Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Nanaja" | Akkadia | war and goddess of fertility Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia |
Goddess name "Nanaja" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Fertility goddess. She is also a war goddess who became syncretized with the Babylonian TAS METU.... |
God name "Nanan Bouclou" | Ewe | God of herbs and Medicine Ewe |
God name "Nanautzin" | Aztec | God of disease Aztec |
"Nara-Narayana" | Hindu | Is broken down where Nara means human and Narayana means the Supreme divinity, or Vishnu. In the concept of Nara-Narayana, the human soul Nara is the eternal companion of the Divine Narayana. Hindu |
God name "Naraaana" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Creator god. More or less synonymous with VIS'NU, but specifically describing the embodiment of the abode of man. He is said to have sucked his toe while sailing the primeval ocean on a banana leaf, until his own inspiration created the world. Often depicted supported by the bird god GARUDA.See also NARA.... |
God name "Narayana" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | A creator god thought to be synonymous with business |
Goddess name "Nascio" | Roman | A Roman divinity, presiding over the birth of children, and accordingly a goddess åśśisting Lucina in her functions, and analogous to the Greek Eileithyia. Roman |
Demon name "Nataraja (lord of the dance)" | Hindu / Puranic | Form of the god SI IVA. Emerging from AD 1200 onward, this form depicts SI iva as lord of the dance ringed by fire and with one foot on a demon in the form of a black dwarf. Nataraja arguably epitomizes the moving power in the cosmos. Largely seen in southern Indian bronzes which display the dance-form anandatandava.... |
God name "Natha" | Buddhist / Sri Lanka | Tutelary god. One of four local emanations of the BODHISATTVA AVALOKITESVARA.... |
"Nehebkau" | Egypt | Originally the explanation of the cause of binding of Ka and Ba after death. Thus his name, which means one who brings together Ka. Since these aspects of the soul were said to bind after death, Nehebkau was said to have guarded the entrance to Duat, the underworld. Egypt |
God name "Neit Irish A Tuatha" | De | Danann war god |
God name "Neoldian" | Discworld | The Blacksmith of the Gods. He forged the Golden Falchion and engraved it with the words "For the Strongest - Lagunculae Leydianae Non Accedunt" (Batteries Not Included). He also repaired Leonard of Quirm's 'Kite', enabling it to return safely back to Ankh-Morpork. Discworld |
Nymph name "Nephele" | s | One of Diana's nymphs. |
"Nestor" | Greek | A son of Neleus and Chloris of Pylos in Triphylia, and husband of Eurydice (or, according to others, of Anaxibia, the daughter of Cratieus), by whom he became the father of Peisidice, Polycaste, Perseus, Stratius, Aretus, Echephron, Peisistratus, Antilochus, and Thrasymedes. Greek |
Goddess name "Neti" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Chthonic underworld god. Chief gatekeeper of the netherworld. The servant of the goddess ERES KIGAL. Neti features prominently in the epic legend of Inanas Descent into the underworld when he opens the seven gates of the realm and admits the goddess, removing one emblem of her power at the threshold of each gate.... |
"Niamh" | Ireland | The daughter of Manannan mac Lir and queen of Tir na nOg. She came down on a magical horse, Embarr, one day and asked Fionn mac Čú𝔪hail if his son Oisin would come with her to Tir na nOg. Oisin agreed and went with her to The Land of Youth. Ireland |
Goddess name "Nicevenn" | Roman | A Scottish Witch Goddess from the Middle Ages who rides through the night with her followers on Samhain. Her name can be translated as "Divine" or "Brilliant." She is equated with the Roman goddess Diana. |