| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Ixcozauhqui (yellow face in the house)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mex ico | God of fire. Associated with paternalism and one of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
| Goddess name "Jara" | Hindu | Goddess of the household, domestic health, happiness and prosperity. The night-eater of corpses. Hindu |
| God name "Javine" | Lithuanian | A household god who protects grain in barns. Lithuanian |
| Spirit name "Jievaras" | Lithuanian | A household spirit who protects grain. Sacrifices to Jievaras are made after the rye harvest. While cutting grain, women would leave a few grain tufts uncut, which would later be braided into plaits. They would also leave some bread and salt under the plait. Lithuanian |
| Goddess name "Ka Ata Killa" | Peru | Goddess of the moon. Had a nice house with a view of lake Titicaca. Peru |
| God name "Kakaku" | Japan | God of rivers invoked to protect houses against fire Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Kakaku" | Shinto / Japan | River god. His name is often inscribed on the edge tiles of a house to protect against fire.... |
| God name "Kamado-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | household god. Specifically the kami responsible for the cooking stove.... |
"Kanfun" | Nazorean | Uthra whose name is in the house of Life. Early Nazorean |
| Goddess name "Khon-Ma" | Tibetan | Chthonic goddess. Ruler of a horde of demons who live in the earth and who may infest houses. She is depicted typically wearing yellow robes and with attributes including a golden noose. Her vehicle is a ram. To guard against her influence, a ram's skull is hung from the doorpost of a dwelling and filled with offerings.... |
| Spirit name "Khoromozitel" | Slavic | A house spirit in Slavic folklore. They are masculine, typically small, and sometimes covered in hair all over. According to some traditions, they take on the appearance of current or former owners of the house and have a grey beard, sometimes with tails or little horns. |
| God name "Kibuka" | Buganda / Uganda, East Africa | God of war. The brother of the creator god MUKASA, said to reside on the island of Sese. According to tradition, he secured victory in war for the Buganda by taking the form of a cloud which hovered above their enemies and Rained spears and arrows. He apparently enjoyed a succession of temples in the past which housed the hidden statue of the god and his sacred shield.... |
| Spirit name "Kikimora" | Slavic | Female house spirit and counterpart of the Domovoi, to whom she is sometimes wedded. She lives in the cellar or behind the stove. At night she comes out to spin and help with the housework in a well-tended home. She is depicted as an average woman with hair undone, sometimes with chicken feet. Sometimes she might appear, spinning, as a portend to one about to die. Slavic |
"Kobold" | German | A German household goblin, also frequenting mines. |
| God name "Kuku-Ki-Waka-Muro-Tsuna-Ne-NoKami" | Shinto / Japan | Guardian deity. The god who guards the house and its environs as a whole.... |
| God name "Kuku-ki-waka-muro-tsunane-no-kami" | Japan | God who is the protector of houses, the name denotes the beams, and the ropes with which the beams were bound together. Japan |
| God name "Kuladevata (family god)" | Hindu | Generic name of a household god. The god is chosen by a family to be their guardian deity and they all åśśemble at his temple, as and when necessary, for worship. Also Kulanayaka.... |
| Deities name "Kunado-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Guardian deity. One of three KAMIS particularly concerned with the protection of roads and crossroads. They also guard the boundaries of the house and the ways leading to it. They may be known as Yakushin deities who protect against plague. Generally identified as MICHI-NO-KAMI or Chiburi-NoKami.... |
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