enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Iroquois mythology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois_mythology

    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.

  3. Jogah - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jogah

    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."

  4. List of Native American deities - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Native_American...

    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 ...

  5. List of death deities - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_death_deities

    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.

  6. Hahgwehdiyu - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahgwehdiyu

    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.

  7. Hero Twins in Native American culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_Twins_in_Native...

    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 ...

  8. OG Maco, ‘U Guessed It’ Rapper, Dies at 32 - AOL

    www.aol.com/og-maco-u-guessed-rapper-191653723.html

    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 ...

  9. Dogs in Mesoamerican folklore and myth - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_in_Mesoamerican...

    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 ...