Ancient
Anila
Anila (Sanskrit: अनिल, Anila) is one of the Vasus in Hinduism, an elemental attendant deity associated with the wind/air element and often identified as a form or aspect of the wind god Vayu when counted among the Vasus.
Entity Index
A record of the unseen, drawn from world folklore.
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Animal Man
A fictional comic-book character (Bernard "Buddy" Baker) who gains the ability to temporarily borrow the abilities of animals. Originating in 1965 as a costumed superhero, later reinterpretations (notably in the Vertigo imprint) recast him as an animal-linked avatar or elemental tied to an animal life force called the "Red."
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Anippe
Anippe (Ancient Greek: Ἀνίππης) is a river-nymph (naiad) in Greek mythology, described in mythographic sources as a daughter of the river-god Nilus and as the mother of the Egyptian king Busiris by the god Poseidon. She is attested primarily as a genealogical figure tying Egyptian place-figures into Greek divine genealogy.
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Aniruddha
Aniruddha is a mythological Vrishni prince and warrior in Hindu narrative (notably the Bhagavata Purāṇa), grandson of Kṛṣṇa and Rukmiṇī, son of Pradyumna and Rukmavatī. He is portrayed as a dynastic hero (a mahārathi), participant in the Uṣā–Bāṇāsura episode, father of Vajra, and—in certain Vaiṣṇava theological schemes—counted among the catur-vyūha and associated with the boar (Varāha) theriomorph.
Minor Spirit
Anit
The string "Anit" appears in the consulted sources as a modern personal name, acronym/technical term, and occasional orthographic variant; the dataset contains no coherent folkloric entity named "Anit." The only mythic figure in the corpus with a vaguely similar spelling is the Egyptian minor goddess Iunit (also spelled Iunet), 'She of Armant,' consort of Montu — an identification with "Anit" is uncertain in the sources.
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Anito
Anito is a category of non‑human and post‑human spiritual beings in indigenous Philippine animistic worldviews, encompassing ancestor spirits, nature spirits/local deities, and sometimes carved effigies (taotao) that house or represent those spirits. They mediate relations between the living and the unseen world, functioning as household guardians, owners of places, intercessors, or occasional agents of harm when offended.
Primordial
Anius
Mortal king and priest of Apollo in Greek mythology, with significant spiritual roles. (Note: * Power tier: Lower than Primordial; considering Anius is described as a mortal king and priest, a more accurate power tier would be Greater or at least Ancient, but likely not Primordial. * Abilities)
Minor Spirit
Anjana
Anjanas are benevolent female fairy beings in Cantabrian popular belief who protect forests, springs, animals and people, aid the poor and lost, leave gifts for the generous, and oppose the hostile Ojáncanu. Oral tradition presents them either as heavenly agents sent by God with a limited earthly term or as spirits of trees who care for the woodland.
Ancient
Anjea
Anjea is an Australian Aboriginal fertility spirit described as the custodian of human souls between incarnations who fashions new human bodies from earth and returns them to mothers. She is attested in secondary sources summarizing Aboriginal mythology as a figure linking death, the interval between lives, and rebirth.
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Ankalamma (Angala Paramesvari)
Ankalamma (also Angala Paramesvari) is a village mother‑goddess and guardian deity (kaval deivam) of South India, venerated in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu. She is associated with territorial protection, sacred groves, and liminal mortuary spaces (graves and cremation), and is often syncretized with Parvati, Kali, or counted among the Matrikas.
Primordial
Ankh
A symbol representing life in ancient Egyptian cosmology, often associated with eternal life and resurrection. (Note: - Power tier should be Ancient (not Primordial), as it's a symbol representing concepts in ancient Egyptian cosmology. - Abilities description is too vague; consider specifying how the Ankh affects or)
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Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu i
Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu i (Egyptian: ꜥnḫ-f-n-ḫnsw) was a historical Theban priest of the god Montu who lived in the late Third Intermediate to early Late Period (late 25th–early 26th Dynasty, c. 725 BCE). He is chiefly known as the dedicant of a painted wooden offering stele (Cairo A 9422, formerly Bulaq 666) made to guarantee his continued existence in the netherworld. In modern esoteric reception his name and stele were reinterpreted and adopted by Thelemic authors such as Aleister Crowley as a magical signature and symbol (the so-called "Stele of Revealing").
Greater
Ankou
The Breton personification of death — the last person to die in a parish each year who drives a creaking cart collecting the dead, whose appearance or sound presages death.
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Anna Perenna
Anna Perenna is a minor Roman deity of the circle/wheel of the year (Perenna, 'per annum'), venerated in popular plebeian cult for the completion and renewal of the year and for longevity. Her festival falls on the Ides of March and was celebrated at a grove by the first milestone of the Via Flaminia and at a fountain (Fons Annae Perennae) in Rome; literary tradition also links her to the sister of Dido transformed into a perennial stream.
Minor Spirit
Annapoorna
No documentary evidence in the supplied sources identifies Annapoorna/Annapurna as a supernatural entity. The name appears in the provided material as a Himalayan massif and as the name-label of an Odia-language author; no folkloric description, abilities, rituals, or related beings are attested in the available corpus.
Ancient
Annapurna
Annapūrṇā is a Hindu goddess, a manifestation of Parvati who presides over food, feeding, and nourishment. She is venerated in temple cults (notably in Varanasi) and in textual traditions that praise annadāna (the donation of food) and invoke her through stotras and name-lists.
Ancient
Annapurna Devi Mata
Annapurna (Annapūrṇā, Annada, Annapurneshwari) is a Hindu manifestation of the goddess Parvati who sacralizes food, feeding, and nourishment. She is venerated in temple and household cults (notably the Annapurna Devi Mandir in Varanasi) and is the focus of stotras, aarti, sahasranama, and the festival Annapurna Jayanti.
Minor Spirit
Annas (Ananus)
Annas (Hebrew Ḥānān; Greek Ἅννας) was a first-century CE Jewish high priest of Judaea (AD 6–15) whose familial network and continued influence made him a central figure in priestly leadership in Jerusalem and in New Testament narratives of the Passion and early Christian episodes.
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Annatar
Annatar is an assumed persona used by the malignant Maia later known as Sauron, who presented himself to the Elves of Eregion as a fair, elflike teacher of ring‑craft and jewelry. The name (Quenya, glossed 'Lord of Gifts') functioned rhetorically to gain trust while concealing the being's true aim to dominate through the Rings of Power.
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Anne Weying
Anne Weying is a human legal professional in Marvel Comics and in Sony's Spider-Man Universe films who, on rare occasions, becomes a temporary host for the alien Venom symbiote and assumes the narrative identity "She-Venom." Her bonded episodes grant her the abilities associated with Venom but are depicted in the cited sources as temporary narrative events rather than a separate folkloric species.
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Annea Clivana
Annea Clivana was a goddess or female spirit worshipped in Canale in Veneto within the territory of the Cenomani Celts in Italy. Roman observers or later compilers identified her with the Roman goddess Juno, and she is attested as being portrayed in the company of a genius loci, indicating a localized, place‑centered cult.
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Annie Christmas
Annie Christmas is a tall-tale character from Louisiana folklore, portrayed as a supernaturally strong keelboat (flatboat) captain who in many collected versions is an African-American woman. She functions as a folk-heroic exemplar of exceptional strength, seamanship, and defiance of conventional gender roles within Southern U.S. tall-tale tradition.
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Annihilation Wave
A vast, organized invading force in Marvel Comics introduced in the 2006 Annihilation crossover, portrayed as fleets of insectoid starships and monstrous combatants led by the villain Annihilus. It operates as a cosmic-scale military campaign that invades and devastates planets and forces disparate factions to form coalitions in response.
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Annihilus
Annihilus is a sentient warlord and sovereign of the Negative Zone within Marvel Comics continuity. Portrayed as a tyrant commanding the Annihilation Wave and wielding the Cosmic Control Rod, he repeatedly mounts cross-dimensional invasions and serves as a recurring cosmic antagonist in multiple storylines, including the Annihilation event.
Minor Spirit
Annona
Annona is a botanical genus of tropical trees and shrubs in the family Annonaceae, known for edible syncarp fruits (custard-apple, soursop, cherimoya, pawpaw) and for containing neurotoxic acetogenins in some species. The supplied sources document Annona as a plant genus and do not support treatment of Annona as a mythological or supernatural being.
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Annowre (Elergia)
Annowre (also rendered Anouwre; Elergia in Italian La Tavola Ritonda) is a malignant enchantress in medieval Arthurian romance who attempts to seduce and bewitch King Arthur, typically through an enchanted ring and an entrapping tower or castle; she is ultimately overthrown and beheaded, her head displayed as proof of victory.
Ancient
Annunitum
Annunitum is a Mesopotamian warlike goddess who developed from an epithet of Ishtar (Ishtar of Akkad/Ulmaš) into an independently venerated theonym. She functioned as a tutelary and martial deity in cities such as Akkad and Sippar‑Amnanum, appears in temple and royal inscriptions, and is attested in an astral role naming part of the constellation Pisces.
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Anog Ite
In Lakota mythology, Anog Ite is a complex entity associated with emotional pain and chaos. She is punished for attempting to disrupt balance. (Note: 1. Power tier should be revised based on the entity's abilities described in the source material (Primordial=cosmic, Ancient=deity-level, Greater=powerful regional, Lesser=local spirit, Minor Spirit=w)
Lesser
Anogon
Anogon (Ancient Greek: Ἀνώγων), also called Anaxias, is a minor figure in Greek myth attested as a son of Castor (one of the Dioscuri) and Hilaeira, daughter of Leucippus of Messenia. He appears in genealogical notices that connect the Dioscuri to local heroic families rather than in independent narrative cycles.
Greater
Anput
Anput (jnpwt) is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated with funerary rites, mummification, and protection of the dead. She is attested in the Pyramid Texts and in Egyptian onomastics as the feminine counterpart/consort of Anubis and as a local goddess of the seventeenth nome of Upper Egypt.
Greater
Anqa (ʿanqāʾ)
A singular, marvelous female bird of pre-Islamic and medieval Arab cosmography, the Anqa is described in medieval sources as a remote, extremely long‑lived composite bird associated with wisdom, liminal places (the setting sun, Mount Qaf), and ambivalent moral meanings that range from perfection to calamity.
Primordial
Anshar
Anshar is a Mesopotamian primordial deity whose name (Cuneiform AN.ŠÁR) literally means "whole sky" or "the whole heaven." He functions as an abstract ancestral figure in theogonic genealogies (not actively worshiped as a regular cult deity) and appears in literary contexts—most notably the Enūma Eliš—and in god lists where he legitimizes later supreme gods.
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Ant-Man (Scott Lang)
Scott Lang is a human who assumed the Ant-Man mantle in Marvel Comics and related media. As Ant-Man he uses technology—most notably a size-changing method (historically shrinking gas/pills, later Pym Particles) and a helmet that permits control or coordination of ants—to act as a crimefighter and team member in Marvel narratives.
Primordial
Antaboga
Antaboga is a primordial serpent deity in Javanese and Sundanese traditional beliefs, later incorporated into Balinese Hinduism. Portrayed as an original creative being, Antaboga meditates and brings forth the world turtle Bedawang and other divine figures; its image appears widely in Javanese and Balinese ritual ornament and iconography.
Greater
Antaeus
Antaeus (Greek: Ἀνταῖος; Berber: Anti) is a mythic giant of Greek and Berber narrative worlds, son of Poseidon and Gaia, whose invulnerability derives from direct contact with the earth. Found in accounts placing him in the interior of Libya or in local North African memory, he challenges travelers to wrestling matches and is defeated by Heracles when lifted off the ground and crushed.
Lesser
Antaios / Antaeus (tradition)
Antaios (Greek Antaeus; Berber Anti) is a polyvalent name attested as (a) a mythic Berber/Greek figure famed for his wrestling encounter and defeat by Heracles, (b) a Hellenized rendering of an obscure archaic Egyptian deity called Antiwy/Antwey often depicted as paired falcons in early iconography, and (c) a modern German cultural magazine and publisher imprint; the provided sources treat these as distinct referents that share a common name rather than a single coherent supernatural being.
Lesser
Anteater (tradition)
In the provided sources, 'Anteater' refers to the real-world mammals of the suborder Vermilingua and to modern cultural/technical items named after that animal (games, software, student media). There is no documentation in these materials of an anteater as a supernatural entity within a traditional cosmology.
Lesser
Antenor
Antenor is a Trojan elder and counsellor in the epic tradition of the Trojan War. Portrayed in Homeric passages and later literature as a prudent diplomat and host, he advocates negotiation (notably advising the return of Helen) and participates in Trojan public councils and hospitable rites.
Primordial
Antero Vipunen
A giant in Finnish mythology with valuable spells and knowledge, possibly associated with underworldly powers. (Note: * Power tier should be Ancient (deity-level) due to possessing "very valuable spells and knowledge", which suggests immense magical power but not necessarily cosmic-level. * Appearance should clarify )
Lesser
Anteros
Anteros is a minor Greek divine personification of requited or returned love, presented in classical sources as the counterpart and companion of Eros and as an avenger of scorned or unreciprocated affection. He appears both in mythic accounts within Aphrodite's retinue and in at least one civic cultic commemoration in Athens.
Lesser
Antevorta
Antevorta is a minor Roman goddess associated with the future and with protection in childbirth. She appears in classical sources as one of the Carmentae or as a companion/aspect of Carmenta, invoked (with her paired figure Postverta) at altars in Rome by pregnant women to avert dangers in labor.
Lesser
Anthelea
Anthelea (Ancient Greek: Ἀνθήλεια) is a named figure in Greek myth listed among the Danaïdes. Surviving references record her parentage (daughter of Danaus and Polyxo) and that she married Cisseus, son of Aegyptus and Caliadne; no independent deeds, powers, appearance, or cult are attested in the cited sources.
Minor Spirit
Antheus
Antheus (Ancient Greek: Ἀνθεύς, from ἀνθέω 'to blossom') is a personal name occurring in multiple independent ancient Greek mythic attestations. It is borne by several mortal figures — soldiers, youths, and genealogical persons — and also appears as an epithet/surname of the god Dionysus (Anthea, Achaea), linking the name to vegetative imagery rather than to a single supernatural being.
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Anthony the Great
Anthony the Great (Antony) was an Egyptian Christian monk and ascetic (c. 251–356) whose life, as recorded by Athanasius and later commemorations, made him the exemplar 'Father of All Monks.' His biography frames ascetic practices and persistent prayer as the means by which he endured demonic temptations and guided later monastic communities.
Minor Spirit
Anthousa, Xanthousa, Chrisomalousa
Anthousa, Xanthousa, Chrisomalousa is the heroine of a Greek fairy tale collected by Georgios A. Megas and recorded in modern folkloristic anthologies; the compound name functions as a personal name with descriptive epithets meaning roughly "Anthousa the Fair, the Blond, the Golden-Haired" and the story is classed within the Rapunzel/maiden-in-the-tower cycle in comparative commentary.
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Anthracia
Anthracia (Ancient Greek: Ἀνθρακία / Anthrakia) is an Arcadian nymph of Mount Lycaeus in Greek myth, named among a group of local nurse-nymphs who tended the infant Zeus. She is attested in ancient cultural contexts by cultic representation, notably depicted holding a torch on a table at a temple in Megalopolis.
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Anthropomorphic Personification
A representational class in which abstractions, forces, objects, animals, or collective entities are depicted as persons with human form, agency, and social roles. Treated variably as rhetorical/metaphorical devices, ritual actors, civic symbols, or — in some modern fictions — as ontologically manifested beings.
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Anthropophage
A literary-mythical category of peoples described as cannibals in classical, medieval and later European literature and reference works. Originating in ancient ethnographic reports and transformed through compilations of marvels, the Anthropophage functions as an imaginative type marking exotic or monstrous others rather than a documented historical tribe.
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Anthus
Anthus (Greek Ἄνθος, 'flower, bloom') is a name applied to more than one mortal figure in ancient Greek myth whose misfortunes are remembered by their metamorphosis into birds; in one tradition Zeus and Apollo transform Anthus and his kin into birds, and the transformed bird called 'anthus' is said to mimic a horse's neigh while fleeing from horses. Another Anthus is an Anthedon youth who is lost in childhood and later recognized by his brother after serving as a cup-bearer.
Ancient
Anti-Monitor
A fictional cosmic antagonist from DC Comics: an anti-matter–aligned multiversal being whose actions can destroy positive-matter universes and who serves as the cosmic opposite of the Monitor.
Greater
Anti-Venom
Anti-Venom is a fictional symbiotic life-form appearing in Marvel Comics. A member of the alien Symbiote race, Anti‑Venom bonds with human hosts (notably Eddie Brock and Flash Thompson in different storylines) to form a hybrid being with enhanced physical abilities and narrative powers described as curative against symbiote-related afflictions.
Lesser
Antianeira
Antianeira (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιάνειρα, lit. 'a match for men') is a personal name borne by several mortal women in Greek mythic tradition. The name appears in variant genealogical and heroic contexts: as a possible mother of the Argonaut Idmon (in a tradition naming Apollo as father), as mother of the Argonauts Eurytus and Echion in other listings, and as an Amazon (also spelled Antianara) who in some accounts succeeds Penthesilea as queen and fights at Troy.
Lesser
Antianeira of Argos
Antianeira (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιάνειρα, Antiáneira) is a mortal woman of Argos named in Greek epic catalogue material as the mother of the Argonaut Idmon in some traditions, with Apollo given as the father in those lines. She functions as a genealogical marker linking a hero to place (Argos; the river Amphryssos in the Orphic line) rather than as a supernatural figure.
Greater
Antichrist
An eschatological oppositional figure in Christian tradition who opposes Jesus Christ and may appear either as a present spirit or as a single climactic deceiver before the Second Coming. The term functions both as a category of false teachers and as a particular latter‑day 'lawless one' identified with apocalyptic images in Daniel, Paul, and Revelation.
Minor Spirit
Anticlea
Anticlea (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίκλεια) is a figure of Greek myth best known as the mother of Odysseus and former queen of Ithaca who appears as a speaking shade in Odysseus’ katabasis to the underworld (Odyssey, Book XI). In Homeric tradition she exemplifies the category of deceased human spirits who can converse with the living under ritualized conditions but are incorporeal and cannot be physically embraced.
Lesser
Anticlus
Anticlus (Ancient Greek: Ἄντικλος) is a named mortal Greek warrior of the epic Trojan cycle who hid inside the wooden horse at Troy. He is chiefly remembered for nearly revealing the concealed Greeks when Helen imitated the voice of his wife, and for being physically restrained by Odysseus to prevent detection.
Minor Spirit
Anties
Anties is not a documented supernatural being in the supplied sources; the string appears primarily as a personal name (Antie) in Dutch and early American records and as a lexical element in modern titles and technical names. No coherent folkloric characteristics, rituals, or cosmology are attested in the provided material.
Lesser
Antigone (daughter of Laomedon)
Antigone is a Trojan princess in Latin literary tradition who, according to a small set of ancient sources, incurred Hera's wrath and was transformed by the gods into a stork (or related crane/stork bird). Her tale functions as a metamorphosis aetiology explaining a bird's enmity to snakes and as a moral exemplar of hubris toward the gods. The story survives mainly in Latin authors (notably Ovid) and later scholiasts and mythographers and exists in several variant forms.
Lesser
Antilochus
Antilochus is a princely warrior of Pylos in the Homeric epic tradition, son of Nestor and a youthful Achaean fighter at Troy. He is famed for his swiftness, beauty, charioteering skill, close companionship with Achilles, role in the funeral games for Patroclus, and for dying in later epic-cycle accounts while saving his father.
Minor Spirit
Antimache
Antimache (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιμάχη) is a mortal figure in Greek mythic genealogy—the wife of King Eurystheus of Tiryns (sometimes associated with Mycenae) and mother of his children. She is known from genealogical lists and post-Herculean narratives that link Eurystheus' household to Arcadian lineages and to conflicts following the Labors of Heracles.