Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Upulero" | Indonesia | The god of heaven, who fertilizes Upunusa, the earth. Indonesia |
"Upunusa Grandmother Earth" | Indonesia | The female principle who was fertilized by Upulero. Indonesia |
Goddess name "Usas" | Hindu | A beneficient goddess who produces daylight and urges men to their works. Hindu |
Goddess name "Usas" | Hindu / Vedic | Goddess of the dawn. The daughter of Dyaus and, according to some texts, the consort of the Sun god SURYA. An auspicious deity, Usas brings the dawn, heralding Surya, and drives away darkness. She is the all-seeing eye of the gods. In the Rg Veda she is depicted as a beautiful young virginal figure who rides in a hundred chariots. She sets all things in motion and can render strength and fame to her devotees. In addition to being perceived as a sky goddess, she is also drawn as a mother goddess in the guise of a cow. Epithets include mother of the gods and mother of cows. She is invoked to give the boon of longevity, but a more malignant aspect reveals her as a huntress who wastes human life. Usas sometimes enjoys a domestic worship as a guardian hearth goddess who drives away darkness and evil spirits. She disappears, however, from the later traditions of Hinduism.... |
God name "Varuna" | Hindu | A thousand-eyed god who sees all that happens in the world. Hindu |
God name "Visvarupa" | Hindu | Lesser known incarnation of the god VISNU. In Vedic literature he is identified as the son of TVASTAR. Visnu took the avatara at the request of ARJUNA. His animal is GARUDA. Attributes: many. Also Viratapurusa.... |
Spirit name "Wakai Taaika" | Dakota Indian / USA | Creator god. A remote and vaguely defined deity invoked by the shamans of the tribe. Also a generic term equating to the spirit which, in an animistic and shamanistic religion, all things existing in nature possess.... |
Spirit name "Wakonea" | Omaha Indian / USA | Creator god. A remote and vaguely defined deity invoked by the shamans of the tribe. Also a generic term equating to the spirit which, in an animistic and shamanistic religion, all things existing in nature possess.... |
"White Ladies" | Normandy | A species of fee in Normandy. They lurk in ravines, fords, bridges, and other narrow påśśes, and ask the påśśenger to dance. If they receive a courteous answer, well; but if a refusal, they seize the churl and fling him into a ditch, where thorns and briars may serve to teach him gentleness of manners. |
Goddess name "Whope" | Sioux / USA | Goddess. The daughter of WI, the Sun god, and consort of the south wind. She is credited with giving the Sioux Indian the pipe of peace through which (narcotic) they commune with the great spirit WAKAN TANKA.... |
Goddess name "Wi" | Sioux / USA | Sun god. The father of the goddess WHOPE, his sacred animal is the bison.... |
King name "Xuthus" | Greek | A son of Hellen by the nymph Orseis, and a brother of Dorus and Aeolus. He was king of Peloponnesus, and the husband of Creusa, the daughter of Erechtheus, by whom he became the father of Achaeus and Ion (Apollodorus i). Greek |
Goddess name "Yanguang Pusa" | China | Goddess of healing and eyes China |
Goddess name "Yolkai Estan" | Navaho / USA | Fertility goddess. The sister of the principal fertility goddess, ESTSANATLEHI, she was engendered by the gods, who gave life to an image made from white shells.... |
"Yusamin" | s | Yu-sha-min, Yus'amin the Pure, son of Nis'ibtun. Yushamin the pure is the Peaçõçk Uthra sent out of the original Land of Light. Archetype of the careless priest. Yusmin's Spouse is Bihrat-Anana. Together they are the Second Life. Early Nazorean |
Goddess name "Zywie" | Poland | Goddess of health and healing. She is åśśociated as the spirit of the dead worshipped by the Lusatians, and is also the goddess of regeneration and rebirth. Poland |