Mythology - A to Z

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Raiden [Japanese god of thunder and lightning]
I think Pandora's box was actually a Greek jar in the original myth, but who knows?

Sedna - Sedna is the goddess of the sea and marine animals in Inuit mythology and is also known as the Mother of the Sea or Mistress of the Sea. The story of Sedna, which is a creation myth, describes how she came to rule over Adlivun, the Inuit underworld. Sedna is also known as Arnakuagsak or Arnaqquassaq (Greenland) and Sassuma Arnaa ("Mother of the Deep", West Greenland) and Nerrivik ("Table", northern Greenland) or Nulinjuk (District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories, Canada). She is sometimes known by other names by different Inuit groups such as Arnapkapfaaluk ("Big Bad Woman") of the Copper Inuit from the Coronation Gulf area and Takanakapsaluk or Takannaaluk (Igloolik).

Tristan and Isolde

Uttu: Sumerian goddess of weaving.

Wani [a Japanese sea dragon]

Xibalba - Xibalba, roughly translated as "place of fear," is the name of the underworld in K'iche' Maya mythology, ruled by the Maya death gods and their helpers.

Yaya (god), supreme God/Great Spirit in Taíno mythology.

Zephyros/Zephyrus: god of the West Wind in Graeco-Roman mythology.

Ame Onna [a Japanese Yokai who brings rain wherever she goes]

Briareos: a monstrous primitive god in Greek mythology, with 100 hands and 50 heads.

Cernunnos (horned nature god of ancient continental celtic mythology)

Dionysus: Greek god of Wine and the Theatre, also known as Bacchus.

Eros

Flint-Tawiscara- Bad Mind, Bad Spirit, Left-Handed Twin

Grani [The noble steed of the Norse hero Sigurd]

Kitchi-at'Husis (Passamaquoddy lake monster)