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A host of legendary creatures, animals, and mythic humanoids occur in ancient Greek mythology.Anything related to mythology is mythological. A mythological creature (also mythical or fictional entity) is a type of fictional entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before ...
Nachtkrapp (German folklore) – The Night Raven; Nine-headed Bird – a totem creature, predecessor to the Fenghuang; Oozlum bird – (Australian and British folk tales) Pamola – bird/moose spirit who causes cold weather; Paskunji (Georgian/ Caucasus) phoenix like underworld dwelling bird. Kills the snakes on the path to the afterlife & aid ...
The Norse night goddess Nótt riding her horse, in a 19th-century painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo. A night deity is a goddess or god in mythology associated with night, or the night sky. They commonly feature in polytheistic religions. The following is a list of night deities in various mythologies.
It is the only named underworld river mentioned in Homer's Iliad [18] – our earliest mythological text – and three of the Homeric Hymns. [19] Not only is it an underworld river [20] but is also, more generally, the inviolable waters upon which the gods swear oaths [21] and a goddess in her own right (the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys). [22]
Lastly, the Ohdows are the subterranean guardians of our world. They protect it from creatures of the underworld which would spread disease and, in the case of the "White Buffalo," chaos. The Ohdow come out of the underground at night to dance and hunt any underworld creatures that have escaped.
The underworld is ruled by Hine-nui-te-pō, the goddess of death and night. Additional occupants include guardians, gods, goddesses, holy chiefs and nobles , and the tūrehu, who are described as celestial, fairy-like people. [2] Rarohenga is predominantly depicted as a place of peace and light. [3]
It would roam at night and terrifies people while they sleep and the Alû may also torment their victims for fun. [1] It was also said that possession by the Alû would result in unconsciousness or a coma; [2] in this manner it resembles creatures such as the mara, and incubus, which are invoked to explain sleep paralysis.
The Egyptians believed that in the netherworld, the Duat, there were various gates, doors and pylons crossed every night by the solar boat of the sun-god Ra and by the souls directed to the world of the dead. [4] Ancient funerary texts provide many different descriptions of the afterlife gates.