Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Kaukas" | Lithuania | spirit being, some type of goblin who brings good luck who is also bound to the notion of a dragon guarding treasure Lithuania |
Supreme god name "Kenos" | Tierra del Fuego | God who was sent to earth by the supreme god, supposedly to bring order into the world. He goofed up and created humans. Tierra del Fuego |
"Korred" | s | The good-natured guardians of Brittany's standing stones. |
"Kottos" | Greek | One of the Titans. He had a hundred hands. (See Briareus.) Greek |
Deities name "Kouretes" | Greek | Forest deities. Known from Ephesus and other sites as the spirits of trees and streams, they are also perceived as nymphs who dance in attendance on the baby ZEUS. The term is also applied to a bride or young woman.... |
"Krsanu" | India | An ineffectual guardian of immortality's plant who failed to prevent the falcon bringing Soma. India |
God name "Ku'nkunxuliga" | Ma'malelegale Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Tribal god. The personification of the thunderbird, known to many Indian tribes, who lives in a palace in the upper world. The noise of the thunder is the beating of its wings.... |
God name "Kulla" | Akkadia | God of builders and responsible for the creation of bricks Babylon / Akkadia |
God name "Kulla" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of builders. The god responsible for the creation of bricks.... |
God name "Lalaia'il" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | God of shamans. The deity who initiates into the shamanistic circle. He lives in the Forest and carries a wooden wand bound with cedar bark which he waves, creating a singing noise. He also frequents woodland lakes and ponds. When a woman meets him she is said to menstruate, while a man develops a nose bleed. Also Kle-klati-e'il.... |
Demon name "Lamatsu" | Akkadia | demon of the South-west wind bringing droughts, famines and locusts. Akkadia |
Ghost name "Lares" | Roman | Either domestic or public. Domestic lares were the souls of virtuous ancestors exalted to the rank of protectors. Public lares were the protectors of roads and streets. Domestic lares were images, like dogs, set behind the hall door, or in the lararium or shrine. Wicked souls became lemures or ghosts that made night hideous. Penates were the natural powers personified, and their office was to bring wealth and plenty, rather than to protect and avert danger. Roman |
Goddess name "Latis" | British | lake goddess who later became a goddess of ale and meade British |
"Lavinia" | Greek | The daughter of Titus Andronicus, bride of Båśśiåñuś, brother of the Emperor of Rome. Being grossly abused by Chiron and Demetrius, sons of Tamora, queen of the Goths, the savage wantons cut off her hands and pluck out her tongue, that she may not reveal their names Lavinia, guiding a stick with her stumps, makes her tale known to her father and brothers; whereupon Titus murders the two Moorish princes and serves their heads in a pasty to their mother, whom he afterwards slays, together with the Emperor Saturninus her husband. Greek |
King name "Lear" | Britain | A legendary king of Britain, who in his old age divided his kingdom between Goneril and Regan, two of his daughters, who professed great love for him. These two daughters drove the old man mad by their unnatural conduct. |
God name "Lendix-Tcux" | Chilcotin Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Tutelary god. The so-called transformer known by different names among many Indian tribes. He is a wanderer who can change shape from human to animal and who educates the human race. He often appears in the guise of a raven, or as a dog, and has three sons.... |
Deities name "Libanza" | Bangala / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. One of a pair of supreme deities with his sister / consort Nsongo. He lives at the bottom of the river Congo, traveling the waterways and bringing floods as punishment as well as to generate prosperity. He is regarded as being generally benevolent. Also Ibanza.... |
"Llevelys" | Brittany | The ruler of Brittany who got the dragon drunk on Meade. Brittany |