Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deity name "Ame-No-Kagase-Wo" | Japan / Shinto | An astral deity that had to be executed |
God name "Ame-No-Kagase-Wo" | Shinto / Japan | Astral deity. The most important of the star KAMI said to have been executed by the god FUTSU-NUSHI because he would not be pacified during the process of cosmic genesis.... |
Goddess name "Ame-No-Mi-Kumari-No-Kami" | Japan / Shinto | Goddess of water, lakes, Rain and rivers. Japan / Shinto |
Goddess name "Ame-No-Mi-Kumari-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | water goddess. One of the daughters of MINATO-NO-KAMI, the god of river mouths and estuaries, she is known as the heavenly water divider and her cult is linked with that of KuniNo-Mi-Kumari-No-Kami.... |
Goddess name "Ame-No-Taiabata-Hime-No-Mikoto" | Shinto / Japan | Astral goddess of weavers. One of two star apotheoses who are, according to tradition, deeply in love with each other. Her partner is HIKOBOSHI. Her name is generally abbreviated to Tanabata, the title of a festival in honor of the goddess which became a national event in Japan in AD 755. The festival later became merged with the Tibetan Bon Ullumbana festival of the dead. Also Shokujo.... |
God name "Ame-No-Tanabata-Hime-No-Mikoto" | Japan / Shinto | Star god identified with the Pole-star, is believed to guard the land and to prevent disasters, and more particularly to cure eye-diseases. Japan / Shinto |
Deity name "Ame-No-Toko-Tachi-No-Kami" | Japan | heavenly deity, the fifth deity formed, who is interpreted as "Eternal Law, which is formless, but acts upon existing matter." Japan / Shinto |
Deities name "Ame-No-Toko-Tachi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Primordial being. The fifth of the deities to emerge in the heavens, named in both the sacred texts of Shintoism, the Kojiki and Nihongi, but probably strongly influenced by Chinese religion. Born from a reed floating in the primeval waters. See also UMASHI-ASHI-KABI-HIKO-JI-NO-KAMI.... |
Goddess name "Ame-No-Uzume" | Shinto / Japan | Goddess of dancers. She plays a part in enticing the Sun goddess, AMATERASU, from her cave using the perfect Divine mirror.... |
"Ame-Waka-Hiko" | Japan / Shinto | heaven prince young, the disloyal son of Ame no Kuni-dama who shot a pheasant with a heavenly deer-bow and heavenly feathered arrows. Taka-mi-musubi no Mikoto took up the arrow and flung it back down to earth. This arrow hit Ame-waka-hiko on the top of his breast and killed him. Japan / Shinto |
God name "Ame-Waka-Hiko (heavenly young prince)" | Shinto / Japan | God. According to tradition he was sent to earth on a vital mission but became preoccupied with a number of mortal women, forgot his purpose and did not report back to heaven. His punishment was to be slain by an arrow fired from the heavenly true deer bow.... |
Deity name "Amida" | Buddhist / Japan | A primordial deity |
Deity name "Amida" | Buddhist / Japanese | Primordial deity. The Japanese equivalent of AMITABHA recognized from the eleventh and twelfth centuries AD.... |
"Amida-Nyorai" | Buddhist / Japan | Presides over the Pure Land of the Western Paradise, the Japanese people turned to him at their moment of death. Buddhist / Japan |
"Amoghapasa" | Buddhist | Brings believers hope and tranquility. Amoghapasa has four pairs of arms. One pair is held with palms together in a prayerful attitude. Some are raised, others are held slightly away from the body. The hands may be in symbolic positions called mudra or may hold symbolic articles like a lotus blossom, symbol of compåśśion; a monk's staff; a whisk representing the brushing away of earthly cares; and the låśśo. Buddhist |
God name "Amoghapasa" | Buddhist | God. A variety of AVALOKITESVARA, depicted with one head and six, eight or twenty hands. Attributes: arrow, bell, lotus, noose, prayer wheel, rosary, staff and tiger skin.... |
Demon name "Andhaka" | Hindu | Son of Kasyapa and Diti, a demon with a thousand arms and heads, two thousand eyes and feet. Though he walked like a blind man he could see very well. Hindu |
Goddess name "Annapatni" | Hindu | Goddess of food Hindu |