| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Keri & Kame Bacairi" | 1st nations | These brothers are the accused of creating the human race |
| Spirit name "Gunnodoyak" | A youthful heroic deity who was once mortal | Iroquois (North American Indian). He was empowered by the spirit of thunder, Hino, to conquer the Great water Snake, enemy of humankind. The serpent devoured Gunnodoyak but was then slain by Hino, who cut open the snake, recovered the body of Gunnodoyak and returned him to his rightful place in heaven.... |
| Goddess name "Atai" | Africa | Goddess who encouraged the creation of humans, choosing earth for us to inhabit. Africa |
| God name "Mantchu Muchangu" | Africa | Strange but by teaching humans how to make clothes & covering their bodies he ended up being the god of dressmakers |
| God name "Minga Bengale Shongon" | Africa | God of hunters, also taught humans how to make nets Africa |
| Spirit name "Nguruhi" | Africa | The all-powerful but remote supreme being and creator who controls the elements and human destiny, but leaves daily occurrences to the influence of the ancestor spirits. The Wahehe, East Africa |
"Nyambe" | Africa | One of Nyambe's creations was Kamunu, the first human being. Nyambe gave Kamunu the task of naming all the other creations and told the human being that all the animals were his siblings. As such he should look after them. Lozi, South West Africa |
| Spirit name "Olokun" | Africa | The patron orisa of the descendants of Africans that were carried away during the Maafa, the Transatlantic Slave Trade or Middle Påśśage. Olokun works closely with Oya, deity of Sudden Change, and Egungun, Collective Ancestral spirits, to herald the way for those that påśś to ancestorship, as it plays a critical role in death (Iku), Life and the transition of human beings and spirits between these two existences. |
| Goddess name "Woyengi" | Africa | Creator Goddess who shaped humans from clay dolls. Africa |
| Demon name "Kukuth/ Kukudhi" | Albania | This is a female demon of sickness had an unhappy life at as a human |
"Agu'gux" | Aleut | Lives with his community in a land of snow. Like all other humans, Agu'gux is composed of all he knows and all he has ever known. Aleut |
| Goddess name "Kubai-khotun" | Anatolian | 'Great Mother'; she dwells in the 'tree of life' or under its roots and protects and supports humans and animals. Her milk is the origin of the milky Way. She was the primordial mother-goddess. Anatolian |
| Spirit name "Lau" | Andaman Islands / Sea of Bengal | spirit beings. Generally invisible but perceived in human form and living in the jungles and the sea. When an Andaman islander dies he or she becomes a lau.... |
| Spirit name "Morva" | Andaman Islands / Sea of Bengal | sky spirits. Invisible but thought to be of human form.... |
"Dware" | Anglo-Saxon | A diminutive being, human or superhuman. Anglo-Saxon |
| King name "Jinn" | Arabian | A sort of fairies in Arabian mythology, the offspring of fire. They propagate their species like human beings, and are governed by a race of kings named Suleyman, one of whom built the pyramids. Their chief abode is the mountain Kaf, and they appear to men under the forms of serpents, dogs, cats, monsters, or even human beings, and become invisible at pleasure. The evil jinn are hideously ugly, but the good are exquisitely beautiful. According to fable, they were created from fire two thousand years before Adam was made of earth. The singular of jinn is jinnee. |
"Al Borak" | Arabic | The animal which carried Mahomet to the seventh heaven. Brought by Gabriel, he had a human face, the cheeks of a horse and the wings of an eagle and spoke good Arabic. |
| Goddess name "Djanggawuls" | Aus | The goddesses of fertility that messed up & created humanity & of vegetation |
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