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Kodama and Kurozome, the spirit of the Prunus serrulata (Japanese cherry) Kukunochi, Japanese tree spirit; Lauma, a woodland fae, goddess/spirit of trees, marsh and forest in Eastern Baltic mythology; Leshy, is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology along with his wife Leshachikha(or the Kikimora) and children (leshonki ...
In Finnish mythology, a paradise-like place where birds migrate every winter; because it was located near the edge of the sky dome, the sky was very close to the ground and therefore its inhabitants were dwarves. Lost City of Z: An indigenous city that Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett believed had existed in the jungle of the Mato Grosso state of ...
Berstuk, evil Wendish god of the forest; Jarilo, god of vegetation, fertility, spring, war and harvest; Leshy, a tutelary deity of the forests. Porewit, god of the woods, who protected lost voyagers and punished those who mistreated the forest; Veles, god of earth, waters and the underworld; Mokosh, East-Slavic goddess of nature
Mankayia- (Kiowa) tornado spirit in the form of a horse. Onocentaur – part human, part donkey (Greek) Pegasus – white winged stallion (Greek) Pooka – spirits, or fairies who lived near ancient stones, good or bad (Ireland) Sleipnir – Odin's eight-legged horse, which he rode to Hel (location) (Norse)
Nang Ta-khian is generally a sylvan spirit, for the Ta-khian is a tall, massive tree that can live for centuries, naturally found in the forest and not near inhabited areas. As it has a large trunk and a wide-spreading root system, it is normally not planted close to homesteads. [ 4 ]
Leshy or Leshi [a] is a tutelary deity of the forest in pagan Slavic mythology.As Leshy rules over the forest and hunting, he may be related to the Slavic god Porewit. [1]A similar deity called Svyatibor (Svyatobor, Svyatibog) is thought to have been revered by both the Eastern and Western Slavs as the divine arbiter of woodland realms, and/or the sovereign ruler over other diminutive forest ...
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Sometimes in the forest you can hear how the killed povitrulya cries. According to one explanation, the forest man hunts the povitruli, because they make fun of him, depicting his cry – from this, the forest echo occurs. By hunting the forest maidens, the Chuhaister prevents the harm they can do to people, especially men working in the forest.