Mythology - A to Z

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Ulysses of Trojan War fame.

Venus-Roman Goddess of Love

Wodan - South-Germanic god. Among things one of the leaders of the wild hunt.

Xing Tian - deity of Chinese mythology who fights against the Supreme Divinity,, not giving up even after the event of his decapitation. Losing the fight for supremacy, he was beheaded and his head buried in Changyang Mountain. Nevertheless, headless, with a shield in one hand and a battle axe in the other, he continues the fight, using for eyes his nipples and for a mouth his bellybutton.

Yam
From Christopher Siren's page. Sea and river god who lives in an undersea palace. A dragon, serpent, and Leviathan (Lotan) may have been in his following. Feuds with Baal.

Ziz:
A giant griffin-like bird in Jewish mythology. Once an egg of the Ziz fell to the ground and broke. The fluid from it flooded sixty cities, and the shock crushed three hundred cedars. Fortunately such accidents do not occur frequently. As a rule the bird lets her eggs slide gently into her nest. This one mishap was because the egg was rotten, and the bird cast it away carelessly.

Amaterasu--Japanese sun goddess and ruler of the universe

was a title and honorific meaning "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity.

Um, I think you forgot a word there, Kazan-san!
Calypso--a Greek Titan girl imprisoned on an island

Dionysus - Greek god of among things wine. And his sacrifices where sometimes ripped apart in ecstatic frenzies.

Epona--Celtic goddess of horses.

Far darrig ( from the Irish 'Fear dearg' - Red man );
a solitary type of fairy who, along with the Leprechaun and the Clurichaun, are "most sluttish, slouching, jeering, mischievous phantoms". The Far darrig is described as one who "busies himself with practical joking, especially with gruesome joking". One example of this is replacing babies with changelings.

Grendel

Hydra

Isis - Egyptian goddess and wife of Osiris.

Jagannatha: a title of the Hindu god Krishna. Juggernaut is an English version of the word.