Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Balam the ox" | Koran | And the fish Nun, are the food of Mahomet's Paradise; the mere lobes of the livers of these animals will suffice for 70,000 saints. Koran |
Goddess name "Bamya" | Zoroaster | In Zoroastrian tradition, this Goddess guides the Sun god Mithra's vehicle through the sky. Also the Goddess of twilight. |
Angel name "Baradiel" | Hebrew | One of the princes of the seven heavens mentioned in the Third Book of Enoch. An angel of hail. |
God name "Barastar" | Caucasus | God who judges souls, sending them to Paradise or oblivion. Caucasus |
God name "Barastar" | Ossetian / Caucasus region | Chthonic underworld god. The judge of souls, directing them either to Paradise or to oblivion.... |
God name "Barastar Ossetian" | Caucus | this god at judged and in souls sending them to Paradise or oblivion |
Goddess name "Bariebdjedet" | Egypt / Lower | Ram god. Possibly concerned with arbitration, his consort is the fish goddess HATMEHYT. He is the father of HARPOKRATES. According to tradition (Chester Beatty I papyrus) he was called upon to intercede in the contest for the Egyptian kingdoms between HORUS and SETH. He is placed in some accounts in Upper Egypt on the island of Seheil at the first Nile cataract, but his cult is centered on Mendes in the Delta region of Lower Egypt [Tell et-Ruba] and is closely linked with the mother of Rameses III. He is generally depicted in anthropomorphic form, but with the head of a ram.... |
Goddess name "Bel" | Akkadian | Bel became especially used of the Babylonian god Marduk and when found in Assyrian and neo-Babylonian personal names or mentioned in inscriptions in Mesoptamian context it can usually be taken as referring to Marduk and no other god. Similarly Belit without some disambiguation mostly refers to Bel Marduk's spouse Sarpanit. However Marduk's mother, the Sumerian goddess called Ninhursag, Ningal and Ninmah and other names in Sumerian, was often known as Belit-ili 'Lady of the Gods' in Akkadian. |
God name "Bel" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Generic title meaning lord. The Babylonian god MARDUK was often addressed as Bel, and the name occurs in the Vetus Testamentum. The New Year festival of akitu in Babylon included a ceremony of leading Bel by the hand. The name also appears at Palmyra as the tutelary creator god whose attributes include lightning and an eagle.... |
Goddess name "Belet-Ili (lady of tbe gods)" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Mother goddess. Known in Babylon and probably modeled on NINHURSAG A.... |
Goddess name "Belet-Seri" | Akkadia | Goddess of the underworld, who kept track of the dead coming through Babylon / Akkadia |
Goddess name "Belet-Seri" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Chthonic underworld goddess. The recorder of the dead entering the otherworld. Known as the Scribe of the earth.... |
Goddess name "Belet-Seri/ Belitsari" | Babylon / Akkadia | The underworld goddess that kept track of the dead coming through |
Goddess name "Belili" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess. See GES TIN-ANA.... |
Goddess name "Belit-Ili" | Babylon / Akkadia | Mother goddess, the mother of Enlil. Babylon / Akkadia |
Goddess name "Beltiya" | Babylon / Akkadia | Sublime and elevated, incomparable among the goddesses. Babylon / Akkadia |
Goddess name "Beltiya (my lady)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Generic title of goddess. ZARPANITUM (SARPANITUM), the consort of the Babylonian god MARDUK, is often addressed as Beltiya.... |
God name "Benu" | Egypt / Upper | Transmuted bird-like form of a Sun god. A deity mentioned in Pyramid Texts (circa twenty-fifth century BC) and linked with the Sun god of Heliopolis, ATUM. He is also said to have been self-created from the primeval ocean and is sometimes a symbol of rebirth in the afterlife. Benu may have augmented the Greek clåśśical tradition of the Phoenix. He appears in the Old kingdom as a yellow wagtail but later becomes a heron, wearing the conical white crown of Upper Egypt with two slender feathers pointing backwards from its crest.... |