Are there nonhuman intelligent beings?
30/40 filed · 18 shapes
Nonhuman intelligences
Almost every non-empirical record names other persons. The names — angel, jinn, deva, manidoo, Watcher, thetan — are not interchangeable. Science leaves a different door open: unknown extraterrestrial life.
Quoted from Other Beings
Angels, fallen, Watchers, jinn, Iblis
5
Devas, asuras, and numerous classes
2
Gods, spirits, immortals, monsters, other-than-human persons
8
- DaoistImmortals, spirits, deities.
- EgyptianGods, spirits.
- MesopotamianGods, spirits, monsters.
- SumerianGods, including Enki, Inanna, and the powers of the netherworld.
- NorseÆsir, Vanir, jötnar, elves, and others.
- AnishinaabeManidoog and other-than-human persons/beings.
- MayaGods and supernatural beings.
- ZoroastrianBeneficent and destructive spiritual beings.
Thetans / spiritual beings as the primary class
1
Planets, stars, signs — sometimes read as beings
1
Extraterrestrial life possible; unknown
1
Gods of cult and myth, roster not fixed
1
Gods as karmic births, not creators
1
One God, no equal class
1
Kami, local and cosmic
1
Gods, ancestors, and ghosts
1
Aeons, archons, demiurge — where the text has them
1
Mind, sphere-powers, daimones
1
Òrìṣà and ancestors, not one person
1
Ancestral beings of country
1
Gods, huacas, ancestors
1
Tuatha Dé Danann named
1
The filed line names them for Irish literature and does not give the rest of the list.
Manifestations, not peer gods
1
Unplaced
These records were not filed in any shape of this metric. The cell is still quoted.
- HaudenosauneeSky Woman, the twins, and the animals who act in the creation. Thunderers appear in many tellings. They are not the beings named on the Lakota, Diné, or Hopi rows.
- LakotaWakaŋ Tȟáŋka is not translated here as another tradition’s God. Wakíŋyaŋ, the Thunder Beings, and White Buffalo Calf Woman are Lakota names. Dakota beings are not renamed into these.
- DakotaUnclassified / Source Needed.
- DinéDiyin Dineʼé, the Holy People. Public narratives name Changing Woman and the Hero Twins, Naayééʼ Neizghání and Tóbájíshchíní. They are not katsinam and not manidoog.
- HopiMaasaw, and the katsinam. Katsinam are not Diyin Dineʼé and not manidoog.
- WelshUnclassified / Source Needed.
- GaulishGaulish names are said to be known from inscriptions and Roman reports. They are not listed. Unclassified / Source Needed.
- MāoriUnclassified / Source Needed.
- HawaiianUnclassified / Source Needed.
- TahitianUnclassified / Source Needed.