| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Vairgit" | Chukchee | Benevolent supernatural beings. Chukchee |
"Vajradhatvisvari" | Buddhist | The musicality of being lies in the flowing and streaming of all manifest consciousness. It greases friction, it smoothes communication, it lingers that all may gently wave around it. Buddhist |
"Vari" | Polynesia | A self created being of the beginning times. Polynesia |
| Goddess name "Vari-Ma-Te-Takere (the very beginning)" | Polynesian / Hervey Islands | Mother goddess. The creator being who lives at the very bottom of the world coconut, sitting in a cramped space with her knees and chin touching. She lives in Te-Enua-Te-Ki (mute land) in eternal silence and is the mother of six children, all deities, three of which she plucked from her right side and three from her left.See also AVATEA, TINIRAU, TANGO, TUMUTEANAOA, RAKA and TU-METUA.... |
| Spirit name "Vele" | Lithuanian | spirits of dead human beings. Lithuanian |
| God name "Vertumnus" | Roman | A minor god of orchards & gardens, likely of of Etruscan origin his festival is beingVertumnalia on August 13th |
| God name "Vertumnus" | Roman | Is said to have been an Etruscan divinity whose worship was introduced at Rome by an ancient Vulsinian colony. The name signifies "the god who changes or metamorphoses himself." For this reason the Romans connected Vertumnus with all occurrences to which the verb verto applies, such as the change of seasons, purchase and sale, the return of rivers to their proper beds,etc. But in reality the god was connected only with the transformation of plants, and their progress from being in blossom to that of bearing fruit. Roman |
| God name "Vidyesvara" | Hindu | The eight aspects of Siva. These beings are included in the category of pure creation. This category is created by God himself. Hindu |
| Deities name "Vidyesvara" | Hindu | Generic title for a group of deities. Eight liberated or emancipated beings who are considered to be aspects of SIVA.... |
| Goddess name "Virbius" | Roman | An ancient mythical king of Aricia and a favourite of Diana, who, when he had died, called him to life and intrusted him to the care of the nymph Aegeria. The fact of his being a favourite of Diana, the Taurian goddess, seems to have led the Romans to identify him with Hippolytus who, according to some traditions, had established the worship of Diana. Roman |
"Vishnu" | Hindu | The All-Pervading essence of all beings, the master of and beyond the past, present and future, the creator and destroyer of all existences, one who supports, sustains and governs the Universe and originates and develops all elements within. Hindu |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Vrtra" | Hindu / Vedic | demonic god of chaos. A primordial being who existed before the formation of the cosmos and who was slain by the mother goddess SARASVATI.... |
"Wa cinaci" | Guiana | Our Father who art in heaven. The supreme being of the Arawak. Guiana |
| Spirit name "Wah Kah Nee" | Chinook | A sacred being, able to walk unprotected, even barefoot, through the Winter and to communicate with its spirits, asking for the return of the Sunshine to warm her people. Chinook |
"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 |
"Wal" | Ethiopia | The omnipresent and omniscient supreme being of the Madin. Ethiopia |
"Wanadi" | Venezuela | Celestial father, maker of the Sun, the moon and all beings. Venezuela |
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