Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Fama" | Roman | The personification of rumour or report. Roman |
God name "Fan K'uei" | China | God of butchers. China |
Goddess name "Fand" | Celtic | A goddess of happiness & pleasure |
Goddess name "Fand" | Irish | An early Irish sea goddess, later described as a "Queen of the Fairies". Her name is variously translated as "Pearl of beauty" or "A Tear". She is seen as the most beautiful of goddesses. |
"Fangle Rainbowweb" | Computer games | A fairy bringer of fortune who lives at the bottom of my tangled garden and is only seen in the mist of an early morning. She wears tangled dresses of multicoloured petals and has multicoloured wings like a butterfly. |
God name "Faraguvol" | Puerto Rico / Haiti | Votive god. The deified trunk of a tree which is carried to a tribal chief and presented. The being represented, clåśśed as a ZEMI, is considered to wander about and can escape from a closed bag or sack.... |
God name "Faragvoul" | Puerto Rico / Haiti | A votive god |
"Farbaute [Ship-destroyer]" | Norse | The father of Loke. Norse |
"Farbauti" | Norse | Father of Loki, Byleifstr, and Helbindi. Farbauti's wife was either Laufey or Nal. Norse |
"Faro" | Africa | Purified the earth by sacrificing himself to atone for his twin Pemba's sin. Mande. Weat Africa |
God name "Faro" | Bambara / Mali, West Africa | River god. Regarded as the deity who brought order to the world at the time of creation. He impregnated himself and gave birth to twins who were the first human beings. He is also the progenitor of fish stocks in the river Niger. His chief adversary is the god of the desert wind, TELIKO. Faro is propitiated annually by a Komo society of men in a ritual of dancing. They use a special mask which is created anew each year. According to legend Faro came to earth after a long period of drought during which most of the living things died. He also gave mankind the gift of speech.... |
God name "Faro Bambara" | W Africa | A river god that brought order to the world when it was created |
"Fascinus" | Roman | An early Latin divinity, and identical with Mutinus or Tutinus. He was worshipped as the protector from sorcery, witchcraft, and evil daemons and represented in the form of a phallus, the genuine Latin for which iafascimtm, this symbol being believed to be most efficient in averting all evil influences. He was especially invoked to protect women in childbed and their offspring. |
"Fata" | Italian | An Italian fay, or white lady. |
Goddess name "Fata-Morgana" | Celtic | Goddess of the sea, illusion, enchantment, fate and death and queen of the Fortunate Isles. Celtic |
Goddess name "Fate" | Roman | A goddess of fate |
God name "Fates" | Greek | Properly signifies "a share," and as a personification "the deity who åśśigns to every man his fate or his share," or the Fates. Homer usually speaks of only one Moira, and only once mentions the Motpai in the plural. In his poems Moira is fate personified, which, at the birth of man, spins out the thread of his future life, follows his steps, and directs the consequences of his actions according to the counsel of the gods. Homer thus, when he personifies Fate, conceives her as spinning, an act by which also the power of other gods over the life of man is expressed. Greek |
Goddess name "Fatima" | Syrian | The great goddess of the moon and fate, the source of the Sun and the virgin queen of heaven. Syrian |