Forgotten Gods
From Irish Celtic Mythology:

Scáthach, “The Shadowy One”, was a mythical Celtic warrior and martial arts trainer. She was an incredible trainer and her school of warriors turned out some of the top Celtic heroes including Cú Chulainn, the hero of the Ulster Cycle.
To get to her training fortress, first, one has to cross the Plain of Ill-Luck and the Glen of Peril. Then one has to cross the “Bridge of Leaping”; as one sets foot on it, the end swings up and flings them back where they came from.

At this nigh-impregnable castle, she trained heroes in the arts of pole vaulting, underwater fighting, and combat with the Gáe Bolg, a barbed harpoon of her own invention.

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Forgotten Gods
From Finnish Mythology:

Tuoni was the god of the underworld and darkness personified. He was the husband of Tuonetar and father of Loviatar, Kalma, Vammatar, Kipu-tyttö and Kivutar (the divinities of suffering)

When in human form, he appears as an old man with three fingers on each hand and a hat of darkness.

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My guru and patron goddess...

AKILANDESHVARI is pronounced as ‘Akilan – Anda –Esvari’ meaning ‘Universe – Ruler – Goddess’. But the word ‘Akhilanda’ essentially means “never not broken.”

This purports that Akhilandesvari is the Goddess of ‘Never Not Broken’. In other words She is the ‘the always broken Goddess.
This is a double negative and it would appear that even in Her name the Goddess is broken down.
She is the Goddess for times of disarray. Her Vahana (riding animal), the crocodile is symbolic of the fear that resides in us, which need not weaken us but transform us and be transformed by us.

Akhilandeshvari gains strength and beauty by constantly breaking apart and coming together again.

Akhilandeswari teaches us that there is nothing wrong in being broken, that in actuality, sitting in pieces is not a bad thing after all. Thoughts of togetherness and completeness are only illusions which we cling for comfort. This illusion of comfort certainly does not save us when things fall apart.
Akhilandeswari teaches us that we are to pick up the pieces and move ahead. Her lesson is simply this: even that new whole, that new, colourful, amazing groove that we create, is an illusion. It means nothing unless we can keep on breaking apart and putting ourselves together again as many times as we need to.
We are already “never not broken.” We were never a consistent, limited whole. In our brokenness, we are unlimited.

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Forgotten Gods
From Celtic Mythology:

Lugh, of the Tuatha Dé Danann, sometimes called Lámfada, which translates as ‘long hand’ or ‘long arm’, was a skilled warrior, a king, and a master craftsman. There are many stories about Lugh that highlight his skilled mastery of many different disciplines.

He is also called Samildánach, translating to ‘equally skilled in many arts’.

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Forgotten Gods
From Celtic Mythology:
The Trí Dée Dána (The three gods of art)
Three brothers who created all of the weapons for the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Goibniu was the metalsmith. He was a smithing god and is also associated with hospitality.

Credne was the goldsmith, but he also worked with bronze and brass.

Luchtaine was the carpenter or wright; who made all the shields and javelin shafts which the Tuatha Dé used to battle the Fomorians.

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Forgotten Gods
From Celtic Mythology:
The Trí Dée Dána (The three gods of art)
Three brothers who created all of the weapons for the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Goibniu was the metalsmith. He was a smithing god and is also associated with hospitality.

Credne was the goldsmith, but he also worked with bronze and brass.

Luchtaine was the carpenter or wrightb who made all the shields and javelin shafts which the Tuatha Dé used to battle the Fomorians.

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Forgotten Gods
From Prussian mythology:

Peckols and Pockols the gods of the dead, hell and darkness. They were described as angry, evil spirits with beards and a white headdress similar to a turban. They were frightening and ruthless gods of the dead who would haunt and taunt the living if they disobeyed their pagan priests or buried the dead without proper sacrifices.

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(Not so) Forgotten Gods
From Aztec mythology:

Mictēcacihuātl (mik te ka si wa t͡l) "Lady of the Dead"), in Aztec is a death goddess and consort of Mictlāntēcutli, god of the dead and ruler of Mictlān, the lowest level of the underworld. Mictēcacihuātl watches over the bones and presides, to this day, over the ancient festivals of the dead which have evolved into dia de los muertos. Mictēcacihuātl was represented with a flayed body and with jaw agape to swallow the stars during the day.

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Forgotten Gods
From Aztec mythology:

Mictēcacihuātl (mik te ka si wa t͡l) "Lady of the Dead"), in Aztec is a death goddess and consort of Mictlāntēcutli, god of the dead and ruler of Mictlān, the lowest level of the underworld. Mictēcacihuātl watches over the bones and presides, to this day, over the ancient festivals of the dead which have evolved into dia de los muertos. Mictēcacihuātl was represented with a flayed body and with jaw agape to swallow the stars during the day.

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Forgotten Gods
From Hawaiian mythology:

Kamapua‘a, ("hog child") is a superhuman being and the patron of hogs. The son of Hina and Kahikiula, the chief of Oahu, Kamapuaʻa change his body at will. One moment he is a youth, tempting various women; in the next, he is a giant boar. He is powerful, mischievous, charming, and audacious, Kamapua‘a tirelessly pursued Pele the fire goddess and often they are depicted as a couple.

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Forgotten Gods
From the Mayan tradition:

Ixtab ("Rope Woman") was the goddess of suicide by hanging. She was depicted as a woman with closed eyes hanging from the heavens by a rope. She accompanied such suicides to heaven as it was believed that individuals who sacrificed themselves in this way, in the Mayan culture, we're granted entry into paradise.

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Forgotten Gods
From the Mayan tradition:

Ah-Puch
A god of death, darkness, and disaster but also of regeneration, child birth, and beginnings. He in his form of bones and rotting flesh, ruled over the underworld of Xibalba. Ah Puch was the most feared of the Mayan gods. Mourning was performed silently during the day, but loudly at night in order to scare him away.

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Forgotten Gods
From the Mayan tradition:

Itzam-Yeh was a deity in bird form which nested in the axis of the the World Tree (Ceiba), which connected the three worlds; the under, middle, and upper. From Ceiba, Itzam-Ye could see all of creation and knew all the secrets of all three planes of existence. They were considered to be the patron and god of sorcery and magic.

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Forgotten Gods
From Hindu Tamal tradition:

Kotṟavai is the fierce goddess of war and victory alongside Durga. She is also the mother goddess and the goddess of fertility, agriculture, and hunters.

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Forgotten Gods
From Hindu mythology:

Sarama is the first female dog and the mother goddess of all dogs and clawed creatures. Her children, the Sarameyas, are considered the four-eyed guardians of the Land of the Dead.

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Forgotten Gods
From Celtic Mythology:

Nehalennia is a goddess of the water, fishermen, traders, travelers, healing, the afterlife and prosperity. She was lost entirely until the 1970's when a fisherman found two of her shrines 80 ft below the surface of a river in the Netherlands. Since then hundreds of shrines to Nehalennia have been found submerged in waters all over Europe.
It's important here that at one time the Celtic tribes, considered a mainly in the British Isles, ranged throughout Europe.

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Forgotten Gods
From Celtic Mythology:

Aengus Mac Og is one of the Tuatha De Danann (People of the Goddess Danu). He was the son of the Dagda and Boann, Aengus was the god of love,poetic inspiration, and fertility. He was depicted as a fit, attractive young man in the prime of his youth and playing the harp. He’s also said to be god of “fatal love” or death.

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Forgotten Gods
From Inuit mythology:

Sedna was the goddess of the sea and marine animals, also known as the Mother or Mistress of the Sea. The story of Sedna is that she is a giant, the daughter of Anguta, the creator and god of the dead. In her ravenous hunger she attacked her parents. Angered, Anguta throws her into the sea. As she clings to the sides of his kayak, he chops off her fingers and she sinks to the underworld, becoming the ruler of the monsters of the deep. Her huge fingers become the seals, walruses, and whales hunted by the Inuit.

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Forgotten Gods
From Inuit mythology:

Sedna was the goddess of the sea and marine animals, also known as the Mother or Mistress of the Sea. The story of Sedna is that she is a giant, the daughter of the Anguta, the creator. In her ravenous hunger she attacked her parents. Angered, Anguta throws her into the sea. As she clings to the sides of his kayak, he chops off her fingers and she sinks to the underworld, becoming the ruler of the monsters of the deep. Her huge fingers become the seals, walruses, and whales hunted by the Inuit.

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Forgotten Gods
From Inuit mythology:

Anguta was the god of the dead. Referred to simply as the Father, he carries the souls of the departed down to the icy underworld of Adlivun. Anguta is the biological father of the sea goddess Sedna.

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