| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Alpheus" | Greece | Alpheus as man. Hunting in the Forests of Greece, Alpheus saw Artemis and desired her. Alpheus as a river (present Alfeios River) and river-god, thus like most river-gods a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys. |
| Spirit name "Amalivaca" | Native America | A Native American spirit, who had seven daughters. He broke their legs to prevent their running away, and left them to people the Forests. |
| Goddess name "Arduinna" | Roman / Celtic / European | Goddess of Forests and hunting. Known only from inscriptions and figurines in the Ardennes region. Depicted riding on the back of a wild boar and presumed to be a guardian deity of boars. Identified by the Romans with the goddess DIANA.... |
| Goddess name "Ardwinna aka Dea Arduinna" | Britain | Woodland and animal Goddess who haunted the Forests of Ardennes riding a wild boar. She commanded a fine for any animal killed on her land, yet asked for animal sacrifices on her feast day. Britain |
| Spirit name "Bokwus" | Kwakiutl | fearsome spirit in the great North Western American Forests. Kwakiutl |
| Goddess name "Budhi Pallien" | India | A fearsome goddess of Forests and jungles, who roams northern India in the form of a tiger. India |
"Centaurs" | Greek | That is, the bull-killers, are according to the earliest accounts a race of men who inhabited the mountains and Forests of Thessaly. Greek |
"Corybantes aka Kurbantes" | s | Corybants, were Rhea's enthusiastic priests, who with drums, cymbals, horns, and in full armour, performed their orgiastic dances in the Forests and on the mountains of Phrygia. |
"Daemones" | Greek | family of elementals who inhabit fields, Forests, mountains, oceans, streams, lakes, valleys, desert, some towns and they are immortal Greek |
| Goddess name "Debena" | Czechoslovakia | A goddess of the Forests |
| Goddess name "Debena" | Slavic | Goddess of hunting and Forests. Slavic |
| Goddess name "Diana" | Roman | moon goddess. Living in the Forests, she is a huntress and protector of animals, also the guardian of virginity. Generally modeled on the Greek goddess ARTEMIS, she had a sanctuary on the Aventine Hill in Rome and, under Roman rule, took over the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.... |
| Goddess name "Fauna" | Etruscan | Goddess of the earth, wildlife, Forests, and fertility. Symbolizes prosperity as well. Etruscan |
"Flidais" | Irish | Ruler of wild beasts of the Forests\woodlands |
| God name "Hiisi" | Pre - Christian Karelian / Finland | Tree god. Said to reside in pine Forests. After Christianization he was degraded to a troll.... |
"Inkanyamba" | Africa | A legendary serpent living in a waterfall lake area in the northern Forests near Cape Town, South Africa |
| Spirit name "Itonde" | Mongo / Nkundo / central Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa | God of death. He consumes rats as food and is also the god of hunters in the dark jungle Forests. Described in the Epic of Lianja as the first man to die whose spirit reincarnated at the instant of death, into his son LIANJA. He possesses a bell with magical properties, the elefo, by which he predicts where death will strike.... |
| Hero name "Kalevanpoika (son/ man of Kaleva)" | Finland | A giant hero who can cut down Forests and mow down huge meadows, identical with Estonian national epic hero Kalevipoeg. |
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