Collections

Thematic groupings of entities by shared domain, realm, or archetype. Every collection is auto-generated from the structured data; membership updates as ingestion continues.

Solar Deities

Gods and spirits of the sun across traditions

Entities whose domain or realm ties them to the sun: solar disks, sky-piercing travelers, dawn-bringers, noon-burning judges. Ra, Helios, Surya, Amaterasu, Inti, Huitzilopochtli, and kindred.

402 entities

Lunar Deities

Moon-governors, cycle-keepers, tidal powers

Entities associated with the moon, its phases, and tidal cycles: Selene, Chandra, Tsukuyomi, Khonsu, Mama Killa, Ix Chel.

192 entities

Psychopomps & Death Gods

Escorts and sovereigns of the dead

Entities who rule, attend, or guide the dead: Anubis, Hermes, Yama, Hel, Mictlantecuhtli, and the tradition-specific escorts of souls.

747 entities

Forest & Woodland Spirits

Guardians of trees, groves, and wild thickets

Spirits of forest and wilderness: chullachaqui, leshy, curupira, kodama, dryads — entities embedded in non-human ecosystems their cultures still share.

359 entities

Water Spirits

River, lake, ocean, and rainfall powers

Entities tied to bodies of water: Mami Wata, yumbo, Yemoja, Sirona, Thetis, river-gods and lake-mothers worldwide.

755 entities

Household & Hearth Spirits

Guardians of home, family, and domestic continuity

Lares, domovoi, nats, kamidana spirits, brownies — entities who live in and protect human dwellings, often in exchange for small daily offerings.

178 entities

Tricksters

Rule-breakers, shape-shifters, and culture heroes

Entities who subvert order to teach it: Anansi, Coyote, Loki, Eshu, Raven, Maui, Monkey — each laughs at the rules of their tradition while reinforcing them.

69 entities

Ancestors

Veneration of lineage and the named dead

Entities who are or were once human and whose memory is ritually sustained: aiyekoto, lares familiares, Xapiripë ancestor spirits, ancestral Kamigami.

547 entities

Cryptids & Legendary Creatures

Regional folk beings and wild unseen things

Tier 2 — named creatures documented in folk belief: wendigos, jiangshi, aswangs, kelpies, leshys, chupacabras recorded within culturally-attested traditions. Excludes modern fictional entities.

2380 entities

Neither Good Nor Evil

Entities whose alignment resists binary labels

Many traditions resist the good/evil binary. These are the entities explicitly characterised as ambiguous — helpful and dangerous by turns, depending on reciprocity.

1221 entities