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Laima was the Baltic goddess of good luck. Originally she and her sisters Karta and Dekla controlled the destinies of all living things, and her particular function was to choose the moment of death. She specialized in protecting women, from the moment when they were conceived, through their birth, growing up and marriage to the point where they had children of their own.
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The Land of Cockaigne is an imaginary Utopia in mediaeval legend where a life of luxury and idleness was possible. Cockaigne was a gourmand's paradise where the rivers flowed wine and the houses were made of cake and the pavements of pastry.
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In Chinese mythology, Lei Gong was the storm god. A blue-skinned warrior with fangs and talons. He rode a chariot pulled by six boys, and carried a drum, a chisel and a hammer. He hammered the drum to make thunder, and the chisel to send lightning-bolts. The noise of thunder told mortals that he was riding the sky looking for evil-doers, and the lightning-blast found them out however hard they tried to hide.
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In Chinese mythology, Lei Jen Zu, was the son of Lei the thunder dragon. He was hatched on Earth from an egg found after a lighting-bolt struck the ground. The soldiers who found him gave him to their general Wen Wang. Wen Wang, who already had ninety-nine other children, had the child brought up by a Taoist hermit. Then Wen Wang was captured by his enemies, and the Thunder-dragon sent his son two apricots to eat. As soon as Lei Jen Zu spat out the stones, he changed from a human prince to a green-faced dragon with mirror eyes, boar' s tusks and an ant-eater's snout, and went to rescue Wang.
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In Lapp mythology, Leib-Olmai was the god of good luck in hunting. He lived in alder trees, but when hunters danced for him he appeared as a bear and gave them good luck - especially against bears. At festivals, people painted their faces in his honour with a brownish-red mixture made from ground-up alder bark and water.
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In Finnish mythology, Lemminkainen was the handsome son of the love-goddess Kyllihi. He was a shape-changer, trickster and seducer. He travelled the world looking for a wife, and used the quest as an excuse to have sex with every girl he met.
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In Slavic mythology, the Leshy (Ljeschi) was the spirit of the forest. He was jealous of his forest kingdom and tried to lose travellers in its depth. He could change his shape but could always be recognised by his face which remained blue.
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In Zambian mythology, Leza is the creator god responsible for all natural phenomena.
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In Upoto mythology, Libanza is the creator. He created the sky and the gods that inhabit it, and the sun that contains the fire of life, then he made the moon, the earth and all its inhabitants. He made all people equal, but calling them together the Earth people dawdled and Libanza gave the moon people immortality and sent the Earth people death. However, the moon people begged him to change his mind and he relented sufficiently to grant Earth people immortality in his Heaven, but only after they had served a lifetime of pain and toil on earth.
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In Hebrew mythology, Lilith is a female demon hostile to children and to adults sleeping alone.
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Limu is the Polynesian god of the dead.
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In Caroline Islands mythology the Lioumere are terrifying female demons with iron teeth, which possess great magical power.
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In Fon mythology, Lisa is the sun god who causes the day and its heat. He is the god of strength and endurance.
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In Polynesian mythology Lona is the goddess of the moon. She fell in love with a mortal man, Ai Kanaka, and married him carrying him on her wings to the White Kingdom she ruled where they lived happily until his death.
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In Toltec mythology, the long hand of Huemac represents the sun's rays.
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In Chinese mythology, Long Wang was a god of water and the bringer of rain. When he appeared to humans he borrowed shape from a variety of Earth's creatures and was generous to mortals.
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In Samoan mythology, Losi is the son of the creator Tangaloa. He was sent to earth with the taro as a present to the people, and as its protective god.
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In Finnish mythology, Louhi was a magic-working ice giantess, Princess of Pohjola. When suitors came to marry her daughter, she set them impossible tasks and if these tasks were overcome she had her army of frost giants kill them.
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In Finnish mythology, Loviatar was the goddess of plagues. She was the hideous daughter of Tuoni and Tuonetar, the King and Queen of the Underworld. Her body was ravaged by all the diseases to which it was host. She mated with the wind and had nine terrible children which gusted out across the universe carrying diseases.
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In Bakongo mythology, Lubangala is the protector of villages, men and the souls of the dead. He appears as a rainbow during and after storms.
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