Bine, or Bryth, refers to a mythical account of death and resurrection in Akkadian mythology.

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* Bine ( language ), one of the many languages spoken by the various indigenous peoples in Papua New Guinea

* Bine ( botany ), describes climbing plants that use stiff downward-facing hairs used for stability

Yet Bine himself was not immortal — he was a carpenter that worked for demons, before the archdemon of Akkadian lore banished him to guard the entrance in order that wayward demons could venture and build the army for the Second Coming.

* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")

In philosophy, religion, mythology, and fiction, the afterlife ( also referred to as life after death, or Hereafter ) is the concept of a realm, or the realm itself ( whether physical or transcendental ), in which an essential part of an individual's identity or consciousness continues to reside after the death of the body in the individual's lifetime.

Actaeon (; ), in Greek mythology, son of the priestly herdsman Aristaeus and Autonoe in Boeotia, was a famous Theban hero.

In ancient Greek mythology, ambrosia () is sometimes the food or drink of the Greek gods ( or demigods ), often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whomever consumed it.

* Ajax ( mythology ), son of Telamon, ruler of Salamis and a hero in the Trojan War, also known as " Ajax the Great "

* Arene ( mythology ), the wife of Aphareus and mother of Idas and Lynceus in Greek mythology

Aeolus (, Aiolos, Modern Greek: ), a name shared by three mythic characters, was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology.

* Amalthea ( mythology ), the foster-mother of Zeus in Greek mythology.

* Ananke ( mythology ), in Greek mythology, the mother of the Moirai and Adrasteia, Goddess of destiny, necessity, and fate

In Greek mythology, Aegeus (; ) or Aegeas (; ), was an archaic figure in the founding myth of Athens.

In Norse mythology, the dragon Fafnir ( best known in the form of a dragon slain by Sigurðr ) bears on his forehead the Ægis-helm ( ON ægishjálmr ), or Ægir's helmet, or more specifically the " Helm of Terror ".

* Ariane ( disambiguation ), the French spelling of Ariadne, a character in Greek mythology

The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

" The Septuagint translates this into Greek as ketos megas, ( Greek: κητος μεγας ), " huge fish "; in Greek mythology the term was closely associated with sea monsters.

The banshee ( ), from the Irish bean sí (" woman of the sídhe " or " woman of the fairy mounds ") is a feminine spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld.

However, over time, many artists have begun to focus more on topics like the seasons ( particularly winter ), nature, mythology, folklore, philosophy and fantasy.

* Callisto ( mythology ), a nymph

In Greek mythology, Circe (; Greek Κίρκη Kírkē " falcon ") is a minor goddess of magic ( or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress ), described in Homer's Odyssey as " The loveliest of all immortals ".

* Charon ( mythology ), in Greek mythology, the ferryman who ferried the dead to the underworld

* Ceres ( Roman mythology ), the Roman goddess of agriculture

Animalistic guardian spirits of day and night wearing Han Chinese clothing | Chinese robes, Han Dynasty Chinese paintings | paintings on ceramic tile ; Michael Loewe writes that the Hybrid ( mythology ) | hybrid of man and beast in art and religious beliefs predated the Han and remained popular during the first half of Western Han and the Eastern Han.

* Kiwa ( mythology ), a guardian of the sea in Māori tradition

Tinilau, a guardian of the sharks and fishesIn the Polynesian mythology of Samoa, stories about Tinilau ( or Tigilau ) and his wife Sina are very popular.

Other concepts have extended to outside of mythology into spiritual symbols such as Door god and the Imperial guardian lions.

Later scholars and students commonly quoted Agricola's lists as a historical source ; only in the late eighteenth century did scholars begin to critically evaluate the " gods " in Agricola's lists and the information he presented about them, determining with further research that most of the figures in his lists were not gods, but local guardian spirits, figures from folk mythology or explanatory legends, cultural heroes, Christian saints under alternative names, and, in one case, a harvest-time festival.

In Armenian mythology, shapeshifters include the Nhang, a serpent-like river monster than can transform itself into a woman or seal, and will drown humans and then drink their blood, or the beneficial Shahapet, a guardian spirit that can appear either a man or a snake.

In Greek mythology Medusa (), " guardian, protectress ") was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as having the face of a hideous human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair.

Ox-Head () and Horse-Face () are two fearsome guardians or types guardian of the Underworld in Chinese mythology, where the dead face suffering prior to reincarnation.

In Aztec mythology, Yohualticetl, the " Lady of the Night ", was a moon goddess and guardian of infants.

In Babylonian mythology, Dumah is the name given to the guardian of the 14th gate, a gate through which the goddess Ishtar passed on her journey to the underworld.

In Etruscan mythology, Cilens is purported to be the deity of destiny, the bringer of victory or disaster ; also was a guardian of gates.

* Genii ( mythology ), guardian spirits in Roman mythology

* Dames Blanches-were female spirits, who may come from the mythology of the Matres guardian goddesses.

* Fantastic Beasts — guardian ape, basilisk, giant vampire bat, centaur, chimera ( mythology ), cockatrice, giant crab, deadly ooze, various demons and devils, dragons, elementals, giant frog, gargoyle, golems, gorgon, griffin, harpy, hippocampus, hippogriff, homunculus, hydra, giant insects, jackalope, kraken, giant lizard, lycanthropes, manticore, minotaur, pegasus, Phoenix, rakshasa, giant rat, roc, salamander, satyr, sea serpent, simurgh, siren, fantastic snakes, sphinx, tree man, undead ( ghost, ghoul, mummy, animated skeleton, vampire, and zombie ), unicorn, giant wolf, and giant worm.

Its name reflected the GWR's westerly direction: ' the western star ' has no particular association with any specific star ( although Antares was the quarter guardian of the western gate in Persian ' royal star ' mythology ).

In Greek mythology, Argus Panoptes () or Argos, guardian of the heifer-nymph Io and son of Arestor, was a primordial giant whose epithet, " Panoptes ", " all-seeing ", led to his being described with multiple, often one hundred, eyes.

Latvian: Lauma, Lithuanian: Laumė is a woodland fae, and guardian spirit of orphans in Eastern Baltic mythology.

Yama ( Buddhism and Chinese mythology ) | Yama, Dharmapala, the Lord of Death, is revered in Tibet as a guardian of spiritual practice, and was likely revered even before the conversion of Tibet from Bön to Buddhism in the 4th century Field Museum, Chicago. Tibetan art is deeply religious in nature, a form of sacred art.