Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Ve'ai" | Koryak / S Siberia | The feminine vegetation spirit & personification of the gråśślands |
Spirit name "Ve'ai (gråśś woman)" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | vegetation spirit. The personification of the gråśślands and their guardian deity. She is perceived as a shaman / ca and is the consort of EME'MQUT.... |
"Vegtam" | Norse | A name åśśumed by Odin. Norse |
God name "Veles" | Slavic | A major Slavic god of earth, waters and the underworld, åśśociated with dragons, cattle, magic, musicians, wealth and trickery. He is also the opponent of thunder-god Perun, and the battle between two of them constitutes one of the most important myths of Slavic mythology. |
Demon name "Verbti" | Albania | God of fire His name means "blind one". In Albanian folklore he has perfect hearing and an aversion to obscene language and corruption. With Christianization he was reviled as a demon and åśśociated with hell. Albania |
God name "Verbti" | Pre - Christian Albanian | God of fire. He is åśśociated with the north winds. Under Christian influence he becomes identified with the devil.... |
God name "Verevctor" | Roman | A minor god of plowing who was åśśociated with the sacrifices to Tellus & Ceres |
God name "Vervactor" | Roman | Minor god of ploughing. Associated with sacrifices to TELLUS and CERES.... |
Goddess name "Vidyadevi" | Jain / India | The generic title for a group of 16 goddesses that are åśśociated with knowledge & learning |
Goddess name "Vidyadevi" | Jain / India | Generic title for a group of goddesses. sixteen deities led by SARASVATI who are åśśociated with knowledge or learning.... |
Goddess name "Vimala (stainless)" | Buddhist / Vajrayana | Minor goddess. One of several deified BHUMIS recognized as different spiritual spheres through which a disciple påśśes. Color: white. Attributes: lotus and staff.... |
Deity name "Vitzilipuztli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican | Aspect of HUITZILPOCHTLI. Invoked twice a year, in May and December, during an agrarian festival. Virginal female worshipers created an image of the deity from dough consisting of maize flour, beet seed and honey. The image was given eyes and teeth using pieces of colored glåśś and whole maize seeds and was paraded, before being broken into pieces and eaten as a form of sacrament.... |
God name "Wadj Wer (the mighty green one)" | Egypt | Fertility god. Sometimes depicted in androgynous form, he personifies the Mediterranean Sea or the major lakes of the Nile delta. He is depicted carrying the ankh symbol of life, and a loaf. The figure often appears pregnant and is åśśociated with the richness of the Nile delta waters.... |
"Wah-con-tun-ga" | Arabic | The creator of all things. The Assiniboin |
"Wailan wangko" | esiaIndo | Said Wailan Wangko to Wangi, "Remain on earth while I climb up the tree." Said Wangi to Wailan Wangko, "Good." But then a thought occurred to Wangi and he climbed up the tree to ask Wailan Wangko why he, Wangi, should remain down there all alone. Said Wailan Wangko to Wangi, "Return and take earth and make two images, a man and a woman." Minahåśśa |
God name "Wak" | Ethiopia | The Father of the Universe, the omniscient sky god who is åśśociated with Rains and thunder. Ethiopia |
Goddess name "Waka-H ru-Me" | Shinto / Japan | Sun goddess. Arguably the younger sister of the great Shinto Sun goddess AMATERASU, or an early manifestation, she is åśśociated with the morning Sunrise. Also involved with weaving the garments of the KAMI.... |
"Wakon'da" | N American | A power by which things are brought to påśś. and through this mysterious life and power all things are related to one another and to man." Wakon'da is both a force and a state of being. Omaha, Native American |