| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Spirit name "Unkulunkulu" | Zulu | The creator god and great ancestral spirit of the Zulu people. Unkulunkulu is believed to have grown on a reed in the mythical swamp of Uhlanga. Zulu |
| Spirit name "Veen" | Finnish | The water Mother, a spirit believed to rule the waters and their bounty. Finnish |
| Goddess name "Vesta" | Roman | Was the goddess of the hearth, and therefore inseparably connected with the Penates, for Aeneas was believed to have brought the eternal fire of Vesta from Troy, along with the images of the Penates. The praetors, consuls, and dictators, before entering upon their official functions, sacrificed not only to the Penates, but also to Vesta at Lavinium. (The Aeneid by Virgil. Book II) |
| Spirit name "Veteema" | Estonian | The water Mother, a spirit believed to rule the waters and their bounty. Estonian |
| God name "Wadd" | Greek | The Minaean moon god. Snakes were believed to be sacred to him. |
| Spirit name "Yina'mna'ut (fog woman)" | Yakut / southeastern Siberia | spirit of mists and fogs. Her consort is fog man YINA'MTIAN and she is believed to live in a mythical settlement with other spirits.... |
| Spirit name "Yina'mtian (fog man)" | Yakut / southeastern Siberia | spirit of mists and fogs. His consort is fog woman YINA'MNA'UT and he is believed to live in a mythical settlement with other spirits.... |
| Spirit name "Yocahu" | Puerto Rico / Haiti | Tutelary god. A benevolent deity, the son of the universal mother, and known as the great spirit. Believed to live in the Sun. Also Marcoti; JocakuvagueMaorocon.... |
| Spirit name "Yulgen" | Central Asia | According to the belief of the Altaians, the good spirits,aru neme, are all subjects of the good god Yulgen, and the bad spirits, kara neme, of the evil god Erlik. Yulgen is so kind and generous that he never does harm to men. Sacrifices are offered to him by all, but no one fears him. Every bridegroom must sacrifice to him a horse of a light colour after his marriage. |
| God name "Zalmoxis" | Greek | A legendary social and religious reformer, regarded as the only true god by the Thracian Dacians. According to Herodotus (IV), the Getae, who believed in the immortality of the soul, looked upon death merely as going to Zalmoxis, as they knew the way to become immortals. Greek |
| Deities name "Zemi" | Puerto Rico / Haiti | One of a pair of primordial beings. Known as Morobo and Binatel, they are the parents of all other deities, though they did not create the cosmos which, according to belief, has always been in existence. They are depicted in stone, wood or clay figures and are invoked in prayers. Two wooden ZEMIS used to be kept in a sacred cave at Toaboyna in Haiti and were the subject of several annual pilgrimages. The Sun and the moon were believed to have emerged from the cave.... |
| God name "Zibelthiurdos" | Thracian | storm god. Believed to send thunder and lightning.... |
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