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A name given to the kami of water and to a wide variety of mythical and magical creatures found in water. Suiko Another name for kappa. Sukunabikona The Shinto kami of the onsen (hot springs), agriculture, healing, magic, brewing sake and knowledge. The child of either Kamimusubi or Takamimusubi, he helped Ōkuninushi build the land known as ...
Yōkai (妖怪, "strange apparition") are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore.The kanji representation of the word yōkai comprises two characters that both mean "suspicious, doubtful", [1] and while the Japanese name is simply the Japanese transliteration or pronunciation of the Chinese term yaoguai (which designates similarly strange creatures), some Japanese ...
Legendary creatures from Japanese mythology and Japanese folklore. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. ...
Kuebiko (久延毘古), the god of knowledge and agriculture, represented in Japanese mythology as a scarecrow who cannot walk but has comprehensive awareness. Kukunochi, believed to be the ancestor of trees. [22] Kukurihime no Kami (菊理媛神), a goddess enshrined at Shirayama Hime Shrine.
In The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World one of the ayakashi that Seika Lamprogue summons to uncover information from a demon spy is a satori depicting it as a large ape like creature. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and its sequel, a creature called a satori is known as The Lord of the Mountain. It is depicted ...
The Bake-kujira (Japanese: 化鯨, ghost whale) [a] is a mythical Japanese yōkai (ghost, phantom, or strange apparition) from western Japan.It is described as being a skeleton whale that is accompanied by unknown fish and weird birds.
These are the 14 most badass mythical creatures, including Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman, the Loch Ness Monster, and ... of an affair between Queen Pasiphaë and a bull—hence its weird anatomy
The following is a list of lists of legendary creatures, beings and entities from the folklore record. Entries consist of legendary and unique creatures , not of particularly unique individuals of a commonly known species.