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Tefnut (Ancient Egyptian: tfn.t; Coptic: ⲧϥⲏⲛⲉ tfēne) [1] [2] is a deity in Ancient Egyptian religion, the feminine counterpart of the air god Shu.Her mythological function is less clear than that of Shu, [3] but Egyptologists have suggested she is connected with moisture, based on a passage in the Pyramid Texts in which she produces water, and on parallelism with Shu's connection ...
Dazhbog, the regenerating god of the solar fire who rides in the sky. Kresnik, golden fire god who became a hero of Slovenia. Ognyena Maria, fire goddess who assists Perun. Peklenc, god of fire who rules the underworld and its wealth and who judges and punishes the wicked through earthquakes.
Each of the creatures is most closely associated with a cardinal direction and a color, but also additionally represents other aspects, including a season of the year, an emotion, virtue, and one of the Chinese "five elements" (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water). Each has been given its own individual traits, origin story and a reason for being.
Manticore – a mythical creature with a human head, a lion body, a scorpion tail, spines like a porcupine, and bat wings in some iterations; Nue – a Japanese Chimera with the head of a monkey, the body of a tanuki, the legs of a tiger, and a snake-headed tail; Pegasus – a winged stallion in Greek mythology; Pixiu or Pi Yao – Chinese ...
Phanes was a deity of light and goodness, whose name meant "to bring light" or "to shine"; [6][7] a first-born deity, he emerged from the abyss and gave birth to the universe. [7] Nyx (Night) is variously said to be Phanes' daughter [4] or older wife; she is the counterpart of Phanes and is considered by Aristophanes the first deity.
The Paracelsian concept of elementals draws from several much older traditions in mythology and religion. Common threads can be found in folklore, animism, and anthropomorphism. Examples of creatures such as the Pygmy were taken from Greek mythology. The elements of earth, water, air, and fire, were classed as the fundamental building blocks of ...
Mariamman, the Hindu goddess of rain. A weather god or goddess, also frequently known as a storm god or goddess, is a deity in mythology associated with weather phenomena such as thunder, snow, lightning, rain, wind, storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes. Should they only be in charge of one feature of a storm, they will be called after that ...
Aralez (mythology) creatures with powers to resuscitate fallen warriors and resurrect the dead by licking wounds clean; Areg (Arev) or Ar, god of the Sun; Astłik Armenian deity of fertility and love; Tsovinar "Nar of the Sea", goddess of waters and the ocean; Mihr (Armenian deity), cognate with the Mithra. God of the sun and light, son of ...