Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Aje" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | Goddess of wealth. She is thought to appear as a fowl scratching the earth and, in creation mythology, was sent down with ODUDUWA, the earth goddess.... |
Deities name "Aji-Shiki-Taka-Hiko-Ne" | Shinto / Japan | Rain god. One of the RAIJIN deities whose name is often linked with that of KAMO-WAKA-IKAZUCHI.... |
God name "Ajisukitakahikone" | Islands | A god of thunder. He is the brother of Takemikazuchi and of Kaminari (Raijin). In infancy, his crying and screaming were so loud that he had to be placed in a boat and sailed around the islands of Japan until he was calm. In adulthood, he was the father of Takitsuhiko, a Rain god. |
God name "Ajok" | Louko | Chief god Louko |
Spirit name "Ajysyt" | Yakut / central Siberia | Maternal spirit. The deity who oversees the lying-in of an expectant mother and who brings the child's soul to the child-bed. The term ajysyt can also apply to a male spirit, thus the ajysyt that oversees the birth of horses is male, while that of horned cattle is female.... |
Goddess name "Akhushtal" | Maya | She is the goddess of childbirth |
Deity name "Akuj" | Africa | Chief deity åśśociated with the sky. Turkana Africa |
Deity name "Akuj Akuj" | Africa | The chief deity |
Deities name "Akuti" | Hindu | The daughter of Manu, who was given to Ruchi. Her twins, Yajña and Dakshina, became husband and wife and had twelve sons, the deities called Yamas. Hindu |
Goddess name "Ala" | Ibo / eastern Nigeria, West Africa | Chthonic fertility goddess. A popular deity who is also goddess of the underworld linked with a cult of the dead (which rest in her womb). Her temple is the Mbari which contains a cult statue depicting the goddess seated with a child in her arms and adorned with the crescent moon. She is flanked by attendant deities. She enjoys a profusion of local shrines which are well supplied with votive offerings. Serious crimes including murder are considered to be offenses against her. An annual yam festival is celebrated in her honor. Also Ale, Ana, ANI.... |
Goddess name "Alemona" | Roman | Goddess of påśśage. Concerned with the health of the unborn child.... |
"Alichino" | Roman | Wing-drooped. A devil, in The Inferno of Dante. |
"Alii Menehune" | Hawaii | Chief of the Little People. His favorite food is the mai'a (banana) Hawaii |
Goddess name "Allat" | Arabic | A pre-Islamic Arabian goddess who was one of the three chief goddesses of Mecca and one of three goddesses that the pre-Islamic Meccans referred to as "The Daughters of God". Arabic |
God name "Almaqah aka Ilmuqah" | Arabic | The moon god of the South Arabian kingdom of Saba and the Ethiopian kingdoms of D'mt and Aksum. The ruling dynasty of Saba regarded themselves as his children. Arabic |
"Alraune" | East | A Kobold who brings gold through the chimneys. East Friesland |
Spirit name "Alwantin" | Deccan | The spirit of a pregnant woman who died in childbirth. Deccan |
"Amaimon" | Hebrew | One of the chief devils whose dominion is on the north side of the infernal gulf. He might be bound or restrained from doing hurt from the third hour till noon, and from the ninth hour till evening. Hebrew |