Home›Water Spirits›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups mythical creatures by the wider artistic and religious tradition that pictures them. Wikipedia notes that "in medieval art, animals, both real and mythical, played important roles." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every creature from one cultural tradition together.FactsLearn MoreTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedBeings that dwell in rivers, lakes, springs and the sea. Water is among the most widely attested dwellings of local powers, and such beings are usually tied to one named body of water rather than to a pantheon. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedMythical Creatures 1Learn MoreThe water spirits This small group gathers a water spirit, a being dwelling in rivers, lakes, springs or the sea, of a kind found across the world's folklore, where water is often the home of alluring, capricious or dangerous powers. The browser will find the figure the atlas classes here. The entry describes its nature and mythological role.TraditionFilter Results6 entriesCreature kindAllSlavic Water Spirits (1)Region of OriginAllOceania and Australia (1)Scotland (1)Southern Africa (1)Valley of Mexico (1)Attested In RegionAllBritish Isles and Gaul (1)Eastern Europe (1)HistoricityAllLegendary: known from narrative tradition, not the historical record (3)Not a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being (3)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (1)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (1)Era of Decline End YearAll700 (1)1200 (1)1600 (1)Era of Decline Start YearAll300 (1)863 (1)1521 (1)Era of Modern Revival End YearAll1990 (1)Era of Modern Revival Start YearAll1930 (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2005-01-01 (1)2012-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll100 BCE (1)988 (1)1300 (1)1428 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll-50,000 (1)1000 BCE (1)500 BCE (1)500 (1)1325 (1)Practice StatusAllClosed ceremonial knowledge, described but not reproduced (1)Discontinued as a state religion (2)Living, and in active revival (1)Status TodayAllHistorical; not practised continuously (2)Living tradition, practised today (4)Revived or reconstructed in the modern era (1)TheologyAllAncestor-centred (3)Henotheistic: a supreme being above served lesser divinities (1)Polytheistic: many gods (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAustralian Aboriginal ReligionTradition1 entryAztec ReligionTradition1 entryCeltic PaganismTradition1 entryPolynesian ReligionTradition1 entrySlavic Native Faith (Rodnovery)Tradition2 entriesZulu Traditional ReligionTradition1 entrySources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 1Category: Mythical Creatures2. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005the article on waterView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.