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Taliyakud: the chief Tagbanwa god of the underworld who tends a fire between two tree trunks; asks the souls of the dead questions, where the soul's louse acts as the conscience that answers the questions truthfully; if the soul is wicked, it is pitched and burned, but if it is good, it passes on to a happier place with abundant food [17]
Spriggan Tree like creature from Cornish mythology; Tāne-mahuta, atua (deity) of the forests and birds, and one of the children of Ranginui and Papatūānuku in Māori mythology [8] Tapio, god of the forests in Finnish mythology; Thuyaung fruit trees from Burmese mythology; Curupira, a powerful Demon/Forest Spirit in Guarani mythology and ...
Zhurong (Chinese: 祝融), also known as Chongli (Chinese: 重黎) [citation needed], is an important personage in Chinese mythology and Chinese folk religion. According to the Huainanzi and the philosophical texts of Mozi and his followers, Zhurong is a god of fire and of the south. [citation needed]
One myth describes how the daughter of the god Numušda insists on marrying Martu, despite his unattractive habits. [445] In Old Babylonian and Kassite art, Amurru is shown as a god dressed in long robes and carrying a scimitar or a shepherd's crook. [5] Misharu: Misharu ("justice") was a son of Adad and Shala. [446] His wife was Ishartu ...
The baobab tree is a distinctive sight on the landscape. Two baobab lineages went extinct in Madagascar, but not before establishing themselves elsewhere, one in Africa and one in Australia, the ...
Druantia, hypothetical Gallic tree goddess proposed by Robert Graves in his 1948 study The White Goddess; popular with Neopagans. Nantosuelta, Gaulish goddess of nature, the earth, fire, and fertility; Sucellus, god of agriculture, forests, and alcoholic drinks; Viridios, god of vegetation, rebirth, and agriculture, possibly cognate with the ...
Gibil (𒀭𒉈𒄀), also known under the Akkadian name Girra, was a Mesopotamian god associated with fire, both in its positive and negative aspects. He also played a role in ritual purification . Textual sources indicate his symbol was a torch, though no representations of him have been identified in Mesopotamian art .
In George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, one of the main religions, that of "the old gods" or "the gods of the North", involves sacred groves of trees ("godswoods") with a white tree with red leaves at the center known as the "heart tree".