Written accounts of African mythology began to appear in the early 1800s with the arrival of European explorers and colonizers. Present-day scholars work to record the continent's myths and legends before they are lost to time and cultural change. Sango is the Orisha god of thunder. He is powerful and his modality includes striking an offender down with lightning and thunder. If the offence includes a theft, such item is placed on the offender’s chest after he is struck down. Sango is regarded as the most powerful god in Africa and one of the oldest known gods in the world. He is the god of vengeance, protection, social order and more. His symbol is a double headed-axe. The thunderstorm announces Sango’s presence.
The Great Spirit is the concept of a life force, a Supreme Being or god known more specifically as Wakan Tanka in Lakota, Gitche Manitou in Algonquian, and by other, specific names in a number of Native American and First Nations cultures. While the concept is common to a number of indigenous cultures in the United States and Canada, it is not shared by all cultures, or necessarily interpreted in the same way. According to Lakota activist Russell Means, a more semantically accurate translation of Wakan Tanka is the Great Mystery.
The contemporary belief in the great spirit is generally associated with the Native American Church. The doctrine regarding the great spirit within this modern tradition is quite varied and generally takes on Christian ideas of a monotheistic God alongside animistic conceptions. The number of adherents to these contemporary beliefs in the great spirit are unknown, but it is likely they number over a quarter million people.
A canine-related deity in Egyptian mythology, Wepwawet was nearly always depicted as a full-fledged jackal, rather than a human with the head of a jackal. He was one of the earliest of the gods to be worshipped at Abydos, predating (and absorbing) Khentyamentiu (another god of the Abydos necropolis). By the Old Kingdom Wepwawet was popular throughout Egypt, but as Osiris grew in popularity (absorbing both Khentyamentiu and Wepwawet) Anubis took on his funerary role. However, he has never entirely disappeared. Wepwawet translates as “opener of the ways” and may have referred to his role as guide to the Underworld or his role as the harbinger of the choices one makes in one’s life. He was also closely associated with the living pharaoh, accompanying him on hunts and helping ferry messages back and forth between the mortal and the gods. As his central city of worship was Lycopolis, it is often erroneously believed that he was a wolf, rather than a jackal.
While sometimes treated as one of the Protogenoi, in some Greek cosmogonies, Chaos is treated as the first god. It's also one of the closest things to an Eldritch Abomination found in classical mythology, representing formless matter and a sort of timeless, shapeless emptiness. While it's not atypical for natural things to have a divine personification in Classical Mythology, the idea of the primordial nothingness being alive just seems unwholesome.