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- Cowherd and Weaver Girl (Chinese): Zhinü (the weaver girl, symbolizing Vega) and Niulang (the cowherd, symbolizing Altair). Their love was not allowed, thus they were banished to opposite sides of the Silver River (symbolizing the Milky Way). Once a year, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, a flock of magpies would form a bridge to reunite the lovers for one day
- Brahma (Hindu): god of creation. Brahma is also called “Vaagish,” meaning “Lord of Speech and Sound.” A member of the Hindu Trimurti (male trinity)
- Rhiannon (Welsh): is a major and classic figure in the earliest prose literature and mythology of Britain, the Mabinogi. She is a strong minded Otherworld woman, who chooses Pwyll, prince of Dyfed, as her consort, in preference to another man to whom she has already been betrothed. Rhiannon is highly intelligent, politically strategic, and famed for her wealth and generosity. Their son is the hero Pryderi, who later inherits the lordship of Dyfed. Rhiannon as a mother endures tragedy when her newborn child is abducted, and she is accused of infanticide
- Kuan Yin (Malaysian Chinese): the goddess of Mercy
- Kur (Mesopotamian): first dragon, born of Abzu and Ma. Also Kur-gal, or Ki-gal the underworld