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The Norse night goddess Nótt riding her horse, in a 19th-century painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo. A night deity is a goddess or god in mythology associated with night, or the night sky. They commonly feature in polytheistic religions. The following is a list of night deities in various mythologies.
Kalavinka – a fantastical immortal creature in Buddhism, with a human head and a bird's torso and long flowing tail; Karura – divine creature with human torso and birdlike head; Kinnara – Half-bird musicians; Lamassu (Mesopotamian) – goddess with a human head, the body of a bull or a lion, and bird wings
A zitiron, or sea knight, is a mythological creature that has an upper body in the form of an armed knight, fused with the tail of a fish. [1] ... Mobile view; Search.
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Berehynia (East Slavic mythology female character) Baba Marta (mythical female character in Bulgarian folklore, associated with the month of March. Martenitsa) Božić (Christmas holiday near the southern Slavs) Dodola (in the Balkan tradition, the spring-summer rite of causing rain, as well as the central character of this rite)
Mallt-y-Nos (Matilda of the Night), also known as the Night Mallt, [1] is a crone in Welsh mythology who rides with Arawn and the hounds of the Wild Hunt, chasing sorrowful, lost souls to Annwn. The Mallt-y-Nos drives the hounds onward with shrieks and wails, which some say are evil and malicious in nature.
Mythology portal Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. ... Mobile view; Search. Search. Category: Oceanian legendary ...
A dandan or dendan is a mythical sea creature from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (or Arabian Nights) appearing in the tale "Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman", where a merman describes the dandan as the largest and fiercest fish, capable of swallowing large animals in a single mouthful. The fat of the dandan, described as ...