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Unbeknownst to the worm, another creature (the lizard Agadzagadza) had been eavesdropping on the conversation between the worm and the sky god. [7] [1] [8] As a trickster, the lizard wanted to create chaos, [1] and because he was a lizard, he could travel much faster than the worm. [6] [8] Agadzagadza reached the people first. [7]
A kobold (German: [ˈkoːbɔlt]; kobolt, kobolde, [2] cobold) is a general or generic name for the household spirit in German folklore.A hausgeist.. It may invisibly make noises (i.e., be a poltergeist), or helpfully perform kitchen chores or stable work.
A household deity is a deity or spirit that protects the home, looking after the entire household or certain key members. It has been a common belief in paganism as well as in folklore across many parts of the world. "Household god" in Gezer by R A Stewart Macalister
The word Sháhál (usually meaning "lion") might possibly, owing to some copyist's mistake, have crept into the place of another name now impossible to restore. צֶפַע ṣep̲aʿ (Isaiah 59:5), "the hisser", generally rendered by basilisk in ID.V. and in ancient translations, the latter sometimes calling it regulus. This snake was ...
Nāḥāš (נחש ), Hebrew for "snake", is also associated with divination, including the verb form meaning "to practice divination or fortune-telling". Nāḥāš occurs in the Torah to identify the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Throughout the Hebrew Bible, it is also used in conjunction with seraph to describe vicious serpents in the ...
Paul Prather has come to realize why religion and politics turn irrational and toxic. | Opinion
Bluetongue Lizard is an old man in the Australian Aboriginal mythology of the Warlpiri people. He is a trickster and a powerful sorcerer, as well. The myth involving him is the wellspring of the Warlpiri fire ceremonies. He is often regarded as a deity, but this notion is not exactly true. At night time he flies and he goes to Habberfield
Adnoartina is known as a religious deity in the Australian Aboriginal culture. [1] This deity is described as taking the form of a gecko lizard and is considered to be a sacred ancestral being. [1]