Tlaltecuhtli is the Earth Goddess.

 After Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca had created large cosmic trees to seperate the skies from the waters, they needed to create a solid place to for creatures to dwell on. Within the primordial waters swam a huge cayman-like monster named Tlaltecuhtli.

 The two gods decided to destroy here for the sake of the re-creation of the world. Tezcatlipoca used his foot as bait to catch her. Tlaltecuhtli came up to bite it off. In the fight that followed, Tezcatlipoca lost his foot, but Tlaltecuhtli lost her lower jaw. Without it, she could no longer sink below the surface of the waters. Now the gods created the Earth upon her back. Of her hair they made trees, flowers and grasses, of her eyes wells, fountains and little caverns, of her nose valleys, and of her shoulders mountains

 

Hermóðr is a son of Odin. When Baldr was killed and all gods were speechless and devastated at his death, it is assumed that he was too. After the gods regained themselves, Frigg, Baldr's mother, asked who among the gods wished to gain all her love and good will. However, to gain them, that person must ride to Hel and offer her a ransom if she will let Baldr return to Asgard. 

Hermóðr offered to undertake the journy on Odin's horse, Sleipnir, a horse with eight legs and can outrun the wind. He rode for nine days and nine nights in deep, dark valleys were he couldn't discern anything until he arrived at the river Gjöll. There, he crossed a bridge covered with glittering gold, a bridge that was guarded by the maiden Móðguðr. After Móðguðr told Hermóðr that Baldr had crossed the bridge and headed towards the abodes of death, Hermóðr continued his journey until he came to the barred gates of Hel. 

Upon his arrival, Hermóðr dismounted, tightened Sleipnir's girth, mounted again and spurred Sleipnir so that the horse leapt entire over the gate. Upon reaching Hel's hall, he finds Baldr seated in the most honorable seat, and passed the night in his company. The next morning, he begged Hel to allow Baldr to ride back with him, assuring her that there were nothing but lamentations heard among the gods. However, Hel announced that Baldr would only be released if all things, living and lifeless, wept for him, he shall be released. But if anyone thing was to speak against him or refuse to weep, then Baldr shall be kept in Hel. 

Hermóðr then rode back to Asgard and told the gods everything he had heard and witnessed. Upon this, the gods dispatched messengers throughout the world to beg everything to weep in order for Baldr to be delivered from Hel. All things willingly complied with this request, both men and every other living being, as well as earths and stones, trees and metals. As the messengers were returning, they found an old woman named Thaukt sitting in a cavern, and begged her to weep Baldr out of Hel. 

However, the old hag never wept, preventing Baldr from returning back to Asgard. It is suspected that this old woman is no other than Loki himself, the god that had tricked the blind god, Baldr's brother, Höðr into killing him.

 

Lurking in the shadows of the deep forests and mountainous regions of the Dominican Republic, is what many have described as a small feral women with large, shining enchanting eyes and lustrous black hair that shines with the moon light. So long and abundant is her hair, it is said that she uses it like clothing to cover her naked body.

 The legend of Ciguapa is one of the most renowned of Dominican folklore. So popular, that many, especially in the rural areas of the country, still claim the tale as truth. The most popular (and terrifying) of the ciguapa storylines, describes a demon which lives in deep caves and lures lonely men with her beauty and sensuality -- though some will say that the ciguapa uses a hypnotic stare and magic to draw them in, eventually killing and eating the captive or trapping them forever.

Zipacna was a great giant in Mayan mythology. He was brother of Cabrakan and son of Vucub Caquix, the Great Macaw. These three were considered by the gods to be the most arrogant of all at that time. They therefore dispatched the hero twins, Hun-Apu and Ixbalanque to slay them. These two boys were the undoing of this great giant. The creation of the Pleiades star cluster is also attributed to Zipacna. 

 The story of his death is thus. It started when a band of 400 young men, spurred on by the gods to kill Zipacna, conspired a plan to slay the Titan. They first began to construct a great hut in which they could all live. They then went to a part of the forest, through which they knew Zipacna would have to pass. There, they felled a huge tree and waited for Zipacna to approach. When he finally arrived, he mocked the boys for they complained that their combined strength could not lift this great log. And so in his arrogance, Zipacna lifted the log for them and bid them lead him to their hut. 

 When they arrived, the 400 bid him go down into a large hole, which the boys had supposedly dug for the log to go to act as the main support for this structure. Zipacna descended with the tree and no sooner had he reached the bottom, when the boys began to hurl rocks, stones and earth down upon him. However, the giant was not as stupid as the boys had thought and he quickly retreated into a side passage the boys had dug as a cellar for their new house. The hole was soon filled with the rubbish and mud the boys had thrown upon the beast and so, thinking the Titan slain, they began to celebrate and became very drunk. 

 But when the merriment was at its highest, Zipacna struck. He used his mighty strength and rose up from the ground with such force, that he hurled the boys high into the sky and the hut was smashed into pieces. The boys were hurled so high, that they left the earth and now reside in the Pleiades waiting for a chance to return to the Earth. However, this did not stop the hero twins in their quest to slay Zipacna. 

 The boys decided to trick Zipacna as the 400 had done and so they constructed a huge artificial crab and left it by a river in a small valley. They also undermined a nearby mountain and waited for the giant to pass. When he was nearby, the twins went to him and asked what he was doing. Zipacna replied that he was seeking his daily food. The boys pointed out the great crab to the giant and mentioned that it would provide him with a hearty meal. Zipacna strode into the valley and before he knew what was happening, the twins, with the help of the gods, cast the mountain down upon him. And that was the end of Zipacna.