Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Abhigit" | Indian | The propitiatory sacrifice made by an Indian rajah who has slain a priest without premeditation. |
God name "Abhijnaraja" | Buddhist / Tibet | A physician god. He is accounted among a series of Medicine buddhas and typically depicted with stretched earlobes, and color is red. Buddhist / Tibet |
God name "Abhijnaraja" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Physician god. Accounted among a series of SMAN-BLA (medicine buddhas). Typically depicted with stretched earlobes. Color: red.... |
Deities name "Adibuddha (the primeval buddha)" | Buddhist | The original BUDDHA. The primordial force in the cosmos from whom the five DHYANIBUDDHAS arose. The embodiment of the concept of emptiness. He is considered by some authorities to be identical with Vaharaja and Vajrasattva. His image, sitting on a lotus leaf, is often carried by other Buddhist deities. Epithets include Svabhava (self-creating), Svayambhu (self-enlightened).... |
God name "Aizen-Myo-o" | Japan / Shinto | The god of love and lust. Originally a Hindu deity, Ragaraja, Aizen Myo-o became part of Buddhism, and Kobo Daishi Kukai transmitted the teaching of him to Japan. Japan / Shinto |
"Aja" | African | Aja is an Orisha, patron of the Forest, the animals within it and herbal healers, whom she taught their art. |
God name "Aja" | Surya | Is the son of king Raghu, and thus a scion of the Ikshavaku dynasty, who claimed descent from the Sun-God Surya. His paternal grandfather was the pious king Dileepa. king Aja's consort was the heavenly nymph Indumati; they were the parents of king Dasaratha of Ayodhya, who was the father of Rama. |
Goddess name "Aja" | Yoruba | A goddess of healing, herbs & of knowledge |
God name "Ajalamo" | Africa | God of unborn children. Nigeria, West Africa |
Spirit name "Ajalamo" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | God of unborn children. According to legend, in some vague mythological realm there exist rows of shelves with spirits of the unborn. These are the responsibility of Ajalamo.... |
God name "Ajalamo Yoruba" | Africa | God of fetuses. west Africa() / Nigeria |
Goddess name "Ajatar" | Finnish | Goddess of evil Finnish |
Spirit name "Ajatar (sometimes Ajattara)" | Finland | An evil Forest spirit. |
King name "Ajax" | Greek | A great Greek warrior, son of Telamon, king of Salamis, by Periboea or Eriboea and a grandson of Aeacus. |
"Ajax /Lesser Ajax" | Greek | Ajax aka the Lesser Ajax, mistreated Cåśśandra and threatened her with his pet dragon. Greek |
Goddess name "Ajaya" | Buddhist | Minor goddess Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Ajaya (invincible)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
"Alifanfaron the giant" | Greek | Don Quixote attacked a flock of sheep, which he declared to be the army of the giant Alifanfaron. Similarly Ajax, in a fit of madness, fell upon a flock of sheep, which he mistook for Grecian princes. |