Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Nong" | Kafir / Afghanistan | God of Winter and cold weather. Nong lives in a glacier. He cracks the ice and is seen in the melt water. He is perceived as a misogynist and depicted in a wooden effigy, though whether in human form is unclear. His cult center seems to have been the village of Zumu in the southern Hindukush. Also Zuzum.... |
God name "Nong/ Zuzum" | Kafir / Afghanistan | The god of Winter & cold weather that lives in a glacier, he does not like women |
Goddess name "Pagoda" | Slavic | 'Giver of Favorable winds', a weather and Agriculture goddess. Cattle and sheep are sacrificed to her. Slavic |
God name "Pariacaca" | Inca | weather god response will for Rain and thunder. Inca |
God name "Pariacaca" | Pre - Inca central Andean / South America | weather god. The deity responsible for Rain and thunder, personified by the falcon.... |
God name "Qos" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Local weather god. Apparently known as the deification of an outcrop of black basalt on the north side of the Wadi Hesa [near Kirbet Tannur]. Also a god of Rainbows. Depicted seated on a throne flanked by bulls. Attributes include a branched thunderbolt held in the left hand. A worshiper is seen offering him an eagle.... |
Goddess name "Quabso" | Tanzania | wind-rider, a goddess of the weather, health, fertility and Rain. Tanzania |
God name "Quzah" | Arabic | God of storms, thunder, hailstorms, mountain and the weather. Arabic |
God name "Quzah (archer)" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | mountain and weather god. Probably equating to QOS and worshiped by the Idumaean tribe to the south of Judea as a storm god. Also claimed to have been known near Mecca. Attributes include a bow which shoots arrows of hail.... |
God name "Raijin" | Japan / Shinto | The weather gods, inclusive |
Deities name "Raijin" | Shinto / Japan | weather god(s). A generic title for a large group of deities controlling thunder, storms and Rain. Among the most significant is RYUJIN, the dragon god of thunder and Rain.... |
God name "Rimmon" | Syrian | Rammon, weather god. Syrian |
God name "Rudra (howler)" | Hindu / Vedic | weather god. An early deity, largely superseded by SIVA, who controls the gales and storms. Often linked with the fire god AGNI and the Rain god INDRA. Generally a malignant god, Rudra lives in the mountains and is deemed to be either tall or dwarf, depending on the severity of the storm. He brings death and disease to man and domestic animals through his thousand shafts, and is considered to be highly unpredictable.... |
God name "Ryujin" | Shinto / Japan | dragon god. A deity controlling thunder and Rain and probably the most significant of the group of weather gods known as the RAIJIN. He is of Chinese origin and more Buddhist than Shinto. He does not appear in the sacred Shinto texts Kojiki or Nibongi, but enjoys shrines in many Shinto sanctuaries and is worshiped by farmers, particularly in times of drought. He lives in the sea, lakes and large ponds from which he ascends in mists and winds. He generates dark Rain clouds which then burst. His main festival takes place in June.... |
Goddess name "Sala" | Akkadia | wife of the weather god Adad and a goddess of war. Akkadia |
Goddess name "Sao ch'ing Niang Niang" | China | Goddess of brooms and fair weather China |
God name "Sarruma" | Hittite / Hurrian | God. Originally a Hurrian deity adopted by the Hittite state religion. The son of the weather god TESUB and his consort HEBAT. His sacred animal is a panther. Attribute: ax.... |
God name "Sharruma" | Hurrian | weather-god. Hurrian |