Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A haltija (haltia) is a spirit, gnome, or elf-like creature in Finnish mythology that guards, helps, or protects something or somebody. The word is possibly derived from the Gothic haltijar , which referred to the original settler of a homestead—although this is not the only possible etymology.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
In Finnish folklore, all places and things, and also human beings, have a haltija (a genius, guardian spirit) of their own. One such haltija is called etiäinen—an image, doppelgänger, or just an impression that goes ahead of a person, doing things the person in question later does. For example, people waiting for someone at home might hear ...
TODAY.com has consulted numerous sources to come up with 500 mythology baby names representing a handful of cultures. Greek mythology baby names for boys. Athos. Atlantis. Atlas. Atreus. Bacchus ...
From skrækja, meaning "bawl, shout, or yell" [29] or from skrá, meaning "dried skin", in reference to the animal pelts worn by the Inuit. [29] The name the Norse Greenlanders gave the previous inhabitants of North America and Greenland. Skuggifjord Hudson Strait Straumfjörð "Current-fjord", "Stream-fjord" or "Tide-fjord". A fjord in Vinland.
Helloi (Meitei mythology) – celestial maidens, daughters of the Sky God Salailen; Headless Horseman – humanoid spirit who haunts or kills; Headless Mule – fire-spewing, headless, spectral mule; Hecatonchires – primordial giants with 100 hands and fifty heads
Baltic Finnic pagans were polytheistic, believing in a number of different deities.Most of the deities ruled over a specific aspect of nature; for instance, Ukko was the god of the sky and thunder (ukkonen and ukonilma ["Ukko's air"] are still used in modern Finnish as terms for thunderstorms).
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters