Mythology - A to Z

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Each-uisge - An each-uisge (Scottish Gaelic: literally "water horse") is a mythological Scottish water spirit, called the each-uisge (anglicised as aughisky or Ech-Ushkya in Ireland). Similar to the kelpie, but far more vicious.

Are you some sort of Mythology encyclopedia, Strawberry? You're posting ones that I've never heard of!
Fenrir [monstrous wolf son of Loki who devours the sun and Odin at Ragnarok]

Fortuna Bona, literally "Good Fortune" is a benevolent aspect of the Roman Goddess of Luck and Chance

Ganymede: a Trojan prince abducted by Zeus to become his 'cup-bearer', among other things.

Horta is the Etruscan Goddess of Gardens. One of the oldest Etruscan cities, Horta or Hortanum (now called Orte), was named for Her, and was located on the right (north) bank of the Tiber where the River Nar joined it, not far from Lake Vadimon.

No, I'm not a Mythology encyclopedia; I suppose it's because I'm good at looking things up.

Ibong Adarna - Ibong Adarna is an epic written in the 17th Century about an eponymous magical bird.

Jabbmeaaakka
Goddess of death and queen of the underworld and the kingdom of death.

Which underworld is she from, kazan-san?
Kami [a Japanese word that can mean either spirit/spirits or god/gods]

Or it can be an adjective.

The typhoon that saved Japan from Kublai Khan's (China's Mongol Ruler)vast amphibious invasion fleet was dubbed "the divine wind": "kamikazi".

Hence the name given 800 years later to the suicide pilots, and their planes, in that last desperate campaign to defend Japan from the U.S. Navy in World War Two.

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Lysistrata: the young woman protagonist in the Greek tragedy drama of that name.

Leto [mother of Apollo and Artemis].

Mezentius: a barbaric Etruscan warrior who appears in Virgil's Aeneid.

Nue [a bizarre Japanese Yokai made of an amalgamation of different animals].

Orestes: a Greek prince of Mycenae, killed his mother (Clytaemnestra) and her lover (Aegisthus) in revenge for their murder of his father (Agamemnon), after the latter's return from the Trojan War.

Penelope [Odysseus' wife]

Quetzalcoatl - The God of the Wind(Toltec)