| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Hero name "Arjuna" | Hindu / Vedic | One of the heroes of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. His name means 'bright', 'shining', or 'silver'. Hindu / Vedic |
| God name "Arjuna (silvery)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Heroic god. Arjuna appears in the Mahabharata epic. One of the princely sons of the mythical Pandu family, his father is INDRA. He generally appears with the warrior god BHIMA. Allegedly responsible for requesting VIS'NU to take his VISVARUPA form but also identified as a minor incarnation or avatara of Vis'nu. Attributes: usually depicted bearing a bow received from AGNI the fire god, but may also appear carrying a sword and shield. Also NARA.... |
| Goddess name "Armkis [Greek]" | Egypt / Upper | Birth goddess. Minor deity with cult centers in lower Nubia and at Elephantine. She is variously the daughter of RE, and of KHNUM and SATIS. Anukis lives in the cataracts of the Lower Nile. Her portrait appears in the Temple of Rameses II at Beit-et-Wali where she suckles the pharaoh, suggesting that she is connected with birth and midwifery, but she also demonstrates a malignant aspect as a strangler (see HATHOR). Her sacred animal is the gazelle. Depicted anthropomorphically wearing a turban (modius) with ostrich feathers. Also Anuket (Egyptian).... |
| Goddess name "Astamatara" | Hindu / Puranic | Generic term for a group of mother goddesses. Eight deities who are varieties of the goddess CAMUNDA, often malevolent.... |
| God name "At" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the fourth of the five world ages each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestrial years. Assigned to water and presided over by CHALCHIUHTLICUE. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a deluge during which all the human population were turned into fish. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also 4(Atl), Atonatiuh and Chalchiutonatiuh.... |
| God name "Ataa Naa Nyongmo" | Gan / district around Accra, Ghana, West Africa | Creator god. He engendered the earth and also controls the Sun and the Rain. He causes disasters such as epidemics and earthquakes if his laws and rites are disobeyed.... |
| God name "Ataa Naa Nyongmo Gan" | Ghana | The creator god that controls the Sun & the Rain, call causes disasters as epidemics & and earthquakes if you don't follow his rules |
| Angel name "Ataad" | Enochian | A minor angel. Enochian |
| Goddess name "Atabei" | Cuba | First-in-Existence Goddess of the earth Cuba |
| Goddess name "Atabei/ Attabeira" | Cuba | An earth goddess |
"Atabyrius" | Greek | A surname of Zeus derived from mount Atabyris or Atabyrion in the island of Rhodes, where the Cretan Althaemenes was said to have built a temple to him. |
| Goddess name "Ataecina" | Roman / Iberia | An underworld goddess |
| Goddess name "Ataecina" | RomanoIberian | Local chthonic underworld goddess. Known from inscriptions in the Tagus region, where the Romans identified her with the goddess PROSERPINA.... |
"Ataentsic aka Atseatsine" | Haudenosaunee | Woman-Who-Fell-To-Earth. First woman. Haudenosaunee |
| God name "Ataguchu" | Peruvian | A Peruvian god who helped Apocatequil. |
| Goddess name "Atahensic" | Iroquois | Goddess of the sky who fell to the earth at the beginning of creation. The earth was created from her corpse after she died giving birth to the twins Hahgwehdiyu and Hahgwehdaetgah. Iroquois |
| Goddess name "Atai" | Africa | Goddess who encouraged the creation of humans, choosing earth for us to inhabit. Africa |
| Goddess name "Atalacamani" | Aztec | Goddess of ocean storms, an aspect of Chalchiuhtlicue. Aztec |
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