Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Aguara" | Roman | Fox god who gave the carob tree to the people Tunpa / Chiriguano |
Goddess name "Ah Kin (he of the sun)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Sun god. A deity of ambivalent personality, the young suitor of the moon goddess Acna, also the aged Sun god in the sky. He is feared as the bringer of drought, but also protects mankind from the powers of evil åśśociated with darkness. Said to be carried through the underworld at night on the shoulders of the god Sucunyum. Ah Kin is prayed to at Sunrise and rituals include the burning of incense. He is invoked to cure illness and to bring wives to bachelors. Attributes include a square third eye subtended by a loop, a strong Roman nose, a squint and incisor teeth filed to a T-shape. Also Acan Chob (Lacandon); Chi Chac Chob; Kinich Ahau; God G.... |
God name "Ah Kinchil" | Mayan | God of war and the Sun Mayan |
Deities name "Ah Muuzencab" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Bee gods. The patron deities of apiarists still invoked in parts of the Yucatan. They are thought to be represented iconographically on the tops and bottoms of stone columns at the site of Chichen Itza as aged men with long beards and upraised arms. They wear loin cloths with distinctive cross hatching.... |
Spirit name "Ahnfrau" | German | An ancestress whose spirit appears to give warning of an approaching disaster or death. German |
Goddess name "Ahnt kai" | Mexico | Goddess of women and children. Daughter of Koo-mah'mm hahs-ay' tahm (First Woman). She flies at night and lives above the peak of Tiburon. Mexico |
God name "Ahsonnutli" | America | The sky father and chief god for the Navajo. He created heaven, earth, and the sky. |
Goddess name "Ahurani (mistress of Abura)" | Zoroastrian / Persian | Fertility goddess. Invoked by ordinary people to bring prosperity and children. water libations were a key part of the ritual.... |
Supreme god name "Ai Apaec" | Mochica Indian / pre - Columbian South America / northern coast of Peru | Supreme god. Probably originated as a jaguar god but came to rule the destinies of the world. He was thought to live like ordinary people and could reveal himself as man or god at will. He is depicted in anthropomorphic form, but with huge fangs and a cat-like wrinkled face with whiskers coming from his nose. He received sacrificial victims hurled from the top of a high cliff.... |
Supreme god name "Ai Apec Mochica" | Peru | The supreme god that rules the destinies of the world |
Angel name "Aigra" | Enochian | A minor angel. Enochian |
Goddess name "Aino" | Japan | The name Fuji is believed to be derived from "Huchi" or "Fuchi", the words for the Aino Goddess of Fire. Japan |
Angel name "Aira" | Enochian | A minor angel with power over Medicine. Aira is ruled by Angpoi Unman. Enochian |
Goddess name "Aittsamka" | Bella Coola | A goddess of teaching |
God name "Aizen-Myo-o" | Japan / Shinto | The god of love and lust. Originally a Hindu deity, Ragaraja, Aizen Myo-o became part of Buddhism, and Kobo Daishi Kukai transmitted the teaching of him to Japan. Japan / Shinto |
God name "Ajalamo" | Africa | God of unborn children. Nigeria, West Africa |
Spirit name "Ajalamo" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | God of unborn children. According to legend, in some vague mythological realm there exist rows of shelves with spirits of the unborn. These are the responsibility of Ajalamo.... |
Goddess name "Aje" | Africa | Goddess of wealth who appears as a fowl scratching the earth and was sent down with Oduduwa, the earth goddess. |