Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Gandha Tara (fragrance-Tara)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. Color: red. Attribute: conch with sandalwood resin.... |
Demon name "Garuda (the devourer)" | Hindu / Vedic | Archaic Sun god and Divine vehicle. Originally depicted as a solar deity, Garuda evolved into a bird-like human hybrid who became the deified mount of VIS'NU. Also a chief adversary of nagas (snake-like demons), which he devours. In early depictions Garuda has a parrot's beak. Said to have been born from an egg, the son of Vinata and KASYAPA. Epithets include Amrtaharana, Garutman, Tarksya. Attributes: conch, club, lotus and nectar, but may also bear the attributes of Vis'nu.(2) Mount or vahana of VAJRAPANI. Buddhist. Attributes: flower, horse-head, noose, skin and staff. Three-eyed and three-headed.... |
God name "Ghantaaani (bell in hand)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. One of the group of dhyanibodhisattva (meditation BUDDHAS). An emanation of Vajrasattva. Color: white. Attribute: a bell.... |
God name "Ghantapani" | Buddhist | God running a round with a bell in his hand Buddhist / Mahayana |
God name "Gon-Po Nag-Po" | Lamaist / Tibet | God. See also MAHAKALA. Also Bram-zei gzugs-can; mGon-dkar; GUR-GYIMGON-PO.... |
Goddess name "Grahamatrka" | Buddhist | A goddess whose name means demon mother |
Goddess name "Grahamatrka" | Buddhist | Goddess whose name means demon mother. Buddhist |
Goddess name "Grahamatrka" | Nepal | Goddess and stellar deity. Nepal |
Goddess name "Grahamatrka (demon motber)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. One of the forms of VAIROCANA. Attributes: arrow, bow, lotus and staff. Three-headed.... |
God name "Gur-Gyi Mgon-Po" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | God of tents. A form of MAHAKALA usually attended by a man. Color: blue. Attributes: club, cup and knife.... |
God name "Ha" | Egypt | Guardian god. Early deity of the western Sahara referred to as warding off enemies (possibly Libyan) from the west. Depicted in anthropomorphic form crowned by the symbol of desert dunes.... |
God name "Hahana Ku" | Mayan | Messenger god. Mayan |
God name "Hahanu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of uncertain function. Known from påśśing reference in texts and from inscriptions.... |
"Halahala" | Hindu | The name of a poison created from the sea when Devas and Asuras churned the sea in order to obtain Amrita, the nectar of immortality. Hindu |
God name "Halahala (lord of poison)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God of poison. A form of AVALOKITESVARA. Typically seated on a red lotus with the SAKTI on the left knee. Color: white. Attributes: arrow, bow, cup, gråśś, image of AMITABHA on crown, lotus, tiger skin and trident. Three-headed and three-eyed.... |
Goddess name "Hannahanna" | Hittite | Mother Goddess who recommends to the storm-god that he pay the Sea-god the bride-price for the Sea-god's daughter on her wedding to Telipinu. Hittite |
Goddess name "Hannahannas" | Hittite / Hurrian | the mother goddess |
Goddess name "Hannahannas" | Hittite / Hurrian | Mother goddess. Described as the great mother. In the legend of TELEPINU, the missing god, she sends a bee to locate him. When the bee stings Telepinu to awaken him, the god vents his rage on the natural world. NOTE: the priestesses of the Phrygian mother goddess KYBELE were, according to the Roman writer Lactantius, melissai or bees.... |