Ke Akua Kelliwig 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 Yama, the darkness of the primordial chaos. (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 goddess 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 demon kelby (see kelpie) 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 King Arthur’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) 568 EABC8972-576D-4878-8C33-C9EBD9D6F5A9 Kelok keremet1 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 Gandharva] 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 Erebus 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 goddesses 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 Zeus Kemush North American Kengida Mesopotamian Keraunos Greek [=Modoc Kumush] a Sumerian deity, messenger a thunder-god the Klamath name for Kumush for Enlil 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.