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| Spirit name "Acacila" | Aymara Indian / Peru / BoliviaTiticaca Basin | Animistic spirit. One of a group of vaguely defined beings who control the weather, including Rain, hail and frost.... |
| Spirit name "Anjea" | Australasia | Animistic fertility spirit. Known to tribesmen on the Pennefather River, queensland, Australia and believed to place mud babies in the wombs of pregnant women. The grandmother of a newly born infant buried the afterbirth, which was collected by Anjea and kept in a hollow tree or some such sanctuary until the time came to instill it into another child in the womb.... |
| Goddess name "Aranyani" | Hindu / Vedic | Minor goddess of woodlands. Possibly having evolved from a primitive animistic guardian spirit of animals, Aranyani is an elusive, rarely seen, deity who is recognized in the sounds of the trees, particularly at dusk. She is a benign figure, sweet-scented and unwilling to destroy unless severely provoked.... |
| Spirit name "Arnakua'gsak" | Inuit / North American | Animistic spirit. The Old Woman of the Sea who supplies all the physical needs of the Eskimo from the ocean.... |
| Spirit name "Bagba" | West African | Animistic spirit. Fetish who allegedly controls the wind and Rain and whose shaman keeps the winds locked in a huge pot.... |
| Spirit name "Eme'mqut" | Koryak | Animistic spirit with cannibalistic tendencies. Koryak |
| Spirit name "Eme'mqut" | Siberian Koryak | Animistic spirit. See QUIKINN.A'QU.... |
| Spirit name "Gumeniki" | Slavic | A clåśś of animistic spirits who look after storehouses and grainaries. Slavic |
| Spirit name "Hamadryades" | Greco - Roman | Animistic tree spirits. Vaguely defined female beings whose existence is restricted to the individual trees of which they are guardians.... |
| Spirit name "I'lena" | Koryak / Siberia | An animistic spirit |
| Spirit name "I'lena (rain woman)" | Koryak / Siberia | Animistic spirit. The consort of the creator spirit universe or TENANTO'MWAN.... |
| Spirit name "Icci" | Siberian | Animistic spirits. See also URUN AJY TOYON.... |
| Spirit name "Katajalina" | Australian aboriginal | Animistic spirit. Invoked at the ceremony of initiation by the Binbinga people once living on the west side of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Katajalina is reputed to live in an anthill and to carry off the spirit of the young initiate, kill him and then restore him to life as an adult. His presence is announced in the noise of the bull-roarer.... |
| Spirit name "Kutji" | Australian aboriginal | Animistic spirits. Malevolent beings who conceal themselves in undergrowth and rock crevices and manifest as animals and birds, including eagles, crows, owls, kangaroos and emus. Kutji are considered to have taken over wild creatures if their behavior åśśumes unfamiliar patterns. Only shamans may contain the influence of these spirits. Otherwise, they possess the potential to inflict disease and death on to human beings.... |
| God name "Lebien-Poghl" | Yukaghir / Siberia | Animistic owner god & chief protector of the earth |
| God name "Lebien-Poghl Yukaghir" | Siberia | Animistic owner god and chief protector of the earth Siberia |
| God name "Mayon (the black one)" | Early Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Creator god. Animistic high god of the pastoral regions, found in Sangam literature and thought to reside in trees. Perhaps equating with VIS'NU or KRSNA.... |
| Spirit name "Naiades" | Greco - Roman | Animistic water spirits. Female personalities åśśigned the guardianship of fresh waters by the great gods, and invoked locally at sacred pools and springs. They were also regarded as minor patrons of music and poetry.... |
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