| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Deities name "Udadhikumara" | Jain / India | Generic name of a god. One of a group of deities under the general title of BHVANAVASI (dwelling in places). They have youthful appearance.... |
| God name "Ukko" | Finnish | God of Rain storms, thunder, weather and the sky. Finnish |
| God name "Ukupanipo" | Hawaii | A shark god who controls the amount of fish close enough for the fisherman to catch. He occasionally adopted a human child who gains the power to transform into a shark. Hawaii |
| King name "Una" | Christian | Truth, so called because truth is one. She starts with St. George on his adventure, and being driven by a storm into "Wandering Wood," retires for the night to Hypocrisy's cell. St. George quits the cell, leaving Una behind. In her search for him she is caressed by a lion, who afterwards attends her. She next sleeps in the hut of Superstition, and next morning meets Hypocrisy dressed as St. George. As they journey together Sansloy meets them, exposes Hypocrisy, kills the lion, and carries off Una on his steed to a wild Forest. Una fills the air with her shrieks, and is rescued by the fauns and satyrs, who attempt to worship her, but, being restrained, pay adoration to her åśś. She is delivered from the satyrs and fauns by Sir Satyrane, and is told by Archimago that St. George is dead, but subsequently hears that he is the captive of Orgoglio. She goes to king Arthur for aid, and the king both slays Orgoglio and rescues the knight. Una, now takes St. George to the house of Holiness, where he is carefully nursed, and then leads him to Eden, where their union is consummated. Spenser: Faerie queene |
| Nymph name "Undine" | Greek | The water-nymph, who was created without a soul, like all others of her species. By marrying a mortal she obtained a soul, and with it all the pains and penalties of the human race. Greek |
| God name "Ungud" | Australia | A snake god who is sometimes male and sometimes female. He is åśśociated with Rainbows and the fertility and erections of the tribe's shamans. Australia |
"Unicorn" | Europian | According to a belief once popular, the unicorn by dipping its horn into a liquid could detect whether or not it contained poison. In the designs for gold and silver plate made for the Emperor Rudolph II. by Ottavio Strada is a cup on which a unicorn stands as if to essay the liquid. |
| Spirit name "Upayaparamita (perfecting success against enemies)" | Buddhist | Philosophical deity. spiritual offspring of RATNASAMBHAVA. Color: green. Attributes: jeweled staff and staff on yellow lotus.... |
| God name "Upulvan" | Sri Lanka | 'the water-lily colored' One of a group of "four great gods", and each of these four gods was the patron of a certain part of the Island. Sri Lanka |
| God name "Upulvan (like the blue lotus)" | Singhalese / Sri Lanka | Local god. The most senior of the four great gods of the Singhalese pantheon. Identified with VIS NU, according to one tradition his specific task was to protect the culture of Sri Lanka from Buddhism. Conversely he stood by Gautama BUDDHA against the Hindu MARA.... |
"Urda Urdan" | Scandinavian | Urda or Urdan Fount. The sacred fount of light and heat, situated over the Rainbow Bridge, Bifrost. Scandinavian |
| Spirit name "Uslo" | Siberia | spirit of the mountains, one of the guardians of the natural world Yakut, Siberia |
| Spirit name "Uslo" | Yakut / central Siberia | spirit of mountains. One of the guardians of the natural world answering to the mountain owner XAYA ICCITA.... |
| King name "Utixo" | Khoi | A benevolent deity who lived in the sky, sending Rain for the crops, and speaking with thunder. Khoi |
| Goddess name "Vac (speech)" | Hindu / Vedic | Goddess of the spoken word. In some texts she is a daughter of DAKSA and consort of KASYAPA. Alternatively she is the daughter of Ambhrna. Also known by the epithet queen of the gods, Vac is the personification of the phenomenon of speech and oral communication. She gives the boon of hearing, speech and sight and she can lead a man to become a Brahman. She also personifies truth and sustains somathe liquid essence of vision and immortality. She is said to have created the four Vedas, the basis of the earliest Hindu mythology.... |
| Goddess name "Vaga" | s | Sabra, goddess of the Severn, being a prudent, well-conducted maiden, rose with the first streak of morning dawn, and, descending the eastern side of the hill, made choice of the most fertile valleys, whilst as yet her sisters slept. Vaga, goddess of the Wye, rose next, and, making all haste to perform her task, took a shorter course, by which means she joined her sister ere she reached the sea. The goddess Rhea, old Plinlimmon's pet, woke not till roused by her father's chiding; but by bounding down the side of the mountain, and selecting the shortest course of all, she managed to reach her destination first. Thus the Cymric proverb, There is no impossibility to the maiden who hath a fortune to lose or a husband to win." Welsh |
| Deities name "Vaimanika" | Jain / India | The generic title for a group of deities |
| Deities name "Vaimanika" | Jain / India | Generic title for a group of deities. A clåśś of gods said to be borne by, or living within, a flying palace, the vimana.... |
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