Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Yuletide" | Germanic | Has been held as a sacred festival by numberless nations. |
God name "Yum Caax" | Mayan | lord of the woods is a god of wild plants and animals important to the hunters. He is equally a protector of the fields against the incursions of wild nature and invoked by traditional farmers. Mayan |
"Zam" | Iranian | The Indo-Iranian concept for "earth", prototyped as a chemical element in ancient philosophy, and as a minor divinity in Zoroastrianism and later Persian mythology. |
"Zanaharibe" | Madagascar | The ruler of the Zanahary. His wife is Andriamanitra. Madagascar |
God name "Zanahary/ Zanaharibe Railanitra" | Madagascar | He was the creator god |
Goddess name "Zarpandit" | Assyria / Babylon | Aka Zerbanit, Zerbanitu, Zerpanitum, and Beltis. Goddess of pregnancy and birth, consort of Marduk. Assyria / Babylon |
Goddess name "Zarpandit aka Zerbanit" | Babylonian | Zerbanitu, Zerpanitum, and Beltis. Babylonian Goddess worshipped nightly at the appearance of the moon. |
Goddess name "Zarpanitu" | Babylonian | A birth goddess and a consort of Marduk. Babylonian |
Goddess name "Zarpanitu(m)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Birth goddess. The consort of MARDIJK whose marriage was celebrated annually at New Year in Babylon. Also Erua; SARPANITJM.... |
God name "Zemepatis" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | Chthonic god. A tutelary deity of farmers and guardian of cattle.... |
Goddess name "Zemyna" | Lithuania | Goddess of childbirth and life Lithuania |
Goddess name "Zemyna" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | Chthonic goddess. A deity with responsibility for vegetation andcrops. She was invoked at sowing and harvesting times.... |
"Zeuxippe" | Greek | One of the Oceanides |
God name "Zhang Guo-lao" | Taoist / Chinese | God. One of the eight immortals of Taoist mythology. Once mortal beings, they achieved immortality through their lifestyle. According to tradition, Zhang Guo-lao was a bat before he took human form. Attributes include a bamboo drum and sticks and his attendant animal is an åśś.See also BA XIAN.... |
Goddess name "Zhiwud" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Messenger goddess. A deity connected and possibly syncretizing with the goddess DISANI but who, according to legend, carried vital messages to the heroic god MON during a primordial battle between gods and giants. Mon lives by a lake surrounded by fire, and the goddess's wings (a solitary inference that she can appear in the form of a bird) are scorched in the process until Mon heals them. In some variations Mon lives in the form of a bull which breathes fire. Also Zhuwut.... |
Goddess name "Zisa" | Germanic | Goddess of autumn germanic |
God name "Zotz" | Mayan / Zotzil Indian, Mesoamerican / Guatemala | Tutelary god. Manifest in the form of a bat.... |
God name "Zurvan" | Persian / Iran | God of temporal time and fate. Once the focus of a cult of Zervanism in which he appeared as the father of AHURA MAZDA, the god of light, and AHRIMAN, god of darkness, in Zoroastrianism. He is perceived as a god of destiny and the controller of all roads which mankind may take, leading ultimately to the otherworld. He was adopted into Manichaean religion. Also Zervan.... |