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Mother goddess of fresh water and fertility. Female counterpart of the god Yúcahu: Yúcahu: The masculine spirit of fertility in Taíno mythology along with his mother Atabey who was his feminine counterpart Guabancex: The top Storm Goddess; the Lady of the Winds who also deals out earthquakes and other such disasters of nature. Juracán
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Below is a list of commonly recognized figures who are part of Lakota mythology, a Native American tribe with current lands in North and South Dakota.The spiritual entities of Lakota mythology are categorized in several major categories, including major deities, wind spirits, personified concepts, and other beings.
Toggle Afro-American mythology subsection. 2.1 Afro-Brazilian. ... Native American and First Nations mythologies ... (Female Divinity) Haashchʼéé Oołtʼohí ...
The daughter of the first man and first woman was a beautiful young woman named Ite (Face). Tate (Wind) fell in love with her. They married and had quadruplets, who were the Four Winds. Tate wished to become a god and enlisted the aid of Inktomi, the trickster spider, who caused the Sun to fall in love with Ite. At a celebration, Ite sat in the ...
Native American Mythology. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-12279-3. Bastian, Dawn Elaine; Judy K. Mitchell (2004). Handbook of Native American Mythology. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-533-9. Erdoes, Richard and Ortiz, Alfonso: American Indian Myths and Legends (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984) Ferguson, Diana (2001). Native American myths ...
Murray Mednick wrote seven one-act plays called The Coyote Cycle with the same four characters: Coyote, Coyote trickster, Spider Grandmother and Mute Girl. [21] These same characters come from traditional Native American stories and myths. Spiderwoman Theater, a Native American feminist theater group, named themselves after the Spider Woman ...
Olwen, female figure often constructed as originally the Welsh Sun goddess; Sulis, British goddess whose name is related to the common Proto-Indo-European word for "Sun" and thus cognate with Helios, Sól, Sol, and Surya and who retains solar imagery, as well as a domain over healing and thermal springs. Probably the de facto solar deity of the ...