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Hupia

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opianounAlternative form of hupia. [In Taino mythology, the spirit of a person who has died; a ghost.]
aitunounA ghost or spirit, often malevolent, in Polynesian mythology.
ah puchnoun(Maya mythology) The personification of death in Maya mythology.
kahunanoun(surfing) A great surfer.
aumakuanoun(Hawaiian mythology) In Hawaiian mythology, a personal or family god that originated as a deified ancestor, and which takes on physical forms such as animals to watch over descendants.
patupaiarehenoun(mythology) One of a legendary fair-skinned fairy race said to have inhabited Polynesia before the arrival of human beings.
ghedenounIn Haitian voodoo, a class of loa generally associated with death.
ushabtinounIn Ancient Egypt, a figurine of a dead person, placed in their tomb to do their work for them in the afterlife.
hine-nui-te-ponounA goddess of night and death who rules the underworld in Māori mythology.
taniwhanoun(New Zealand) A spirit or monster in Maori mythology, especially one that dwells in the water.
empusanoun(Greek mythology) A monster sent by (and sometimes the progeny of) the goddess Hecate; when imagined as the first or only empusa, or as a species of monster.
pitrisnoun(Hinduism) The spirits of departed ancestors, venerated in Hindu culture.
old higuenounA malicious spirit in Caribbean folklore, a vampire taking the form of an old woman.
wightnoun(archaic) A living creature, especially a human being.
psychopompnoun(religion) A spirit, deity, person, etc., who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife.
govinounA sacred urn or pitcher in Haitian voodoo, used to hold the spirit of an ancestor.
haumeanounA dwarf planet with two known moons orbiting in the Kuiper belt, roughly one-third the mass of Pluto.
yureinounA ghost, spirit of the dead, in Japanese mythology
sahunounA surname.
zeminounAny of various local deities, human or animal and represented by small idols, once worshipped by the Caribbean peoples of the Taino culture.

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