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It takes eight men above and eight this black warrior, with one leg Kekri2 Baltic below to pull his eyelids apart so that and one eye in the middle of his a Finnish festival in honour of the he can see. forehead, guarded the property of the god Kekri Ke Akua (see Akua) Black Knight and put those seeking kekri3 Baltic Keagyihl Depguesk North American adventure on the road to meeting the a Finnish ghost or spirit a whirlpool Black Knight in combat. kekritar Baltic This whirlpool had claimed the lives Keevan (see Ciabhan) masks, or the people wearing them, in of many young men so the tree-spirit, Keh Egyptian the Kekri festival Hanging Hair, called a meeting in a primordial god portrayed as having Kekrops (see Cecrops) Festival House of all the river-spirits the head of a frog Keku (see Kekui) who agreed to curb its power. The Kehama Hindu Kekui Egyptian storm-spirit blew part of a cliff into a prince [Emen.Kek(u).Kuk] the river, so diverting the flow of He drank some amrita but failed to a primaeval god water and reducing the whirlpool to a achieve immortality. Instead, he found consort of Kekuit gentle eddy. himself acting as one of the four With Kekuit he represented the Keats, John English supporting the throne of , the darkness of the primordial . (1795–1821) god of the dead. He is depicted sometimes with a a poet Kehtahn North American frog’s head, sometimes as a baboon. He was author of several works an offering to the gods of the Navajo, Kekuit Egyptian on mythological themes including a reed filled with tobacco etc. [Ahat.Emenet.Kakuet.Kakwet. Endymion, Lamia and Hyperion. Kehydius (see Kaherdin) Kauket.Keket.Kekut] Keb (see Geb) Kei1 Japanese a primaeval Kebechet Egyptian sister of Hasu-ko consort of Kekui a snake-goddess When Hasu-ko died, her soul took One of a pair of gods, with Kekui, daughter of Anubis over Kei’s body and, for a whole year, created from Chaos by Thoth. Kebechsenef (see Qebsehsenuf) lived with a lover. At the end of that Kekut (see Kekuit) Kebeh (see Qebsehsenuf) time, Hasu-ko’s soul left and Kei was Kekuwawkqu’ (see Kewawkqu’) Kebehsenuf (see Qebsehsenuf) returned to life and married Hasu-ko’s kekyon Greek Keckamanetowa former lover. a drink of Demeter used in the (see Ketchimanetowa) Kei2 (see Kai.Kay) ceremonies at Eleusis Kecrops (see Cecrops) Keidomos Greek Kelaino (see Celaeno) Kedalion (see Cedalion) a kelby (see ) Kedemel This being, who accompanied Ares in Kele Pacific Islands a demon of the planet Venus battle, controlled the noise of the battle. a Tongan primaeval deity Kedesh (see Kades) Keikeyi (see Kaikeya) consort of Limu Kedeshet (see Kades) Keiko Japanese parent of Touia Fatuna Keelta mac Ronan (see Cailte) an emperor Kelea Pacific Islands Keen Kings Australian father of O-Uso-no-Mikito and Oho-usu a princess a race of men with wings He sent his son Oho-usu to escort sister of Kawao These evil beings, built like tall two beautiful maidens to the court to wife of Kalamakua and Lo-hale humans with bat-like wings attached become wives of the emperor. Kalamakua was sent on a voyage to to their arms and with only two fingers Instead, Oho-usu married the girls, find a bride for his cousin’s son, Lo- and a thumb on each hand, lived in a Ye-hime and Oto-hime, and sent two hale, and came back with Kelea whom huge cage where, in a hole in the floor, others to his father’s court. Keiko he had found swimming in the sea. She the Flame God lived. They captured refused to accept them and they died married Lo-hale and bore three humans and sacrificed them to this of grief. children but later left her husband and god but all of them fell into the hole Kek (see Kekui) married Kalamakua. and were consumed by the flames Kekeko East Indian Kelemon (see Celamon) when the Winjarning Brothers led a fabulous bird Keleos (see Celeus) them in a frenzied dance. This bird can talk and also provides Kelets Siberian Keeper of the Medicine of food for orphans. a demon of death in the lore of the Deer North American Keket (see Kekuit) the Chukchee a priest who looks after the fetishes of Kekewage Pacific Islands He is said to have a pack of dogs with the Prey Brothers when they are not the keeper of the Melanesian which he hunts and kills men. being used afterworld, Bevebweso Kelikila Hindu Keeper of the Forest husband of Sinebomatu a name of Rati as ‘the shameless one’ (see Keeper of the Wood) He and his wife care for the spirits of Kelliwic Celtic Keeper of the Wood British dead children until their parents also [Kelliwig] [Keeper of the Forest] die and can look after them. one of ’s castles, a giant black man Kekri1 Baltic in Cornwall In the story of the Lady of the Fountain, an ancient Finnish god of cattle Kelliwig (see Kelliwic)

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Kelok North American Kenarey (see Kenor) kenningar Norse a monster Kendatsuba Japanese the metaphorical language of the In the lore of the tribes of the south- a guardian deity skalds used to describe gods etc. west, this winged giant was killed by one of the 28 Nijuhachi-Bushu Kenny (see Cainneach) Coyote and his body ignited a fire that Kenet Egyptian Kenor Cambodian destroyed the world. a goddess originating from Syria [Kenary:=Hindu ] kelpie Scottish Keneu North American a being with a female head and thorax [kelby.kelpy:=Irish each uisge: an eagle but the wings and feet of a bird =Manx Cabyll-Ushtey.Glaistyn: The companion, with Oshadagea, of Kenos (see Keros) =Orkneys tang(ie):=Scotland the thunder-god Hino. Kenro-jijin (see Ken-ro-ri-jin) shoopiltie:=Shetlands shoopiltee: (see also Keneun) Kentaur (see Centaur) =Welsh ceffyn dwr] Keneun North American Kentauroi (see Centaur) a spirit in the form of a water-horse [Chief Thunderbird.Golden Eagle] Kentauros (see Centaur) He lures people to ride on his back, an Indian totem figure Kenverchyn (see Cenferchyn) runs into the water to drown them and He is regarded as the guardian of fire, Kenzoku Japanese then eats them. originally stolen by Manabush. minor deities kelpy (see kelpie) (see also Keneu) Kephalos (see Cephalus) Keltchair (see Celtchair) Keng San Ku-niang Chinese Kepheus (see Cepheus) Keltchar (see Celtchair) [(Three) Lavatory Ladies] Kephissos (see Cephisus) Kelyddon (see Caledon Wood) 3 sisters of Chao Kung-ming Ker1 Greek Kematef (see Knef) Their brother was killed in the Battle a goddess of death Kembal Pacific Islands of Mu and they tried to avenge his daughter of and Nyx a semi-divine hero of Keraki death by throwing their red buckets sister of Hypnos, Moros and Thanatos kemea Hebrew (water-closets) at the enemy forces. Her function was to drag the dead and [kemia(h)] Two of them, Ch’iung Hsiao and Pi dying to the entrance to the under- an amulet used to ward off the evil eye Hsiao, were killed. For their efforts in world. She is depicted as wearing a kemia (see kemea) the great battle, they were appointed long cloak stained with blood. kemiah (see kemea) guardians of childbirth. (see also keres1.2) kemoit Malay Another version says that the Ker2 Mesopotamian a ghost interpretation as three is a name for Q’re A soul allowed to reach Belet, the home mistaken and has Keng San Ku as the ker3 (see keres) of the dead, is turned into a kemoit Third Lady of the Privy, a goddess Ker-Is (see Ys) when the earlier inhabitants meet under who was the mortal, Lady Ch’i, second Ker-Ys (see Ys) the Mapik tree and break its arms and wife of an official. His first wife, Lady Kerala (see Issaki) legs and turn its eyes inwards. Ts’ao, killed Ch’i by throwing her into Kerastes (see Cerastes3) Kemos (see Chemosh) the privy. She is alternatively known as Keraunia Greek Kemosh (see Chemosh) Third Lady (San Ku), Purple Lady or a name for Semele reflecting her Kemur (see Kemwer) Seventh Lady (Ch’i Ku). death from the lightning of Kemush North American Kengida Mesopotamian Keraunos Greek [=Modoc Kumush] a Sumerian deity, messenger a thunder-god the Klamath name for Kumush for a name of Zeus as ‘lightning’ Kemwer Egyptian Kengiu (see Hikoboshi) Kerberos (see Cerberus.Naberius) [Kemur] Kengoi Japanese kere Mongolian a black bull worshipped in Athribis an aspect of Jizo as ‘strong [=Chinese ch’i-lin:=Japanese kirin: Ken Chinese determination’ =Tibetan serou] one of the Eight Diagrams, Kengyu (see Hikoboshi) the unicorn representing mountains and dog Kengyu-sei (see Hikoboshi) Kerema Apo East Indian Ken-ro-ri-jin Japanese Kenimbleni African the first man, in Papuan lore [Kenro-jijin] a Subagi He was hatched from the egg of a an earth god He stole magic powders which made huge turtle and mated with Ivi Apo, Ken Tamboehan Malay him immortal and enabled him to fly the first woman, who was born from [Kin Tambuhan.Lady Unknown] and to talk the language of the birds. another egg. a princess Kennaquhair Scottish keremat Pacific Islands She was left in the forest by an eagle an imaginary place the power of miracle-working which had carried her off and was found kenne South American of saints there by a king who married her to his a stone which the Incas said keremet1 Baltic son. The queen had her killed and her formed in the eye of in Finnish lore, the place where body was thrown into the river. a stag a hero was killed Kenaima West Indian This stone was used as an antidote Bonfires are made on this spot in a Carib Indian with the power of to poison. tribute to the hero who, it is said, will death: an avenger Kenneth (see Cainneach) continue to serve his country.

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keremet2 Russian accounts, by whom he had seven sons, Kerres Italian sacred groves one of whom, Yasib, suckled by Anat, [=Roman Ceres] These places are said to be the home wanted his father’s throne and led an an early mother-goddess of dead heroes. unsuccessful rebellion when his father kerrighed French Keremet3 Russian fell ill. Keret was cured by Sha’taqat, devilish spirits in France a sent by El. (see also Coranieid.Corrigan) brother of god Kereth Egyptian kerub (see cherub) Kere Nyaga (see Mount Kenya) a snake-god keruk North American Kereberus (see Cerberus.Naberius) Kere’tkun Siberian a ceremony of the Yuma tribe, keres1 Greek [Peruten] designed to make the dead happy [sing=ker] the supreme sea-spirit and send them on their way female spirits: winged husband of Cinei’nen Kerwan North American creatures controlling destiny: He is said to devour the bodies of a Pueblo maize-spirit souls of the dead the drowned. (see also Kachina Mana) These beings are said to cause disease Kerh (see Qeh) kerykeion Greek among the living and to carry off the Kerhet (see Qerhit) [=Roman caduceus] bodies of the dead. Some say that they Keri South American the wand of Hermes (see caduceus) escaped from Pandora’s box. a culture-hero of the Bakairi Indians Keryneian Hind They are envisaged as tiny human the sun personified (see Ceryneian Hind) figures rather like gnats. son of Oka Kesa1 Hindu Keres2 Greek brother of Kame [‘lord of the waters’] violent death personified The mother of Keri and Kame a name of Varuna in his role as a (see also Ker1) conceived them by swallowing two sea-god Keresaspa Persian bones. Her mother-in-law killed her Kesa2 Japanese [Garshasp.Krsaspa] but the two children were saved. The a faithful wife a semi-divine hero brothers pushed the sky up to allow Under duress she agreed to help Endo son of Thrita Athwiya room for men to live and invented fire Morito kill her husband so that she brother of Urvakhshaya and water. They also produced all the could become his wife. She gave him husband of Khnathati animals of the earth from a hollow tree access to her husband’s room and he He was the son of one of the first four and set the sun and moon on their cut off the head of the sleeping figure men to press the divine drink, Haoma, present courses through the sky. which turned out to be Kesa wearing from the fruit of the Gaokerena tree. Keridwen (see Ceridwen) her husband’s night-shirt. He fought the monster Ganda-rewa Keridwin (see Ceridwen) Kesair (see Cessair) for nine days and nights and killed the kerimas Tibetan kesakten East Indian monsters Arazoshamana, Hitaspa, [keyuri] [=Indian shakti] Kamak, Kaput, Pitaona, Srvara and a group of 8 Buddhist goddesses in Java, the vital principle permeating Vareshava. These beings form part of the the universe He was once captured and seduced group of goddesses. Each one is a Kesar (see Gesar) by the sorceress Khnathati but he different part of the human body. Kesar Saga (see Gesar Saga) managed to escape. He later married her. Kerkio (see Cercios) Kesava Hindu He is destined to kill Angra Mainya Kerkopes (see Cercopes) a name for Vishnu, in the form of a and the demon Dahak in the final Kerkuon (see Cercyon) boar, as ‘hairy’ battle when good triumphs over evil. Kerlaug Norse Keshi (see Keshin) (see also Nariman.Thraetona) [Kerlaung.Kerlogar] Keshin1 Hindu Keresavazdah Persian a meeting-place of the gods near [Keshi.Kesin] a demon of drought Urda’s well a Vedic ascetic and mystic brother of Afrasiyab In some accounts, two rivers of Keshin2 Hindu He falsely accused Siyawush who was the dead. (see Kormt) [Keshi.Kesin] killed by Afrasiyab. Kerlaung (see Kerlaug) a horse-demon Keret Canaanite Kerlogar (see Kerlaug) He once tried to rape the maiden king of Sidon Kernababy (see Cornbaby) Devasena but arrived in time to son of El kernos Greek save her and, when the god threatened consort of Hurriya a jar or drinking-vessel used in the Keshin with his , the father of Ellil and Yasib Eleusinian rites demon fled. He fought and defeated the moon-god, Keros South American Kamsa posted this demon to kill Etrah, who tried to take his kingdom. [Kenos] Krishna but the god killed both the After Hurriya, his first wife, died the first man, in the lore of the Ona demon and Kamsa. (or, some say, after the death of his first tribe of Tierra del Fuego Keshini1 Buddhist seven wives) he was still childless so he Keros produced more people by [Kesini] went to war with a neighbouring king forming sexual organs from peat which an attendant on the and took his daughter, or wife in some united to make the ancestors of the tribe. goddess Arapancana

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Keshini2 Khadir

Keshini2 Hindu Hakon. When Hakon, aided by Khadga Hindu [Kesini] Ketilrid’s two brothers, ambushed and [Khadaga] a maid-servant of Damayanti wounded both Viglund and his brother a sword, one of the weapons of Durga Keshvar Persian Trausti, who then left the country, Khadir Arab one of the 6 sections into which the Ketilrid went through a form of [Al-Khidr.El Khadir.(El) Hidr. outer part of the world is divided marriage with her uncle, Ketil, to Hadir.Khidu.(El) K(h)idir.Khizr.(El) Kesil Semitic protect her until Viglund returned and Kidr.Kilir.Matun.Nabi.Nabu.The a giant: the constellation Orion married her. .The Green One] He tried to reach the heavens but god Keto (see Ceto) an early vegetation-god and sea-god tied him up and put him in the sky as Ketqskwaye North American The original Khadir was born in Orion. When he disappears below the a creator-goddess of the Huron Persia in 1077 and died in 1166. horizon, he is said to be spending part Ketse-awa Russian He was a prophet who became of the year in She’ol. a tutelary spirit, guardian immortal after drinking from the Well In some accounts, he is equated with of the sun of Life, the only mortal allowed to do Gibbor or Nimrod. Ketsi Niousak North American so. He accompanied Alexander the Kesin (see Keshin) goodness personified, in the lore of Great into a cave in search of the well. Kesini (see Keshini) the Abnaki He used a jewel to guide them but they Kesna1 East Indian Kettu (see Kittu) became separated and Khadir [=Hindu Krishna] Ketu Hindu stumbled in the darkness and fell into the Javanese form of Krishna [=Chinese Chi-tu] the well. As a result of drinking from Kesna2 Malay the lunar node known as the Dragon’s the well, he turned a bluish-green [=Hindu Krishna] Tail, the part of Rahu which the colour. He managed to find his way the Malay form of Krishna amrita did not reach out of the cave and is said to be still Ket (see Cet) (see also Rahu) alive, wandering the face of the earth, Ketanto’wit North American Ketua African returning once every 500 years to the [‘great power’] a god of fortune in Zaire same place. a creator-god of the Delaware Indians Ketumala Hindu It is said that he can speak every Ketchkatch North American one of the 4 island-continents language. When he was captured, his in the lore of the tribes of the mentioned in the Mahabharata chains turned to dust. On another north-west, the grey fox created (see also Dvipa) occasion, King Abud ordered his men to by Kumush Keu (see Kay) kill the prophet but their swords turned Ketchimanetowa North American Keu Woo Chinese against the soldiers and killed them. [Great Spirit.Keckamanetowa] in Hainan, a deity controlling typhoons When the king, Jantam, gave his the creator-god of the Fox tribe Keux (see Ceyx) daughter to Alexander as a wife, (see also Great Spirit) Keva (see Cebha) Khadir used his magic to fill the king’s Ketil (see Ketill) Kevalin Jain storehouse with treasure. Ketill1 Norse a sage In another version, Khadir was cook [Ketil] Kevin (see Caoimhghin) to Alexander the Great on his a legendary hero Kewanambo East Indian expedition into the desert. As he He was with the Njalssons when a man-eating ogre of Papua washed a dried fish in a pool, prior to they were attacked by a force led by This demon often appears in the guise cooking it for his master’s supper, the Frosi and died with the rest of Njal’s of a kindly woman who lures children fish came to life and swam away. family when the attackers burnt the from their homes. Khadir drank some of the water and, as house down. Kewawkqu’ North American in other versions, turned green and Ketill2 Norse [Kekuwawkqu’] became immortal. Alexander wanted [Ketil] a tribe of giant magicians to achieve immortality himself but the a would-be assassin These demon followers of Malsum pool could no longer be found and he He was hired by Helgi to kill the were defeated by Gluskap. would have killed the cook had he not merchant Thorleif but the two became Keyeme South American been invulnerable. He finally threw good friends. lord of the animals in the lore the unfortunate Khadir, weighted with Ketill3 Norse of the Taulipang people stones, into the sea, whereupon Khadir [Ketil] He is envisaged as a man who can turned into a sea-god, still immortal. a farmer change into a snake. One story tells how a king had been He went through a form of marriage Keyuri (see Kerimas) duped by a dervish but the king with his niece, Ketilrid, to protect her Kezer-Tshingis-Kaira-Khan Russian pardoned him on the advice of Khadir. until Viglund, the man she loved, a hero of the flood His judgment was demonstrated returned from overseas. He is said to have taught men how to when, having smashed a boat, killed a Ketilrid Norse prepare strong drink. youth and rebuilt a wall, he explained daughter of Holmkell and Thorbjorg Khadaga (see Khadga) that the boat was destined to be She fell in love with Viglund but her Khadau Siberian captured by pirates, the youth to parents wanted her to marry the rich with Mamaldi, the first pair of beings become an evil man and the wall

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contained much treasure that would This number is so powerful that it is He went into the jungle to look for the now go to two orphans and not to the never used in speech. Bamboo Princess. While he slept, she greedy tenant. Khamseh Persian cooked a meal for him and then Khadir is depicted as a young a 12th C book of legends disappeared. He then cut open the man but nevertheless with white hair Khan-iki Siberian bamboo under which he had been and beard. an earth-watching deity sleeping and the princess emerged. Khadriyani-Tara Buddhist son of Overgod They both went to Bukit Peraja and a goddess Khandas Cambodian disappeared and, although still alive, are Khagarbha (see Akasagarbha) [=Hindu ] never seen. They will, however, help khaib (see khaibit) the white tevodas anybody who invokes their aid. khaibit Egyptian Khandava Hindu khatvanga Buddhist [khaib.khaybet] [Khandavaprastha] a word used in rituals incorporating a personal ‘shadow’, part of the the country given to the Pandavas the vajra, a skull, etc. individual’s make-up by Dhartarashtha khaybet (see khaibit) It was said that this shadow could leave Khandavaprastha (see Kandava) Khebe (see Khipa) the body and exist on its own. Khandoba Hindu Khebieso (see Xewioso) Khakaba African an aspect of Shiva khecaratva Hindu a name of Wele as ‘the sharer’ consort of Mhalsa levitation: astral travel: the sensation Khakadi Egyptian Khantaka (see Kanthaka) of leaving the physical body the red-coloured beer that Ra Khar (see Khara) Kheiron (see Chiron) used to flood the earth when Khara Persian Khen-Ma Tibetan Sakhmet was killing the people [Khar] [Khon-Ma] Khalbin Mongolian a huge ass a Buddhist goddess controlling earthly one of the 11 sons of Khori Tumed This beast, described as having only and a swan-maiden three legs but six eyes (two are on top She is depicted with eight wrinkles in Khaldi Mesopotamian of its head and two in its hump) stands her face and riding a ram. [=Persian Bag-Mashtu] in the sea called Vourukasha and is said Khen-Pa Tibetan a supreme god of the pre-Armenian to be able to overcome all forms of a Buddhist god controlling heavenly Urartians evil. demons He is regarded as the precursor of In some accounts, Khara is described He is depicted with white hair and the Chaldaeans. as a primaeval fish. riding a white dog. Khaldis Mesopotamian Kharasvara Jain Khenemu (see Khnum) an Assyrian god gods of the underworld Khens (see Khons) Khaleel Arab These beings torture the wicked dead Khensit Egyptian [Sheik Khaleel] by forcing their bodies into thorn- a goddess of the Lower Kingdom a man who owned a cat which could bushes. She is depicted in the form of the uraeus. talk in Arabic Khariteis (see Graces) Khensu (see Khons) kham Arab Kharmaheruka (see Amoghasiddhi) Khentamenti (see Khenti Amentiu) [kam] Kharon (see Charon) Khenti Amentiu Egyptian a charm in the form of a hand Kharubdis (see Carybdis) [Chenti Amentiu.Chontamenti. Kham Daeng Thai Khasa Hindu Chonti-amentiu.First of the Westerners. [Golden Prince] a goddess of forest spirits Khentamenti.Khenty-imentiu. a king daughter of Daksha King of the Dead.Wepwawet] On a hunting trip, he was lured into a a consort of Kasyapa a funerary god, god of the underworld wonderful palace inside a mountain, Khasarpana Buddhist This jackal-headed deity was later by a hind that turned into In Lao, a a form of Hayagriva as an assistant assimilated with Osiris who ruled the beautiful maiden. He stayed with her to Avalokiteshvara underworld under that name. and was never seen again. an aspect of Avalokiteshvara, some say Other versions give Khenty-imentiu Khambaba Persian He is depicted as white and sitting on as a name for Anubis and later for Osiris. an ancient sun-god, in some accounts the moon. Khenti-cheti Egyptian Khambageu African Khasm Persian [Chenti-cheti:=Greek Chentechtoi] a culture-hero of the Sonjo people [Khism] a god of Tanzania a later name for Aeshma Originally envisaged as a crocodile, he He came among the Sonjo working Khat Egyptian developed into a falcon-god and miracles, moving from village to the physical body, as distinct from merged with Osiris. village until he died. He was buried Sahu the spiritual body, one of the Khenti-irti Egyptian but the grave was later found to be 5 elements comprising the complete [Chenti-irti.Machenti-irti] empty. Some say that he had risen being a falcon-god from the dead and flown up to heaven. Khatib Malay an aspect of Horus khamsa Arab a man who discovered the He was responsible for law and order a mystic number; the number 5 Bamboo Princess and was depicted as blind.

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Khenty-imentiu Khoser-et-Hasis

Khenty-imentiu Khin-ort Siberian Kho Thora (see Kaang) (see Khenti Amentiu) an Ostiak demon of sickness Khobilkhan (see Hutukhtu) Khenty-seh-netjer (see Anubis) He is said to be the pilot of the boat of Khoda Persian Khepera (see Khepra) the dead. a supreme deity Kheperi (see Khepra) Khione (see Chione) Khodumodumo (see Kholumulumo) Khepra Egyptian Khipa Mesopotamian Kholumulumo African [Chepre.Chepera.Khepera.Khep(e)ri. [Khebe] [Kammapa.Khodumodumo] Kheprer.Khepry.Khopri] a tutelary god of the a monster of the Sotho tribe a scarab-headed sun-god Khism (see Khasm) He ate all humans except one woman a manifestation of Ra as the khitaka Hindu whose son, Moshanyana, killed the morning sun a club, one of the weapons of Durga monster when it got jammed in a He was regarded as a self-created (see also gada) narrow pass, slit open its belly and creator-god, rising out of Nun, who, Khizr (see Khadir) released the imprisoned people. merely by saying his name, created a Khlenonoai (see Tlehanoai) Khons Egyptian solid place on which he could stand, Khnathati Persian [Chons.Chunsu.Khens(u).Khonsu.Khuns. and created Shu and Tefnut. He was a sorceress Lord of Air.Lord of All.Lord of Time. later assimilated with Ra, the sun-god. She once captured and seduced the hero The Traveller:=Greek Heracles] In some accounts, he was the son of Keresaspa but he escaped. a moon-god, wind-god, war-god and Nut who swallowed her son each khmoc pray Cambodian god of healing evening only for him to be born again an evil spirit son of Amon and Mut or of Sebek each morning. This particular form of pray is the and Hathor In another version, one of his eyes spirit of a woman who died in He was Thoth as ‘Lord of Time’ and wandered across the sky each day as childbirth. They are said to live in Shu as ‘Lord of All’. the sun and was brought back to him trees and throw stones at passers-by, In some accounts, he grew out of by Shu and Tefnut. sometimes killing them. Even worse the leg of Osiris after he had been cut In the form of a scarab, he fought are the spirits of those women who to pieces by Set. the demons of the abyss from which he died during pregnancy; they are As Khensu-Hor or Khensu-Ra he had emerged. accompanied by the spirit of the was a sun-god. He was said to have created the unborn foetus. (see also kon pray) He is sometimes depicted as a child, world by rolling his own spittle into Khnemu (see Khnum) as falcon-headed, or as a dog-headed a ball. Khnoum (see Khnum) baboon and may be shown standing on (see also Menthu2) Khnoumis (see Khnum) a crocodile. (see also Ah) Kheprer (see Khepra) Khnum1 Egyptian Khonsu (see Khons) Khepri (see Khepra) [Ba.Chnoumis.Chnemu.Divine Potter. Khonsu-Hor Egyptian Khepry (see Khepra) Doudoon.E(e)f. Kh(e)nemu. [Khonsu-Ra] Kherebu Mesopotamian Khnoum(is).Khnumu.Kneph. the god Khons as spring rain Assyrian spirits Knum.Lord of the Afterworld: personified Kherneter (see Field of Reeds) =Nubian Dodonu] Khonsu-Ra (see Khonsu-Hor) Kherty Egyptian a ram-headed creator-god, god of Khonvum African [Cherti] the cataracts the supreme god of the Pygmies a ram-god protecting the tombs one of the 3 Lords of Destiny He made the first pygmies in the of kings consort of Anuket and Sati sky and lowered them down to earth In some accounts he was the ferryman consort of Heket, Neith and Menhyt, on ropes. of the dead. some say Khopri (see Khepra) Khery-bakef Egyptian He is said to have made gods and Khori Tumed Siberian a name of Ptah as ‘he who sits under humans from mud from the Nile or a man who married a swan-maiden a tree’ from clay on a potter’s wheel and was father of Galzuut, Khalbin, Kheti (see Akhthoes) guardian of the grotto where Hapi Khovduud, etc. Khetrpal Indian lived on the island of Bigeh. Like Volund, he seized the wings of a a guardian deity in Bengal In some accounts, he was later swan-maiden who came, with eight Khi-dimme-azaga Mesopotamian merged with Min. others, to bathe in a lake, and made her a Babylonian mother-goddess He is sometimes depicted as ram- his wife by whom he had eleven sons. She daughter of Ea headed or as a . later recovered her wings and flew away. In some accounts, she is thought of (see also Knef) Slav as Belet-Seri. Khnum2 Egyptian god of good health and hunting Khidi Arab 7, 8 or 9 earth-gnomes, assistants of He is depicted as a stallion. [El Khidi.The Great One] the creator-god, Khnum Khoser-et-Hasis Phoenician a benevolent water-spirit It was said that they could reconstruct [Bn-Ym] Khidir (see Khadir) the rotting bodies of the dead. a sea-god Khidu (see Khadir) Khnumu (see Khnum1) He fought with the aid of Khimaira (see Chimaera) Kho (see Kaang) Leviathan, Suffete and Zabel.

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Khosodam Kian

Khosodam Siberian two gourds given to Nana by her ki1 Japanese a cannibalistic female ruler of parents. When he did so, all the [=Chinese ch’i] the dead animals of the world emerged. spirit: spiritual energy She was said to have created mosquitoes. Khun Kan Thai Ki2 Mesopotamian Khosrou (see Kay Khusraw) one of the Three Great Men [=Babylonian Antu] Khotun (see Ajysyt) Khun Ket Thai a Sumerian earth-goddess Khovduud Mongolian one of the Three Great Men daughter of Nammu one of the 11 sons of Khori Tumed and khuna Thai wife of An a swan-maiden paradise mother of Enlil and Khruseis (see Chryseis) Khuno South American Some say that she was the daughter of Khrusippos (see Chrysippus) a Bolivian god of snow-storms Ansar and Kisar, others that she was Khrut Thai Khuns (see Khons) generated by Nammu. [Galon.Gallus.] Khuran-Nojon Siberian Originally, An and Ki were joined the Thai version of Garuda a Buriat rain-deity together but Enlil separated them and Khshathra Vairya He stores rain in barrels each of which, mated with Ki to produce all living (see Kshathra Varya) when opened, causes rain to fall for things on earth. (see also Ninmah) khu1 Egyptian three days. ki-apod South American the immortal essence of the individual, Khurdad (see Haurvatat) celestial spirits of the Tupari one of the 5 elements comprising Khurdhid Persian people of Brazil the complete being [=Greeek Helius] ki-apoga-pod South American This entity is sometimes depicted as a an ancient sun-god, forerunner a soul, in the lore of the Tupari bird with a crest. of Hvarekhshaeta people of Brazil Khu2 Egyptian Khuri Edzhin Siberian Some say that, after the pabid leaves, a god of light a Buriat spirit who teaches men the the body is buried. Its heart then starts Khubilgan Siberian art of music to get bigger and eventually bursts [=Golde Bucu] Khurs (see Chors) open to reveal a new being, the ki- in the lore of the Buriats, the soul Khuswame (see Khuzwame) apoga-pod. A shaman pulls this new This being, in the form of an animal or Khuzwane African being, made of clay, out of the ground, a bird, acts as the protector of a shaman. [Khuswane] shapes it into human form and, after Khubur Mesopotamian a creator-god of the Luvedu tribe giving it food and drink, releases it [=Greek Styx] Khvarenah1 Persian into the upper air where it lives. the river of death in Aralu, the [Farro] (see also pabid) Babylonian underworld a god of divine grace Ki-gulla Mesopotamian This river was crossed by a ferry khvarenah2 Persian [Destroyer of the World] operated by Arad-Ea who carried souls [Farro] son of Ea across to the underworld. a divine substance ki-mon Japanese Khudjana African This substance confers power on kings garden shrines said to protect a creator-god in the Transvaal and the souls of the dead, creates gods, the home son of Ribimbi gives the stars and planets their power ki-mu Chinese He is said to have created the earth. to influence human affairs and endows a bag said to contain the essence Khuhi (see Hu6) men with the strength to fight evil. of life Khuluppu Mesopotamian Originally vested in Yima, it passed, Ki-no-o-baké Japanese the Babylonian world-tree when he spoke false words, to Mithra, a tree-spirit This tree on the banks of the Euphrates then to Thraetona and finally to This spirit was said to be able to leave was the site of Ishtar’s lovemaking Keresaspa, ending up in the ocean. the tree it inhabits and assume a sessions. The timber of the tree was It is variously said to be found in the number of different guises. said to have medicinal properties. ocean, reeds or space. ki-pi Chinese Khumbala Mesopotamian khwan Thai a diviner’s wand made of a tyrant killed by Gisdhubar [=Indonesian badi] red-lacquered peachwood Khumbanda Hindu the soul which, it is said, can leave ki-rin (see kirin) [=Cambodian Kampean] the body and return Ki Sin Chinese one of a group of 8 demons led (see also windjan) a god of Chekiang by Virudhaka Khyati Hindu He was originally a 2nd CBCgeneral Khumbu’i Yulha Tibetan mother of Lakshmi by Brighu, some say who took the place of the emperor [Home God of the Khumbu] Khyung Tibetan during a siege, so allowing his master patron deity of the sherpas [=Hindu Garuda] to escape at the cost of his own life. This deity lives on the Himalayan winged deities of the Bon Kiaklo North American peak Khumbila. Khyung-Gai mGo-Can Tibetan in Zuni lore, a hero of the Askiwi Khun Hsang L’rong Burmese [=Hindu Garuda] who visited Pautiwal in the husband of Nang-pyek-kha Yeh-khi a local Buddhist god, leader of underworld He was the only man able to split the the Khyung Kian (see Cian)

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Kianda Kildisin-mumy

Kianda African kicklesnifter North American Kika-saru (see Kikazaru) a sea-god of the Kimbundu of Angola a fabulous animal Kikanga (see Chikanga) He proposed, in the form of a skull, to Kida (see Kaidu) Kikazaru Japanese a girl who rejected him. Her sister Kidilli Australian [Kika-saru] accepted him and they went to his [Kulu] one of the Three Mystic Apes palace where he revealed himself as a moon-man of the Aborigines He is depicted with his hands covering a god. When he tried to rape the first woman his ears as ‘he who hears no evil’. Kiara (see Mbomba1) he was killed by Kurukadi and Mumba, (see Domovikha) kiavari East Indian the lizard-men of the Dreamtime. Kikore African spirits of the dead, in Javanese lore Kidir (see Khadir) daughter of Ruhaga kibaba African Kidul East Indian She was the daughter of the king’s a Swahili charm used against thieves [Belerong.(Nyai) Belorong. concubine and was sent as a bride to kibla (see keblah) (Nyai) Gedé Segoro.(Nyai) Lara. King Intare who had asked for the Kibu Pacific Islands Kidul.Ratu Kidul.Ratu Lara Kidul. hand of her half-sister, Jaru. Intare, in the Melanesian land of the dead Ratu Loro] disguise, entered Ruhaga’s court and This land is envisaged as an island in a sea-goddess, goddess of storms eloped with Jaru. the west. When the soul (mari) reaches She met Senapati when he was Kiku Japanese Kibu it is turned into a proper ghost of swimming and took him to her under- a farmer’s daughter the dead when it is struck on the head water palace where he became her wife of Sawara with a stone club. It is then a markai lover. He later returned to his home Kimi, the girl whom Sawara loved, ran and can learn about life in Kibu. and became king of Java. away and Sawara, despairing of ever Kibuka African Kidr (see Khadir) seeing her again, married Kiku. He [Kibuki Kyobe] Kiehtan North American later found Kimi who killed herself a war-god and storm-god of a beneficent god in the lore of the and he then sent Kiku back to her own the Baganda New England tribes family. son of Manema Mairwa and Nagadya Kieran (see Ciaran) Kiku-jido Japanese or Nambubu Kiet African [Chrysanthemum Boy] brother of Mukasa in the lore of the Nandi, the world an immortal youth said to live in the He helped the tribe in the form of a order created by Asis fountain of youth cloud from which missiles rained down Kigare African Kikuo Japanese on their enemies in battle. a cattle-god of the Banyoro a servant of Tsugaru He lost his immortality by sleeping Kigva (see Cigfa) He and his master escaped when with a mortal woman and was killed in Kigwa African enemies seized Tsugaru’s land and the next battle. an ancestral hero of Rwanda castle and, when Tsugaru died, Kikuo Kibuki Kyobe (see Kibuka) The wife of Nkuba had no children so planted hosts of chrysanthemums Kibunwasi African she killed a cow and took its heart round his grave. When Kikuo a trickster-deity in Zanzibar which she tended for nine months to himself fell ill, the spirits of the Kibwebanduka African produce the boy, Kigwa. He descended chrysanthemums appeared, in the a tribal-hero in Tanzania to earth and his son, Gihanga, became form of children, to tend him as he He led his people to their present the first king. had tended them but he was fated homeland. (see also Nkuba) to die within thirty days. The Kichaka Hindu Kihanga African chrysanthemums he had planted a general the first man in the lore of disappeared and when others were He tried to seduce Draupadi when she the Burundi planted round his own grave they died. was serving as a maid at court and was father of Kanyarundi, Katwa Kikuyu (see Gikuyu) beaten to death by Bhima. and Kinyarwanda Kilattas Mesopotamian Kichigonai South American He was made by Imana and descended a Hurrian deity attendant on a spirit of light, maker of the day, to earth on a rope. He was black and Shaushkas in Guatemala white like a zebra. Kilcoed (see Cil Coed) Kichijoten Japanese Kiho Tumu (see Te Tumu) kilcrop the goddess of fortune Kihunai North American the child of a woman and an incubus Kici Manitou North American the people who preceded the Hupa tribe These children are said to have a [Kici Manitu] These people are believed to exist all voracious appetite but rarely live the supreme god of the Algonquin round the Hupa, even above them. longer than seven years. Indians Ki’i Pacific Islands Kildisin Baltic He created the world from mud the Hawaiian name for Tiki wife of the Finnish sky-god, collected by birds and dried in his Kiir African Ilmarinen sacred pipe. His staff forms the central a Nuer god, guardian of the Nile (see also Kildisin-mumy) support for the world. Kijo Japanese Kildisin-mumy Russian Kici Manitu (see Kici Manitou) an ogre of the woods [Kugo-shotshen-Ava] Kicva (see Cigfa) Kika (see Na Kika) a birth-goddess

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Kilembe Kindawuss

mother or wife of the Votyak Kimat Pacific Islands Kimiji (see Kimbuji) sky-god, Inmar a dog of lightning in the Philippines, Kimitaka Japanese (see also Kildisin) owned by Tadaklan daughter of the emperor Ichijo Kilembe African Kimata-no- Japanese She was captured by the demon [Tree of Life] [Tree-trunk god] Shutendoji but her father sent the a magical tree son of Okuni-Nushi and Ya-gami-hime warrior Raiko to kill the demon and This tree arrived on earth carried by When this child was born, Ya-gami- she was rescued. the hero Sudika-mbambi when he hime left it in a tree outside the palace Kimmerians (see ) was born. where Okuni-Nushi now lived with Kimmeroi (see Cimmerians) Kilhwch (see ) Suseri-hime. The child was found by kimpasi African Kilhwych (see Culhwch) the palace servants and Suseri-hime a ritual of the Bakongo kili Norse reared him as her own. This ritual is performed when many one of the dwarfs kimbanda African deaths have occurred in a village. kiliakai (see kilyakai) a sorcerer in Angola Young members of each family are Kilibob East Indian Kimbay Irish housed in a specially-built enclosure a local god in New Guinea [Cambaeth.Cimbaeth.Ci(o)mbaoth. and then taken to a burial-ground Kilili Mesopotamian Combaoth.Cumbaeth] where they are beaten to death with an aspect of Ishtar as ‘harlot’ a prince of Ulster twigs. In reality, they are merely Kilima African brother of Aedh and Dithorba frightened out of their wits and, when a type of spirit which takes possession On the death of his brother, Aedh, he was they recover, they are sent back to of humans, causing illness due to share the throne of Ulster with his their families. (see also Kinyamkera) other brother, Dithorba, but he was killed Kimpen-jigoku Japanese Kilioa Pacific Islands by Aedh’s daughter, Macha, who forcibly subsidiary at the cardinal points a lizard-woman, in Polynesian lore wed Kimbay and took the throne. of the 8 major hells of Jigoku, each She and Kalamainu act as guardians of In some accounts, Macha is the divided into 4 parts the souls of the dead. sister of Dithorba and Kimbay, rather (see also Koduku-jigoku) Kilir (see Khadir) than their niece. Kimpurusha Hindu Killaraus (see Hill of Aisneach) Kimbeline (see Cunobelinus) a spirit serving Kubera Killer-of-Enemies North American Kimbugwe African These beings are said to have the body a culture-hero or minor deity of the a guardian of the afterbirth of a king, of a horse with a human head. Apache and Navaho among the Buganda (see also Kinnava) son of Changing Woman Kimbuji African Kin Tambuhan (see Ken Tamboehan) brother of Child-of-the-Water [Kimiji] kina South American and Wise One in the lore of Angola, a huge fish in Tierra del Fuego, a masked religious He and his brothers killed monsters or crocodile dance-ritual for men only and all the enemies of mankind. This underworld inhabitant swallowed Originally used by women, who were He is credited with the creation of Sudika-mbambi but was killed by his the superior sex, the sun discovered the horse in which he used the wing of brother Kabundungulu. the secret from the moon and killed all a bat to form the diaphragm. Kimera African the women except young girls and Kilot Pacific Islands an ancestral king of the Baganda adopted the dance for men to ensure the underworld, in some parts of grandson of Kintu that they became superior to women. the Philippines He was killed by his own grandson, (see also kloketan) This place is regarded as the home of Tembo, who had been led to believe Kincaled British the left-hand kalaloa (soul); the right- that Kimera had killed his own son, the Welsh name for hand one goes to a heaven in the sky. Tembo’s father. kinchaku Japanese kilu Pacific Islands Kimi Japanese a bag containing a charm said to a Hawaiian song-festival and recital daughter of Tenko protect children from accident or of legends She fell in love with Sawara, a pupil of being lost Kilwydd (see Cilydd) her father, but he left to further his kinchiltun Central American Kilya South American education under the painter Myokei. in the Mayan time-scale, a period of an Inca moon-goddess When Kimi heard that Sawara was to some 3,200,000 years kilyakai East Indian marry Myokei’s daughter, she ran Kindawuss North American [kiliakai] away. Sawara could not find her when a Haida maiden malevolent forest spirits of he returned to her father’s home so he mother of Cunwhat and Soogaot New Guinea married Kiku. When Kimi later met She ran off with her lover These spirits are said to shoot arrows Sawara and learned of his marriage to Quissankweedas when they were not which cause malaria. Kiku, she stabbed herself to death and allowed to marry but she was carried Kilydd (see Cilydd) the painting that Sawara made of her off by a bear while her lover was away. Kima Japanese body came alive to reproach him. She bore two sons to the bear but was the first maiden to be abducted by the Kimidinis Hindu later found and returned to live with spirit of Yenoki hostile travelling in pairs Quissankweedas.

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Kinderbrunnen Kingu

Kinderbrunnen King Mathias (see Kralj Matjaz) King Priam English wells in which, it is said, Frau Holle King Noble (see Nobel) an opera by Michael Tippett based on guards the souls of children King of Cows Chinese the story of the Trojan king (see also Kinderseen) an ugly ogre, protector of cattle King Suddohodama Kinderseen German King of Horses Chinese (see Shuddohodhana) lakes in which, it is said, Frau Holle an ugly ogre King Sweeney (see Suibhne Geilt) guards the souls of children This being is depicted with four King with a Hundred Knights (see also Kinderbrunnen) hands and three eyes and is revered (see Aguysans) Kindly Ones (see Eumenides.Furies) by horse-breeders. King Vollmar (see Goldemar) kindoki1 African King of Lidskialf Norse King Wonderful (see Isokalakal) the secret lore of the sorcerers a title of Odin Kingdom of the Faylinn Irish Kindoki2 African King of Men (see Agamemnon.Zeus) the land where the Faylinn lived, ruled an evil spirit of the Bakongo King of Military Pacification by Iubdan and Bebo Kindred Gods North American (see Wu-an wang) Kingaludda Mesopotamian [Related Ones] King of Saturnalia Roman a Sumerian deity, messenger of Enlil 4 gods of the Sioux [Abbot of Unreason] kingfisher Greek These deities are given as Buffalo, Four a man impersonating the god Saturn the bird of Thetis Winds, Two-legged and Whirlwind, all After five days in office, the incumbent Some say that this bird’s beak always aspects of Wakan Tanka. was killed. indicates the direction of the wind Kine (see Ganis) King of Suffering Welsh and that its dead body can be used to Kina-kine-boro East Indian [King of Tortines] divert . an ogre who used his long hair to lasso His sons were killed each day by the It was originally grey in colour and his victims Addanc of the lake and restored to acquired its brilliant colouring when it Kinebahan (see Hunab) life each evening when bathed by flew near the sun while surveying the King Arthur1 English their wives. waters after the flood. a 17th C opera by Dryden (music by King of the City (see Melkarth) Kingly Castle (see Caer Feddwid) Purcell) in which the king is in love King of the Dead King’s Castle (see Caer Feddwid) with a blind girl, Emmeline (see Khenti Amentiu) King’s Cycle Irish King Arthur2 English King of the Desert Land the corpus of literature dealing with a long poem by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (see ) the exploits of the many kings of King Arthur3 (see Arthur) King of the Golden Pillars Ireland and its provinces King Arthur and King Cornwall (see Easal) Kings of (see Ten Yama Kings) British King of the Isles British Kings of the Island of a 16th C poem about the king and father of Biautei the Torrent Irish the sorcerer King of the Land (see Wurukatti) leaders of the forces which, under King Asoka (see Ashoka) King of the Lions (see Shishi-wo) Sinsar, sailed to Ireland to help Midac King Brown (see Lud) King of the May European All three of these kings were killed in King Bruin (see Lud) a mediaeval spirit of vegetation the fighting that ensued at the ford King Cole (see Coel) In a festival in honour of this spirit, the when they tried to attack Finn mac King Cornwall British main participant, dressed in bark and Cool and his Fianna party trapped in a sorcerer appearing in a 16th C poem flowers, is chased by the others and, if the Quicken Trees Hostel. King Daniel (see Daniel2) caught, decapitated in a mock Kingsley, Charles British King Fox British ceremony and carried on a bier to the (1819–1875) the name used for King Mark next village where he is revived. a writer whom he distrusted King of the Tangled Wood He was the author of The Heroes, tales King Goldemar (see Goldemar) (see Valerin) of . King Herla (see Herla.Herlethimgi) King of the Wood Roman Kingu Mesopotamian King Hor Tibetan [Priest of Nemi.Rex Nemorensis] [Kingugu.Qingu] a king who abducted Brug Ma a priest of Diana in Aricia an Akkadian earth-god She was rescued from his clutches by The first of these was Virbius and the son of Abzu and Tiamat Gesai whom she married. succession went to a runaway slave or husband of Tiamat King Lir (see Lir) gladiator who fought the incumbent He was the leader of the evil primal King Love British with a branch of a tree in the forces and the Eleven Mighty Helpers a king who dismissed his wife surrounding grove. in the struggle with the gods and acted When his wife oppressed his people, King of the World (see Daire Donn. as holder of the Tablets of Destiny. he banished and gave jurisdiction to Mandhatri.Sinsar) He was the son and second husband her sister who was later attacked by the King of Tortines of Tiamat and was killed with her in banished woman. came to her aid (see King of Suffering) the fight with Marduk. In some and defeated the attacking forces led King of Worms (see Gunther) accounts, his blood was mixed with by Priadan. King Pêcheur (see ) sand to make mankind. Some equate King Mark (see Mark) King Pelles (see Pelles) him with Tammuz.

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Kingugu Kirata-n-te-rerei

Kingugu (see Kingu) kinno South American Kinyamkera African Kinh Duong Vuong Vietnamese in the lore of the Tupari of Brazil, a type of evil spirit which takes an ancestral hero the people who failed to reach the possession of humans, causing illness father of Lac Long Quan upper world They are described as having one eye, He married the daughter of a water- Aroteh and Tovapod dug into the earth one arm and one leg. (see also Kilima) dragon and they produced a son who to find the people who had stolen their Kinyarwanda African taught the people the arts of food and, in so doing, created an a child of the first man, Kihanga agriculture etc. opening through which some humans, brother of Kanyarundi and Katwa Kinharigan (see Kinharingan) living under the earth, escaped to the Kinyoka African Kinharingan East Indian upper world. The kinno were those that a serpent in the underworld [Kinharigan] were trapped when the hole was sealed. This five-headed monster was killed a creator-god in Borneo It is said that they will emerge to by Sudika-mbambi when he went husband of Munsumundok repopulate the earth when the present down to the underworld. It is said that Kinharingan and his wife races have all died. Kinyras (see Cinyras) appeared out of a rock in the sea, Kinnur (see Kinnar) kiolu African walking on the water to the home of Kino Momoye Japanese a very small animal generated by a Bisagit who gave them some soil with [Momoye] sorcerer from his own soul which they made the earth. They then the man who ridiculed Kobo Daishi A sorcerer can cause this animal to made the sky, the heavenly bodies and While he was asleep, he was assaulted enter the body of another person and human beings. by a wrestler who, when Momoye kill him. Kinharingan killed his first son and awoke, turned into a written character, Kiore Ta New Zealand cut his body into pieces which he the very one that Momoye had scoffed a servant of Ngarara planted in various places. From these at when Kobo Daishi wrote it. She helped Ruru to escape the clutches pieces came all the plants and animals. kinocetus of her mistress when he landed on One version says that Bisagit gave a stone said to have the power to their island. them the soil on condition that he repel demons Kiore Ti New Zealand could have half of the people that Kinship of the Three a servant of Ngarara Kinharingan made. He achieved this (see Ts’an T’ung Ch’i) She helped Ruru to escape the clutches by spreading small-pox through the Kintaro Japanese of her mistress when he landed on population at forty year intervals. [Golden Boy.(Sakata) Kintoki] their island. Kinich Ahau (see Ah Kin) a hero Kiousa1 North American Kinich Kakmo Central American servant of Yorimitsu in the lore of the tribes of the a name for Ah Kin, the sun-god, son of Sakata Kurando and Yaégiri south-eastern states, an idol in the form of a macaw He was born of a warrior and a guarding the dead Kini’je Siberian mountain-spirit and, after his father Kiousa2 (see Oki) [Ki’njen] had killed himself, was raised by his Kipalende African the spirit which controls time mother in the wilds where, as a youth, the 4 servants of Sudika-Mbamba Ki’njen (see Kini’je) he made friends with the wild animals kipriano Armenian Kinjikitire Ngwale (see Bokero) and developed enormous strength. a charm Kinkara (see Konkara) One day he was seen by a noble, This device, in the form of a roll of Kinma Mesopotamian Yorimitsu, in the act of pushing over a prayers and magic formulae, is said to a name of Marduk as ‘leader of tree to form a bridge so that he could protect the bearer from such things as gods’ cross a river. Yorimitsu took him as his the evil eye and snake-bite. Kinnar Phoenician retainer, called him Sakata Kintoki and Kipu-Tytto Finnish [Kinnur] he grew up to be a warrior-hero. a goddess of sickness a god of music Kintoki (see Kintaro) daughter of Tuoni and Tuonetar Kinnara1 Hindu Kintu African sister of Kivutar, Loviatar and one of a mythical race of horse- a king-god of the Buganda Vammatar headed people, servants of the first man She enticed mortals to the underworld Kubera husband of Nambi by singing. These beings acted as musicians at He went up to heaven to ask for a wife Kirabira African Kubera’s court. and was given Mambi, daughter of the a war-god of the Baganda Some say that these beings sprang supreme god, Gulu, but only after he son of Mukasa from Brahma’s toe, others that they had passed a number of tests. One was brother of Nende and Mirimu were the offspring of Kashyapa. to eat enough food for a hundred Kirata-n-te-rerei Pacific Islands (see also Kimpurusha) people, another to fill a bottomless pot a founding ancestor of the Gilbertese Kinnara2 Japanese with dew. He also had to identify his son of Te-ariki-n-Tarawa and a guardian deity own cow in three large herds. He Nei Te-reere one of the 28 Nijuhachi-Bushu passed all the tests and took Nambi He was said to be so handsome that Kinnara3 Thai back to earth. Her brother, Walumbe, he could produce children without a monster, half man, half bird the god of death, followed them. a woman.

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Kiratas kitsune-tsuki

Kiratas Hindu Kisangan- Siberian kismet Turkish a mythical race in the mountains [=Altaic Kysan-Tengere] [kismat:=Muslim quisma] These people were said to live in water a Mongol war god fate as decreed by god while others say they were huge, man- Kisar Mesopotamian Kisra Arab eating tigers. The female version [Kishar.Kissare] the Arab name for Kay Khusraw appears as a seductive maiden. an early Sumerian goddess Kissare Mesopotamian Kirati Hindu daughter of Lahmu and Lahamu an alternative version of Kisar a name for Durga and Kali consort of Ansar consort of Assoros as ‘mountain woman’ mother of Antu Kisseus (see Cisseus) Kirava Tibetan mother of and Ea, some say Kissos Greek a king Kisboldogasszony Dionysus as the god of ivy a Lamaist sorcerer (see Boldogasszony) Kistna (see Krishna) Kiriel Kisha Manido North American Kitamba African [Ciriel] [Masha Manido] [Kitambe] a moon-demon the Menominee name for the creator- king of the Mbundu kirimu African god, the Great Spirit husband of Muhongo a spirit or soul of the Nande (see also Great Spirit) He placed a ban of total silence on his kirin Japanese Kishar (see Kisar) people when his wife died. They then [ki-rin.sin-you:=Chinese ch’i-lin: kishi1 African dug a pit and sent a sorcerer down to =Mongolian kere:=Tibetan serou] a Kimbundu evil spirit the underworld to find his wife who a single-horned animal, counterpart of This being has a two-faced head, one gave him an armlet which made the the Chinese ch’i-lin: a unicorn human, one hyena. king lift the ban. Kirinh Mongolian kishi2 (see nkisi) Kitambe (see Kitamba) one of the burkhan Kishi Bojin Japanese Kitanitowit North American kirka Hindu [Karitei-mo.Kishimo-jin.Kishimojin: [Great Spirit.Kittanitowit] a sign of the Zodiac, Cancer the crab =Chinese Ho-li Ti:=Indian ] a creator god of the Algonquin Indians Kirke (see Circe) a Buddhist goddess, guardian a name for the Great Spirit Kirnababy (see Cornbaby) of children Kitap Ngelmu East Indian Kirom Irish It is said that she was originally the a Javanese book of magic a chieftain fighting with the forces of demon-woman, Karitei-mo, who ate Kitche Manitou Sinsar, King of the World children. When she converted to (see Gitchi Manitou) When Midac trapped Finn mac Cool she became the protector of Kitchen God Chinese and a party of the Fianna in the children and women in labour. [Stove God] Quicken Trees Hostel, Kirom led Kishijoten Japanese a deity of the household the second wave of attackers against a goddess of fortune Each house has its own spirit which Fiachna who held the ford against sister of Bishamon reports to heaven on the family each year. them and killed all except one man. Kishimo-jin (see Kishi Bojin) (see also Chang Tao-ling.Tsao Chün) Kiron (see Chiron) kisi (see nkisi) Kitimil Pacific Islands Kirti Hindu kisimbi African in Pelew Island flood , one of the a goddess [Water Girl.Water : 2 survivors the sakti of Kesava plur=bisimbi] The other survivor was Magigi. Kirtimukha (see Kirttimukha) a Bakongo spirit which causes illness Kitkaositiyiqa North American Kirttimukha Hindu These beings cannot be seen because father of Yetl, some say [Banaspati.Kirtimukha] they are made of water. Kitsawitsak North American a lion-headed monster Kisin Central American one of the 5 houses of the Pawnee This being was created by Shiva to fight a Mayan earthquake spirit animal-spirits known as the Nahurak the demon Rahu which had been sent kisirani African Kitshi Manitou North American by Jalandhara to seize Shiva’s wife, Sakti. in the lore of the Swahili, one who the Chippewa name for the Great Spirit When Rahu fled, the voracious monster brings bad luck (see also Gitchi Manitou) ate its own body leaving only the face. kiskanu Mesopotamian Kitsuki Japanese (see also Face of Glory.Kala2) a sacred tree in Sumerian myths a shrine to Susanowa Kis Egyptian Kisbil-lilla Mesopotamian It is said that the gods assemble here a god of Kusae [=Babylonian Lilith] once a year to arrange all marriages for He is depicted in the form of a man a Sumerian female demon of the the next year. strangling two long-necked creatures, night Kitsune Japanese perhaps giraffes. Kiskilussa Mesopotamian a shape-changing fox: a fox-spirit Kisani North American the site of the battle between Teshub acting as a messenger for Inari [Mirage People] and kitsune-tsuki Japanese the inhabitants of the fourth world Kismaras Mesopotamian possession by demons due to foxes through which the Navaho passed on a Hittite god It is said that a fox-spirit can enter a their way to the upper world kismat (see kismet) woman via her breasts or her fingernails.

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Kittanitowit klu2

Kittanitowit (see Kitanitowit) he hid under a bell, she coiled round He was castrated by Ibert and became Kittu Mesopotamian it, crushing it and melting it with her a wizard. Some say he was a bishop. [Kettu.Kittum] hot breath, killing both the monk In some versions, he imprisoned a Babylonian god, truth personified and herself. several queens, including King son of Samas and A-a Kiyohime (see Kiyo) Arthur’s mother, Arnive, but they were brother of Giru, Mesharu and Nusku Kiyomori Japanese rescued by . (see also Sydyk) a hero, leader of the Taira In the Wagnerian version of Kittum (see Kittu) He killed Yoshitomo and would have Parsifal’s (’s) quest for the Kium (see Chium) killed all his family but Yoshitomo’s , Klingsor was refused Kiva North American wife, Tokiwa, agreed to marry him to admission to the Temple of the Grail a Hopi ceremonial chamber save her children. so he built a garden of delight nearby This circular room is built under- kla (see akra) where many knights seeking the grail ground and is entered through the klaboterman Baltic were seduced from their honourable roof. It is here that the tribe’s secret the spirit of the phantom ship path. He took the sacred spear from rites are performed. Carmilhan Amfortas and wounded him with it. Kivati North American This spirit helps the sailors but When he tried to kill Parsifal with the [Kwatee.Kwati] thrashes those who are idle. spear, it miraculously stopped in its a trickster-god of the Quinault When a tree was felled for a mast, flight and floated round Parsifal’s Indians an ill child was passed through it. If the head. Parsifal used the spear as a He changed the original giant animals child died, its caul remained in the means to destroy the garden and into normal animals and made men mast as a klaboterman. banish Klingsor from the earth. from balls of dust mixed with his own klaft Egyptian In some accounts, his home is called sweat. a headdress worn by Isis Schastel Marveil. When his brother was swallowed by This headdress was said to impart Klio (see Clio) a monster in the lake, Kivati threw hot divine wisdom to the one who wore it. Kliwa North American rocks into the lake until the scalding Klaus German a wind-spirit of the Pueblo tribes water killed the monster, whereupon [Peter Klaus:=North American Rip Klodan Pacific Islands Kivati slit open its belly and released van Winkle] a Balinese girl his brother. a goat-herd She and Klontjing were locked in a At the end of his world-forming He followed a goat into a valley where chest by a giantess but were saved by labours he turned into stone. twelve men were playing skittles. mice which gnawed a hole through Kivutar Finnish Overcome by wine, he fell asleep and, which they escaped. a goddess of suffering when he awoke, found that he had Kloketen South American daughter of Tuoni and Tuonetar slept for twenty years. in Tierra del Fuego, a male initiation sister of Kipu-Tytto, Loviatar and Kle-klati-e’il (see Lalaia’il) rite Vammatar Kleanthes (see Cleanthes) Youths gathered in a hut are subjected Kiwa Pacific Islands Kleesto North American to frightening ordeals by masked men the precursor of all shell-fish, in in the lore of the Navaho, the who instill the secrets of the tribe and Polynesian lore Great Snake the superiority of men. kiwi New Zealand Klehanoia (see Tlehanoia) Klontjing Pacific Islands a flightless bird kleinevolk (see Dwarfs) a Balinese girl The Maori say that this bird was made Kleng (see Kling) She and Klodan were locked in a chest from a calabash by Tane. Kleo (see Cleo) by a giantess but were saved by mice Kiyamat-saus Baltic Kleobis (see Cleobis) which gnawed a hole through which an assistant of the Finnish underworld Kleio (see Clio) they escaped. god Tuoni Kletrpal (see Bhumiya) Kloskurbeh North American Kiyamat-tora (see Tuoni) Kliarin-Kliara (see Kunapipi) a creator-god of the Hopi Kiya’rnarak Inuit Klieng (see Kling) A being (‘youth’) was created from this a creator-god Kling East Indian god’s breath and another (‘lore’) from Kiyo Japanese [Kl(i)eng] one of his tears. These two mated to [Kiyohime.Kujo] a war-god of the Iban tribe of produce the first humans. a serving-maid in a tea-house Borneo Klotho (see Clotho) She fell in love with the monk, Anchin, a mythical hero Klothon (see Clotho) who so far forgot his vows as to fall in This being was said to have been Klu1 Buddhist love with her. When he renounced the found in the knot of a tree and could [Khe-rgyal] temptations of the flesh, she sought assume any shape he chose. the Tibetan name for Virupaksha the aid of the fire-god, Fudo, and the Klingshor (see Klingsor) as king of the nagas magician-god, Kompira, and learned Klingsor European klu2 Tibetan how to turn herself into a dragon. [Clinschor.Klingshor] ancestors of the race When Anchin left her for the last time, a magician miracle-workers (see also ’gong-po. she became a huge dragon and, when duke of Terre Labur rgyal-po)

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Klu-dban Knum

Klu-dban Tibetan Kneph Greek Knight of the Sleeve British [Lu Vang] [Cnuphis.Knephis.Knepth] a knight who won Clarette as a wife in king of speech the Greek version of Knef a tournament one of the 5 Mahapancharajas Knephis (see Kneph) Knight of the Sparrowhawk He is depicted as red, holding an Knepth (see Kneph) (see Edern) elephant-goad or a mace and riding a Knife-wing North American Knight of the Swan (see . blue crocodile or a blue mule. a spirit of the Pueblo tribes Swan Knight) (see also Sun-gi-rgyal-po) Knight of Friendship Knight of the Well Irish Kludd British (see Triamond) a knight who fought with Dermot on the English version of Kludde Knight of La Mancha the island where he had gone in Kludde European (see Don Quixote) search of the men carried off by [=British Kludd] Knight of Song (see Tannhauser) Gilla Dacar a Belgian or Flemish spirit Knight of the Cart British Knight of the White Moon This being could turn itself into a [Knight of the Chariot] (see Samson Carrasco) variety of animals such as a dog, horse a name given to Lancelot Knight of Two Swords or toad, or, alternatively, into a tree. Lancelot had his horse shot from (see Balin.Meriadeuc) Klumene (see Clymene) under him when he was riding to the Knights Eagle Central American Klumenes (see Clymenus) rescue of who had been a higher grade of Knights Tiger, Klust (see Clust) abducted by Meliagaunt and was warriors of the sun Klutaimnestra (see Clytemnestra) compelled to complete the journey in Knights of Battle British Klymenos (see Clymenus) the back of a woodman’s cart. 3 famous warriors of King Arthur’s Klytaimnestra (see Clytemnestra) Knight of the Chariot court kmoch Cambodian (see Knight of the Cart) They were Cadeu, Lancelot and Owain. ghosts Knight of the DolefulCountenance Knights of the Franc Palais British kmoch pray Cambodian (see Don Quixote) an order set up by Perceforest which ghosts of women or children Knight of the Dragon was annihilated by the Romans who died in childbirth (see Segurant) Knights of the British Some say these spirits can enter living Knight of the the chosen knights of King Arthur’s relatives and make them ill. (see Amadis of Gaul) court K’makamtch (see Kmukamtch) Knight of the Ebon Spear The Round Table provided places for Kmukamch (see Kmukamtch) (see Britomart) 150 knights and 100 were sent by Kmukamtch North American Knight of the Fair Country British with the table as [Ancient Old Man.K’makamtch. brother of King Arthur Guinevere’s dowry on her marriage to Kumukamch] father of the Great Fool Arthur. , authorised to find fifty a demon: a creator-spirit Knight of the Fountain British more, found only twenty-eight In the lore of the Klamath, he tried to [Black Knight.Esclados] suitable knights. Each knight took a set the world on fire but the Medoc husband of yearly oath to fight only in just causes regard him as a creator-spirit. He defeated Cynon but was killed and not for personal gain, to protect Knaninjar Australian by Owain who took his estate and women and respect their persons, to ancestors living as spirits in his wife. use force only when necessary, never the sky Knight of the Goddess to commit murder or treason and to Kne (see Gawain) grant mercy when it was asked for. a demon Knight of the Green Sword Among these knights, the most Knecht Ruprecht German (see Amadis of Gaul) honoured were , , [Servant Rupert] Knight of the Invincible Sword Gawain, Kay, Lamerock, Lancelot, a domestic (see Amadis of Gaul) Percival, Tristram, Mark, , Knef Egyptian Knight of the Lantern1 British Palamedes and Torre. Others included [Kematef:=Greek Kneph] a knight who killed the Black were , Bleoberis, , an early god Knight Bors, Dornar, Ector, , In some accounts, he and Athor were Knight of the Lantern2 British Galahaut, Lionel, Marhaus, Owain, engendered by the supreme god, son of Libearn , Pellimore, , Turkin Amon, and were the parents of Isis and Knight of the Lion (see Owain) and Vanoc. Osiris. In others, he is a manifestation Knight of the Mill (see Peredur) Knights Tiger Central American of Khnum as a god of winds, depicted Knight of the Old Table initiates of an Aztec religious order as blue, holding a sceptre and a plume (see Segurant) (see also Knights Eagle) of feathers. Knight of the Red Launds British Knefrud Norse (see Ironside) [=German :=Welsh coblyn] [Wingi] Knight of the Red Lawns a Cornish spirit of the tin-mines, a servant of Atli (see Ironside) said to indicate the presence of He was killed in the fight that ensued Knight of the Silver Keys valuable ore: a form of bucca when Atli ambushed Gunnar’s party. (see Pierre) Knum (see Khnum)

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knupa Pacific Islands Kobal but awaits the coming of the Buddha the Hawaiian demi-gods, as opposed a demon in charge of entertainment Mahavairocana. After his death he was to the gods, the akua in hell as stage manager deified as Kobo Daishi. Ko1 Korean Kobath (see Mount Baker) One story says that he rose from his [Go] Kobe-no-kami (see Oki-tsu Hime) grave to conduct the funeral of one the name taken by Chumong when he Kobetsu Japanese emperor and to baptise his successor. set up his own kingdom imperial clans who claimed to be kobold German Ko2 Korean descended from [=British .knocker: an ancestral hero (see also Shinbetsu) =Welsh coblyn] Ko, together with Pu and Yang, Kobine Pacific Islands a dwarf mine-spirit: emerged from the earth and survived daughter of Naredu a domestic brownie by hunting. She helped her father create the earth. (see also dwarfs.. A box which they found on the Kobo Daishi Japanese Heinzelmannchen) shore contained three princesses and a [Gohitsu-Osoh.Hensho Kong. Kodinhaltia Baltic number of domestic animals. The Kukai.Totomono] a Finnish house-fairy three men each married a princess and, (c. 774–835) Kodo-yanpe North American determining the site of their future a Buddhist saint [Earth Maker.Earth Namer] homes by shooting arrows, settled founder of True Word Buddhism a name of Wonomi as ‘namer of down and founded three clans. The priest Kukai, who as a boy was the world’ ko3 Pacific Islands called Totomono, travelled to China, Kodo-yapeu North American in New Caledonia, the human learned the principles of the Chen Yen a name of Wonomi as ‘creator of spirit sect and returned to Japan to found the the world’ The priest keeping a vigil beside the Shingon (True Word) movement. Kodo-yaponi North American body of some dead person may capture Before leaving the mainland, he threw a name of Wonomi as ‘chief of the ko in the form of a small animal his vajra which landed in Japan. He the world’ which he then drowns in the river, was credited with the invention of a Kodojeza Baltic producing in its place a stone, a bao, form of cursive script and was a famous an Estonian household god said to hold the departed soul. preacher and painter. Part of the garden was kept as sacred K’o-chu Chinese He could produce water by to this deity. A woman was allowed to the realm of Fa-no-p’o-ssu pushing his staff into the earth or, if enter it once, just after she was Ko-dama Japanese he needed shelter from the sun, the married, but never thereafter. an echo-god: an echo regarded as staff would take root and grow into a Kodomo-no-Inari Japanese the soul of a tree answering the shady tree. a fox-god original call In one story, he gave a handkerchief Kodros (see Codrus) Ko Hung1 Chinese to a servant who had brought him Koduku-jigoku Japanese [Pao-p’u-tzu] water. When she used it, she became subsidiary hells which appear a Taoist alchemist very beautiful and attracted a rich randomly anywhere on He is said to have made a drug that husband, whereas the girl’s mistress, earth (see also Kimpen-jigoku) conferred immortality. Both he and a who had refused to give him water, was Koen Australian dog took the pills and died but both turned into a horse. an evil spirit came back to life. Another story says that he husband of Mailkun (see Ko Hung2) straightened the leaning tower of a Koeus (see Coeus) Ko Hung2 Chinese temple merely by prayer. Koevasi Pacific Islands a patron-god of dyers When he once tried to kill himself a creator-deity of the Solomon Originally he was a 4th C writer of for the benefit of humanity, angels Islands (see Agunua) books on alchemy and ancient legends prevented him so that he might fulfil Koftarim Egyptian including Biographies of the Gods. his destiny. It was said that a star a mythical king (see Ko Hung1) entered his mouth and he killed a It is said that he built the Pharos Ko-lung Chinese dragon merely by spitting on it. lighthouse and a gateway which, by an emperor who was deified as god Asked by a boy to demonstrate his staring with mechanical eyes, could of the soil powers, he wrote letters in the sky put animals to sleep; and was the one of the T’u-ti Shen and on the surface of water. The boy owner of a magical mirror in which he Ko-no-hana (see Sengen) then drew a dragon on the water and, could see what each of his subjects was Ko-no-ka Po-li-to-she when the saint added a dot, the doing and a statue made of glass which (see Pindola2) dragon came to life and ascended could turn into clay any person who Ko Pala Burmese to heaven. tried to gain entry to the king’s a legendary king He was said to be able to raise the treasury. He was banished by his people and left dead and to purify polluted water as Kogoshui Japanese to die on an island but was reborn as a well as communicating with the gods. a 9th C book of myths written by crab and sent floods to avenge his At his own request he was buried alive Imbe-no-Hironari earlier ill-treatment. and it is said that his body never rots Koh-i-Noor (see Castle of Light2)

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Kohai Koll

Kohai Pacific Islands Kokalika Buddhist a creator-goddess of the Hopi the first man, in the lore of Tonga an adherent of Devadatta daughter of Sotuknang grandfather of Ahoeitu He was consigned to hell with his She made men and women from clay In some accounts, Kohai was a master when they tried to kill the and brought them to life but they were primaeval serpent. Buddha. rougher characters than those fashioned Kohaku Jo Japanese Koki African by the Huruing Wuhti sisters. daughter of Kamatari in the lore of the Hausa, a praying mantis Others say that she made the first She married Koso, the emperor of wife of Gizo humans from spittle and dust in a kind China, and sent back to her home in wife of Spider, some say of underworld. When her father Japan three marvellous treasures Kokili Tibetan flooded their world because they had given to her by her husband. These a king become wicked, she led them to the were a musical instrument that could a Lamaist sorcerer upper world. Here she created two play for ever, an inkwell which never Kokko (see Koko2) more beings, Palongwhoya and ran dry and a crystal in which an Koko1 African Poquanghoya, who protected men image of the Buddha could be seen. in Bantu lore, an old woman who from evil demons. Kohara Pacific Islands knew the name of the tree (see also Hahai Wugti) the female progenitor of all tuna bearing forbidden fruit Kokyangwuqti (see Kokyangwuti) fish When she finds that animals to whom Kokytos (see Cocytus) Kohi Tumu (see Te Tumu) she has told the name of this tree have Kol1 Norse Kohin Australian eaten some of its fruit, she punishes [Kolr] [Koin] them. Tortoise, who had been buried in one of the men with Flosi when they a thunder-god who lives in the an anthill, escaped without punishment. killed the Njalssons and burnt their Milky Way Koko2 North American house a culture-hero of the [Kokko] Kol2 Norse Aborigines mask-gods: rain-making gods of the [Kolr] Kohkang Wuhti (see Kokyanwuti) Zuni: the entire pantheon of the a slave at the court of King Visivald Kohmba Sri Lankan Zuni deities The king’s daughter, Soley, promised a god Kokomaht (see Tuchaipai.Yokomatis) to marry Kol if he would kill an Kohu Pacific Islands Kokomat (see Tuchaipai.Yokomatis) unwanted suitor. This he did but Soley a god of mists Kokomikeis North American reneged on her promise, changing Koiakutu Pacific Islands [Kokomikis] places with a servant girl who married the hill of lice, part of the Melanesian moon-goddess of the Blackfoot the unwitting Kol. He later became an afterworld Indians outlaw and was killed by Vilmund who Koil North American wife of Natos found the real Soley and her half- the sheep, created by Kumush mother of Apisuahts brother, Hiarandi. Koin (see Kohin) Kokomikis (see Kokomikeis) Kol3 Norse Koiti Pacific Islands Kokopelli North American [Kolr] son of Auahi-Turoa and Mahuika [Kokopolo;=Tewa Nepokwa’i] an ugly giant brother of Konui, Koroa, Manawa a Hopi fertility deity, one of the Kachinas father of Biorn and Harek and Mapere Kokopolo (see Kokopelli) Some say that he was the first owner of Koito African Kokozu Japanese the sword Angurvadel. an Ethiopian feast to propitiate the [Kokuzo:=Tibetan Akasagarbha] Kola African spirit of lightning a Buddhist sky-god son of the Sacred White Cow Koji-Ki (see ) He is sometimes depicted holding a His grandson, Ukwa, is regarded as the Kojiki Japanese flaming sword. ancestor of the Shilluk people of the [Book of Ancient Matters.Koji-Ki] (see also Kanro Gundari) Sudan. sacred Shinto texts relating the story Kokumthena North American Kolantes (see Colanthes) of the Creation, written by Ono [Cloud.Our Grandmother. Koleo African Yasuman in AD 712 Snaggletooth Woman] a Tanzanian snake-god Kojin Japanese a creator-goddess of the Shawnee Kolelo African [Kojin-sama.Sambo-Ko-Jin] This deity is said to be an old, grey- a cave a kitchen-goddess whose spirit haired woman living with her grand- In the lore of Tanzania this is the site inhabits the enoki tree son and her dog near the land of the to which Kyumbe carries the spirits of She was originally a demon who ate dead. The shadows on the moon are the dead. Women who wish to children but later became their said to be Kokumthena bending over conceive bathe in a pool in this cave. guardian deity. Old and discarded dolls her cooking-pot. Kolio African are dedicated to her. Kokutos (see Cocytus) a Ewe war-god In some accounts, Kojin is male and Kokuzo (see Kokozu) Kolita (see Moggallana) equated with Kamado-no-kami, Jigami Kokyangwuti North American Koll Norse or Oyamakui. [Kahyangwuti.Kokyangwuqti. [Koll the Thrall] Kojin-sama (see Kojin) Spider Woman] owner of the sword Grey-steel

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kollawalla (see collhualla) many tears at losing him. She later Kubera:=Indonesian Kuwera: Kollapura-Mahalakshmi Hindu recovered her sight and they were =Thai Kupera] a six-armed goddess reunited. a god, guardian of sailors kollo African k’omanti (see kromanti) He is depicted as black in colour, [qollo] Komashtam’ho North American with a fat belly, seated and holding Ethiopian spirits of the mountains, son of Kakomaht a purse. trees and springs Komba (see Mbomba) In some accounts, he was one of the These spirits appear in the form of Komba Ralingki East Indian twenty-eight Nijuhachi-Bushu. four-horned cockerels or as tall, one- [Spirit of the Stranger] (see also Susanowa) legged beings. a powerful Papuan ghost kon pray Cambodian Koloowise Central American kombu Japanese a foetus used by a sorcerer [Koloowisi.Kolowissi.Serpent of the a sacred rope, said to bring happiness When a woman suffers a miscarriage, Sea:=Aztec Quetzalcoatl:=Hopi Komdei-mirgan Russian a sorcerer is called and he takes the Palulukon] a Tartar hero foetus, deceiving the woman into a Zuni plumed serpent-god of plenty brother of Kubaiko thinking it has been disposed of in a a god of lightning The monster Yebegen bit off Komdei- jar thrown into a river. In fact, the In one story he was upset when a mirgan’s head and his sister, Kubaiko, foetus is retained, cooked and young maiden polluted the water he went down to the underworld to plead coloured black and varnished. There- lived in by washing her clothes there with the ruler, Erlik Khan, for its after, it is the sorcerer’s constant and turned himself into a baby which return. The god set her a number of and source of power, said to she found and took home with her. tasks and gave her the head and some make its owner invulnerable. There he resumed his former shape as water of life when she completed the Kon-Tiki South American a serpent and slept with her. Now tasks successfully. [Illa-Tiki] committed to his power, she was Komfo South American an early name of Viracocha forced to leave her family and go with in Surinam, a person possessed Kona Pacific Islands Koloowise who, en route, changed by a spirit (see also okomfo) [=Marshal Islands Rimogaio] into a handsome young man. Komfo Anotchi (see Anochi) a fabulous race of giants in Koloowisi (see Koloowise) Komokoa (see Komokwa) Ponape Kolowissi (see Koloowise) Komoku Japanese (see also Liat) Kolpia Mesopotamian [=Chinese Tseng Chang:=Hindu Konakadset North American a Phoenician wind-god Virudka:=Buddhist Virudhaka:=Taoist [=Haida Wasco] son of Aer and Chaos Mo-li Hung] a hero of the Tlingit people consort of Baau a guardian-god, one of the Shi Tenno He was envisaged as an aquatic beast, father of Aion and Protogonos He was responsible for guarding the a kind of wolf-whale. Kolyvan Russian south. Konda Japanese a hero In some accounts, he was one of the a guardian deity father of Kolyvanovitch twenty-eight Nijuhachi-Bushu and one of the 28 Nijuhachi-Bushu Kolyvanovitch Russian was originally a demon who converted Konde African a hero to Buddhism. son of Nkuba and Chinawezi son of Kolyvan Komokwa North American brother and husband of Nawezi Kom African [Komokoa.The Rich One] Kondos Baltic a stool or throne a sea-god of the Haida people a Finnish god of agriculture In the lore of the Alur this is one of the He is regarded as the guardian of Kong Thai four attributes of the king. seals and the receiver of the souls of a king koma African the dead. It was prophesied that a son of his Swahili spirits which live on Komokyatsiky North American would kill him so he abandoned the after death [Old Woman] baby in the forest where it was found (see also nkoma) a woman who slept with her by the old woman Phrom and reared Komagawa Japanese brother and woke up as an by her younger sister, Hom. When the a servant of a daimyo old woman boy, who they called Phan, grew to He fell in love with Asagao and gave It is said that the offspring of this man-hood, he killed Kong and her a fan with a poem about a union are the koyemshi dancing seduced his own mother who, too late, convolvulus inscribed upon it. When clowns of the Pueblo Indians. recognised her own son. her parents tried to force her into a Komorkis North American Kongara-doji Japanese marriage with a man she did not love, a moon-goddess of the Blackfoot an attendant of Fudo-myoo she ran away but failed to find her Indians kongo1 Japanese beloved. Komos (see Comus) [=Sanskrit vajra] Years later, Komagawa came across Kompera (see Kompira) a three-pointed staff her singing for her living in a tea- Kompira Japanese This staff, owned by Koya-no-Myoin, garden. She could not see him because [Kompera.Konpira.Kubira.Lord of imparts wisdom to its owner and she was blind as a result of shedding so Demons:=Buddhist Kubera:=Hindu radiates light in darkness.

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Kongo2 Kosensei

Kongo2 Japanese koppatengu Japanese Kornmutter German [=Hindu Vajrasattva] small demons attendant on the [‘corn mother’] a Buddha Kopu East Indian a field spirit, the spirit of growing corn (see also Renge Gundari) [Malara] (see also field spirit) Kongo Gundari Japanese a goddess of the morning-star, Venus Kornwolf German a name for Gundari-myoo regarded In some accounts, Kopu is male and a spirit of the cornfields invoked to as a manifestation of the consort of Eau and Hovoa. frighten children(see also field spirit) Kwanjizai Kor-wa-ji Tibetan Koro Pacific Islands Kongo-yasha-myoo Japanese the Tibetan name for Krakucchanda [Koro-mau-Ariki] [Vajrayaksha] Kora (see Core) son of Tinirau and Ina a terrible god, a manifestation koradji Australian brother of Aroture of Fukujoju an Aborigine shaman Koro-mau-Ariki (see Koro) He is depicted either with one head Kore (see Core) Koroa Pacific Islands and four arms or with three heads and Kore-Arethusa (see Core) son of Auahi-Turoa and Mahuika six arms. One of his faces has five eyes Kore-te-rawea Pacific Islands brother of Koiti, Konui, Manawa and he is surrounded by flames. [=New Zealand Te-kore-rawea] and Mayere Kongoho (see Sho-Kwannon) a Polynesian deity Korobona South American Kongorikishi Japanese offspring of Kore-te-whiwhia mother of the first Carib, fathered by a guardian god Kore-te-tamaua Pacific Islands a demon From this deity came the two guardian [=New Zealand Te-kore-tamaua] Korongo African gods Fukaotsu and Soko. a Polynesian deity a Mali sorcerer from whom Kenimbleni Konshiki Japanese offspring of Kore-te-rawea stole magic powders a guardian deity Kore-te-whiwhia Pacific Islands Koronis (see Coronis) one of the 28 Nijuhachi-Bushu [=New Zealand Kore-whiwhia] Koronus (see Coronus) Konjin (see Ushitoro-no-Konjin} a Polynesian deity: the primaeval void Koropanga (see Tu-te-Koropanga) Konkara Japanese Kore-whiwhia Korotango New Zealand [Kinkara] (see Kore-te-whiwhia) a pigeon made of greenstone a manifestation of Fudo as a Korero Pacific Islands The korotango is placed in a shrine youth wife of Tangaroa and used as an oracle by the Maori. Kono-hana-sakuya-hime Ko’rgina (see Kavra’nna) Korowas East Indian (see Sengen) Korinchi East Indian [Kurus] Konohana (see Sengen) [Korinci.Korintji] the Javanese version of the Kauravas Kononatoo South American a Sumatran tribe, members of which, Korraval Hindu a creator-god of the it is said, can change into tigers [Katukilal.Korrawi] Arawak Indians Korinci (see Korinchi) a Tamil war-goddess He made man to live in the sky but Korintji (see Korinchi) wife of Silappadikaram Okonorote made a hole and they Koriro New Zealand mother of Seyon all came down to earth. When a a name for Maui as ‘cheerful’ Korrawi (see Korraval) fat woman got stuck in the hole, they Koriyama Japanese (see corrigan) found themselves unable to return. a noble korriganed (see corrigan) Konpira (see Kompira) When he, his wife and his child were Korshid Persian Konui Pacific Islands sticken with disease, an old recluse the modern version of the old sun- son of Auahi-Turoa and Mahuika asked permission to plant lotus in his god, Hvarekhshaeta brother of Koiti, Koroa, Manawa and moat. As soon as the plants had grown, Korubantes (see Corybantes) Mayere the noble and his family all recovered. korupira (see urupira) Konur Norse Korka-guzo (see Domovik) korwar East Indian son of Jarl and Erna Korka-murt (see Domovik) a wooden image of an ancestor, used grandson of Heimdall Kormak Norse as an oracle He became the first king of Denmark. a 9th C poet and warrior Korybantes (see Corybantes) Koori (see Bucu) He was the owner of a sword which Koryphasia (see Athena) Kootamoinen (see Kun1) had a little snake living under the hilt. Korythalia Greek Kopala Russian Kormet (see Kormt) a name of Artemis as ‘laurel maiden’ a guardian god of mountaineers Kormos Siberian Kosa (see Tripitaka2) in Georgia an evil spirit Kosankiya North American He carries a club and can transform This spirit follows a man throughout in the lore of the Sioux himself into this weapon. his lifetime, recording all his deeds. a dark planet or one of the 7 Koph (see Qoph) Kormt Norse forms of mankind developed Kopilitara South American [Kormet] from We-Ota-Winchasha a woman who taught the Chaco the a river in Asgard Kosar (see Kothar) art of pottery In some accounts, one of the twelve Kosensei Japanese wife of Kosodot rivers of the dead. (see Kerlaug) [Gama-Sennin.Sage of the Toad]

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Koshare koyemshi

a sennin who could turn himself into a Kotan-shorai Japanese Kotutto (see Cotytto) reptile or a young man [Kyotan] Kotys (see Cotytto) In some accounts, he owned a magic a wealthy man Kotytto (see Cotytto) toad. brother of Sennin-shorai Kou-mang Chinese Koshare North American He refused to give shelter from a storm a messenger of the sky-god [Delight Makers.Kashale.Kashare. to Susanowa, who was dressed in rags as He is said to bring good fortune and is Koshari.Kossa] Buto, so the god cut him into five pieces associated with springtime and the the first men, according to the Keres and offered them in sacrifice. eastern region. (see also Ju Shou) and Tewa Indians Kotar (see Kothar) Kouantun Chinese These beings were made from the skin Kotari Hindu a sacred mountain at the centre of of a goddess. In other versions they are a name for Devi, Kali and Uma the world the sacred clowns. (see also Kurema) as ‘naked’ Koulash Serbian Koshari (see Koshare) Kothar Canaanite a horse of Petroshin Voinovitch Kosharot Hebrew [Chusor.Divine Artificer.Kathar-Wa- This animal was ridden by Milosh the [=Canaanite Sasuratum] Hassis.Kautar.Kothar-u-Khasis.Hayyin. Shepherd at the wedding of Doushan. a midwife-goddess Kosar.Kotar] Three others in the procession tried to Koshchay Bessmertny Russian the god of smiths steal Koulash but Milosh defeated [Koshchei.Old Bones.The Immortal] He made the wonderful bow for Aqhat them all. a storm ogre and built Baal’s palace. He also made Koupai South American He was said to carry off young maidens. Baal’s maces, Ayamur and Yagrush. evil spirits in the lore of Peru It was said that he was virtually In some accounts, there were two Koura-abi Pacific Islands immortal and could be killed only if a such craftsmen, Kothar-u-Khasis. [Kourabi] hero would throw a magic egg at him. (see also Kusor) a Beru warrior who invaded the Koshchei (see Koshchay Bessmertny) Kothar-u-Khasis (see Kothar) Gilbert Islands Koshi (see Yamato-no-Orochi) Kothluwalawa North American He was the man who broke the sacred Koshin1 Japanese a celestial palace, in the lore of the tree, Kai-n-tiku-aba. a god of roads Zuni, mountain home of the gods Kourabi (see Koura-abi) On the fifty-seventh day of the sixty- This palace is a council chamber of the Koure (see Core) day cycle, monkey-day, the three gods and a temporary abode for the Kouretes (see Curetes) worms which live in all people ascend spirits of the dead. It also contains the Kourotrophos Greek to heaven when the individual is dance-house of the gods. [Karpophoros] asleep, to report on that person’s Koti North American Hera as the goddess of behaviour. On this day, Koshin acts as a frog-spirit of the Creek Indians wet-nurses guardian to the individual. Kotikili North American kov-ava Russian (see also Sanshi-taisho) Zuni priests who take on the role of [=Cheremis teleze-awa] Koshin2 Japanese a Kachina a Mordvin tutelary spirit, guardian a name for the Three Mystic Apes Kotisri Buddhist of the moon koshpik South American a mother-goddess Kovero Cambodian spirits of the dead, in the lore of the Koto-shiro-nushi Japanese [=Buddhist Kubera:=Hindu Vaishravana] Yaghan of Tierra del Fuego [Sign Master.Yae-koto-shiro-nushi] a Lukabal Kosla-kuguza Baltic a Shinto god of fortune ruler of the north a guardian deity of the forests one of the Eight Imperial Deities ruler of the yeaks husband of Kosla-kuva son of Susanowa In some versions, this role is played Kosla-kuva Baltic son of Okuni-nushi, some say by Peysrap. wife of Kosla-kuguza In some accounts he is identified Kowwituma North American Koso Chinese with . a Zuni war-god an emperor of China twin brother of Watsusii husband of Kohaku Jo (see Separate Heavenly Deities) He and his brother found the Corn Kosodate-Jizo Japanese Kotodama Japanese Maidens and later persuaded them to an aspect of Jizo as bearer of children a spirit inherent in words return to the tribe after they fled to Kosodot South American Kotre Baltic escape Patayami. a little man who taught the Chaco [More] Koya-no-Myoin Japanese to hunt a Lithuanian fertility-spirit a mountain-god husband of Kopilitara Kottche Australian He is depicted as a red-faced hunter, Kossa (see Koshare) [Cuchi] often accompanied by two hunting Kostey Slav a demon in the form of a bird or dogs. an ogre a snake koyemshi North American He cast a spell which put the princess He goes about at night causing [mudheads] Sudolisa into a long sleep from which illness. His voice is the thunder, his Kachinas who act as clowns, wearing she was rescued by the prince Junak. breath the whirlwind. fearsome masks smeared with mud kosti (see sacred thread2) Kottos (see Cottus) It is said that the koyemshi were

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Koyorowen Krimhild

originally the offspring of Komokyatsiky When that day arrives, he will emerge Krimhild German who slept with her brother and woke from his cave and hang his shield on [Chreimhild.Grimhild.Kreimhild. up an old woman. a lime tree which, they say, grew Kriemhild.Krimhilt:=Norse Gudrun] Koyorowen Australian on Christmas night, flowered at a princess of Burgundy [Yaho] midnight and then died. It will flower daughter of Dankrat and Ute a cannabalistic monster again only when this hero emerges sister of Gernot, Giselher and Gunther husband of Kurriwilban from his long sleep. wife of Siegfried He lives on mountain tops and kills Krantor (see Crantor) mother of Gunther women while his wife kills men. Her krasnoludi European mother of Hagen by Alberich, some say feet point to the rear. [Hungarian lutki:=Serbian ludki] She is the Nibelungenlied version Koyote (see Coyote) dwarfs of the Polish underworld of Grimhild. Koyuri Japanese Kratos (see Cratus) She fell in love with Siegfried when son of Yurine Kratti Baltic he came to the court of her brother, Wandering in search of sake for his a Finnish spirit, guardian of property Gunther, to help him defeat the dying father, he came upon two Shojo Kratu Hindu invading armies of Ludegar the Saxon who gave him some of their sacred a sage, one of the Ten Rishis and Ludegast of Denmark. When white sake which restored Yurine’s Krauncha Hindu Gunther married Brunhild, Krimhild youth and vigour. A neighbour, one of the 7 island continents married Siegfried and later Gunther Mamikiko, demanded some of the sake (see also Dvipa) invited the young couple to his court but, because he was a greedy man, Kravyad Hindu where the two ladies had a furious found the drink so unpleasant that he the sacrificial fire lit by the gods quarrel. Krimhild foolishly told spit it out. Koyuri took him to the Kravyad is envisaged as a terrible Hagen, who was angry at the perceived Shojo who cured him of his greediness which consumes human flesh. insult to Brunhild, that the only and selfishness and he was then able to Kreimhild (see Krimhild) vulnerable spot on Siegfried’s body enjoy the sake. Kremara Polish was just between his shoulder-blades Kozma Slav a god of pigs and, when Siegfried made a further the goat personified He protected pigs from birth to death, visit to the court to help Gunther repel kra1 South American taking over from Priparchis who a purported invasion, he was killed by [=Ashanti okra] ensured that they were safely born. Hagen who speared him in the back. the soul, in the lore of some black Krenouchos Greek When the dead body of Siegfried tribes of the north a name for Poseidon as god of bled where Hagen touched it at the kra2 (see akra) fresh water funeral, she knew that he was her krabben (see kraken) Kreon (see Creon) husband’s murderer and plotted Kradoc (see ) Kreos (see Crius) revenge. She persuaded Gunther to Krailasa (see Kailasa) Kresna East Indian claim the Nibelung treasure that Krakama Norse the Javanese version of Krishna Siegfried had won when he killed the the death-song of Sigurd brother of Baladewa and Subadra dragon Fafnir, but the hoard was Krake Norse Kresna Dwipayana (see Abiasa) seized by Hagen who sank it in the [‘crow’] Slav Rhine for safety. the name given to Aslaug when she [K(a)rsnik]. Krimhild later married Etzel, king was working as a slave to the couple a Slovene culture-hero of the Huns, and bore a son, Ortlieb, who raised her a god of agriculture and cattle but kept alive her loathing for Hagen. kraken Norwegian son of , some say She persuaded Etzel to invite Gunther [krabben.Sykraken] He slew many monsters and was given and his nobles to his court and then a sea-monster which pulled ships to the role of king of the Slovenes by bribed Brodelin, Etzel’s brother, to kill the sea-bottom Svarog. He was succeeded in this role all the Burgundians. When the first It was said to be one and a half miles by Kralj Matjaz. attack left some of the visitors alive, in circumference. In some accounts Kresnik is a good she burned down the hall where they Krakucchanda Buddhist spirit guarding the family from the still held out. She forced Rudiger to [=Tibetan Kor-wa-ji] vil Vlkodlak. attack them and many were one of the 7 manushibuddhas Kreutzneald, F R Baltic slaughtered on each side, including Kralj Matjaz Slovene the Estonian compiler of the epic Gernot and Rudiger. In the end, only [King Mathias] Kalevipoea, published 1857–61 Gunther and Hagen remained alive king of the Slovenes Kriemhild (see Krimhild) and they were captured. She had brother and husband of Alencica kriksy (see nocnitsa) Gunther beheaded and used his He is said to have rescued Alencica Krimen South American severed head to try to force Hagen to from the Turks or, in other accounts, a survivor of the flood in the lore disclose where in the Rhine he had from the underworld. of the Tupi hidden the Nibelung treasure. When In death, he is said to be sleeping in He and his brothers Coem and he refused, she killed him. Her wanton a cave on Mount Petra, awaiting a Hermitten saved themselves by climbing cruelty so enraged Hildebrand who call in his country’s hour of need. trees or hiding in caves. was present at the murder that he drew

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