| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Ah Kin Xoc" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of poetry. Regarded as a great singer and musician since most Mayan poetry is Sung or chanted. He may appear as a hummingbird and is considered by some authorities to be an avatara of the Sun god. Also Ah Kin Xocbiltun; P'izlimtec.... |
| Deities name "Ah Kumix Uiinicob" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Attendant water gods. The four diminutive deities which take over from the giant AH PATNAR UINICOB deities during the dry season.... |
| God name "Ah Muun" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Maize god. The deity responsible for protecting the unripe maize.... |
| Deities name "Ah Muuzencab" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Bee gods. The patron deities of apiarists still invoked in parts of the Yucatan. They are thought to be represented iconographically on the tops and bottoms of stone columns at the site of Chichen Itza as aged men with long beards and upraised arms. They wear loin cloths with distinctive cross hatching.... |
| Deities name "Ah Patnar Uinicob (owners of the jars men)" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Attendant water gods. Four huge deities who pour water on to the earth from jars. The end of the dry season is marked on May 3, completing an eight day Rain ceremony.... |
| God name "Ah Peku" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Thunder god. He lives on the tops of hills and climbs into the clouds before it Rains.... |
| Deities name "Ah Tabai" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hunting god. One of a number of deities in Mayan religion identified with the hunt and the protec tion of animals.... |
| God name "Ah Uincir Dz'acab" | Mayan / Chorti, Meso american / eastern Guatemala | God of healing. The patron of herbalists and concerned with the preparation of remedies, he is depicted as having male and female identities, each concerned with the healing of their respective sexes. Also Ah Uincir Kopot.... |
| God name "Ah Uuc Ticab" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic god. Minor fertility and vegetation deity.... |
| Goddess name "Aialila'axa" | Mexico | Goddess of the moon. She holds in her arms a rabbit, a symbol of fertility, whose profile can be seen on the face of the moon. Mexico |
| Spirit name "Aisha Qandisha" | Morocco | loving to be watered a jinniya (female spirit), recognized by her beautiful face, pendulous breasts and goat legs. She was wanton and free, seducing young men, despite having a jinn-consort named Hammu Qaiyu. Her name strongly suggests a connection to the Qadesha, the sexually free temple women of Canaan who served Astarte. Morocco |
"Aja" | African | Aja is an Orisha, patron of the Forest, the animals within it and herbal healers, whom she taught their art. |
| 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.... |
"Akasagarbha" | Buddhist / India | Bodhisattva one of the eight great bodhisattvas. His name can be translated as "boundless space treasury" or "void store" as his wisdom is said to be boundless as space itself. He is sometimes known as the twin brother of the "earth store" bodhisattva Ksitigarbha. In Japan he is known as Kokuzo. Buddhist / India |
| 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.... |
| Deities name "Alatangana" | Kono / eastern Guinea, West Africa | Creator god. One of two creator deities; the other is SA. ALATANGANA created land from swamp and placed vegetation on earth. VAJRAPANI and a large number of minor names.See also AMITABHA, AMOGHASIDDHI, RATNASAMBHAVA and VAIROCANA.... |
| Goddess name "Albina" | Etruscan | Dawn goddess and protector of ill fated lovers. Etruscan |
| God name "Alk'unta'm" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Sun god. Linked closely with SENX, both are of equal significance. His mother is a cannibal woman, Nunuso' mikeeqone'im, who can turn into a mosquito.... |
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