| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Aahla" | Egyptian | The Field of peace; a portion of Amenti the Egyptian underworld |
"Abaddon" | Hebrew | The region of the dead, synonym of She'ol in the Old Testament. Hebrew |
| God name "Ah Bolon Dz'acab (many generations)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. A god identified with Rain and thunder. Also strongly linked with Agriculture and young crops. Possibly a vegetation avatara of the iguana god ITZAM NA. Attributes include a leaf-like ornament worn in the nose. Also God K.... |
| Goddess name "Ament" | Egypt / Libya | Aka Amenti, "The Westerner," "hidden goddess." Goddess of the underworld and consort of Amen. She greeted all dead people to the land of the dead with bread and water. If they ate and drank, they could not return to the land of the living. Egypt / Libya |
| Goddess name "Arnamentia" | British | Goddess of spring waters. British |
| Goddess name "Arnamentia" | Wales | Arnamentia Goddess of spring waters who was once a minor solar deity. Healing and purification. Wales |
| Goddess name "BAAL (lord)" | Western Semitic / Canaanite / northern Israel, Lebanon / later Egypt | vegetation deity and national god. Baal may have originated in pre-agricultural times as god of storms and Rain. He is the son of DAGAN and in turn is the father of seven storm gods, the Baalim of the Vetus Testamentum, and seven midwife goddesses, the SASURATUM. He is considered to have been worshiped from at least the nineteenth century BC. Later he became a vegetation god concerned with fertility of the land. From the mid-sixteenth century BC in the Egyptian New kingdom, Baal enjoyed a significant cult following, but the legend of his demise and restoration was never equated with that of OSIRIS. In the Greco-Roman period, Baal became åśśimilated in the Palestine region with ZEUS and JUPITER, but as a Punic deity [Carthage] he was allied with SATURNUS, the god of seed-sowing.... |
| Goddess name "Beju aka Bejuni" | Dongria | A shaman who accepts gifts of gold ornaments to act as a link between the living and dead and god and goddesses. Dongria |
| God name "Bel" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Generic title meaning lord. The Babylonian god MARDUK was often addressed as Bel, and the name occurs in the Vetus Testamentum. The New Year festival of akitu in Babylon included a ceremony of leading Bel by the hand. The name also appears at Palmyra as the tutelary creator god whose attributes include lightning and an eagle.... |
"Bogles" | Scotland | A form of Goblin with a very nasty temperament. |
| King name "Canens" | Greek | A nymph, wife of Picus, king of the Laurentes. When Circe had changed Picus into a bird, Canens lamented him so greatly that she pined away. Greek |
| Hero name "Cocytus" | Greek | Meaning river of wailing or lamentation, was the river in the underworld on the banks of which the dead who could not pay Charon wandered, according to most accounts, for one hundred years. It flowed into the river Acheron, across which lay Hades, the mythological abode of the dead. Greek |
| Spirit name "Dakini" | Buddhist | A female being, generally of volatile temperament, who acts as a muse for spiritual practice. Buddhist |
| Angel name "Dark Angel" | Hebrew | The angel who wrestled with Jacob the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament. There has long been question as to which angel was sent to wrestle Jacob. Hebrew |
"Dice" | Greek | The personification of justice, was, according to Hesiod, a daughter of Zeus and Themis, and the sister of Eunomia and Eirene. She was considered as one of the Horae; she watched the deeds of man, and approached the throne of Zeus with lamentations whenever a judge violated justice. Greek |
| Deities name "Elim" | Judaic | Collective term for gods. Found in the Vetus Testamentum and distinguishing the lower order of gods from the great deities, ELOHIM.... |
| Deities name "Elohim" | Judaic | Collective term for gods. Found in the Vetus Testamentum and distinguishing the higher order of great gods from the minor deities, ELIM. Also applied to the Israelite god YHWH.... |
| Goddess name "Gad" | Western Semitic / Punic / Carthaginian | God of uncertain status. Probably concerned with chance or fortune and known from Palmyrene inscriptions, and from the Vetus Testamentum in place names such as Baal-Gad and Midal-Gad. Popular across a wide area of Syrio-Palestine and Anatolia in preBiblical times. Thought to have been syncretized ultimately with the Greek goddess TYCHE.... |
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