Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Mutu" | Assyria | Personification of death and the god of the underworld Assyria |
Goddess name "Mylitta" | Greek | Goddess. The Hellenized version of the Akkadian goddess MULLILTU, consort of ELLIL and of ASSUR.... |
King name "Nabo or Nebo" | Babylon | One of the divinities of the Assyrians, supposed to be the moon. Many of the kings of Babylon åśśumed the name. |
God name "Nagakumara" | Jain | One of the group the gods with the title of bhvanavasi who were åśśociated with Rain and thunder Jain |
"Nahual" | Aztec | From the Nahuatl word nahualli which was used to refer to practicioners of harmful magic. In the aztec belief system the day of a persons birth caluclated in the Tonalpohualli would determine the nature of the person - each day was åśśociated with an animal which could have a strong or weak aspect. |
Spirit name "Naiades" | Greco - Roman | Animistic water spirits. Female personalities åśśigned the guardianship of fresh waters by the great gods, and invoked locally at sacred pools and springs. They were also regarded as minor patrons of music and poetry.... |
Goddess name "Nana" | Anglo-Saxon | Nanna. A pan-cultural cognomen. "Her place as queen of heaven goes back to remote antiquity. She is Venus and appears as Ashtarte (or Easter in the Anglo-Saxon), Nana and Anunitu. She is goddess of fertility and worshipped everywhere. She is daughter of Sin and also of Anu. She is also åśśociated with Sirius. She is goddess of sex and appropriates the attributes of Ninlil and Damkina and as daughter of Sin and from her descent to Hades she is represented by temple prostitution. The lion, normally the symbol of Shamash is åśśociated with her as is the dove. In this sequence, she becomes then åśśociated with Tammuz or Dumuzi, as the bringer of new life in the spring cults." The Golden Calf |
God name "Nandi(n) (rejoicing)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Bull god. Generally åśśociated with S IVA as a bull-vehicle and an embodiment of fertility. Color: white. The image usually stands in an anteroom of the temple guarding the place where the statue of S iva is located. A S iva devotee touches the image's testicles on entry to a shrine. In anthropomorphic form he may be known as Nandisa.... |
God name "Napaeae" | Greek | nymphae, the name of a numerous clåśś of inferior female divinities, though they are designated by the title of Olympian, are called to the meetings of the gods in Olympus, and described as the daughters of Zeus. Greek |
Spirit name "Napaeae" | Greco - Roman | Animistic spirits of valleys. Female personalities åśśigned the guardianship of fertile green valleys by the great gods and invoked locally in small country shrines.... |
Deities name "Nappatecuhtli (four-times lord)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of mat-makers. One of the group of deities belonging to the TLALOC complex generally åśśociated with Rain, Agriculture and fertility.... |
Goddess name "Nascio" | Roman | A Roman divinity, presiding over the birth of children, and accordingly a goddess åśśisting Lucina in her functions, and analogous to the Greek Eileithyia. Roman |
Deities name "Navaduraa(s)" | Hindu | Generic title of a group of deities. The nine forms of the god DURGA. The common vehicle is a chariot shaped like a lotus. Each carries a wide åśśortment of attributes.... |
Spirit name "Ndahoro" | Uganda | The Great spirit of the Batoro whose åśśistants are Wmala and Kyomya. Uganda |
God name "Ndaula" | Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa | Plague god. Particularly åśśociated with smallpox. His shrines are usually situated on the edge of a community and on the frontiers of the tribal land so that he may be invoked to keep the disease in neighboring territory.... |
God name "Ndaula Bunyoro" | Uganda | A plague god åśśociated with smallpox |
God name "Nebo" | Assyria | The god of teaching, writing & wisdom and in |
God name "Nebo" | Assyria | A Chaldean god whose worship was introduced into Assyria by Pul. |