Itzam Kʼan Ahk II is presented in the epigraphic and archaeological record as a dynastic ajaw of Piedras Negras. Born on 18 November 701, he ascended the throne on 9 November 729 and ruled through calendrical and political ceremonies that linked him to earlier rulers (notably an earlier Itzam Kʼan Ahk) and to sacred topography at the site. His monuments and his interment at the named ‘mountain’ (ho janaab witz, associated with Pyramid O-13) form the basis of his postmortem veneration by successors.
Monumental depictions (stelae and panels) show the ajaw in formal regalia appropriate to Classic Maya rulership. Specific iconographic details cited in the sources include a turtle ornament on his belt (invoked as evidence for the name element ahk 'turtle') and portrayals of him seated within a niche (Stela 11) or performing ritual acts at psychoduct features (Stela 40). Textual summaries do not provide a full catalog of garments but emphasize ceremonial dress associated with kingship.
The sources describe political, ritual, and commemorative capacities rather than supernatural powers: accession and calendrical rulership (including a recorded Kʼatun jubilee in 749 AD), ritual performances such as a 'descending macaw' dance and communal cacao-drinking, regional diplomatic interactions (for example, lecturing the interim ruler of Yaxchilan recorded on Panel 3), and military or hegemonic actions inferred from grave goods (a pyrite disc depicting a severed Hix Witz leader). After death his tomb and monuments functioned as loci of ancestor veneration and dynastic legitimation.
Issun-bōshi
Issun-bōshi (一寸法師, "One-sun Boy") is the protagonist of a Japanese folktale: a human child born the size of one sun (about 3 cm) who travels to the capital, serves in a noble household, defeats an oni by bravery and craft, and— in some variants—acquires a magic mallet that enlarges him. The figure is principally a miraculous or abnormal human hero in premodern tale cycles, later sometimes mentioned in Edo-period popular culture as a label for very small people or as a yōkai-type motif.
Istrus
Istrus is not attested in the provided sources as a mythological being; the only direct occurrence in the corpus is a 1932 auction catalogue phrase referring to "Istrus Münzen" (a find of Istrus coins), suggesting a toponymic or numismatic usage rather than a spirit or creature. Possible connections to classical place-names (e.g., Histria/Ister) are explicitly uncertain given the available material.
Istämi
Istämi was a 6th-century Turkic ruler who governed the western portion of the Göktürk realm as a yabghu and is retrospectively referred to as a khagan. He exercised de facto sovereignty in the west, dominated Sogdian subjects there, defeated the Hephthalites, and engaged in high-level diplomacy with Sassanid Persia and Byzantium (including sanctioning a Sogdian embassy to Constantinople in 568).
It! The Living Colossus
It! The Living Colossus is a fictional 100-foot stone humanoid statue from Marvel Comics (originally Atlas) that becomes animate when inhabited or controlled by transferred minds (a stranded alien Kigor or human Bob O'Bryan). Functioning as a monumental constructed object rather than an indigenous supernatural being, it has been used alternately as a rampaging weapon and as a vehicle of human agency across multiple comic-storyline revivals.
Itonus
Itonus is an eponymous figure in Greek myth, appearing in two distinct genealogical traditions as a king and ancestor tied to the settlement Iton in Phthiotis and to a local sanctuary of Athena. The name is glossed in modern summaries as Ἴτωνος (romanized Itonos / Itonus) and has been interpreted as having willow associations in some scholarly reconstructions, but classical sources present him primarily as a mortal founder/ancestor rather than an independent supernatural spirit.
Ittan-momen
Ittan-momen (一反木綿, "one bolt of cotton") are Japanese yōkai traditionally described in Kagoshima folklore as a white, flying strip of cloth (reported roughly 10.6 m by 30 cm) that appears at dusk and night, wrapping around faces and necks to suffocate or carry victims away. The motif functions chiefly as a local cautionary tale and has been reimagined in modern popular culture.
Itzamná
Itzamná is a principal upper-world creator deity in Maya religious thought, associated with the sky, priestly arts (including writing), calendrical authority, agriculture (maize), and rulership. He appears across Classic iconography and Postclassic codices in multiple transformative aspects (aged tonsured maize form, a Principal Bird Deity, and within a two‑headed caiman earth image) and is invoked in specific ritual months in early‑colonial reports.
Itūr‑Mēr
Itūr‑Mēr is an Old Babylonian-era tutelary deity of the city of Mari (Tell Hariri), closely associated with the royal house of Zimri‑Lim. He functions in civic religion as a guardian of oaths, a protector of the city and dynasty, an agent in forensic revelation, and—in limited attestations—a healer.
Iunit
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Iusaaset
Iusaaset is a primordial female deity from the Heliopolitan creation tradition of Ancient Egypt, presented as a feminine counterpart or aspect of the creator Atum and associated with the emergent, growth-related side of creation and abundance.
Iwin (Yoruba forest spirits/ogres)
No evidence for a Yoruba supernatural entity named 'Iwin' was found in the supplied sources. The available materials that contain the string 'Iwin' refer to unrelated modern place names and commercial game sites, not to Yoruba cosmology or spirits.
Ixchel
Ixchel is a major Maya goddess attested in Post‑Classic and colonial accounts and identified by scholars with the Classic codical figure ‘Goddess O’ (often rendered Chak Chel). She functions primarily as an aged female divine patron of childbirth, midwifery, and medicine, and is also associated in codices with rain/water imagery and occasionally fearsome jaguar/warrior aspects.
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