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  2. List of Native American deities - Wikipedia

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    Márohu. God of the moon and of rain, rainstorms, and floods; Boinayel's twin brother. Maketaori Guayaba. The god of Coaybay or Coabey, the land of the dead. Opiyel Guabiron. A dog-shaped god that watched over the dead; often associated with the Greek Cerberus.

  3. Kokopelli - Wikipedia

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    Kokopelli (/ ˌkoʊkoʊˈpɛliː / [1]) is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with feathers or antenna -like protrusions on his head), who is venerated by some Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States. Like most fertility deities, Kokopelli presides over both childbirth and agriculture.

  4. Great Spirit - Wikipedia

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    Anthropology of religion. The Great Spirit is an omnipresent supreme life force generally conceptualized as a supreme being or god. The Great Spirit is a central component in many, but not all, indigenous cultures in Canada and the United States, and interpretations of it vary between cultures. In the Lakota tradition, the Great Spirit is known ...

  5. Spider Grandmother - Wikipedia

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    The Four worlds and the Emergence. In this narrative, Grandmother Spider is also known as the Good Spirit. She acts as a guide to the creatures in the first world, helping them travel to the higher worlds. [ 6 ] She guides and mentors them as they change into different forms, slowly becoming more human.

  6. Thunderbird (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Thunderbird is a Bolliger and Mabillard Launched Wing Coaster that opened at Holiday World & Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana in 2015. Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client. The Thunderbird is the cap badge and symbol of the Canadian Forces Military Police since 1968.

  7. Choctaw mythology - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Choctaw mythology is part of the culture of the Choctaw, a Native American tribe originally occupying a large territory in the present-day Southeastern United States: much of the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana. In the 19th century, the Choctaw were known to European Americans as one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" even ...

  8. Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    Inca mythology (Religion in the Inca Empire) – a South American empire based in the central Andes mountain range. Mapuche religion – an indigenous people in Chile. Muisca mythology – the indigenous people of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the modern Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. Selk'nam mythology.

  9. Deer Woman - Wikipedia

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    Deer Woman, sometimes known as the Deer Lady, is a spirit in Native American mythology whose associations and qualities vary, depending on situation and relationships. Generally, however, to men who have harmed women and children, she is vengeful and murderous and known to lure these men to their deaths. She appears as either a beautiful young ...