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In this underworld, there are forests and animals, including a white buffalo. The Oh-do-was guard against poisonous snakes and creatures of death that try to escape from the underworld. Occasionally, the Oh-do-was emerge from the underworld at night and visit the world above where they hold festivals and dance in rings around trees.
Jogah (Drum Dancers) are the mythical "little people" in Iroquois lore. Usually invisible, there are ways of telling if they are around. For example, drumming with no visible drummers around. They also leave rings of bare earth and "bowls" in stones or mud; offerings like tobacco and fingernails can be offered at these "bowls."
God of violent death [2] Tia: Goddess of peaceful death [2] Ho-Chunk: Red Horn 'He Who Wears (Human) Faces on His Ears' Hopi: Aholi: A kachina: Angwusnasomtaka: Crow Mother, a kachina: Kokopelli: Fertility, flute player, a kachina: Kokyangwuti: Creation, Spider grandmother [3] Muyingwa: Germination of seeds, a kachina: Taiowa: Sun spirit ...
The mythology or religion of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine being closely associated with death, an afterlife, or an underworld. They are often amongst the most powerful and important entities in a given tradition, reflecting the fact that death, like birth , is central to the human experience.
Hahgwehdiyu (also called Ha-Wen-Neyu, Rawenniyo, Hawenniyo or Sapling) [1] is the Iroquois god of goodness and light, as well as a creator god. He and his twin brother Hahgwehdaetgah, the god of evil, were children of Atahensic the Sky Woman (or Tekawerahkwa the Earth Woman in some versions), whom Hahgwehdaetgah killed in childbirth.
In some stories the culture hero kills him to avenge their mother's death in childbirth, but in other stories Flint remains as one of the seasonal or directional demigods. In Iroquois legends, Flint's brother is the creator god Sky Holder. According to some versions the twins created humankind together, explaining why people can be both good ...
OG Maco, the Atlanta rapper best known for his 2014 hit “U Guessed It,” died at the age of 32. The musician, born Benedict Chiajulam Ihesiba Jr., was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital on Dec ...
Dogs appear in underworld scenes painted on Maya pottery dating to the Classic Period and even earlier than this, in the Preclassic, the people of Chupícuaro buried dogs with the dead. [2] In the great Classic Period metropolis of Teotihuacan , 14 human bodies were deposited in a cave, most of them children, together with the bodies of three ...