| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Glaukos" | Greek | Sea god. Allegedly an impoverished fisherman who ate a sea-gråśś with magical properties, dived into the ocean and remained there as a guardian deity of fishermen and their nets.See also PROTEUS.... |
| God name "Glooscap" | Canada | The god of righteousness who made the plains, food plants, animals and humans. Canada |
| King name "Gluskap" | Algonquin | Was responsible for making all the good things in the universe from his mother's body. His evil brother Malsum created the mountains and valleys and all the nasty things. Algonquin |
| Demon name "Gnomes" | Pan-European | demonic beings who inhabit woods, mountains and water. Pan-European |
| God name "God of the Gaps" | Creationism | The god who made everything that cannot yet be explained scientifically. Shrinks in power with each new scientific advance. Creationism |
| Goddess name "Goga" | Melanesia | Goddess of fire and Rain. Melanesia |
| God name "Goibnui/ Govannon" | Celtic | He is the god of the forge who's beer was so good, that the drinker gained immortality |
| God name "Gon-Po Peng" | Tibet | mountain god and the great guardian of Tantrism. Tibet |
| God name "Gonaqade't" | Chilkat / American north Pacific coast | Sea god. By tradition he brings power and good fortune to all who see him. He appears in several guises, rising from the water as a gaily painted house inlaid with blue and green Haliotis shell, or as the head of a huge fish, or as a painted war canoe. Generally depicted in art as a large head with arms, paws and fins.... |
"Gorgo" | Greek | According to the Odyssey, was one of the frightful phantoms in Hades. In the Iliad the Aegis of Athena contains the head of Gorgo, the terror of her enemies. |
| Goddess name "Grainne" | Ireland / Scotland / Manx | Master herbalist and Goddess of the Sun. Ireland / Scotland / Manx |
| 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.... |
| God name "Great Father" | Celtic | The Horned God, The Lord. Lord of the Winter, harvest, land of the dead, the sky, animals, mountains, lust, powers of destruction, regeneration. Represents the male principle of creation. Celtic |
| Goddess name "Guabancex" | Caribbean | Goddess of the winds and Rain Taino / Caribbean |
| Spirit name "Gumeniki" | Slavic | A clåśś of animistic spirits who look after storehouses and grainaries. Slavic |
| Spirit name "Gunnodoyak" | A youthful heroic deity who was once mortal | Iroquois (North American Indian). He was empowered by the spirit of thunder, Hino, to conquer the Great water Snake, enemy of humankind. The serpent devoured Gunnodoyak but was then slain by Hino, who cut open the snake, recovered the body of Gunnodoyak and returned him to his rightful place in heaven.... |
| Goddess name "Gunura" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | deity of uncertain status. Described variously as the husband of the goddess NIN'INSINA and the father of Damu (DUMUZI), but also as the sister of Damu.... |
| God name "Gynaecothoenas" | Greek | the god feasted by Women, a surname of Ares at Tegea. In a war of the Tegeatans against the Lacedaemonian king Charillus, the women of Tegea made an attack upon the enemy from an ambuscade. This decided the victory. The women therefore celebrated the victory alone, and excluded the men from the sacrificial feast. Greek |
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