Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Guanyin — the beloved goddess (bodhisattva) of mercy and compassion in Chinese Buddhism, the Chinese form of Avalokiteshvara who hears the cries of all
The Jade Emperor (Yu Huang) — the supreme ruler of Heaven in Chinese mythology and Daoism, governing Heaven, Earth, and the Underworld and the vast
Discover Kotys (Kotyto), the Thracian goddess of orgiastic and ecstatic rites — a deity of fertility and the wild whose festival the Kotyttia was
Discover Bendis, the great Thracian goddess of the hunt, moon and wild — identified with Artemis and so significant that her cult was adopted at Athens,
Discover Sabazios, the sky-father and horseman-god of the Thracians and Phrygians — identified with both Zeus and Dionysus, whose ecstatic mystery-cult
Discover Zalmoxis, the great god of immortality of the Getae and Dacians — the deity who grants eternal life, taught by legend to have been a man who
Aino, the tragic maiden of the Kalevala — a young, beautiful girl promised against her will to the aged sage Vainamoinen, who in her despair drowned
Joukahainen, the brash young rival of Vainamoinen in the Kalevala — a proud youth who challenged the eternal sage to a contest of song, was sung down into
Kullervo, the tragic hero of the Kalevala — an ill-fated youth of monstrous strength born into slavery and vengeance, whose life of sorrow, terrible
Antero Vipunen, the dead giant-sage of the Kalevala — an ancient, long-dead being of immense wisdom, buried with trees growing upon him, into whose belly
