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The wife of Santa Claus. Her first mention is from a short story called A Christmas Legend by James Rees in 1849, where in the story Santa Claus is mentioned alongside "his wife". As time developed she appeared more and more in short stories and childrens writings, referred to as "Mrs. Santa Claus" or "Santa's wife", sometimes aiding Santa Claus in his gift giving or, in later versions and modern media, running things at the North Pole while he is busy. Often she is the one tasked with actually writing Santa's lists of children who are naughty and nice. She usually plays a secondary role to her husband and is not a main character of her tales, though her importance to children does not go unnoticed and she frequently appears alongside him in American media. In rare instances the two also have a child.

Pantheon: American Folklore

Domain or Function: Aids her husband or takes over for him in giving gifts to children during Christmas.

Alternate Names: Mrs. Santa Claus, Goody Santa Claus, Mary Claus, Mother Christmas.

Character Traits: Portrayed like her husband, a jolly old woman. Her personality is often a bit more subdued and kind like a warm grandmother.

Visual Traits: Mirrors her husband, adorned in a red petticoat and warm white furs.

Symbolism: Presents, bells.

One of the most well known and important Shinto deities. Inari, in simplest terms possible, is the kami of prosperity and success, though they often appear in media as the kami of rice. They are prayed to for anything from financial success to victory in battle to a bountiful harvest. Inari began as a female deity but over time was overwritten to be male, ambiguous, or multiple kami all at once known as Inari sanza (three) or Inari goza (five). During the later periods like the Edo period Inari became a patron of blacksmiths and weaponry, and eventually also a god of commerce and money. It became common for people to claim a 'personal Inari'; every person's worship of Inari was different and thought of as either their own kami or a multi-faceted aspect of the god. Shrines to Inari are dotted across Japan today, often marked with red torii gate and statues of Inari's famous foxes, said to be the god's messengers, wearing red yodarekake bibs and holding keys, scrolls, or wish-granting pearls.

Pantheon: Shinto, Japanese

Domain or Function: Multifaceted, mostly rice, foxes, agriculture, prosperity, and commerce. Also a god of blacksmiths and weapons.

Alternate Names: Inari Ōkami (稲荷大神), Ō-Inari (大稲荷).

Character Traits: Most often a helpful god who promotes success and prosperity, though in some stories they are shown punishing people for their disrespect.

Visual Traits: In art they can be shown as a woman, old man, or multiple gods at once. They are associated with their fox messengers who wear votive bibs and carry scrolls, keys, or pearls.

Symbolism: Rice, foxes, the color red, torii gate, scroll, key, pearl.

The divine pair said to be supreme deities related to fertility and sex, They resided in the highest level of the thirteen heavens called Ōmeyōcān where they are sometimes said to create human souls and send them to Earth. He was the patron god of Cipactli, the first day of the twenty day month, and she was noted as giving birth to a flint knife which the gods ejected from the heavens, landing in a cave called Chicomoztoc, and giving birth to many deities called the Nauhtzonteteo. They are identified with another god pair, Ōmetēcuhtli and Ōmecihuātl, part of a supposed divine two-god named Ōmeteōtl who embodied both male and female at once, though this is debated among scholars. Some modern Nahua still revere Ōmeteōtl as a real deity, though some believe the deity was made up by scholar Miguel León-Portilla.

Pantheon: Aztec

Domain or Function: Creator of human souls, fertility and sex.

Alternate Names: Likely the same as Ōmetēcuhtli and Ōmecihuātl, forming the dual-god Ōmeteōtl. He can also go by the name Tloquenahuaque and she by the name Ilhuicacihuātl.

Character Traits: Said to have created humans, beneficial.

Visual Traits: In the few representations of them we do have their only identifiable trait is the cipactli headdress on their head.

Symbolism: Cipactli/crocodile.

Messenger of the supreme god Olorun. The chameleon is a symbol of resilience, change, adaptability, and wisdom. In a retold tale, Olorun was at odds with Olokun who claimed that she was superior to all other orisha. Olokun was a skilled weaver who made beautiful tapestries, so Olorun sent Agemo to witness this. If Agemo was to be impressed Olokun would be declared supreme, however with each tapestry she wove Agemo replicated perfectly with his color changing skin, causing Olokun to admit defeat. To the Ijebu subgroup Agemo is a most high deity worshiped frequently with the Agemo Festival. From different villages come recognized "agemos" who represent the deity and are considered priests, traveling in procession to Imosan and Ijebu-Ode where they are worshiped by passerby, though women are not permitted to see the agemos. The Agemo spirit is said to protect crops, fertility, restore barren women's ability to give birth, and protect against disease. In another telling Agemo was said to be the child of Obatala, the king of orishas, who became deformed due to a conflict with his father but, courageously, continued his work covered by a raffia mat which today the Agemo festival still uses. These two Agemos may or may not be the same, but in most sources they seem to be equated in some way.

Pantheon: Yoruba

Domain or Function: Messenger of the high god Olorun. Protects crops, fertility, and wards off disease.

Alternate Names: Alagemo

Character Traits: Usually depicted as the faithful messenger of Olorun, but in other stories related to the Agemo festival he is a courageous being.

Visual Traits: As the chameleon he doesn't appear much but the chameleon symbolism is strong in many festivals, rituals, and art. The agemos of the festival are usually covered in colorful raffia mats.

Symbolism: Chameleons, raffia, colors.

Not much of this being is known as the indigenous people of Brazil are not well recorded. A blog titled Mbo'esara Esãîa Tremembé provides a good bit of information on the myths and beings of the Tremembé indigenous group. Awasai is said to be giant in stature and evil in nature. He is capable of shapeshifting into many creatures as well as encosto, which is a type of spiritual possession.

Pantheon: Tremembé

Domain or Function: Evil giant who possesses others and shapeshifts.

Alternate Names: None

Character Traits: An evil giant.

Visual Traits: None specifically aside from being giant.

Symbolism: None

Not much is known of what Týr may have originally been, only guesses and brief mentions. He is often given the son of the jötunn Hymir or of Odin himself. From Proto-Indo-European his name likely stems from the word for 'god' or 'heavenly one', lending to the theory that he may have originally been of the sky-god archetype, and some believe he may have been more important than Odin at one point. Primarily he is mentioned as a war and victory god, mentioned in various passages as a god who brings the spoils of war. He is associated closely in literature with the Roman god Mars via interpretatio romana. He is possibly closely associated with the concept of the thing, a lawful assembly presided over by a lawspeaker who knows and upholds the legislation associated with them. In mythology he is featured in a few roles: in Hymiskviða he visits his father and 900-headed grandmother with the god Thor, but is not mentioned further in the poem. He is also mentioned in passing in a few smaller poems and is present during the Lokasenna. His major role is during the binding of the giant wolf Fenrir where he is the only god brave enough to feed the beast, and when Fenrir asks one of the gods to put their hand in his mouth as a test he is the one who offers, ultimately losing his right hand. At Ragnarök he is fated to do battle against Hel's hound, Garmr, with the two killing each other. The day of the week Tuesday owes its name to him.

Pantheon: Germanic, Norse

Domain or Function: God of war and victory, god of legislation and law, possibly a god of the sky.

Alternate Names: Tiwaz, Tīw, Ziu, Tīg, possibly ᛏᛁᚢᛦ, Deo Mars Thincsus (God Mars of the Thing).

Character Traits: Said to be brave, courageous, powerful, and sometimes even bloody.

Visual Traits: Only possibly shown in some pendants and stones as a regular man missing his hands.

Symbolism: The Tiwaz rune.

The animals of the Amazon and surrounding areas are varied, and to the indigenous people each one is special and often seen as an important spirit. To the Maxakali people they are called Yãmĩyxop , worshiped and reenacted by songs to invoke them and draw them from nature. There are numerous ones, some not recorded as well as others, a notable one being Amaxuy. He is the lord of waters and rivers. In one myth about him it is said that the bat spirit god, Xunin, searched for water after removing an earthworm from the ground and helping a tadpole. He went to Amaxuy for aid, asking where the waters were, but Amaxuy did not provide help. Instead Xunin had to search for water alone with the use of his immense knowledge and power. The capybara is one of many important species to the Maxakali people though in some areas hunting has reduced their populations.

Pantheon: Maxakali

Domain or Function: Lord of all rivers and waters.

Alternate Names: Kuxakuk

Character Traits: From the known stories he doesn't have a defined one to point out.

Visual Traits: None

Symbolism: None

The Dragon Kings in Asian mythology are gods who reside over the sea and all rain on Earth, each of them ruling over a specific direction and having their own undersea palace. Ao Guang is often cited as the leader of the four, residing over the Eastern Sea, and associated with the Azure Dragon. He and the others likely derive from the nagaraja of Buddhism, serpentine kings who similarly rule over the elements. Ao Guang specifically shows up in three main sources: Fengshen Yanyi, Journey to the West, and The Eight Immortals Crossing The Sea. He is seen quarreling with Nezha because of his rowdiness with Nezha later killing his investigator Li Gen and his son Ao Bing. Nezha is eventually forced to give up his organs to him as penance. In Journey to the West he is visited by Sun Wukong who seeks a weapon, eventually taking the Ruyi Jingu Bang which collapses the palace and throws the sea into chaos, though in later stories he aids Sun Wukong as an indifferent ally. In his final mention he attempts to stop the Eight Immortals as they cross the sea but through their combined might he is defeated. The "Dragon King" is also sometimes seen as a singular being rather than four kings. In Buddhism he is seen as equivalent or similar to the dragon king Sagara.

Pantheon: Chinese

Domain or Function: Dragon king of the Eastern Sea, rules over the oceans, sealife, and can send destructive storms.

Alternate Names: Dragon King or Dragon God, Ao Kuang

Character Traits: Seen as scholarly and powerful but also easily angered and sometimes drunk with power.

Visual Traits: Shown often as humanoid with dragon traits usually around the face. Associated with the color green or blue.

Symbolism: Dragons, blue.

Atlas sided with the Titans during the Titanomachy, and upon his defeat was condemned to forever hold up the sky as punishment. In art he is shown holding up a sphere, commonly misinterpreted as the Earth, but is in fact the celestial firmament, Uranus himself in sphere form. One tale tells how Atlas encountered the hero Perseus; in this myth Atlas is the king of Mauretania and is turned to stone by the head of Medusa when he is rude to Perseus, becoming the Atlas Mountains. In another tale he is encountered by the hero Heracles who is searching for the golden apples of Hesperides, the daughters of Atlas. Atlas intends to trick Heracles into holding the sky forever, but is instead tricked back into holding them. Atlas alongside holding up the sky is thought to be the inventor of astronomy and skilled in mathematics and philosophy as well.

Pantheon: Greek

Domain or Function: Holds up the sky. Inventor of astronomy, skilled in mathematics and philosophy.

Alternate Names: Atlas Telamon

Character Traits: Enduring, patient, and intelligent.

Visual Traits: Shown in art holding up the sky as a celestial sphere.

Symbolism: Sky, stars.

Usually angel number 57 in the Shem HaMephorash listing of the Kabbalistic angels, their name meaning "praiseworthy God" or "the lovely god". In Kabbalah, Nemamiah is an archangel often called upon for prosperity and oversees warriors, militaries, and courage, as well as releases prisoners and rewards discernment. The Bible verse attributed to them is "You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord! He is their help and their shield."

Pantheon: Kabbalah, Occultism

Domain or Function: Prosperity and overseeing of warriors, militaries, and victory. Releases prisoners and rewards discernment.

Alternate Names: None

Character Traits: Aids great warriors and frees prisoners.

Visual Traits: Unknown

Symbolism: Unknown

Usually angel number 69 in the Shem HaMephorash listing of the Kabbalistic angels, their name meaning “all-seeing God”. In Kabbalah, Rochel is an angel often called upon for understanding law and the order that rules people, as well as the finding of lost objects and bestows fortune and success. The Bible verse attributed to them is “The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.”

Pantheon: Kabbalah, Occultism

Domain or Function: Aids in understanding law and order, finding lost objects, and bestows fortune and success.

Alternate Names: Roehel

Character Traits: Bestows knowledge of the law and returns lost objects.

Visual Traits: Unknown

Symbolism: Unknown

Twin brother of the god Quetzalcoatl, as Quetzalcoatl is the light and morning star Xolotl is the dark and the evening star. In one of the creation myths the Fifth Sun did not move upon creation, prompting the wind god Ehecatl to slaughter the other gods as sacrifice for it. Xolotl, being a master shapeshifter, hid from him in the form of maize, maguey, and an axolotl, ultimately being caught in the end. During this tale he cries so much that his eyes fall out of their sockets. He also aided his brother in retrieving bones from Mictlan to make new life. Xolotl guides the sun through the underworld, Mictlan, in order to protect it from the dangers there. Symbolically he is tied to fire and lightning, but also to negative traits such as deformities and specifically twins, which were also seen as a deformity.

Pantheon: Aztec

Domain or Function: God of Venus as the evening star, guides the sun through the underworld to protect it. Represents fire and lightning as well as deformities and twins.

Alternate Names: None

Character Traits: A protector mainly, though seen with negative possibly pitiful traits, the 'darker' half to his brother.

Visual Traits: Depicted most commonly as a dog (the xoloitzcuintle) with skeletal or emaciated features, sometimes bearing a torch, and sometimes with his limbs facing backward.

Symbolism: Dogs, skeletons, torches, deformities.

A fertility spirit of the southwestern Native groups, namely the Zuni, Hopi, and Hohokam. In most depictions he is shown as a trickster spirit with an erect phallus and is said to bring fertility through the land by spreading seeds, usually maize, as well as bring children to new mothers in a sack on his hunched back, often accompanied by his wife Kokopelmimi/Kokopelmana. In some imagery he is shown playing a flute and has become synonymous with this flute playing entity who in a similar fashion brings with him fertility and the seasons. Depending on the tribe he can be this flute deity or may mistakenly be misinterpreted, instead being another deity named Paiyatamu. In the modern day he has become a commercial symbol of the American southwest as a whole, appearing on anything from t-shirts to buildings.

Pantheon: Pueblo Groups, namely Zuni, Hopi, Hohokam.

Domain or Function: Fertility spirit of the land and of human beings, a trickster, brings children to mothers.

Alternate Names: Kokopol, Kokopele, Kokopilau, Neopkwai'i, Ololowishkya.

Character Traits: Usually a trickster spirit who brings fertility to the land and people, but is also a sacred clown archetype.

Visual Traits: Most often appears as a man with an erect phallus and an insectoid 'helmet' with feathers or antennae, often thought to represent the desert robber fly. Sometimes he is shown as the flute playter with a hunched back playing a flute.

Symbolism: Robber fly, flute, hunched back.