Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Vac" | Buddhist | God. An emanation of AMITABHA and a variety of MANJUSRI.... |
Goddess name "Vac (speech)" | Hindu / Vedic | Goddess of the spoken word. In some texts she is a daughter of DAKSA and consort of KASYAPA. Alternatively she is the daughter of Ambhrna. Also known by the epithet queen of the gods, Vac is the personification of the phenomenon of speech and oral communication. She gives the boon of hearing, speech and sight and she can lead a man to become a Brahman. She also personifies truth and sustains somathe liquid essence of vision and immortality. She is said to have created the four Vedas, the basis of the earliest Hindu mythology.... |
Goddess name "Vadali" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of MARICI. Attributes: flower, needle, noose and staff.... |
Spirit name "Vagisvara (lord of speech)" | Buddhist | God of speech. The tutelary deity of Nepal. An emanation of all DHYANIBUDDHAS (spiritual meditation buddhas) and a variety of MANJUSRI. Accompanied by a lion or seated upon a lion throne. Attribute: blue lotus.... |
God name "Vairacocha" | Inca | The creator god worshipped by the Huari, the Inca, and the Chavin as a distant relative of their sky god, was portrayed as a fair skinned man with a white beard who wore sandals and a long robe, and carried a staff. |
God name "Vajradaka" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. An emanation of AKSOBHYA bearing one, three or four heads.... |
"Vajradhatvisvari" | Buddhist | The musicality of being lies in the flowing and streaming of all manifest consciousness. It greases friction, it smoothes communication, it lingers that all may gently wave around it. Buddhist |
Goddess name "Vajradhatvisvari (lady of the adamantine world)" | Buddhist | Goddess. The SAKTI of VAIROCANA and also a variety of MARICI. Attributes: many, including an image of Vairocana on the crown.... |
Goddess name "Vajragandhari" | Mahayana | Minor goddess. Buddhist |
Goddess name "Vajragandhari" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. Color: blue or gold. Attributes: arrow, ax, bell, bow, hook, image of AMOGHASIDDHI, knife, noose, prayer wheel, staff, sword, and trident.... |
Goddess name "Vajravidarani (tearing asunder)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. Attributes: arrows, banner, bow, hook, noose, shield, staff and sword. Five-headed.... |
"Vakarine" | Lithuanian | The evening Venus, who makes the bed for the Sun. Lithuanian |
Goddess name "Varahmukhi (having a boars head)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of MARICI. Attributes: arrow, bow, flower and staff.... |
Goddess name "Varali" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant on MARICI. Color: white. Attributes: flower, needle, noose and staff.... |
"Vari" | Polynesia | A self created being of the beginning times. Polynesia |
Spirit name "Vari-Ma-Te-Takere" | Polynesian | The primal generator, the female spirit who dwells in darkness at the base of the dark underworld of Avaiki. Polynesian |
Goddess name "Vari-Ma-Te-Takere (the very beginning)" | Polynesian / Hervey Islands | Mother goddess. The creator being who lives at the very bottom of the world coconut, sitting in a cramped space with her knees and chin touching. She lives in Te-Enua-Te-Ki (mute land) in eternal silence and is the mother of six children, all deities, three of which she plucked from her right side and three from her left.See also AVATEA, TINIRAU, TANGO, TUMUTEANAOA, RAKA and TU-METUA.... |
"Vari-ma-te-takere" | Polynesia | The primeval mother who lived in Avaiki, the coconut shell at the begining of the universe. Mangaia, Polynesia |