| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Supreme god name "Qa'wadiliquala" | Dza'wadeenox Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Supreme god. The guardian of the tribe but also a river deity responsible for bringing the salmon each year. Said to live in the river Gwae. His eldest son is TEWI'XILAK, the god of goat hunters. His attributes include a headband of red cedar bark.... |
| Goddess name "Qamai'ts" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Creator goddess. Said to live in the upper heaven, Atsa'axl, from where she controls the earth. According to tradition the mountains were once malevolent beings who made the world uninhabitable, until she conquered them and reduced them in size. She is never invoked or prayed to. Also Tsi Sisnaaxil (our woman); Ek Yakimtolsil (afraid of nothing).... |
| Goddess name "Qamaits" | British | A warrior goddess of the indigenous Nuxalk people. British Columbia, Canada. |
"Quikinna'qu" | British | The first man. He was the only survivor of an island that had been transformed into a whale by the Thunderbird. Chuckchee, British Columbia |
| Goddess name "Randeng" | China | Goddess sent by heaven to bring dread calamity down on to king Zhou because of his blasphemies and evil ways, China |
| God name "Rasnu" | Persian / Iran | God of påśśage and justice. The guardian of the bridge which leads to the otherworld. He weighs souls in the scales at the final judgment.... |
| Goddess name "Ratis" | British | Goddess of luck and good fortune. British |
| Goddess name "Ratri" | Hindu / Vedic | Goddess of the night. Ratri is the personification of darkness bedecked with stars. Her sister is USAS, the dawn goddess, who, with Agni the fire god, chases her away. She is perceived as the guardian of eternal law and order in the cosmos and of the waves of time. Ratri is generally regarded as a benign deity who offers rest and renewed vigor, and who may be invoked to ensure safety through the hours of darkness. She deposits the gift of morning dew. However she also offers a bleaker aspect as one who brings gloom and barrenness.... |
| God name "Redeemer" | Jewish | Often applied by Christians to Jesus Christ as the Son of God who sacrificed himself as a propitiation of the sin his Father invented. Prometheus, Dionysus and others can also be called redeemers. The serpent Agathodaimon is another name for the cosmic redeemer; Lucifer the Light-bringer and illuminator, could be clåśśed as our inner redeemer, as was the mystic serpent who withstood the Jewish God in Eden. |
| Angel name "Remiel" | Nazorean | The angelic awakener whose task is to bring you to Higher Power and is not very good at his job. Early Nazorean |
| God name "Rigonometis" | British | God of the Sacred Grove who also dabbles as a war god. British |
| Goddess name "Rodasi" | Visvedevas | To whom the Goddess Rodasi clings closely, whom Pusan follows bringing ample bounty. Visvedevas |
| Goddess name "Rosmerta (great provider)" | Roman / Celtic / British / Gallic | Fertility goddess. Consort to the god Mercury. Probably locally worshiped and often depicted carrying a basket of fruit, purse or cornucopia. She and Mercury frequently appear together. In addition to her purse, she may bear a twin-headed ax or, alternatively, she may carry Mercury's caduceus (snake-entwined wand).See also MERCURIUS.... |
| God name "Rudiobus" | British | horse God and the personification of horsemanship. British |
| God name "Rudra (howler)" | Hindu / Vedic | weather god. An early deity, largely superseded by SIVA, who controls the gales and storms. Often linked with the fire god AGNI and the Rain god INDRA. Generally a malignant god, Rudra lives in the mountains and is deemed to be either tall or dwarf, depending on the severity of the storm. He brings death and disease to man and domestic animals through his thousand shafts, and is considered to be highly unpredictable.... |
"Rusor" | Roman | A Roman divinity, was worshipped as one of the companions of Tellus, by which was personified the power of nature (the earth) of bringing forth to light the seeds entrusted to her. |
"Ruydera" | Britain | The duenna of Belerma She had seven daughters, who wept so bitterly at the death of Durandarte that Merlin, out of pity, turned them into lakes or estuaries. Britain |
"Saint George" | British | Saint George Patron saint of England and the Christian adaptation of the dragon slaying legends of Bel and the dragon, Apollo and Python, Osiris and Typhon, etc. British |
Table of Gods
Your guide to the World gods, spirits,
demons and legendary monsters
1996 - 2024 Copyright © Godfinder.org
