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Pages in category "Legendary creatures of the indigenous peoples of North America" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Bunyip, mythical creature said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds, and waterholes; Daramulum, southeast Australian deity and son of Baiame; Gnowee, solar goddess who searches daily for her lost son; her torch is the sun; Karatgurk, seven sisters who represent the Pleiades star cluster; Kondole, man who became the first whale
The term Barmanou originating in Khowar, but now used in several Pakistani languages including Urdu, Shina, Pashto and Kashmiri. In addition to the name Barmanou there are a few local variant names as well. The proposed range of the Barmanou covers the Chitral and Karakoram Ranges, between the Pamirs and the Himalaya.
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Pichal peri or pichhal pairī (Punjabi: ਪਿੱਛਲ ਪੈਰੀ, Hindi: पिछल पेरी, Urdu: پچھل پيری "reverse-footed") is the name given to the churel in northwestern South Asia and Central Asia because of their typical appearance as a woman with long hair covering the face and feet pointing backward.
The thunderbird creates not just thunder (with its wing-flapping) but lightning bolts, which it casts at the underworld creatures. [ 2 ] Thunderbird in this tradition may be depicted as a spreadeagled bird (wings horizontal head in profile ), but also quite common with the head facing forward, thus presenting an X-shaped appearance overall [ 6 ...
Teparies are native to the Sonoran Desert in the Southwest U.S. and Mexico, where they were first domesticated at least 4,000 years ago. Twenty-two Indigenous cultures, as well as Mexicans and ...
Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology – an Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Lummi – a North American tribe from the Pacific Northwest, Washington state area. Nuu-chah-nulth mythology – a group of indigenous peoples living on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Haida mythology – a nation living in Haida Gwaii and the Alaska Panhandle.