Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Vadali" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of MARICI. Attributes: flower, needle, noose and staff.... |
God name "Vajradaka" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. An emanation of AKSOBHYA bearing one, three or four heads.... |
Goddess name "Vajradhatvisvari (lady of the adamantine world)" | Buddhist | Goddess. The SAKTI of VAIROCANA and also a variety of MARICI. Attributes: many, including an image of Vairocana on the crown.... |
Goddess name "Vajravarahi (diamond sow)" | Buddhist / Mahayana / / Lamaist / Tibet | Goddess. An emanation of VAIROCANA and sometimes identified as the SAKTI of HEVAJIRA. In Lamaism she accompanies VAJRADAKA. She is depicted treading on a man. Color: red. Attributes: principally club, cup, image of Vairocana on the crown and knife, but with an åśśortment of other attributes from time to time. Three-eyed and three-headed.... |
Deities name "Vijaya (victory)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | God. An EKADASARUDRA (one of the eleven RUDRA deities). Hiranyaksa is considered one of his incarnations. Attributes: club, knife, rosary and staff. Vijaya is also the name of the bow of INDRA.... |
Deities name "Virupaksa (misinformed eyes)" | Hindu Buddhist | 1 God. Epithet of SIVA and one of the EKADASARUDRAS or eleven RUDRA deities. Attributes: ax, bell, club, cup, drum, hook, knife, lotus, prayer wheel, rosary, Sakti and sword. Threeheaded.... |
God name "Visvamitra" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor god. According to legend, the father of the god NARADA.... |
God name "Wer" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | storm god. A minor deity linked with ADAD and AMURRU. His attendant is the fierce guardian of the pine Forest, Huwawa, the focus of one of the Gilgames epic sagas. Cult centers include Afis, south of Aleppo.... |
Demon name "Wihmunga" | Canada | A witch, or a female demon. First Nations |
God name "Wiidigo" | Ojibwa / Canada | Ice god. A terrible being formed of ice who symbolizes the starvation of Winter. There are said to be many windigos, but they are always referred to in the singular. Cannibalistic, the windigo appears as an ice skeleton and a human being can be turned into one through possession.... |
God name "Xil Sga'nagwai" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Medicine god. Said to appear as a raven.... |
"Yadatan" | Nazorean | One of two beings who bequeath wings of glory and open heavenly doors for the ascending elect. See Adatan. Early Nazorean |
Deities name "Yamadar Maraja" | Hindu | Collective name for the deities and spirits of the underworld. Hindu |
Supreme god name "Yeddariye" | Canada | The creator formally known as Niottsi. The supreme god of the Chipewyan. Canada |
"Zakkum" | Koran | A tree growing in the Muhammadan hell, from which a food is prepared for the damned of inexpressible bitterness. "How will it be for him whose food is Zakkum?"- The Koran. |
"Zanaharibe" | Madagascar | The ruler of the Zanahary. His wife is Andriamanitra. Madagascar |
God name "Zanahary" | Madagascar | The creator gods in the indigenous mythology of Madagascar. Some Zanahary gods are good, while others are evil; some are male, and others are female. |
God name "Zanahary/ Zanaharibe Railanitra" | Madagascar | He was the creator god |