| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Gramadevata" | India | Generic term for a local tutelary deity. Such deities are identified as not being served by Brahman priests. Most are goddesses e.g. CAMUNDA, DURGA and KALI. Generally they are invoked in small villages where they guard boundaries and fields and are represented by a painted stone, but they are also to be found in larger towns and cities.... |
"Grateful" | Buddhist | Commemoration Stanza to Sakyamuni Buddha. Buddhist |
| Supreme god name "Hammon aka Ammon" | Libya | An oracle god who had the shape of a ram. This was taken over by the Egyptians, who identified the god with their supreme god Amun; they called god of the oracle 'Amun of Siwa, lord of good counsel'. Libya |
| God name "Hermes" | Greek | A god of athletes, sport, gambling, commerce, communications, eloquence, luck, Medicine, oratory, roads, & wind |
| God name "Himerus or Phanes" | Greek | A mystic divinity in the system of the Orphics, is also called Eros, Ericapaeus, Himerus Metis, and Protogonus. He is said to have sprung from the mystic mundane egg, and to have been the father of all gods, and the creator of men. Phanes means "Manifestor" or "Revealer," and is related to the Greek words "light" and "to shine forth." Greek |
"Iormungandur" | Scandinavian | Iormungandr. The Midgard serpent. The serpent that encompåśśes the whole earth. Scandinavian |
| God name "Jormungand" | Norse | The serpent, Jormungand was the middle child of Loki and the giantess, Angrboda. He had 2 siblings, Hel, and the wolf, Fenrir. Alarmed that Loki had fathered these children, Odin sent a group of gods to kidnap them. Once captured, Odin threw Jormungand into the ocean surrounding Midgard, where he lived from then on. The serpent grew so much that he encircled the whole world and bit his own tail. Norse |
| Spirit name "Jormungandar or Midgardsormen" | Norse | earth's monster. The great serpent, brother of Hela and Fenrir and son of Loki, the spirit of evil. It used to lie at the root of the celestial ash till All-Fader cast it into the ocean; it then grew so large that in time it encompåśśed the whole world, and was for ever biting its own tail. Norse |
| Demon name "Kaiamunu" | New Guinea | demon who plays a large part in initiation ceremony for boys Papua New Guinea |
| King name "Kaliya" | Hindu | A serpent king who had five heads, and dwelt in a deep pool of the Yamuna, with numerous attendant serpents. His mouths vomited fire and smoke and he laid waste all the country round. Hindu |
| God name "Kaliya" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor serpent god. One of the nagas in the endless conflict between good and evil, he poisoned the fresh water with his venom. The young KRSNA revived all the life which had drunk from it and then almost destroyed Kaliya before taking the snake as one of his followers. By tradition he lives in depths of the river Yamuna.... |
| God name "Kematef" | Egypt | An epitaph for the primeval god Amun |
| Goddess name "Khons(u) (wanderer)" | Egypt / Upper | moon god. Recognized from at least 2500 BC but best known during the New kingdom (mid-sixteenth century BC). A significant deity at Thebes, where he is described as an offspring of AMUN and MUT. His sacred animal is the baboon. There is a Khonsu precinct as part of the Temple of Amun in the Karnak complex. From the Greco-Roman period there exists a sanctuary of Kom-ombo where Khonsu is seen as the offspring of the crocodile god SOBEK and the mother goddess HATHOR. Depicted anthropomorphically or with a falcon's head, but in either case enveloped in a close-fitting robe. He wears a crown consisting of a crescent moon subtending a full moon orb.... |
| Spirit name "Kneph" | Egypt | Was originally the breath of life, his name meaning soul-breath. Indeed, according to Plutarch and Diodorus, kneph was identical with the Greek pneuma. Kneph in this context was a spirit that breathed life into things, giving them form. Egypt Kneph eventually became considered to be the creator god himself, in Elephantine, although his identity was finally åśśimilated into the more important god Amun. |
| Goddess name "Krsodari (thin-waisted)" | Hindu | Goddess. An emaciated form of CAMUNDA, a personification of famine. She stands upon a corpse. Attributes: club, iron rod, skull and trident.... |
"Ksitigarbha" | Buddhist / Mahayana | 'Earth-Womb'. "Name of a Bodhisattva who saves suffering beings in the hell" he aspires to deliver sentient beings wandering astray in the five(or six) paths of mundane existence. Buddhist / Mahayana |
| Goddess name "Kundalini" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Mother goddess. The spirit of the earth perceived in human form and responsible for the provision of all food from the soil. The earth is considered to be sacred and should not be owned by any one person, but can be utilized for the benefit of the community as a whole. Kundalini is believed to have been the mother of all other vegetation deities.... |
| God name "Kunti" | India | In her maidenhood she showed such respectful devotion to the sage Durvasas, that he gave her a charm by means of which she might have a child by any god she pleased to invoke. She called upon the Sun, and by him had a son named Karna, but without any detriment to her virginity; still, to keep her affair secret, the child was exposed on the banks of the Yamuna. India |
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