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Over time, the connection to war and thus to death led to Wepwawet also being seen as one who opened the ways to, and through, Duat, for the spirits of the dead. Through this, Wepwawet became associated with Anubis , a deity that was worshiped in Asyut, eventually being considered his brother.
The two-faced Spirit referred to as mother of the Four Winds, Yum the Whirlwind, and the daughter of the Pȟežúta (Medicine Men) Ka and Wa. She is also known as Wakanka, the elderly woman. [1] Tate - The wind Spirit. Taku Skanskan - Capricious chaotic spirit who is master of the four winds and the four-night spirits, Raven, Vulture, Wolf, Fox.
An old she-wolf with a sky-blue mane named Ashina found the baby and nursed him, then the she-wolf gave birth to half-wolf, half-human cubs, from whom the Turkic people were born. Also in Turkic mythology it is believed that a gray wolf showed the Turks the way out of their legendary homeland Ergenekon , which allowed them to spread and conquer ...
Marchosias appears as a fire-spitting chimeric wolf with the wings of a griffon and the tail of a serpent.. In demonology, Marchosias is a great and mighty Marquis of Hell, commanding thirty legions of demons.
In a later extended sense in intertestamental Jewish literature, the abyss was the underworld, either the abode of the dead or eventually the realm of the rebellious spirits (fallen angels) . In the latter sense, specifically, the abyss was often seen as a prison for demons. This usage was picked up in the New Testament.
A Roggenwolf, a carnivorous spirit of the rye fields, with sheaves of harvested rye, on the coat of arms of the Bartensleben family . The Roggenwolf ("rye wolf"), Getreidewolf ("grain wolf") [1] or Kornwolf ("corn wolf") [6] is a field spirit shaped as a wolf. The Roggenwolf steals children and feeds on them. [7]
From the Kantō region to the Kinki region, along with Kōchi Prefecture, there are legends of okuri-ōkami (送り狼; literally, 'sending off wolf'). Like the okuri-inu, they are feared as a yōkai that stalk you on mountain roads and passes that are said to eat its victims when they fall over, but can actually protect people from danger if ...
In 1900, the American naturalist Edward William Nelson described the kăk-whăn’-û-ghăt kǐg-û-lu’-nǐk among a number of other mythical and composite animals: [1]. It is described as being similar in form to the killer whale and is credited with the power of changing at will to a wolf; after roaming about over the land it may return to the sea and again become a whale.