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No longer able to hold on to the gunwales of the boat, she slipped down to the depths of the sea. And that is where Nuliajuk lives to this day. Her fingers, too, fell into the sea one by one, and one by one they became the animals of the sea. They became whales, walruses, fishes and all the other sea creatures.
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.
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
Chalkydri – heavenly creatures of the Sun; Chamrosh (Persian mythology) – body of a dog, head & wings of a bird; Cinnamon bird – greek myth of an arabian bird that builds nests out of cinnamon; Devil Bird (Sri Lankan) – shrieks predicting death; Gagana – a miraculous bird with an iron beak and copper claws
Moryana (Caspian Sea) Ovinnik (barn) Polevik (field in agriculture) The Mistress of the Copper Mountain (ore, Ural) Shubin (coal, Donbas) Vodyanoy (lake, river) Spirits of Atmosphere. Moroz (mythology) (frost) Vedogon (spirit-guardian of a sleeping person) Vikhor (wind, whirlwind) Zduhać (protector from bad weather) Spirits of the time of day ...
The creation of Moldovan written literature was preceded by a rich folklore that emerged in the 10th and 11th centuries CE: calendrical and family ritual poetry (Plugusorul), fairy tales, heroic epics (Hydra, Toma Alimos, The Knight Gruia Grozovan, Mihul Kopilul, Codreanu, Corbea), historical songs (Duca Vode, Buzhor, Tobultok), folk legends, proverbs, popular sayings, lyrical songs, ballads ...
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Baltic mythology is the body of mythology of the Baltic peoples stemming from Baltic paganism and continuing after Christianization and into Baltic folklore. History [ edit ]