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God name "Kathar" | Ugart | this god not only built the Palace of Baal, but is responsible for architects, artisans & weapons makers |
Goddess name "Keawe" | Hawaiian | Creator god. An androgynous though apparently male principle or monad, he lived once in the dark empty abyss of Po. There, Keawe transformed primordial chaos into an orderly cosmos. He fashioned the sky from the lid of his calabash (a water-carrying gourd) and the Sun from an orange disc formerly kept inside the calabash. Keawe's first son was KANE, the god of light, and his daughter was Na Wahine, both created through his own powers of conception. He subsequently entered into an incestuous relationship with Na Wahine to father the chief pantheon of Hawaiian gods and goddesses, including most notably KU, LONO and Kanaloa, who became known, collectively, as the tripartite god.... |
Spirit name "Kelpie" | Scotland | a very bad tempered water spirit with only one eye and that likes to kill humans |
Supreme god name "Kenos" | Tierra del Fuego | God who was sent to earth by the supreme god, supposedly to bring order into the world. He goofed up and created humans. Tierra del Fuego |
God name "Khepera" | Egypt | Blue haired scarab god of transformation, water, creation and warriors Egypt |
God name "Khnum/ Kneph/ Khnemu" | Egypt | A smith god who forms humans on his potter's wheel |
Deity name "Khonsu" | Egypt | Aka Chons, Khensu, Khons, Khonsu or Khonshu, is an ancient lunar deity, from before formal structure was given to a pantheon. His name reflects the fact that the moon travels across the night sky, for it means The Wanderer, and also had the titles Embracer, Pathfinder, and Defender, as he was thought to watch over night travelers. Egypt |
God name "Ki (the great one)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Archetypal chthonic principle. According to some traditions, Ki is the daughter of ANS'AR and KIS'AR and consort of AN. As the cosmos came into being, An took the role of god of heaven and Ki became the personification of the earth and underworld. She is the mother of the god of the air, ENLIL, with whom she descended from the heavens. Some authorities argue that she was never regarded as a deity. There is no evidence of a cult and the name appears in a limited number of Sumerian creation texts. The name URAS (tilth) may relate.See also ANTU(M).... |
God name "Kisar" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Primordial god(dess). The consort or equal of ANS'AR and mother or creator of AN and KI in the creation cosmos.... |
Goddess name "Kokyan" | S America | Creator goddess; she created humans, plants, and animals Hopi |
God name "Kondos" | Finnish | A god of cereal crops that was renamed by the Christians to St. urban |
"Korred" | s | The good-natured guardians of Brittany's standing stones. |
"Kottos" | Greek | One of the Titans. He had a hundred hands. (See Briareus.) Greek |
Supreme god name "Kronos" | Pre - Greek | Archetypal fertility god. He is of unknown origin but is the son of the earth mother GAIA and the sky god OURANOS, whom he usurped after castrating him. His consort is RHEA. So as not to suffer a similar fate to his father he swallowed all his children except ZEUS who was kept from him by a ruse. Zeus eventually hurled Kronos into Tartaros, the abyss in which all the TITANS were confined. He was celebrated in the Greek harvest festival of kronia which equalled the Roman saturnalia. During Hellenic times he was the supreme god at Byblos [Syria]. He is depicted on coinage of Antiochus IV (175-164 BC) nude, leaning on a scepter, with three pairs of wings, two spread and one folded.... |
Cyclop name "Kronos or Cronus" | Greek | A son of Uråñuś and Ge, and the youngest among the Titans. He was married to Rhea, by whom he became the father of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Cheiron is also called a son of Cronus. At the instigation of his mother, Cronus unmanned his father for having thrown the Cyclopes, who were likewise his children by Ge, into Tartarus. Out of the blood thus shed sprang up the Erinnyes. Greek |
Goddess name "Kubai-khotun" | Anatolian | 'Great Mother'; she dwells in the 'tree of life' or under its roots and protects and supports humans and animals. Her milk is the origin of the milky Way. She was the primordial mother-goddess. Anatolian |
Goddess name "Kubuddhi" | Hindu | Minor goddess whose name means stupid, she ran around with Gansea Hindu |
God name "Kunti" | India | In her maidenhood she showed such respectful devotion to the sage Durvasas, that he gave her a charm by means of which she might have a child by any god she pleased to invoke. She called upon the Sun, and by him had a son named Karna, but without any detriment to her virginity; still, to keep her affair secret, the child was exposed on the banks of the Yamuna. India |