Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Akeru" | Egypt | Pluralistic chthonic earth gods. Probably stemming from the pre-Dynastic period. Malevolent deities who can seize and imprison the souls of the deceased.... |
Spirit name "Akhkhazu" | Babylonian | The Seizer. An evil spirit, who had the power of securing his victim under his control. Babylonian |
"Aksobhya" | Buddhist | 'immovable' or 'imperturbable' - is the name given to a Buddha who is said to reside in the eastern Paradise of Abhirati. Buddhist |
Deities name "Alad Udug Lama" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Collective name of guardian deities. Vague spirits who accompany major deities and dispense good fortune.... |
King name "Alalu" | Babylonian | The first king of the heavens in Babylonian mythology. |
"Albadara" | Arab | A bone which the Arabs say defies destruction, and which; at the resurrection, will be the germ of the new body. The Jews called it Luz and the "Os sacrum" refers probably to the same superstition. |
Demon name "Alu" | Babylonian | The strong one. A Babylonian demon. |
Goddess name "Ama-arhus" | Akkadian | Babylonian and Akkadian fertility goddess |
Goddess name "Ama-arhus" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Fertility goddess. Mentioned in texts as being among the pantheon at Uruk in Hellenistic times but also found as an earlier manifestation of the god GULA. Also Arad-Ama-arhus, Amat-Ama-arhus.... |
Goddess name "Ama-arhus/ Arad-Ama-arhus/ Amat-Ama-arhus" | Babylonia / Akkadia | A fertility goddess |
Goddess name "Amasagnul" | Babylon / Akkadia | Goddess of fertility Babylon / Akkadia |
Goddess name "Amasagnul" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Fertility goddess. Mentioned in prebend doçúɱents from the Hellenistic period at Uruk and thought to be the consort of the god PAPSUKKAL.... |
Deities name "Ame-No-Toko-Tachi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Primordial being. The fifth of the deities to emerge in the heavens, named in both the sacred texts of Shintoism, the Kojiki and Nihongi, but probably strongly influenced by Chinese religion. Born from a reed floating in the primeval waters. See also UMASHI-ASHI-KABI-HIKO-JI-NO-KAMI.... |
God name "Amurru" | Western Semitic | mountain god. A minor consort of ATHIRAT whose attributes include a shepherd's crook and who was probably worshiped by herders. Known mainly from inscriptions. Also MARTU.... |
Planet name "Anael" | Babylon | Aka Hanael or Aniel, an angel in Jewish lore and angelology, and is often included in lists as being one of the seven archangels. Haniel is generally åśśociated with the planet Venus. Babylon |
Goddess name "Anahita" | Babylon / Egypt | Goddess of water and war. Babylon / Egypt |
Goddess name "Andarta" | Celtic / Gallic | Fertility goddess (probable). Patron goddess of the Vocontii tribe. Her name seems to have derived either from artos (bear) or ar (ploughed land).See also ANDRASTA.... |
"Angiaks" | Eskimo | A child of the living dead in Eskimo lore. These are created during harsh times when an unwanted baby is taken out into the snow by a tribe's elders to die of exposure. |