the green man is a personified trope of the vibrancy of biology, especially plants which are reborn from decay every spring. he is an ancient european pagan deity.
hel is an ancient norse deity of death and what happens after death. from the waist down she is rotted and skeletal, and from the waist up she is beautiful and hale.
clever anansi is often a spider, always a trickster. he is from africa. africa and the african diaspora remember him today and tomorrow.
erebus drew the darkness of night across ancient greece.
monstrous serpent-bodied scylla and charybdis the gnashing whirlpool froze mariners in indecision as recorded in the ancient odyssey.
brahma, vishnu, nataraja — the aspects of dancing shiva encompass the universe, destruction, creation, and the cosmic dance of all things.
hephaestus was a disabled deity to ancient greece, and the inventor-blacksmith of the gods.
the ancient greeks spoke of thanatos, personification of death and eros, personification of erotic love and anteros, personification of requited love.