History Monster / MythologyAndReligion

* [[NotQuiteTheAlmighty The Demiurge, or Yaldabaoth]], is a take on the [[Literature/TheBible Old Testament God]], used to explain the Problem of Evil. A [[GodIsEvil malevolent false god]], Yaldabaoth is the source of humanity's sinful nature and all the misery, who takes joy in human evil, so long as he's worshiped as the TopGod. Yaldabaoth created the physical realm, and humanity, as debaucherous and mindless creatures, before the higher gods took pity on them and granted them knowledge and souls, thus giving access to the true spiritual world. The materialistic Yaldabaoth would prefer to manipulate the world in wickedness, keeping humanity in the dark of the spiritual world. This puts him in direct conflict with his mother Sophia, who in some versions was [[{{Matricide}} destroyed by her son]], with her remnants becoming humanity's souls.

* [[GodOfEvil Marmoo]], the ArchEnemy of Baiame the Sky-Father, growing jealous of how his adversary instead of himself created the world, swore to destroy everything that exists. Marmoo created the insects, arachnids, and worms to lay waste to the land, covering the sky in darkness, spreading plagues and [[DevouredByTheHorde devouring the innocent animals and plants]]. Even after being thwarted by the mother goddess Nungeena and her birds, Marmoo attempts to [[TheCorrupter corrupt them]], succeeding with the cuckoos, who on his orders invade other birds' nests and replace their eggs with their own. Feared by the Gamilaaray tribe as a malevolent god, Marmoo is hellbent on the [[OmnicidalManiac annihilation of the world]] to spite Baiame and his creations.

-->--'''Literature/BookOfEsther''', 3:5-3:6

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* [[ManipulativeBastard Haman the Agagite]], one of the archetypal [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain antisemites]] in Jewish folklore, is a [[EvilChancellor vizier]] under Emperor Ahasuerus (Xerxes) whose ambition and ego know no bounds. Haman is introduced forcing citizens to [[KneelBeforeZod bow to him]]; when a fellow advisor, Mordecai the Judean, refuses to bow to him--possibly on account of Haman embroidering a graven image into his clothing--Haman plots a [[FinalSolution genocide]] against Persian Jewry as a whole, manipulating the emperor into giving him his signet so that he may write it into law. When Mordecai still refuses to bow to him, Haman builds a gallows on which he intends to hang the latter.

* [[AsianFoxSpirit Hồ Tinh]] is the most sadistic and vile of the [[ToServeMan man eating monsters]] faced by Lạc Long Quân. Using his shapeshifting powers to trick people into entering his cave, Hồ Tinh would torture them before killing and eating them, preferring to [[WouldHurtaChild target children]] in some versions of the story. After Lạc Long Quân goes to stop him, Hồ Tinh tries to murdering him to.

* ''Myth/TheWhiteWitchOfRoseHall'': Annie Palmer, the titular [[WickedWitch witch]], was a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain slaveholder]], UsefulNotes/{{Voodoo}} practitioner, and BlackWidow, murdering 3 of her husbands for their wealth as well as several of her lovers. Using the bones of her slaves' children in Voodoo rituals, she would brainwash her slaves into complacency, taking any who rebelled into her basement where she would [[ATasteOfTheLash torture them to death with whips]], taking pleasure in her actions. Even after being killed, it's said that her ghost still continues to haunt Rose Hall.

* ''Literature/TheSixBrothers'': [[ItsAllAboutMe The Magistrate]] is the [[AntagonisticGovernor governor]] of the village of the Six Brothers, and a [[CorruptPolitician corrupt official]] who, during a famine, would take the food meant for the town for himself, causing mass civilian deaths. After the brothers are seen conspiring to steal the food in order to feed the dying, the Magistrate orders the brothers to be tortured, and later killed.

* In Istrian folklore, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure_Grando Jure Grando Alilović]] was known as the first recorded [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]. A [[EvilSorcerer wicked sorcerer]] in life who captured and murdered [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to use their blood for {{immortality|Immorality}}, Jure Grando eventually succumbed to mortality, only to rise again as a monstrous strigoi. Raping his wife, Jure embarked on a 16-year-long killing spree, feasting on the blood of his own neighbors until it was believed that to go outside at night was a death sentence.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure_Grando Jure Grando Alilović]] was known as the first recorded [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]. A [[EvilSorcerer wicked sorcerer]] in life who captured and murdered [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to use their blood for {{immortality|Immorality}}, Jure Grando eventually succumbed to mortality, only to rise again as a monstrous strigoi. Raping his wife, Jure embarked on a 16-year-long killing spree, feasting on the blood of his own neighbors until it was believed that to go outside at night was a death sentence.

* [[ManipulativeBastard Haman the Agagite]], one of the archetypal [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain anti-Semites]] in Jewish folklore, is a [[EvilChancellor vizier]] under Emperor Ahasuerus (Xerxes) whose ambition and ego know no bounds. Haman is introduced forcing citizens to [[KneelBeforeZod bow to him]]; when a fellow advisor, Mordecai the Judean, refuses to bow to him--possibly on account of Haman embroidering a graven image into his clothing--Haman plots a [[FinalSolution genocide]] against Persian Jewry as a whole, manipulating the emperor into giving him his signet so that he may write it into law. When Mordecai still refuses to bow to him, Haman builds a gallows on which he intends to hang the latter.

* [[BigBad The Demiurge, or Yaldabaoth]], is a take on the [[Literature/TheBible Old Testament God]], used to explain the Problem of Evil. A [[GodIsEvil malevolent false god]], Yaldabaoth is the source of humanity's sinful nature and all the misery, who takes joy in human evil, so long as he's worshiped as the TopGod. Yaldabaoth created the physical realm, and humanity, as debaucherous and mindless creatures, before the higher gods took pity on them and granted them knowledge and souls, thus giving access to the true spiritual world. The materialistic Yaldabaoth would prefer to manipulate the world in wickedness, keeping humanity in the dark of the spiritual world. This puts him in direct conflict with his mother Sophia, who in some versions was [[{{Matricide}} destroyed by her son]], with her remnants becoming humanity's souls.

* Myth/IncaMythology's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huarochiri_Manuscript Huarochiri Manuscript]]'': [[EvilIsBurningHot Wallallu Qarwinchu]]--God of Fire--is the ArchEnemy of the benevolent Pariacaca and the former ruler god of Huarochiri, where he installed a reign of terror during which local woman were forced to have only two children and to sacrifice one of them to him so he could [[ChildEater devour their flesh and drink their blood]]. Continuing this abominable tradition until the arrival and victory of Pariacaca, Wallallu would be exiled to other lands, where he would continue trying to kill Pariacaca and his family in failed attempts to recover his old power.

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* [[TheVamp Tamamo-no-Mae]] is one of the three most fearsome {{Yokai}} of Japan. A wicked [[AsianFoxSpirit fox spirit]], she possesses or takes the forms of women to seduce kings with her beauty, [[TheCorrupter pushing them]] to savage atrocity and brutality where countless innocents are tortured and slaughtered, eventually kicking off wars before skipping town. Doing this across the continent of Asia, Tamamo-no-Mae also preys upon women and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] in her spare time, eventually cursing Japan with her death to lead to a brutal war.

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* Myth/MayanMythology: [[LightIsNotGood Chak Ek]] is the god of the planet Venus who [[DrivenByEnvy severely resents]] his brother [[ThePowerOfTheSun Kinich Ahau]] for being brighter and more glorious than him. Chak Ek vents his jealousy by murdering many gods, including K'awiil, his own brother Kinich, Hun Hunahpu, Ak Na'ak, and a fertility god sent by the Hero Twins, all resulting in mass death, starvation, warfare, and social unrest among the people. The gods always return to life, but the hateful Chak Ek repeats all these atrocities, locking all divinities in an endless cycle of repairing the damage caused by these murders just to sate Chak Ek's envy and spite.

* [[GodOfEvil Apep]], more widely known in the West by his Greek name, [[TheDreaded Apophis]], was the Egyptian god of [[DarkIsEvil darkness]], [[GodOfChaos chaos]], and destruction. Residing in the Underworld, Apophis took the form of a colossal snake, and every night, would attempt to devour the sun god Ra, as he made his way through the land of the dead, hoping to leave the world without light or life. During the day, while Ra was in the sky, Apophis would feed on those dead souls who were not properly protected against him, leading to their complete obliteration. His motives for doing so were that, as a primordial being associated with the dark, he hated the fact that there was a sun, or life on Earth, and aimed to go back to the way things used to be. He was also the leader of armies of demons, and sought to subvert mortal confederates into aiding his [[OmnicidalManiac nihilistic agenda]]. Reviled by all the other deities, even Set, and universally loathed in Egypt, Apophis was the only god to have the distinction of never being prayed to. Instead, temples and ceremonies were set up to pray against him.

* UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}}: [[GodOfEvil Angra Mainyu]], known by his Persian name as Ahriman, is the EvilTwin of creator god Ahura Mazda, and [[TheAntiGod the antithesis of everything good and just]]. Declaring that "[[CardCarryingVillain it is not that I cannot make anything good, but that I will not]]," Angra Mainyu sought to prevent Ahura Mazda from creating life in the first place, by slaying the primal bull, his first creation. He seduced the daevas (demons) away from Ahura Mazda, transforming them into spiteful beings living only to spread fear and hatred. When Ahura Mazda created sixteen lands, Angra Mainyu responded with sixteen scourges, including old age, disease, war, vice, and death. He created the monster Aži Dahāka, destined to slay one-third of the Earth's population, and turned him loose in the world. He made two separate attempts at destroying the Earth's water supply and leaving all creation to die of dehydration. He made Jeh, the primal whore, so that women would suffer from menstruation, birth pangs, and mistrust from men. He tried to coerce Zoroaster into coming over to his side, and then set the daevas upon him when he would not. Responsible for the very existence of evil, Angra Mainyu works to seduce men and women away from Ahura Mazda, so they might join his campaign for control of reality. Hating everything good and just, and angry that he is not the one who created everything, Angra Mainyu's ultimate goal is the [[OmnicidalManiac annihilation of the universe]].

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* [[LightIsNotGood Chak Ek]] is the god of the planet Venus who [[DrivenByEnvy severely resents]] his brother [[ThePowerOfTheSun Kinich Ahau]] for being brighter and more glorious than him. Chak Ek vents his jealousy by murdering many gods, including K'awiil, his own brother Kinich, Hun Hunahpu, Ak Na'ak, and a fertility god sent by the Hero Twins, all resulting in mass death, starvation, warfare, and social unrest among the people. The gods always return to life, but the hateful Chak Ek repeats all these atrocities, locking all divinities in an endless cycle of repairing the damage caused by these murders just to sate Chak Ek's envy and spite.

* [[TheVamp Tamamo-no-Mae]] is one of the three most fearsome {{Yokai}} of Japan. A wicked [[{{Kitsune}} fox spirit]], she possesses or takes the forms of women to seduce kings with her beauty, [[TheCorrupter pushing them]] to savage atrocity and brutality where countless innocents are tortured and slaughtered, eventually kicking off wars before skipping town. Doing this across the continent of Asia, Tamamo-no-Mae also preys upon women and [[WouldHurtAChild children]] in her spare time, eventually cursing Japan with her death to lead to a brutal war.

* [[GodOfEvil Marmoo]], the ArchEnemy of Baiame the Sky-Father, growing jealous of how his adversary instead of himself created the world, swore to destroy everything that exists. Marmoo created the insects, arachnids, and worms to lay waste to the land, covering the sky in darkness, spreading plagues and [[DevouredByTheHorde devouring the innocent animals and plants]]. Even after being thwarted by the mother goddess Nungeena and her birds, Marmoo attempts to [[TheCorrupter corrupt them]], succeeding with the cuckoos, who on his orders invade other birds' nests and replace their eggs with their own. Feared by Aboriginal tribes as a malevolent god, Marmoo is hellbent on the [[OmnicidalManiac annihilation of the world]] to spite Baiame and his creations.

* English Folklore: The [[WickedWitch witch Black Annis]] is a fiendish creature known through Leicester(shire) as a [[WouldHurtAChild predator of children]]. Lurking in the shadows, Annis relishes the fear of her prey before hunting them, taking the children she finds, draining their blood and [[FlayingAlive flaying them]] with her claws before [[ToServeMan feasting upon them]] and [[GenuineHumanHide wearing their tanned skins]] as her trophies.