Entity Index

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Aymara people (tradition)

Aymara people (tradition)

Aymara cultural and ritual traditions of the high Andean Altiplano centering on long-term place-based continuity (Lake Titicaca, Tiwanaku), ancestor mortuary practices (chullpas), oral and musical repertoires, and distinctive linguistic cosmologies that shape how the community apprehends time, space, and relations with powerful places. The supplied sources do not record a single named supernatural entity; this entry documents the ethnographic and cosmological context relevant to Aymara beliefs about ancestors, sacred places, and ritual practice.

Ayyappan

Ayyappan

Ayyappan is a Hindu deity venerated as a youthful warrior-yogi and protector of dharma, prominent in Malayalam folklore and centered on the Sabarimala pilgrimage. He is traditionally described as born of Shiva and Mohini (the female avatar of Vishnu) and functions as a reconciliatory figure between Shaiva and Vaishnava traditions.

Ayyur

Ayyur

The string 'Ayyur' (also attested as Ayur, Ayoor) appears in the supplied sources only as a toponym and as part of bibliographic or archival titles; the provided materials contain no evidence that Ayyur is a mythological or supernatural entity.

Az (unattested as distinct demon)

Az (unattested as distinct demon)

No supplied sources attest a distinct folkloric or mythological entity named 'Az'. The available materials only provide general background on 'demons' as a category and on Zoroastrian daevas; any association of the name 'Az' with a specific supernatural being is not supported by the provided corpus.

Azadeh

Azadeh

Azadeh (Persian: آزاده) is a Persian female given name meaning broadly 'free' or 'free-minded'; some sources also gloss it as 'someone noble'. The name appears in modern Iranian usage (borne by several contemporary public figures) and as the name of a character in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. It is a personal name rather than a supernatural being in the provided sources.

Azan

Azan

No mythological or folkloric information about an entity named 'Azan' is present in the supplied sources. The string 'Azan' appears in the provided materials primarily as an alternate spelling of the Islamic Adhan (call to prayer) and in modern media titles; there is no documented mythic persona, attributes, or traditions available in these sources.

Azariah

Azariah

Azariah (Hebrew: עֲזַרְיָה ‘Ǎzaryāh, 'Yah has helped') is principally a theophoric Hebrew personal name borne by multiple figures in biblical, apocryphal, and modern contexts. In the provided sources it appears as the name of a prophet in 2 Chronicles 15:1–8, as an alias used by the archangel Raphael in the Book of Tobit, as a guardian-angel name in modern private revelation, and as the name of various priests, kings, and later individuals.

Azariah IV

Azariah IV

Azariah IV is presented in the supplied materials as a label applied to a biblical/historical person bearing the theophoric name Azariah (Hebrew Azaryah/Azari'ah). The sources do not treat Azariah IV as a supernatural being; rather, Azariah is one of several individuals named in Israelite genealogies, priestly lists, and prophetic narratives (e.g., 1 Chronicles 6; prophetic episode with King Asa).

Azatiwada

Azatiwada

Azatiwada was a historical late-Hittite (Neo-Hittite) dynast — a local ruler of the Karatepe (Karatepe-Aslantas) fortress in Cilicia whose bilingual Phoenician–Luwian inscription (the Karatepe or Azatiwada inscription) records building works, dedications, and administrative/ritual formulae.

Azazel

Azazel

In earliest biblical usage Azazel is a ritual locus or destination in the Yom Kippur scapegoat rite to which communal sins are sent; in later Second Temple and subsequent Christian and Islamic receptions Azazel becomes personified as a fallen angel associated with rebellion and the transmission of forbidden knowledge to humans.

Azazil

Azazil

Azazil (Arabic: ʿAzāzīl; also recorded as Ḥārith) is the pre-fall name or identity in Islamic tradition of the being later identified as Iblis. In exegetical and mystical literature he appears as a high-ranking celestial figure—variously described as leader of angels or as of jinnly origin—whose prideful refusal to obey God's command to prostrate before the newly created human results in his expulsion and permanent damnation as Iblis.

Azeus

Azeus

Azeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀζεύς; also Aezeius Ἀζειός) is a mortal figure in Greek mythic genealogies, identified as a Minyan prince of Orchomenus. He is recorded as the youngest son of King Clymenus and as a participant in a vengeance expedition against Thebes; through his descendants he is an ancestor of leaders who fought at Troy.

Azhdaha (Aždahā)

Azhdaha (Aždahā)

Azhdaha (also Aždahā) is a serpentine/draconic monster in Persian literary and folkloric tradition, depicted as a gigantic, often dangerous creature that may inhabit air, sea, or land and appears in epic and cosmological texts.

Azhdahak

Azhdahak

Azhdahak (Old Armenian Աժդահակ, also spelled Ashdahak) is the Armenian form of the Avestan figure Azhi Dahaka. In Armenian reception the name refers to the same mythic adversary of Iranian tradition — an imprisoned serpent/dragon-type antagonist who, in Iranian accounts cited by Armenian sources, is bound (on Mount Damavand) and destined to break out at the end of time before being finally defeated.

Azimua

Azimua

Azimua (earlier Ninazimua) is a Mesopotamian goddess attested from the Ur III period onward, primarily known as the wife/consort of the god Ningishzida and in some traditions functioning as an underworld-associated figure or scribe. She was worshiped in southern Mesopotamia (notably Ur and Umma) and appears in a fragmentary myth, Ningishzida and Ninazimua, which concerns an exchange of messages with her temporarily deceased husband.

Aziza

Aziza

In West African traditional belief the Aziza are a beneficent class of small, forest-dwelling supernatural beings who aid people—especially hunters—by providing 'good magic' and practical and spiritual knowledge. They are associated with anthills and silk‑cotton (kapok) trees and are portrayed as helpful rather than hostile.

Azovka (Azov Girl)

Azovka (Azov Girl)

Azovka, often called the Azov Girl in English summaries, is a female supernatural figure named in Pavel Bazhov’s Ural skaz tale "Beloved Name." The supplied sources identify her as a character from Ural-region folklore as represented in Bazhov’s miners’ tales but provide no detailed description or independent folkloric tradition beyond that tale reference.

Azrael

Azrael

Azrael is the canonical angel of death in Islamic tradition and appears earlier in apocryphal Christian literature; portrayed as a high‑ranking, God‑ordained psychopomp who removes and transports souls, keeps a register of human fates, and acts only under divine command. In some extra‑Quranic and exegetical accounts he is depicted with vast, awe‑inspiring physical attributes and in a few apocryphal Christian texts he is associated with punitive afterlife functions.

Aztec Creator-Brothers

Aztec Creator-Brothers

A quaternity of primordial divine offspring in Aztec (Mexica) myth who dwell in the highest heaven Ilhuicatl-Omeyocan as children of Omecihuatl and Ometecuhtli. Identified in sources with fourfold aspects (conventionally four Tezcatlipocas / colored aspects such as Black, Red, White, Blue) they act as cosmological agents who create living beings, take turns ruling as the Sun in successive world-ages, and participate in sacrificial acts that sustain cosmic cycles.

Azukiarai

Azukiarai

Azukiarai is a Japanese folkloric phenomenon — a yokai-associated auditory apparition characterized by the uncanny sound of azuki (red) beans being washed or ground near water. In stories the sound can lure listeners toward rivers or ponds; accounts vary between treating it as an unseen spirit, a grotesque short humanlike yokai, or the misattributed noise of trickster animals such as tanuki or weasels.

Azukibabaa

Azukibabaa

Azukibabaa (あずきばばあ, "bean hag") is a Japanese yōkai represented as an old-woman figure whose presence is signaled by the sound of azuki beans being handled (azukiarai). Found in regional folk narratives around Kantō and nearby prefectures, she lures or unnerves night travelers and in some localities is said to scoop up or swallow passersby.

Azukihakari

Azukihakari

Azukihakari (小豆はかり) is an Edo-period Japanese household yōkai described as an auditory-only phenomenon that produces the sound of red beans being sown or measured inside a house. The tale records audible disturbances and minor physical effects (debris falling) but no visible apparition or harmful actions.

Azumi-no-isora

Azumi-no-isora

Azumi-no-isora (阿曇磯良) is a Shinto kami of the seashore and the ancestral deity of the Azumi people. He is attested in late legends as a lesser sea deity who acted as a navigator in a story involving the loan of the tide jewels to Empress Jingū and is worshiped at several coastal shrines.

Azure Dragon (Qīnglóng)

Azure Dragon (Qīnglóng)

The Azure Dragon (青龙 / 青龍 Qīnglóng) is one of the Four Symbols of Chinese constellations and a principal astral/territorial guardian associated with the eastern quarter of the sky and the season of spring. It functions as a cosmological and civic protective emblem appearing in temple iconography, tomb murals, and syncretic links to named Dragon Kings.

Aëdon

Aëdon

Aëdon is a mythic woman in ancient Greek tradition who, after killing (or attempting to kill) a child in a tragic episode of jealousy or madness, is transformed into the nightingale; the bird's plaintive song is presented as her eternal mourning for the lost child.

Aëtos

Aëtos

Aëtos (Greek: Ἀετός, 'eagle') is an earth-born youth in Greek myth who is transformed into the eagle that becomes the sacred bird and emblem of Zeus. In surviving accounts he functions etiologically as the origin/personification of Zeus's eagle and appears in narrations of Zeus's youth, the Gigantomachy, the torment of Prometheus, and the rescue by Heracles.

Aífe

Aífe

Aífe is a legendary woman-warrior of the Ulster Cycle in Irish mythology, appearing in the tales Tochmarc Emire and Aided Óenfhir Aífe as an opponent and counterpart to Scáthach and as the mother of Cú Chulainn's son Connla. She is portrayed in the sagas as an agentive martial figure situated outside Ireland (variously east of Alpi/Alba or in Letha/Armorica) whose story emphasizes warrior rivalry, negotiated mercy, and tragic kinship.

Añjanā

Añjanā

Añjanā (Sanskrit: अञ्जना; also Anjani, Anjali) is a semi-divine figure of the Ramayana cycle, described as an apsara reborn among the vanaras and the mother of the hero Hanuman. She figures both in pan-Indian epic narratives (as wife of Kesari and devotee of Vayu) and in regional cultic practice (notably a temple tradition in Himachal Pradesh) and is adapted in Javanese wayang as Dewi Anjani.

Aśvatthāmā (Ashvatthama)

Aśvatthāmā (Ashvatthama)

Aśvatthāmā is a major human warrior-character in the Indian epic Mahābhārata, son of the teacher Drona and close ally of the Kaurava leader Duryodhana. In postwar narrative episodes he is depicted committing a nocturnal slaughter of sleeping rivals and attempting to use the cosmic weapon Brahmāstra, after which the sage Vyasa admonishes and curses him in the dramatic retellings cited.

Ašratum

Ašratum

Ašratum is an ancient Mesopotamian goddess name attested in sources as of Amorite origin and regarded in those sources as the wife/consort of the god Amurru (Sumerian Martu). Her name is treated in scholarship as a cognate of the Ugaritic Athirat / Hebrew Asherah name-family, though the supplied sources note that cognate names did not necessarily occupy identical roles across different pantheons.

Aštabi

Aštabi

Aštabi is an ancient Near Eastern deity attested in Eblaite, Hurrian, Ugaritic, and Hittite contexts. In later Hurrian and Hittite sources he functions as a war god and participant in divine assemblies and mythic combat; in the earliest Eblaite documents his precise original character is unresolved though he had named cult centers and cultic statues.

Ašur (Ashur)

Ašur (Ashur)

Ašur (also Ashur, Ashshur, Aššur) was the national god of the ancient Assyrians and served as the principal divine figure around which Assyrian identity and state religion were organized until the society's gradual conversion to Christianity in late antiquity.

Ašvieniai

Ašvieniai

Ašvieniai are the paired divine twins of Baltic (particularly Lithuanian) tradition, horse-associated celestial beings who pull the chariot of Saulė (the Sun) across the sky and appear as protective little horses used as apotropaic motifs in vernacular architecture and household objects.

Aṅgulimāla

Aṅgulimāla

Aṅgulimāla is a figure from early Buddhist literature: a notorious human brigand who wore a 'finger necklace' and, after an encounter with the Buddha at Sāvatthī, renounced violence, ordained as a monk, and is presented in the tradition as attaining liberation. In later South and Southeast Asian popular religion he is also invoked as a protector in childbirth and associated with fertility.

Ba (Egyptian soul)

Ba (Egyptian soul)

The ba is one element of the ancient Egyptian multipart conception of the person: an individuated, mobile aspect of a human that survives death, is commonly depicted as a human-headed bird, and moves between tomb, body, and the afterlife. It is distinct from other components such as the ka and the akh and is central to funerary practices that maintain continued identity after death.

Baal

Baal

Baal (bāʿal) is a Northwest Semitic title meaning 'owner' or 'lord' that served as a theonym in the ancient Levant; in Ugaritic and Canaanite texts it appears as the name/title of a prominent storm and fertility god (often rendered Baʿal Haddu) who features centrally in the Baal Cycle and in regional cults tied to rain, fertility, and kingship. In later monotheistic literatures the term becomes a polemical label for rival or foreign deities and is reinterpreted in various receptions.

Baal Ḥamon

Baal Ḥamon

Baal Ḥamon (Baal Hammon) is the chief god of ancient Carthage in the Punic religious framework, venerated as a male deity associated with weather, fertility of vegetation, and regarded as king among the gods. He is cultically paired with the principal female deity Tanit and is attested in archaeological and textual traditions as an authoritative lordly divine figure.

Baal-berith

Baal-berith

Baal-berith (also attested in some reference works as El Berith) is a named deity-title from ancient Canaanite religion, attested in Biblical sources and later reference literature as a local god or title worshiped at Shechem and associated with covenants—commonly glossed as "Baal of the Covenant." Later reception reuses the name polemically or in modern occult and cultural contexts.

Baalat Gebal

Baalat Gebal

Baalat Gebal (Phoenician bʿlt gbl, "Lady of Byblos") is the tutelary goddess and principal civic deity of the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos. Her long-lived temple at the city's center and attestations in Egyptian, Akkadian (Amarna), and later Greek sources show her role as city-protector, focal point of royal veneration, and an object of cross-cultural identification with foreign goddesses.

Baalshamin

Baalshamin

Baalshamin (literally "Lord of Heaven[s]") is a Northwest Semitic theonym/title used across the Levant and adjacent regions to denote a supreme sky/heavenly lord. Depending on time and place it functions as an epithet of other deities (notably Hadad/Baal) or as a distinct civic/sky deity associated with weather, lightning, and sometimes solar aspects; attested in inscriptions from Ugarit, Phoenicia, Safaitic Arabia, Palmyra, Nabataea, and in treaty and stele texts.

Baatar Bayan

Baatar Bayan

The name Baatar Bayan was requested for documentation, but the provided source material contains no mention of this entity or of Mongolian mountain guardian spirits. No folkloric details (origin, appearance, abilities, or rituals) can be derived from the supplied document.

Baba Marta

Baba Marta

Baba Marta (Bulgarian: Баба Марта, 'Granny March') is a Bulgarian folkloric personification of the transition from winter to spring. Celebrated on March 1, she is pictured as a feisty grandmother whose mood is said to affect late-winter weather; communal customs (martenitsi) exchanged on her day symbolize health and good fortune.

Baba Yaga

Baba Yaga

Baba Yaga is an ambivalent female figure of East Slavic folktale tradition, depicted variously as a fearsome, child-eating crone or as a helpful, maternal donor. She is associated with the deep forest, a hut described as standing on chicken legs, and the motific accoutrements of a mortar and pestle.

Babalon

Babalon

A central goddess-figure in the Thelemic system founded by Aleister Crowley; simultaneously an archetypal Great Mother/Binah, a sacralized principle of liberated female sexuality, a ritual vessel (the Grail), and an office manifested historically as the "Scarlet Woman."

Babay (Slavic folklore)

Babay (Slavic folklore)

A Slavic night spirit that abducts misbehaving children who stay awake at night, embodying societal values of discipline and conformity. (Note: 1. Power tier: Given the ability to abduct and punish misbehaving children, Babay's power level should be at least Greater Spirit. 2. Appearance: Since no physical description is provided in the sourc)

Babi

Babi

Babi (also Baba) is the ancient Egyptian deification or divine personification of the hamadryas baboon, associated in funerary and mythic texts with the netherworld, posthumous judgment, and sexual virility. Texts portray him as a violent, meat‑eating figure who could devour the unjust after judgment, while some funerary spells also appropriate his virile power positively for the dead.

Babi Ngepet

Babi Ngepet

In Indonesian mythology, the Babi Ngepet is a boar demon associated with malevolent intentions towards humans. (Note: * Power tier: Downgrade to Ancient (deity-level) as there's no indication of Primordial powers. * Abilities: Specify what malevolent intentions towards humans implies, e.g., ability to curse or cause )

Baboon

Baboon

Baboon refers to primates of the genus Papio (family Cercopithecidae). The sources treat baboons as living Old World monkeys with distinct anatomy, complex social systems, omnivorous diets, and a primarily African (and partly Arabian) distribution.

Babr-e Bayān

Babr-e Bayān

Babr-e Bayān is the name of a legendary suit or armor associated with the Iranian hero Rostam in Persian epic tradition. In most accounts it is an extraordinary protective garment (sometimes said to be made from a slain creature’s hide) that confers invulnerability when worn.

Babum (of Kish)

Babum (of Kish)

Babum is the regnal name listed as the fifth king of the First Dynasty of Kish in the Sumerian King List. Modern scholarship treats the entry as of doubtful historicity because the name lacks contemporary attestation; the name is an Akkadian word bābum meaning "gate."

Baby Train

Baby Train

A modern urban legend that humorously explains a local baby boom by attributing it to an early-morning train whistle (or similar repetitive noise) that wakes residents who then have sex. It is a narrative motif circulating in English-language media and folkloric collections rather than a supernatural being.

Baby Wildebeest

Baby Wildebeest

Baby Wildebeest is a fictional character from DC Comics' New Teen Titans series: a juvenile, wildebeest-themed created host-body who serves as an adopted child-member of the Teen Titans, noted for great strength and durability. Introduced in 1992, the character was killed during Infinite Crisis and later appeared briefly as a Black Lantern in Blackest Night.

Babys

Babys

Babys (Ancient Greek: Βάβυς, Bábus) is a sparsely attested figure in Greek mythology identified in available sources as the brother of the Phrygian satyr Marsyas; surviving references associate him only fragmentarily with a flute and place him within the Marsyas–Apollo musical contest tradition.

Bacab

Bacab

In Yucatec Maya tradition the Bacab are a fourfold office of aged interior-earth deities who stand at the four cardinal points as holders of the world, associated with subterranean waters, thunder, rain, calendrical Year Bearer days, divination, and curing rituals.

Bacchis

Bacchis

Bacchis is not attested in the provided sources as a supernatural being; the name appears in historical, literary, and scientific contexts (the Bacchiadae clan of ancient Corinth, a modern biological genus, and titles/characters in classical drama collections). No folkloric cosmology, powers, appearance, or rituals for a spirit called Bacchis are documented in the supplied material.

Bacchus

Bacchus

Bacchus is the Roman identification of the Greek god Dionysus, a deity associated with wine, vegetation and fertility, ritual ecstasy and theatrical performance. In Roman religion he is conflated with the Italic Liber and known for rites that induce possession, frenzy (baccheia), and group revelry.

Bachué

Bachué

Bachué is a Muisca primordial mother figure presented in colonial-era chronicles and modern summaries as the mother of humanity. She emerges from the sacred Iguaque Lake with an infant who becomes her companion; after populating the earth they transform into snakes and return to the lagoon. She was worshipped at a temple near Iguaque (present-day Chíquiza) and is described as an ancestral, life-giving protectress who sometimes returned from the underworld to guide her people in the accounts cited.

Backstreet Project

Backstreet Project

Backstreet Project is a 2000 single-issue American comic book tie‑in that depicts the pop group Backstreet Boys as themselves and, within the story, transformed into a superhero team called the Cyber Crusaders after receiving enchanted amulets from an alien. It functioned as a cross‑media promotional property with tie‑in Burger King action figures, three television commercials, and a short Flash webisode series.

Baco

Baco

A single modern reference (a Wikipedia disambiguation entry) lists "Baco (god)" with the brief descriptor "a Celtic god of the boar." Beyond that terse label, the supplied sources contain no primary or secondary evidence describing Baco's nature, cult, or mythology.

Badalisc

Badalisc

The Badalisc is a local ritual creature of Val Camonica (Andrista, Cevo) in northern Italy: an animal‑like masked figure captured in the woods at Epiphany, led into the village, and used as a mouthpiece for a satirical public speech that names communal misdeeds before being released back to the woods.