Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Mombo Wa Ndhlopfu (elephant face)" | Ronga / Mozambique, southern Africa | Tutelary god. An ancestral deity who lives in and controls the Forests, also appearing in the guise of a huge snake. He is propitiated by the sacrifice of a çõçkerel.... |
God name "Mombo Wa Ndhlopfu Ronga" | Mozambique | A tutelary god that lives in & controls the Forest |
"Morgane" | s | A fay to whose charge Zephyr committed young Påśśelyon and his cousin Bennucq. Påśśelyon fell in love with Morgane's daughter, and the adventures of these young lovers are related in the romance of Pereeforest. |
"Mowis" | Indian | The bridegroom of snow, who, according to American Indian tradition, wooed and won a beautiful bride; but when morning dawned, Mowis left the wigwam, and melted into the Sunshine. The bride hunted for him night and day in the Forests, but never saw him more. |
God name "Nainuema" | Uitoto Indian / South America | Creator god. He created the earth from his own imagination and stamped upon it until it was flat. He then engendered the Forests and other living things from his saliva.... |
Spirit name "Nyan" | Tibet | spirits who live in Forests and mountains. Tibet |
King name "Old Man" | Blackfoot | Came from the south, making the mountains, the prairies, and the Forests as he påśśed, the birds and the animals too. He traveled north making things as he went and arranging the world as we see it today. Blackfoot |
God name "Oshossi" | Yoruba | God of the Forest and hunting. Yoruba |
Spirit name "Ovda" | Finnish | An evil spirit of the Forest who appears naked with backward pointing feet. After being danced to death, the victim is eaten. Finnish |
"Pau-o-palae" | Pacific Islands | Pau-o-palae was clothed with a network of most delicate ferns. She was noted because of her magic power over all the ferns of the Forest, and for her skill in using the most graceful fronds for clothing and garlands. |
God name "Picvu'cin" | Siberia | God of hunters who lives in deep ravines, and stays near the Forest. Chukchee, Siberia |
Spirit name "Poluvirica" | Slavic | A female Forest spirit who appears naked, with a long face, pendulant breasts and three braids of hair down her back. Slavic |
Goddess name "Puspatara (flower-Tara)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. Color: white. Attribute: a Forest garland.... |
God name "Ranginui" | Polynesian / including Maori | sky god. The socalled sky father of the Polynesian culture whose consort is PAPATUANUKU, the earth mother. During a prolonged period of inseparable intercourse they became the prime parents of the Polynesian pantheon of gods. The children found life between the bodies of the parents too cramped and conspired to force them apart. Though one offspring, TUMATAUENGA, wanted to slay them, the advice of TANEMAHUTA, the Forest god, prevailed and RANGINUI and Papatuanuku were merely forced apart.... |
God name "Revanta (with wealth)" | Hindu | God of hunters. The son of SURYA and SANJNA. Known mainly from eastern India and Gujarat, he protects mankind against the dangers of the Forest. Infrequently depicted in art.... |
God name "Silvåñuś" | Roman | A Latin divinity of the fields and Forests, to whom in the very earliest times the Tyrrhenian Pelasgians are said to have dedicated a grove and a festival. He is described as a god watching over the fields and husbandmen, and is also called the protector of the boundaries of fields. |
Deities name "Silvåñuś" | Roman | Minor god of woodlands and Forests. Worship of Silvåñuś seems largely to have been limited to northern Italy. He became incorporated into the Celtic pantheon where his symbolism includes a bill-hook, pots and hammers. His sacred animal is the stag. The name was extended to embrace groups of woodland deities, the Silvani or Silvanae.... |
God name "Ta'pi-o" | Finland | The god of the Forest. The Kalevala. Finland |