999+ Deep Dives

Chronicles

Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.

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African Mythology

Mwari

Discover Mwari (Musikavanhu), the supreme creator-god of the Shona of southern Africa — the almighty maker of the world and giver of rain who speaks

Sep 20, 20268 min read

African Mythology

Heitsi-Eibib

Discover Heitsi-Eibib, the great culture-hero and sorcerer of the Khoikhoi — miraculously born, a shapeshifting slayer of monsters who died and rose again

Sep 19, 20269 min read

African Mythology

Gaunab

Discover Gaunab (//Gaunab), the dark and malevolent god of death, sickness and evil in Khoikhoi belief — the great adversary of the rain-god Tsui-Goab in

Sep 19, 20267 min read

African Mythology

Tsui-Goab

Discover Tsui-Goab (“Wounded Knee”), the supreme rain-god and creator of the Khoikhoi — the benevolent hero-god who brings rain and life and eternally

Sep 19, 20267 min read

African Mythology

Cagn

Discover Cagn (/Kaggen), the mantis trickster-creator god of the San (Bushmen) — the supreme being who made the world and the sacred eland, a

Sep 19, 20269 min read

Finnish & Baltic

Stallo

Discover the Stallo (Stállu), the man-eating ogre of Sami folklore — a large, greedy, treasure-hoarding giant of the Arctic wild who preys on humans yet

Sep 19, 20268 min read

Finnish & Baltic

Sarakka

Discover Sáráhkká (Sarakka), the beloved Sami goddess of childbirth, women and the hearth — daughter of the mother-goddess who forms the child in the

Sep 19, 20267 min read

Finnish & Baltic

Beaivi

Discover Beaivi, the sun-goddess of the Sami — the divine sun whose return after the polar night brings light, warmth and fertility, feeds the reindeer,

Sep 19, 20268 min read

Finnish & Baltic

Horagalles

Discover Horagalles, the thunder-god of the Sami — the hammer-wielding deity of lightning and storm, protector who strikes down trolls and evil spirits,

Sep 18, 20268 min read

Siberian & Arctic

Ajysyt

Discover Ajysyt (“birth-giver”), the mother-goddess of childbirth and fertility of the Sakha (Yakut) — the divine midwife who brings the soul of each

Sep 18, 20268 min read