Difference between revisions of "Persona Ideas"

|The Japanese goddess of food. She produced volumes of food from every part of her body. This process so disgusted the moon god, Tsukiyomi, that he killed her. As she died, her body continued to produce food.

|A modernization and mix of the Mayan god Mam and Catholic beliefs who serves as a link between this world and the underworld.<br> Unlike San La Muerte and Santa Muerte, he is not seen as benevolent.

|The personification of death, similar to Thanatos.

|The king of Edoni in Thrace, Lycurgus tried to ban Dionysus's cult. Various sources depict different consequences, one of which was a drought that caused his subjects to throw him to a pack of man-eating horses.

|The king of Crete in Greek mythology, who was portrayed as a tyrant. Most known for his part in the story of Daedalus and Icarus, as well as the story of the Minotaur. While pursuing Daedalus, Minos was killed by the daughter of Cocalus, who poured boiling water over him in his bath.  

|Primal and sexual, this crocodile-headed god was associated with fertility as well as the power of pharaohs and the military. He is also invoked as protection from dangers associated with the Nile river.   

|A Cretan inventor, who created the labyrinth for the Minotaur among many other inventions. Imprisoned in a tower by Minos to disallow him from revealing any secrets about the labyrinth, Daedalus fashioned a pair of wings for him and his son in order to escape. Icarus flew too close to the sun and crashed into the ocean, where he drowned, but Daedalus escaped, moving on to build a shrine to Apollo where he hung his wings in offering.   

|The three Biblical Magi who visited the Christian figure Jesus on the night of his birth and were considered the first religious figures to worship him. Balthazar was thought to be an Arabian scholar, Casper an Indian scholar, and Melchior a Persian scholar.   

==Love (Couples, Objects of Desire, Temptation)==

|Isolated to a garden of deadly plants, Beatrice's body is poisonous due to her father's experiments. When Giovanni courts her, his own body becomes poisonous, and he blames her. Bringing an antidote so that they may both be cured, Giovanni is horrified when Beatrice drinks it and dies while stating, "Oh, was there not, from the first, more poison in thy nature than in mine?"  

|As Berenice succumbs to an unnamed illness, her cousin and fiance, Egaeus, a man prone to moody trances, grows obsessed with the only part to be spared by disease: her teeth. After Berenice is buried, Egaeus, in a trance, digs her casket up. Unaware of the fact she had been mistakenly buried alive, he forcefully extracts her teeth from her, and only realizes his horrid act later when he finds himself covered in blood and mud, with a lantern and a box of teeth on his desk.    

|A variant of the kelpie myth, the Glashtyn takes the form of a handsome young man.<br> He attempts to tempt young women to come to the river with him where he will drown them.

|Also known as Roxelana, she was the daughter Ukrainian Orthodox priest. Kidnapped by Crimean Tatars and sold into slavery, she was selected for the harem of Suleiman the Magnificent. In spite of her rivals for the sultan's love, she became his favorite and became his wife, something that rarely happened in that period. She went on to establish many public foundations, including schools, baths, and places of worship.   

==Martyrs==

| A former Roman Catholic saint distinguished by her beard. After being promised to a pagan king by her father, Wilgefortis took a vow of virginity. Praying that she would be made replusive so the engagement would be terminated, Wilgefortis suddenly grew a beard. Her enraged father had her crucified. She was invoked by people suffering from various tribulations, especially women wishing to escape abusive relationships.  

==Mystery==

|A famous 'voodoo queen' of Louisiana Creole descent, Marie used her influence, her wealth of gossip, and other methods to exert her influence in New Orleans.

|The king of Edoni in Thrace, Lycurgus tried to ban Dionysus's cult. Various sources depict different consequences, one of which was a drought that caused his subjects to throw him to a pack of man-eating horses.

|The king of Crete in Greek mythology, who was portrayed as a tyrant. Most known for his part in the story of Daedalus and Icarus, as well as the story of the Minotaur. While pursuing Daedalus, Minos was killed by the daughter of Cocalus, who poured boiling water over him in his bath.  

|A Catholic nun, Elizabeth began receiving visions of the future after an unknown illness, which made her popular at a time in Great Britain where Catholicism was being threatened by the English Reformation. As her visions grew to challenge Henry VIII, she remained untouched due to her popularity among sectors of the city. Agents of the king resorted to destroying her reputation with rumors about her mental health and sexual relationships with priests. When her reputation was ruined, the Crown arrested her and, after forcing her to say that her visions were false, executed her for treason without a public hearing.

|A nimble, well-meaning trickster servant who was not above indulging in his lust for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombina Colombina] and food. While he fears his master, he takes risks to thwart his master's plans.

|A trickster spirit and cultural hero for the Lakota people, often symbolized by a spider. He exemplifies the intersection of folly and wisdom, and is known for his trouble-making ways.

|A mysterious piper who comes to the medieval town of Hamelin to take care of their rat population. When he is not paid, he turns his music on the children of the village, leading them away with his music. Many believe the Pied Piper is an allusion to a grim reaper figure for children.

|Described as the only irredeemably tragic character in Finnish myth, Kullervo was by birth a talented magician. A cruel upbringing caused Kullervo to himself become cruel, and an attempt to avenge himself on the one responsible for his suffering only left his entire family dead and drove Kullervo himself to suicide.

|A blue-faced hag with iron claws that served as a sort of bogeyman. She would haunt the glens at night, looking for lambs and children. She would then tan their hides and wear them on her waist.

|A nobleman with a blue beard, who secretly killed all of his wives and hid them in a locked room. Was foiled by his last wife when she discovered the bodies of his past wives, and had her brothers kill him before he could murder her.

|King Tantalus's son. Was cut into pieces and made into a stew as an offering to the gods. After Demeter dined on his shoulder, the gods realized what had happened and reassembled Pelops back, replacing his shoulder with one made of ivory. He was taken on as Poseidon's apprentice until Zeus cast him out due to Tantalus stealing the food of the gods. 

|A being who looks like a little red man with a large head with suckers on his hands and feet and a toothless mouth. It latches onto any person that falls asleep under its tree and drains the person's blood using its suckers, before consuming the victim. It would nap and then throw up the person, then repeat the process. Each time the victim resembles the Yara-ma-yha-who more and more before finally becoming one themselves.  

|A knight and mercenary who lost his arm in a battle, only to replace it with a metal prosthetic one and continue his fighting career.<br>Subject of a play by Goethe, who portrays him in a different light.

| style="text-align: center" |[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny La Maupin]

|Also known as Julie d'Aubigny. She was an opera singer as well as a swordswoman, and many stories spread about her flamboyant lifestyle.

|Nicknamed "La Galana", Juana was age 20 and armed with nothing but a batan when she organized the women of her village to ambush Napoleon's approaching army. Her actions led the French army to abandon the La Mancha province, and ultimately allowed Spain to defeat France.

|Successfully resisted the Chinese state of Eastern Wu's occupation of Vietnam for a period of time. Giao Chỉ describes her with "breasts 3 thước long, unmarried, assembled people and robbed the commanderies, usually wearing yellow tunics, feet wearing shoes with curved fronts, and fights while sitting on an elephant's head, becoming an immortal after she dies."

|Also known in Japanese as Shoki. He was once a mortal man who committed suicide after being rejected as an imperial physician due to his uncomely appearance, and is traditionally regarded as a vanquisher of ghosts and other evil spirits.