| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Wintersmith" | Discworld | The personification of Winter. At his core he is the elemental personification of ice. Originally just a shape in the snow, with two violet eyes, he later formed a "snowman" out of all the elements that make a human body. He creates snowflakes and icebergs, and also the patterns of ice on windows. Discworld |
| Spirit name "Wiradyuri" | Australia | The ancestor and patron god of the Kamilaroi, as well as being an important creator spirit or culture hero of the Eora, the Darkinjung, the Wiradjuri, and several other eastern Australian language groups. |
"Wokey" | Britain | Wicked as the Witch of Wokey. Wookey-hole is a noted cavern in Somersetshire, which has given birth to as many weird stories as the Sibyls' Cave in Italy. The Witch of Wokey was metamorphosed into stone by a "lerned wight" from Gaston, but left her curse behind, so that the fair damsels of Wokey rarely find "a gallant." Britain |
"Wood Maidens" | European | Northern European Elves. |
| Spirit name "Wu'squus" | Chukchee / eastern Siberia | spirit of darkness. The personification of the night and the sibling of NA'CHITNA'IRGIN, the spirit of the left-hand dawn.... |
| Goddess name "Wuriupranili" | Australian aboriginal | Sun goddess. The position of Wuriupranili in the godly hierarchy is unclear, but mythology explains that she carries a burning torch made from tree bark and that she travels from east to west each day before descending to the western sea and using the embers to light her way through the underworld beneath the earth. The colors of the Sunrise and Sunset are said to be a reflection of the red ocher body paints with which she adorns herself.... |
| God name "Xolotl (monster)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Monstrous deity. He performed the role of executioner when the gods sacrificed themselves to create mankind. He then sacrificed himself. In alternative tradition he tried to evade his own fate, but was himself executed by EHECATL-QUETZALCOATL. Also one of a pair of twins in the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex, regarded as patron of the ball game.... |
| Spirit name "Ya'china'ut (moon woman)" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | moon spirit. The personification of the moon.... |
| Spirit name "Ya'halan (cloud man)" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | Guardian spirit. The son of the supreme being TENANTO'MWAN, his consort is YINE'ANE'UT. In alternative tradi tion he is the son of the supervisor being, INA'HITELAN. He is a protector of young couples, and youths beat a sacred drum invoking the spirit to turn the heart of a girl.... |
| Spirit name "Ya'halna'ut" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | Guardian spirit. Yajna (sacrifice)... |
| God name "Ya'qhicnin" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | Creator god. The name given to the Christian god by the Koryaks to distinguish him from their own supreme being, TENANTO'MWAN.... |
| Goddess name "Yama (1) (twin; alternatively the restrainer)" | Hindu / Vedic | God of death. The son of Vavasvan and Saranju, or of SURYA and SANJNA, his consort is DHUMORNA or YAMI. Yama is also the judge of the dead and the twin sibling of Yami, goddess of death. When KRSNA is perceived as the embodiment of the cosmos, his eye-teeth are Yama. He evolved into a dikpala or guardian of the southerly direction. His animal is a black buffalo. Color: black.... |
| God name "Yayutsi" | Siberia | After ascending through several heavens in visionary consciousness, the shaman converses with the creator god Yayutsi and also bows before the moon and Sun in turn. Finally, at the celestial abode of bai Ulgan, the shaman learns details of future weather patterns and the outcome of the harvest. The shaman then collapses in a state of ecstatic release. The Altai, Siberia |
| Spirit name "Yina'mna'ut (fog woman)" | Yakut / southeastern Siberia | spirit of mists and fogs. Her consort is fog man YINA'MTIAN and she is believed to live in a mythical settlement with other spirits.... |
| Spirit name "Yina'mtian (fog man)" | Yakut / southeastern Siberia | spirit of mists and fogs. His consort is fog woman YINA'MNA'UT and he is believed to live in a mythical settlement with other spirits.... |
| Demon name "Yine'ane'ut" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | Guardian spirit. One of the daughters of Big Raven, QUIKINN.A'QU, regarded as a shamanka engaged in a constant struggle with the underworld demons, the kalau. Her sister is Cana'ina'ut and she is the consort of the earth spirit TANUTA.... |
| Spirit name "Yobin-Pogil" | Yukaghir / southeastern Siberia | Forest spirit. The apotheosis of the woodlands and their guardian deity.... |
| God name "Yum Kaax" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | vegetation god. The deity concerned with the growing and harvesting of maize, but also of husbandry in general. Depicted as a youthful figure with an ear of corn in his headdress. Also God E.... |
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