| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Hannahannas" | Hittite / Hurrian | Mother goddess. Described as the great mother. In the legend of TELEPINU, the missing god, she sends a bee to locate him. When the bee stings Telepinu to awaken him, the god vents his rage on the natural world. NOTE: the priestesses of the Phrygian mother goddess KYBELE were, according to the Roman writer Lactantius, melissai or bees.... |
| God name "In r" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Tutelary and weather god. The brother of GISH and father of DISANI and Pano. Probably derived from the more widely recognized Aryan god INDRA, Indr is known chiefly from the Waigal and Prasun areas of the southern Hindukush. It is generally åśśumed that he was ousted from major importance by the god IMRA. Indr is also a god of wine who owns substantial vineyards and is åśśociated in south Nuristan with wine rituals (the annals of Alexander the Great suggest that he met with winedrinking worshipers of DIONYSOSin the Hindukush). In the Ashkun region of southwestern Kafiristan, a famous vineyard near the village of Wamais is sacred to Indr. Also Inder.... |
| Goddess name "Inanna" | Mesopotamia | Inana, the original "Holy Virgin," as the Sumerians called her, is the first known divinity åśśociated with the planet Venus. This Sumerian goddess became identified with the Semitic goddesses Ishtar and later Astarte, Egyptian Isis, Greek Aphrodite, Etruscan Turan and the Roman Venus. Mesopotamia |
| Planet name "Inanna" | Sumaria | queen moon. Near Eastern queen of heaven. She ruled over the stars, planets, water, and light. Also symbolizes love, destruction of the indestructible, health, the moon workings. Sumaria |
| Goddess name "Inanna" | Sumeria | A goddess of heaven, light, long life, the moon, & war |
| Goddess name "Ishtar/ Inanna" | Babylonia | She was the goddess of sexuality & of love and war |
"Jagannath" | Hindu | Jagganath, Jagannatha, "Lord of the world";. Name for Vishnu in his manifestation as Krishna. Hindu |
"Joachim" | Greek | The father of the Virgin Mary. Generally represented as an old man carrying in a basket two turtle-doves, in allusion to the offering made for the purification of his daughter. His wife was Anne or Anna. Fairy Tale |
| God name "Juggernaut or Jaggernaut" | Crow | The Hindu god Jagganath. The word is a corruption of the Sanscrit jagannatha (lord of the world). The temple of this god is in a town of the same name in Orissa. king Ayeen Akbery sent a learned Brahman to look out a site for a temple. The Brahman wandered about for many days, and then saw a crow dive into the water, and having washed, made obeisance to the element. This was selected as the site of the temple. While the temple was a-building the rajah had a prophetic dream, telling him that the true form of Vishnu should be revealed to him in the morning. When the rajah went to see the temple he beheld a log of wood in the water, and this log he accepted as the realisation of his dream, enshrined it in the temple, and called it Jagannath. |
"KRSNA/ Kannan" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic / Tamil | An incarnation of Vishnu known as the dark one |
"Kannan" | India | Who measured the Universe in three steps. India |
| Goddess name "Kubaba" | Hurrian | gave bread to the fisherman and gave water, she made him offer the fish to Esagila Shrines in her honour spread throughout Mesopotamia. In the Hurrian area she may be identified with Kebat, or Hepat, one title of the Hurrian Mother Goddess Hannahannah |
| God name "Lir" | Celtic / Irish | God. The father of the sea god MANANNAN, the consort of Aobh and later of her sister Aoife. He had four children by Aobh: AED, Conn, Fiachra and Fionnuala. Out of jealousy Aoife turned the four into swans and set father and children against one another.... |
| Deity name "Lulal" | Sumeria | The younger son of Inanna. He was the patron deity of Bad-tibira while his older brother, Shara was located at neighboring Umma. Sumeria |
| King name "Manannan" | Manx | Is believed to have three legs and his form of walking was to roll in a circular motion on his three legs like a wheel in order to get from place to place. Manx |
| God name "Manannan (Mac Lir)" | Celtic / Irish / British | Sea god. Extensively worshiped. From the name is derived the Isle of Man where, according to tradition, the god is buried. He rules the Isle of the Blessed and determines the weather at sea. Father of the Irish hero Mongan. Also Manawyddaw (Welsh).... |
| God name "Manannan Mac Lir" | Ireland / Welsh / Scots | The god of the sea. He is often seen as a psychopomp, whose responsibility is to escort newly-deceased souls to the afterlife, and considered to have strong connections to the Otherworld islands of the dead, the weather, and the mists between the worlds. Ireland / Welsh / Scots |
| God name "Manannan Mac Lir[Llyr]" | Irish / Wales | He was a shape shifter & chief Irish sea god |
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