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The Probert Encyclopaedia of Other Mythology

IAMANJA

In Brazilian mythology, Iamanja is the goddess of the sea. A merciful answerer of prayers and she whose waters salve the wounded spirit.
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IDLIRVIRISSONG

In Inuit mythology, Idlirvirissong is an evil spirit.
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IFA

Ifa is the Yoruba god of wisdom, knowledge and divining.
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IGALUK

In Inuit mythology, Igaluk is the moon spirit.
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ILARA

In Tiwi mythology, Ilara is the underworld.
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ILMARINEN

In Finnish mythology, Ilmarinen was a blacksmith-god. Some accounts say he was the brother of Vainamoinen.
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IMANA

In Banyarwanda mythology Imana was the creator and supporter of the universe. He ruled all living beings, and guaranteed them immortality by hunting Death, a savage wild animal. When he was hunting, his orders were that everything in creation was to stay in hiding, so that Death would have no refuge. But one day in the quietness of the hunt, an old woman crept out to hoe her vegetable garden - and Death hid under her skirt and was taken inside with her. Imana tried a second way of cheating Death by telling the old woman's relatives to bury her body but leave cracks in the earth above her, so that she could hear him calling her back to life. But the old woman's daughter-in- law who hated her, filled the cracks with earth and banged the surface hard with her pounding stick - and Death became endemic.
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IMILOZI

In Zulu mythology, Imilozi were spirits who used a language of whistles and hoots to tell men the secrets of the gods. However, men unable to understand the language remained ignorant of what the gods wanted.
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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION

In the mythology of the Roman Catholic Church, immaculate conception is the doctrine that Mary became pregnant without having sexual intercourse (so called original sin). This doctrine came into favour in the 12th century, when, however, it was opposed by St Bernard, and it afterwards became a subject of vehement controversy between the Scotists, who supported, and the Thomists, who opposed it. In 1708 Clement XI appointed a festival to be celebrated throughout the church in honour of the immaculate conception. Since that time it was received in the Roman Church as an opinion, but not as an article of faith until the year 1854 when the pope issued a bull which made the immaculate conception a point of faith.
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IN-NARD-DOOAH

In Australian Aborigine mythology, In-Nard-Dooah is a porcupine who marries Yee-Na-Pah.
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INA

In Polynesian mythology, Ina (Hina) is a two-faced great goddess of the sea, healing and death. She is an enchanting tapa-beating woman of the moon.
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INCUBUS

In folk-lore, the Incubus were male spirits who raped women during their sleep, producing Witches and Demons as offspring.
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INTI

In Inca mythology, Inti is the sun god. Taking pity on the wretchedness of mortals, he sent his son Manco Capac and his daughter Mama Occlo to teach mankind civilization - the beginning of the Inca ruling dynasty. The name
Inti was considered so sacred that only members of the ruling dynasty were allowed to say it, and even then only silently.
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ISITOQ

In Inuit mythology, Isitoq is a spirit who helps to find people who have broken taboos.
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ITUANA

In Amazon mythology, Ituana is the great goddess of the Amazon river. She is the many-breasted foster mother of the earth's innumerable children.
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IYATIKU

In Keres mythology, Iyatiku is the earth mother. A Counsellor and she who welcomes us home when we cast off our coil of flesh.
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