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Ìyá Nlá is an orisha whose name means “Great Mother” in the Yoruba language. She is associated with water, wisdom, creation, transformation & Aje, the sacred feminine energy. She is honored in the various African diasporic religions in the Americas.

A Yemanjá statue at Píer de Iemanjá (Iemanjá Pier), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Iya, the Camp-Eater is a storm spirit from Lakota mythology in the US. He's the younger brother of Iktomi, the spider-trickster spirit. He has an endless appetite & spreads disease, famine & winter weather.

An indigenous man with long black hair and glowing yellow eyes holds a skull with worms coming out of it and raises his other hand in the air, a storm swirls behind him & insects fly around him.

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Travel is a good way to expand your horizons. It's also a good way to meet talkative animals in little tweed suits who will invite you to their book club at the secret library hidden deep in the old forest.

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Iwia, meaning jungle demons in the mythology of the Shuar people, an indigenous ethnic group that inhabits the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia. They're gluttonous & eat people. In the Ecuadorian Army, there's an elite jungle special-operations unit named for the Iwia.

An indigenous man lunges from the shadows snarling. He wears a tall grass headdress on his head, his eyes are red, there are glowing red tattoos across his chest and arms, his hands are long and spindly and glowing red and spectral red wings emerge from his back and disappear into the shadows.

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Itzpapalotl (Obsidian Butterfly) is a skeletal death goddess and the queen of the Tzitzimimeh, celestial skeletal female spirits. She's the ruler of Tamōhuānchān, an afterlife for women who died in childbirth and stillborn infants. She is the mother of Mixcoatl, the personification of the Milky Way

Depiction of Itzpapalotl from the Codex Borgia

Modern depiction of Itzpapalotl as an indigenous woman with black butterfly wings and clawed hands & feet. She wears a feathered headdress, large round earrings, half of her face is painted white, she wears a necklace of skulls and a short geometrically printed skirt trimmed in red feathers.

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Itqiirpak is a bad omen from Yupik mythology, appearing as either a fireball or as a big hand from the ocean with a mouth on each fingertip and a single large mouth in the palm of the hand. They foretell death and sometimes cause it by eating people.

a hand with a mouth on each fingertip and a single large mouth in the palm of the hand

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah I had never heard of Itcanam maya'ú until I read Merbeings by Mark Hall & Loren Coleman. It's a really cool book we're definitely recommend if you want to learn about more super obscure merbeings

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'd rather mermen be silly than murderous, for sure!

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Itcanam maya'ú (the Creek Man) is a male aquatic being from Unangax̂ mythology in the Aleutian Islands. He has human and animal characteristics and is described as more of a practical joker than a dangerous creature.

Merman seen from behind with tan skin long brown hair and a blue fishtail

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Its been suggested that Isti-Papa preserves the memory of when jaguars ranged into the US.

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Isti-Papa/ Atipa-tcoba/ Neka-ci Ckami (Man-Eater) is a creature from Alabama, Creek, Coushatta, Natchez & Chitimacha in the southern US. Different tribes describe it differently; as bearlike, feline or elephantine.

Black and white sketch of a quadruped with long fur, a long tail, woolly mammoth like tusks, saber tooth tiger like fangs & ape like hands.

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Isserkat are strange beings from Inuit and greenlandic Inuit mythology, whose eyes blink sideways. The Ijiraq are also sometimes described this way.

Black and white sketch of 3 Ijiraq or Isserkat. In the foreground one leers at the viewer. Its eyes and mouth are vertical on its face and it covers its sideways mouth with a long slender hand. In the background two more stand with the same vertical facial features

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ishkitini (horned owl) are malevolent shape-shifters from Choctaw mythology in the US. They kill people and their screech heralds death.

Photo of an owl with human eyes and a human mouth superimposed over its face. The lips are pulled back revealing all the teeth. In the background there's a night sky and a full moon.

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ishigaq are little people from Inuit mythology. They are nonthreatening & leave no tracks in the snow.

Tiny person wearing Inuit clothing, including a parka with the hood up shrouding the face in shadow, floating over the surface of the snow

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If I found a sword in a stone, I would leave it there. The sword probably has a perfectly valid reason to want to kill the stone, so who am I to get involved in their eternal struggle?

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Isily is the coyote trickster spirit in Cahuilla mythology in California in the US. He appears in many stories that teach lessons often through negative example or through humor.

Photo of a coyote totem holding flames in each hand, wearing fringed Native- looking clothes & a feathered headdress.

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Iroko is the Orisha of the ancestral tree in religions of the African diaspora in the Americas. Orishas are powerful gods and spirits originating in Yoruba mythology.

Illustration of Iroko: tree of life from St Patrick St Anthony Church The Franciscan Center for Urban Ministry art exhibition

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Me too. I think the parallels across world mythology is really interesting. That's part of why I started this account to document fairies and look into those similarities

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They are shockingly similar to fairy myths in Europe & I don't know if that is due to European influence or if the stories were always that way. Probably a bit of both. It seems everywhere in the world people tell these sorts of stories

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Ircenrraat are the little people in Yupik mythology. They live in another dimension & disappear and reappear whenever they want. They confuse the paths of unwary travellers before trapping them in caves.

Legends Of The National Parks: Lake Clark's Ircenrraat
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GorgonGoddess_The @avngmedusa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The trees and I have been having a girls day Dancing Gossiping Laughing Crying They wanted me to remind you Storms will always come That is just the way of the storm Your job is to grow deep AND stay flexible Then You can Weather it all

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Fawnlorn @fawnlorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Merry Autumn Equinox! 🍂 To celebrate, I thought today I'd reshare my finished Gourd-fellow the pumpkin sprite marionette. This was my first marionette and the reason I’m probably just gonna turn into Geppetto. 🎃

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Gooseberry (ready for Spring 🌷) @eisforenkidu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Things my friends send to me part 2: Prehistoric depictions of owls

Various prehistoric drawings and sculptures of owls that are laid out and numbers against a black background

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ipupiara (what is in the water) is a bristled sea man from Tupi mythology in Brazil. He attacks & eats people. Ipupiara probably inspired The Creature from The Black Lagoon & The Shape of Water.

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is also similar to when someone goes to a fairy realm and then returns to the human realm and discovers that more time has passed there than in the fairy realm and so they can't reunite with their kin.

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fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social @fairyencyclopedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The legend suggests that she died during the conjugal visit but what if instead she died birthing a half giant child who Inupasugjuk then adopted?

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