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"Urda" | Scandinavian | Verdandi, and Skulda. The three Nornir (Past, Present, and Future) who dwell in a beautiful hall below the ash-tree Yggdrasil'. Their employment is to engrave on a shield the destiny of man. Scandinavian |
"Urda Urdan" | Scandinavian | Urda or Urdan Fount. The sacred fount of light and heat, situated over the Rainbow Bridge, Bifrost. Scandinavian |
King name "Urgan" | s | A mortal born and christened, but stolen by the king of the fairies and brought up in elf-land. He was sent to Lord Richard, the husband of Alice Brand, to lay on him the "curse of the sleepless eye" for killing his wife's brother Ethert. When Lord Richard saw the hideous dwarf he crossed himself, but the elf said, "I fear not sign made with a bloody hand." Then forward stepped Alice and made the sign, and the dwarf said if any woman would sign his brow thrice with a cross he should recover his mortal form. Alice signed him thrice, and the elf became "the fairest knight in all Scotland, in whom she recognised her brother Ethert." Scotland |
"Urgel" | Slavic | Satan's son who became lord of the Pleiades. Slavic |
Goddess name "Urjani" | Hindu | Goddess of physical prowess and strength Hindu |
"Ursa Major" | Roman | Calisto, daughter of Lycaon, was violated by Jupiter, and Juno changed her into a bear. Jupiter placed her among the stars that she might be more under his protection. Roman |
Goddess name "Ursule" | Haiti | Goddess of love Haiti / Vodun |
Book name "Uru'n Ajy Toyo'n" | Egyptian | Thou Beautiful Power, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven, Power of heaven, Opener of the Disk, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven Egyptian Book of the Dead |
"Uru'n Ajy Toyo'n/ Ayi' Uru'n Toyoy'n" | Yakut / Siberia | A creator being that lived in the north east |
Goddess name "Ururupuin" | Micronesia | Goddess of flirting, happiness and playfulness. Micronesia |
"Uruzimu" | Urartan | One of the fiends who seek to cast down the Seven Gates of the Stars. Urartan |
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.... |
Goddess name "Ushas" | Sanskrit | Sanskrit for "dawn", is a Vedic deity. She is the chief goddess, sometimes imagined as several goddesses, Dawns, exalted in the Rig Veda. She is portrayed as a beautifully adorned, sexually attractive young woman riding in a chariot. She is the daughter of Dyaus "Heaven". |
God name "Usins" | Latavia | An astral god that was affiliated with both the morning & evening star, he sidelined with beekeepers & spring until the Christians showed up and then he became St. George |
God name "Usins" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Astral god. Associated with both the morning and evening star and also has links with bee-keepers and spring. Under Christian influence he becomes absorbed into the figure of St. George.... |
Spirit name "Uslo" | Siberia | spirit of the mountains, one of the guardians of the natural world Yakut, Siberia |
Spirit name "Uslo" | Yakut / central Siberia | spirit of mountains. One of the guardians of the natural world answering to the mountain owner XAYA ICCITA.... |