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  2. Höðr - Wikipedia

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    Loki tricks Höðr into shooting Baldr. Höðr (Old Norse: Hǫðr ⓘ, Latin Hotherus; [1] often anglicized as Hod, Hoder, or Hodur) [a] is a god in Norse mythology.The blind son of Odin, he is tricked and guided by Loki into shooting a mistletoe arrow which was to slay the otherwise invulnerable Baldr.

  3. List of night deities - Wikipedia

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    Astraeus, Titan god of the dusk, stars, planets, and the art of Astronomy and Astrology; Asteria, Titan goddess of nocturnal oracles and the stars; Hades, god of the underworld, whose domain included night and darkness; Hecate, the goddess of boundaries, crossroads, witchcraft, and ghosts, who was commonly associated with the moon

  4. Hati Hróðvitnisson - Wikipedia

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    In Norse mythology, Hati Hróðvitnisson (first name meaning "He Who Hates", or "Enemy" [1]) is a warg; a wolf that, according to Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, chases Máni, the Moon, across the night sky, just as the wolf Sköll chases Sól, the Sun, during the day, until the time of Ragnarök, when they will swallow these heavenly bodies.

  5. List of Germanic deities - Wikipedia

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    Latinized form of what Old Norse Njörðr would have looked like around 1 CE. [42] None attested: None attested: Germania: Njörun (Old Norse) Possibly related to the Norse god Njörðr and the Roman goddess Nerio [43] [44] None attested: None attested: Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, skaldic poetry Norns (Old Norse) (Urðr, Verðandi, Skuld) Unknown ...

  6. List of death deities - Wikipedia

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    Goddess of poisons, personification of misery and sadness. Apollo, god of diseases; Atropos, one of the moirai, who cut the thread of life. Charon, a daimon who acted as ferryman of the dead. Erebus, the primordial god of darkness, his mists encircled the underworld and filled the hollows of the earth; Erinyes, chthonic deities of vengeance

  7. Nyx - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Nyx (/ n ɪ k s / NIX; [2] Ancient Greek: Νύξ Nýx, , "Night") [3] is the goddess and personification of the night. [4] In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Erebus (Darkness). By herself, she produces a brood of children which are mainly personifications of ...

  8. Dökkálfar and Ljósálfar - Wikipedia

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    Älvalek (Elfplay or Dancing Fairies) (1866) by August Malmström. In Norse mythology, Dökkálfar ("Dark Elves") [a] and Ljósálfar ("Light Elves") [b] are two contrasting types of elves; the dark elves dwell within the earth and have a dark complexion, while the light elves live in Álfheimr, and are "fairer than the sun to look at".

  9. Jörmungandr - Wikipedia

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    Jörmungandr in the sea during Ragnarök, drawn by the Norwegian illustrator Louis Moe in 1898.. In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (Old Norse: Jǫrmungandr, lit. 'the Vast 'gand'', see Etymology), also known as the Midgard Serpent or World Serpent (Old Norse: Miðgarðsormr, "worm of Midgard"), is an unfathomably large and monstrous sea serpent or worm who dwells in the world sea, encircling ...