Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Dusara (the one' of s'ara)" | Western Semitic / Nabataean | Local tutelary god. Associated with vegetation and fertility in the Hauran region from about 312 BC until circa AD 500. Regarded as a supreme deity, comparable to BAAL S AMIN, who never achieved Dus ara's popularity among the nomadic Nabataeans, for whom farming was precarious. He was represented by a black obelisk at Petra. Sacred animals are the eagle and panther. Attributes include a vine stem. In Hellenic times he was the subject of inscriptions at Delos and Miletus and he was equated with DIONYSOS. Also Dus ares; Dus-S ara.... |
God name "Ek Chua" | Mayan | God of merchants and cacao growers. Black faced with a huge nose.Mayan |
God name "Ek Chuah" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of merchants. Also the deity responsible for the cacao crop. (The cacao bean was traditionally the standard currency throughout Mesoamerica.) Probably of Putun origin, he is typically depicted painted black, except for a red area around the lips and chin. He has a distinctive downwardly projecting lower lip, horseshoe shapes around each eye and a highly elongated nose. He may also bear a scorpion's tail. Other attributes include a carrying strap in his headdress and sometimes a pack on his back. Also God M.... |
God name "Elagabal (lord of the mountain)" | Syrian | Local tutelary god. Probably originating as a mountain deity with strong solar links. His sacred animal is the eagle. His cult was based on the town of Emesa [Homs], where he was worshiped in the form of a dome-shaped, black stone obelisk. His name became Hellenized as Heliogabalos.... |
King name "Erlking" | German | king of the elves, who prepares mischief for children, and even deceives men with his seductions. He is said to haunt the Black Forest. German |
God name "Es" | Ket / Siberian | Creator god. Described as an old man with a long black beard, he fashioned the first humans from clay. Those tossed from his right hand became men, and those from his left became women.... |
God name "Eshu" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | Itinerant god. An ancient deity regarded as the attendant and messenger of the creator god OLODUMARE. He påśśes among mortal people åśśessing character and meting out punishment. Devotees are identified by necklaces of black or brown beads.... |
God name "Ganaskidi (humpback)" | Navaho / USA | God of harvests, plenty and of mists. He is said to live at Depehahatil, a canyon with many ruined cliff dwellings north of San Juan. According to tradition he is the apotheosis of a bighorn sheep. His priest wears a blue mask with no hair fringe but with a spruce crown and collar. He has a black bag on his back, filled out with a twig frame, that appears as a deformity, and he carries a staff.... |
God name "Gaunab" | Khoi / Hottentot / Namibia, southern Africa | Malevolent god of darkness. The chief adversaryof the creator god TSUNIGOAB. He was engaged in a primordial struggle for supremacy during which Tsunigoab was wounded but eventually triumphed, consigning Gaunab to the so-called black heaven.... |
God name "Gaunab Kohl" | Hottentot / Namibia / S Africa | A malevolent God of darkness as well as the god of of of the black heaven |
Goddess name "Giltine" | Lithuania | The goddess of death whose sacral bird is the owl. Giltine proclaims disaster. She goes with the goddesses of black death. Lithuania |
God name "Gobannon" | Celtic | The god of metalworking and the patron of blacksmiths, mechanics, and craftsman. Celtic |
God name "Goibbiu" | Ireland | God of the blacksmith craft, brews beers which grants immortality to the drinker. Ireland |
God name "Gu" | Fon | A blacksmith-god who took the shape of a trowel and made human beings from the celestial dung-heap. Fon |
Supreme god name "Gua" | West Africa | Supreme god who created the universe and takes a special interest in Agriculture, blacksmiths and thunder. West Africa |
"Han" | India | The black of darkness who was banished to the underworld then became the nighttime. Plains Indians |
Angel name "Haroot and Maroot" | Hebrew | Two angels who, in consequence of their want of compåśśion to man, are susceptible of human påśśions, and are sent upon earth to be tempted. They were at one time kings of Babel, and are still the teachers of magic and the black arts. Hebrew |
God name "Hasam[m]eli" | Hittite | He is the god of blacksmiths & of the craft of wrought-iron |