| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Deity name "Dhyanaparmita" | Buddhist | Philosophical deity Buddhist |
| Goddess name "Diti" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Goddess. The daughter of DAKSA, a consort of ADITI (in the Rg Veda) or KASYAPA and the mother of a race of demons. Attributes: blue lotus, child and fruit.See also Aditi.... |
| Goddess name "Durjata" | Buddhist | Minor goddess who waits on the god Buddhakapala Buddhist / Mahayana |
| Goddess name "Durjaya (unconquerable)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of the god BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
| God name "Ebisu" | Japan | God of fishermen, good luck, and workingmen, as well as the guardian of the health of small children. Japan |
| God name "Ebisu" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. The most popular of seven gods of fortune recognized in Shintoism and frequently linked with the god DAIKOKU. He is depicted as a fat, smiling and bearded fisherman holding a fishing rod in one hand and a sea bream in the other. The name does not appear in the clåśśical sacred texts Nibongi and Kojiki, but Ebisu is known to have been worshiped in ancient times among fishermen. From about the sixteenth century his character changed and he became a deity åśśociated with profit. Thus he is a patron of commerce and his picture hangs in most establishments. He is perhaps syncretized with the gods HIRUKO and KOTO-SHIRO-NUSHI. He may also be identified with Fudo, the god of knowledge. He does not join the rest of the Shinto pantheon in the great October festival at Izumo because he is deaf. His festival is celebrated concurrently in his own temple.... |
| God name "Edeke" | Teso / Uganda, East Africa | God of disasters. The antagonist of the creator god APAP, Edeke is propitiated during times of famine and plague.... |
| God name "Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial god. A syncretization of EHECATL and QUETZALCOATL, one of four gods who support the lowest heaven at each cardinal point. He is perceived as residing in the west (codices Borgia and Vaticåñuś B). He is the deity who rules over the ninth of the thirteen heavens, Itztapal Nanatzcayan (where the stone slabs crash together). In a separate tradition, EhecatlQuetzalcoatl executed the monstrous god XOLOTL when he declined to offer his blood in self-sacrifice for the creation of mankind.... |
| God name "Emma O" | Buddhist / Japan | God of death and lord of hell. Buddhist / Japan |
| Goddess name "Eriu" | Celtic / Irish | Fertility goddess. An aspect of the MORRIGAN. One of the deities who were known as the Sovereignty of Ireland and wedded sym bolically to a mortal king. Also a warrior goddess, capable of changing shape from girl to hag, and into birds and animals. She is patroness of the royal seat of Uisnech in County Meath. Eire and Erin are corruptions of her name. See also BADB.... |
"Esceheman" | Arapaho | Grandmother earth. Arapaho |
| God name "Foto-Tama" | Japan / Shinto | An ancestral god |
"Fraus" | Greek | The Roman personification of fraud and deceit, counterpart of the Greek Apate. |
| God name "Fudo" | Japan | God of wisdom. Likes to look at the stars. Japan |
| God name "Fugen Bosatsu" | Japan | God of enlightening wisdom, intelligence, understanding, intuition, long life. Japan |
| Goddess name "Fuji" | Japan / Ainu | Goddess of fire and volcano and chief goddess. Japan / Ainu |
| God name "Fujin" | Japan | God of winds Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Fujin" | Shinto / Japan | God of winds. Depicted carrying a sack on his shoulder which contains the four winds.... |
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