toadstools, made a woman from flowers, and gave his name to the Milky Way itself.
- [Gogmagog](https://godsandmonsters.info/gogmagog/) - Gogmagog is the giant of English legend, hurled from a cliff by Corineus when Brutus of Troy claimed Albion, and paraded through London as Gog and Magog.
- [Gabriel](https://godsandmonsters.info/gabriel/) - Gabriel, known as Jibril in Islam, is the messenger angel of Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition who explains visions and delivers revelation.
- [Cormoran](https://godsandmonsters.info/cormoran/) - Cormoran, the giant of St Michael's Mount in Cornish folklore, built his own island, kicked his wife into Chapel Rock, and fell into Jack's pit.
- [Chalchiuhtlicue](https://godsandmonsters.info/chalchiuhtlicue/) - Chalchiuhtlicue, the Aztec goddess of springs, rivers and the sea, ruled the world-age that drowned and washed every Nahua life from first bath to last.
- [Babe the Blue Ox](https://godsandmonsters.info/babe-the-blue-ox/) - Babe the Blue Ox, Paul Bunyan's giant companion in American logging folklore, hauled whole sections of forest and left hoofprints that became Minnesota's lakes.
- [Asmodeus](https://godsandmonsters.info/asmodeus/) - Asmodeus, the demon king of Jewish tradition, killed Sarah's seven husbands in the Book of Tobit, then outwitted King Solomon and stole his throne.
- [Tom Hickathrift](https://godsandmonsters.info/tom-hickathrift/) - Tom Hickathrift is the giant-killing carter of English Fenland folklore, who fought a marsh giant with a cartwheel and axletree to win the common land.
- [Jack o' Kent](https://godsandmonsters.info/jack-o-kent/) - Jack o' Kent is the cleric-wizard of the Welsh Marches who beat the Devil at every bargain, built a bridge overnight and split the hills of Gwent.
- [Tom Thumb](https://godsandmonsters.info/tom-thumb/) - Tom Thumb, the thumb-sized hero of English folklore, was born by Merlin's word, eaten by a cow, a giant and a fish, and knighted at King Arthur's court.
- [Wade](https://godsandmonsters.info/wade/) - Wade, or Wada, is a giant of English and Germanic legend: father of Wayland the Smith, owner of the lost boat Guingelot, and Chaucer's most baffling reference.
- [Balder](https://godsandmonsters.info/balder/) - Balder is the radiant Norse god of light and goodness, made invulnerable by his mother's oaths yet slain by a mistletoe dart, an omen of Ragnarök.
- [Vulcan](https://godsandmonsters.info/vulcan/) - Vulcan, the Roman god of destroying fire, was housed outside the city on purpose, given burned enemy weapons, and offered living animals in place of human lives.
- [Venus](https://godsandmonsters.info/venus/) - Venus, whose name is the Latin word for charm, had her first Roman temple built from adultery fines and became the private ancestress of the Julian family.
- [Neptune](https://godsandmonsters.info/neptune/) - Neptune, the Roman sea god, had one festival of leafy huts and hard drinking, two wave-goddesses for consorts, and a buried altar in the Circus Maximus.
- [Minerva](https://godsandmonsters.info/minerva/) - Minerva, Rome's goddess of skill, held the third shrine on the Capitol and the loyalty of every Roman trade, from dyers and shoemakers to surgeons and teachers.
- [Mercury](https://godsandmonsters.info/mercury/) - Mercury, the Roman god of trade, was asked by merchants to wash away their past lies and help them cheat the next buyer, and the Gauls worshipped him most of all.
- [Mars](https://godsandmonsters.info/mars/) - Mars, Rome's war god and the father of Romulus, was also the god a farmer begged for good weather and healthy flocks, and he had to be woken to fight.
- [Juno](https://godsandmonsters.info/juno/) - Juno, the Roman queen of the gods, owned the first day of every month, lived inside every Roman woman as her iuno, and changed sides at the fall of Veii.
- [Diana](https://godsandmonsters.info/diana/) - Diana, the Roman goddess of wild country and the moon, was served at Lake Nemi by a runaway slave who held the priesthood by killing the man before him.
- [Ceres](https://godsandmonsters.info/ceres/) - Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain, held twelve helper gods for the ploughing, a temple that housed the plebs' own archive, and a festival of burning foxes.
- [Leucrota](https://godsandmonsters.info/leucrota/) - Leucrota, also called the crocotta or corocotta, is a composite beast the size of an ass that mimics human voices to call victims by name and devour them alone.
- [Kirin](https://godsandmonsters.info/kirin/) - Kirin, the sacred beast of Japanese tradition, appears only under a just ruler. It crowns Nikkō's gate, signed Nobunaga's letters and named a giraffe.
- [Mushhushshu](https://godsandmonsters.info/mushhushshu/) - Mushhushshu is the composite serpent-dragon of ancient Mesopotamia, sacred attendant of the god Marduk and emblem of Babylon.
- [Shiryō](https://godsandmonsters.info/shiryo/) - Shiryō are the spirits of the dead in Japanese belief, feared for possession and curses, yet fed and mourned until they settle into ancestral spirits.
- [Shōjō](https://godsandmonsters.info/shojo/) - Shōjō, the red-haired sake-loving sea spirit of Japanese folklore, grew out of the Chinese xingxing and gave one honest wine seller a jar that never ran dry.
- [Sirin](https://godsandmonsters.info/sirin/) - Sirin is the paradise bird of Russian legend, a maiden-headed bird whose song from Eden makes men forget the world and follow her until they die.
- [Squonk](https://godsandmonsters.info/squonk/) - The squonk is Pennsylvania's weeping lumberwoods beast, so ashamed of its warty misfit skin that it dissolves into a puddle of tears when it is cornered.
- [Sprite](https://godsandmonsters.info/sprite/) - Sprite is English folklore's catch-all name for a small, bodiless fairy of air or water, a word for breath and spirit that only later grew wings.
- [Yakshi](https://godsandmonsters.info/yakshi/) - The Yakshi is a female nature spirit of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain tradition, carved grasping a flowering branch and feared on Kerala's lonely night roads.
- [Wulver](https://godsandmonsters.info/wulver/) - The Wulver is Shetland's gentle wolf-headed fisherman, described by Jessie Saxby in 1933 and built on a misread Norse place name meaning fairy hill.
- [Semele](https://godsandmonsters.info/semele/) - Semele, a Theban princess of Greek myth, asked Zeus to reveal his divinity and burned. Her unborn son Dionysus survived, sewn into his father's thigh.
- [Daedalus](https://godsandmonsters.info/daedalus/) - Daedalus, the master craftsman of Greek myth, built the Labyrinth for King Minos, murdered his gifted nephew, and made the wings that killed his son Icarus.
- [Icarus](https://godsandmonsters.info/icarus/) - Icarus, son of the craftsman Daedalus, escaped Crete on wings of feathers and wax, climbed too near the sun, and fell into the sea that still bears his name.
- [Zahhak](https://godsandmonsters.info/zahhak/) - Zahhak is the serpent-shouldered tyrant of Persian myth, a king who fed human brains to the snakes on his shoulders until Fereydun chained him under Damavand.
- [Buraq (Burak)](https://godsandmonsters.info/burak/) - Buraq, also spelled Burak, is the lightning-fast winged steed of Islamic tradition that carried Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and through the heavens.

## Categories

- [Monsters and Beasts](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/mostersandbeasts/)
- [Fairy Folk and Spirit Beings](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/fairyfolkspiritbeings/)
- [Gods and Deities](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/godsandeities/)
- [Undead/Cursed Beings](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/undeadcursedbeings/)
- [Shapeshifters](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/shapeshifters/)
- [Elementals](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/elementals/)
- [By Type](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/)
- [By Region](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/)
- [North America](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/america/northamerica/)
- [Mesoamerica and the Caribbean](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/america/mesoamerica/)
- [South America](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/america/southamerica/)
- [Northern Europe](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/europe/northerneurope/)
- [Central and Eastern Europe](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/europe/centraleasterneurope/)
- [Western Europe](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/europe/westerneurope/)
- [Asia](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/asia/)
- [Oceania](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/oceania/)
- [Africa](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/africa/)
- [Mesopotamia and Ancient Near East](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/mesopotamianeareast/)
- [Demons and Devils](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/demonsdevils/)
- [By Attribute](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byattribute/)
- [Has Photo](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byattribute/hasphoto/)
- [A](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/a/)
- [B](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/b/)
- [C](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/c/)
- [By Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/)
- [Abenaki Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/abenaki-mythology/)
- [Aboriginal Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/aboriginal-mythology/)
- [African Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/african-mythology/)
- [Afro-Colombian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/afro-colombian-mythology/)
- [Ainu Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/ainu-mythology/)
- [Akkadian/Assyrian/Babylonian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/akkadian-assyrian-babylonian-mythology/)
- [Albanian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/albanian-mythology/)
- [Alpine Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/alpine-mythology/)
- [Amazon Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/amazon-mythology/)
- [Andes Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/andes-mythology/)
- [Anglo-Saxon Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/anglo-saxon-mythology/)
- [Arabic Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/arabic-mythology/)
- [Argentinian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/argentinian-mythology/)
- [Armenian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/armenian-mythology/)
- [Azerbaijani Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/azerbaijani-mythology/)
- [Aztec Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/aztec-mythology/)
- [Balkan Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/balkan-mythology/)
- [Baltic Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/baltic-mythology/)
- [Basque Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/basque-mythology/)
- [Belgium Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/belgium-mythology/)
- [Bengali Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/bengali-mythology/)
- [Brazilian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/brazilian-mythology/)
- [Buddhist Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/buddhist-mythology/)
- [Cajun Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/cajun-mythology/)
- [Canaanite Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/canaanite-mythology/)
- [Cantabrian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/cantabrian-mythology/)
- [Caribbean Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/caribbean-mythology/)
- [Catalan Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/catalan-mythology/)
- [Celtic Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/celtic-mythology/)
- [Chamorro Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/chamorro-mythology/)
- [Chilean Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/chilean-mythology/)
- [Chilote Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/chilote-mythology/)
- [Chinese Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/chinese-mythology/)
- [Christian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/christian-mythology/)
- [Colombian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/colombian-mythology/)
- [Cyprian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/cyprian-mythology/)
- [Dutch Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/dutch-mythology/)
- [Egyptian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/egyptian-mythology/)
- [English Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/english-mythology/)
- [Etruscan Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/etruscan-mythology/)
- [European Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/european-mythology/)
- [Finnish Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/finnish-mythology/)
- [Frankish Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/frankish-mythology/)
- [French Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/french-mythology/)
- [Georgian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/georgian-mythology/)
- [Germanic Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/germanic-mythology/)
- [Ghanaian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/ghanaian-mythology/)
- [Global Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/global-mythology/)
- [Greek Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/greek-mythology/)
- [Guarani Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/guarani-mythology/)
- [Guyanese Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/guyanese-mythology/)
- [Hawaiian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/hawaiian-mythology/)
- [Himalayan Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/himalayan-mythology/)
- [Hindu Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/hindu-mythology/)
- [Hittite/Hurrian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/hittite-hurrian-mythology/)
- [Hungarian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/hungarian-mythology/)
- [Incan Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/incan-mythology/)
- [Indian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/indian-mythology/)
- [Indigenous South American Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/indigenous-south-american-mythology/)
- [Indonesian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/indonesian-mythology/)
- [Inuit Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/inuit-mythology/)
- [Islamic Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/islamic-mythology/)
- [Italian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/italian-mythology/)
- [Japanese Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/japanese-mythology/)
- [Jewish Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/jewish-mythology/)
- [Korean Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/korean-mythology/)
- [Latvian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/latvian-mythology/)
- [Literary Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/literary-mythology/)
- [Lithuanian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/lithuanian-mythology/)
- [Malaysian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/malaysian-mythology/)
- [Maltese Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/maltese-mythology/)
- [Mandaeist Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/mandaeist-mythology/)
- [Manx Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/manx-mythology/)
- [Maori Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/maori-mythology/)
- [Mapuche Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/mapuche-mythology/)
- [Mayan Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/mayan-mythology/)
- [Medieval Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/medieval-mythology/)
- [Meitei Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/meitei-mythology/)
- [Melanesian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/melanesian-mythology/)
- [Mesopotamian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/mesopotamian-mythology/)
- [Mexican Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/mexican-mythology/)
- [Mongolian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/mongolian-mythology/)
- [Native American Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/native-american-mythology/)
- [Native Brazilian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/native-brazilian-mythology/)
- [Native Caribbean Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/native-caribbean-mythology/)
- [Native Central American Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/native-central-american-mythology/)
- [Native Mexican Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/native-mexican-mythology/)
- [Norse Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/norse-mythology/)
- [Papua New Guinean Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/papua-new-guinean-mythology/)
- [Persian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/persian-mythology/)
- [Philippine Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/philippine-mythology/)
- [Polynesian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/polynesian-mythology/)
- [Portuguese Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/portuguese-mythology/)
- [Bulgarian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/bulgarian-mythology/)
- [Rapa Nui Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/rapa-nui-mythology/)
- [Roman Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/roman-mythology/)
- [Romanian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/romanian-mythology/)
- [Russian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/russian-mythology/)
- [Sardinian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/sardinian-mythology/)
- [Scandinavian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/scandinavian-mythology/)
- [Scottish Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/scottish-mythology/)
- [Siberian/Arctic Peoples' Mythologies](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/siberian-arctic-peoples-mythologies/)
- [Slavic Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/slavic-mythology/)
- [Slovenian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/slovenian-mythology/)
- [South American Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/south-american-mythology/)
- [Southeast Asian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/southeast-asian-mythology/)
- [Spanish Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/spanish-mythology/)
- [Sumerian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/sumerian-mythology/)
- [Swedish Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/swedish-mythology/)
- [Swiss Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/swiss-mythology/)
- [Taiwanese Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/taiwanese-mythology/)
- [Tatar Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/tatar-mythology/)
- [Thai Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/thai-mythology/)
- [Tibetan Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/tibetan-mythology/)
- [Trinidadian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/trinidadian-mythology/)
- [Turkish Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/turkish-mythology/)
- [Venezuelan Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/venezuelan-mythology/)
- [Vietnamese Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/vietnamese-mythology/)
- [Wendish Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/wendish-mythology/)
- [West African Mythologies](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/west-african-mythologies/)
- [Yazidi Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/yazidi-mythology/)
- [Yoruba Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/yoruba-mythology/)
- [Zoroastrian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/zoroastrian-mythology/)
- [Zulu Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/zulu-mythology/)
- [Mythology Introductions](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/mythology-introductions/)
- [X](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/x/)
- [D](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/d/)
- [E](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/e/)
- [F](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/f/)
- [G](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/g/)
- [H](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/h/)
- [I](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/i/)
- [J](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/j/)
- [K](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/k/)
- [L](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/l/)
- [M](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/m/)
- [N](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/n/)
- [O](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/o/)
- [P](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/p/)
- [Q](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/q/)
- [R](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/r/)
- [S](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/s/)
- [T](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/t/)
- [U](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/u/)
- [V](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/v/)
- [W](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/w/)
- [Y](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/y/)
- [Z](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/z/)
- [Welsh Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/welsh-mythology/)
- [Irish Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/irish-mythology/)
- [Heroes and Mortals](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/heroesmortals/)
- [Mythological Objects](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/mythologicalobjects/)
- [Mythological Places](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/mythologicalplaces/)
- [Facebook Featured](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/facebook-featured/)
- [Specials](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/specials/)
- [Future Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/future-mythology/)
- [Substack](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/substack/)
- [Indexes](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/indexes/)
- [Pinterest](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/pinterest/)
- [Gaming Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/gaming-mythology/)
- [Malagasy Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/malagasy-mythology/)
- [Mythological Tales](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/mythological-tales/)
- [2nd Round](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/2nd-round/)
- [North Africa](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/africa/north-africa/)
- [West Africa](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/africa/west-africa/)
- [Southern Africa](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/africa/southern-africa/)
- [Central Asia](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/asia/central-asia/)
- [East Asia](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/asia/east-asia/)
- [Himalayan Region](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/asia/himalayan-region/)
- [Northern Asia/Siberia](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/asia/northern-asia-siberia/)
- [South Asia](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/asia/south-asia/)
- [Southeast Asia](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/asia/southeast-asia/)
- [West Asia/Middle East](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/asia/west-asia-middle-east/)
- [Latest Gen](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/latest-gen/)
- [3rd Round](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/3rd-round/)
- [Book](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/)
- [Dogs](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/dogs/)
- [Cats](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/cats/)
- [Dragons](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/dragons/)
- [Snakes](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/snakes/)
- [Ghosts](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/ghosts/)
- [Undead](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/undead/)
- [Vampires](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/vampires/)
- [Shifters](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/shapeshifters-book/)
- [Fairy Folk](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/fairy-folk/)
- [Creation Gods](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/creation-gods/)
- [Evil Gods](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/evil-gods/)
- [Nature Spirits](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/nature-spirits/)
- [Modern Myths](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/modern-myths/)
- [Future Myths](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/future-myths/)
- [Heroes](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/heroes/)
- [Villains](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/villains/)
- [Devils](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/devils/)
- [Demons](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/demons/)
- [Bizarre](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/bizarre/)
- [Terrifying](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/terrifying/)
- [Birds](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/birds/)
- [Giants](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/giants/)
- [Horses](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/book/horses/)
- [Central Africa](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/africa/central-africa/)
- [East Africa](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/africa/east-africa/)
- [Bantu/Congo Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/bantu-congo-mythology/)
- [Ethiopian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/ethiopian-mythology/)
- [Nilotic Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/nilotic-mythology/)
- [Somali Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/somali-mythology/)
- [Berber/Amazigh Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/berber-amazigh-mythology/)
- [Nubian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/nubian-mythology/)
- [San/Bushmen Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/san-bushmen-mythology/)
- [Sotho-Tswana Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/sotho-tswana-mythology/)
- [Xhosa Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/xhosa-mythology/)
- [Dahomey/Fon/Ewe Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/dahomey-fon-ewe-mythology/)
- [Dogon Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/dogon-mythology/)
- [Mande Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/mande-mythology/)
- [America](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/america/)
- [Europe](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/europe/)
- [Icelandic Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/icelandic-mythology/)
- [Southern Europe](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/europe/southerneurope/)
- [Global](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/byregion/global/)
- [New](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/new/)
- [Ukrainian Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/ukrainian-mythology/)
- [Cryptids](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/cryptids/)
- [Urban Legends & Contemporary Folklore](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/urban-legends-contemporary-folklore/)
- [Articles](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/articles/)
- [Books](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/books/)
- [Africa](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/area-africa/)
- [Americas](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/area-americas/)
- [Asia](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/area-asia/)
- [Europe](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/area-europe/)
- [Near East](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/area-near-east/)
- [Oceania](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/area-oceania/)
- [Global](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/area-global/)
- [Latin American Folklore](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/latin-american-folklore/)
- [African American Folklore](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/african-american-folklore/) - The folklore of the African diaspora in the United States: the Br’er Rabbit trickster cycle, Gullah spirit belief, hoodoo, and the tall-tale heroes.
- [Romani Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/romani-mythology/) - The folklore and supernatural belief of the Romani people: the mullo, o Beng, the chovihani, and the spirits of the road.
- [Miao-Yao Mythology](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bymythology/miao-yao-mythology/) - Myths of the Miao (Hmong, Hmu, Qo Xiong, A-Hmao) and Yao (Iu Mien, Bunu) peoples of southern China and mainland Southeast Asia.
- [Ceremonies and Rites](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/ceremonies-and-rites/)
- [Events and Tales](https://godsandmonsters.info/category/bytype/events-and-tales/)