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"For the Bible it was the wrath of God. In the Welsh flood story, it was caused by a terrible monster." [ 2 ] The figure Dwyfach is identified with the small Dwyfach ( Welsh : little Dwy ) river of Gwynedd entering Cardigan Bay near Porthmadog , whilst Dwyfan is identified with the river it enters, the Dwyfawr or Dwyfor .
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The Maasai tell a story of how Le-eyo was told by the god Ngai that he must say a prayer when a child dies, to make sure that the child will come back to life. When a child died that was not his own, Le-eyo said a prayer for the child to remain dead but the moon to return.
Tororut: A Supreme God who made earth and caused the birth of mankind and animals and who ancestors of long ago are thought to have seen. He was perceived as being like man in form but with huge wings whose flash causes lightning (kerial) and the whirring thereof thunder (kotil).
In Mesopotamian mythology the urmahlullu, or lion-man, served as a guardian spirit, especially of bathrooms. [4] [5] The Old Babylonian Lilitu demon, particularly as shown in the Burney Relief (part-woman, part-owl) prefigures the harpy/siren motif. Harpies were human sized birds with the faces of human women. They were once considered ...
There is no scholarly consensus as to which of the variants is the most accurate reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European cosmogonic myth. [11] Bruce Lincoln's reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European motif known as "Twin and Man" is supported by a number of scholars such as Jaan Puhvel, J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, David W. Anthony, and, in part, Martin L. West. [12]
Mabon ap Modron is a prominent figure from Welsh and wider Brythonic literature and mythology, the son of Modron and a member of Arthur's war band. Both he and his mother were likely deities in origin, descending from a divine mother–son pair.
In Norse mythology, Þrymr (Thrymr, Thrym; "noise" [1] [2]) was a jötunn. He is the namesake of the Eddic poem Þrymskviða, in which he stole Thor's hammer Mjǫlnir, and the same tale is told in Þrymlur. Another mention of Þrymr is in the þulur appended to the Prose Edda, probably deriving from Þrymskviða.