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In Inca mythology, Pachacamac was a son of Inti and a rival of his brother Viracocha. He was the god of fish and the creator of the universe.
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In Vedic mythology, Parjanya was the son of the sky god Dyaus. He was the god of rain-clouds and drove a cart across the sky, laden with bags and buckets of rain which he poured out on the Earth below. Because he sent rain to fertilize the ground, he also oversaw the fertility of animals (especially horses and cattle) and of human beings.
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In Sri Lankan mythology, Pattini is the goddess of fertility.
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In Qabbalistic mythology and general occultism the pentagram or five-pointed star (also known as Druid's Foot, Wizard's Foot, Goblins' Cross or Endless Knot) is an amulet protecting against evil, depicting the four elements of Life plus Spirit. In its simplest form, the pentagram is simply a symmetrical five-pointed star. Through the ages it was frequently superimposed upon a picture of a man with outstretched arms and legs, symbolising the relationship between the star and man the microcosm.
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In Australian mythology, Perindi is the evil twin brother of Harrimiah and paints him badly so as to attract the attentions of the maidens for himself.
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In Lithuanian mythology, Perkun was the god of thunder associated with the Norse goddess Jord.
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In Inuit mythology, Pinga is a female spirit who watches carefully over men' s actions, especially their treatment of animals.
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In Devonshire mythology, pixies are the mischievious spirits of infants who have died before baptism.
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In Finnish mythology, Pohjola or Pohja, was the country of the ice-giants in the Far North, realm of the evil queen Louhi. Later Finns identified it as the part of their country, and of Lapland, which lay in the Arctic Circle, but in earlier myth it was utterly remote, a frozen continent in the no-man's-land between Earth and stars.
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In Slavic and Russian mythology, Poludnitsa was a mischievous spirit who tormented people working in the fields, especially at midday in summer. She pinched them and pulled their hair, and if they failed to greet her politely, she took their children into the standing corn and lost them.
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A poppet is a small human figure or effigy used in witchcraft and magic. Poppets were connected with English witchcraft as instruments of murder since at least 1537, following the drawn out and painful death of Ferdinando Stanley, earl of Derby, in 1594, a wax poppet was discovered in his bed chamber and the conclusion drawn that his death was the result of witchcraft, though no one was ever charged with his death. The idea with wax poppets was that as the wax melted away, so the victim's body would waste away. Sticking pins into the poppet would cause the victim pain, and sticking a pin into the heart of the poppet would kill the victim within nine days of the event.
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In Guarani mythology, Porasy was a daughter of Rupave and Sypave. She was the mother of beauty, a woman of great physical strength who sacrificed herself to save her people from the domination of the seven evil sons of Tau and Kerana.
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In Christian mythology, Prester-John was a mythical descendant of Ogier the Dane, believed in the Middle Ages to rule as a Christian sovereign and priest somewhere in the interior of Asia. An image of Prester-John is borne on the Arms of Chichester.
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In Australian Aborigine folk-lore, Puckowe is the Grandmother spirit who lives in the sky and comes to the aid of medicine men.
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