| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Vajrayogini" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. She can sometimes be identified carrying her severed head in her hand. Color: yellow. Attributes: club, cup, knife and staff. Three-eyed.... |
| Deity name "Vasya-Tara" | Java | The presiding deity of Candi Kalasan. Java |
| Goddess name "Vedma" | Slavic | Goddess on a broomstick who causes storms, keeps the water of life and death, and knows all about herbs. She can appear either young and beautiful or old and ugly. Slavic |
| God name "Veiovis" | Etruscan | Vedius, "little Jupiter" or "the destructive Jupiter," and identified with Pluto. But Veiovis seems to designate an Etruscan divinity of a destructive nature, whose fearful lightnings produced deafness in those who were to be struck by them, even before they were actually hurled. He was represented as a youthful god armed with arrows, and his festival fell before the nones of March. |
| God name "Veive" | Etruscan | Another name for the Etruscan god Veiovis. |
| God name "Veive" | Etruscan | Minor god. A youthful deity whose attributes include arrows. His animal is a goat.... |
| Goddess name "Vellamo" | Finland | The wife of Ahti, goddess of the sea, lakes and storms. A current image of Vellamo can be seen on the coat of arms of Päijänne Tavastia. |
| Nymph name "Venilia" | Roman | A Roman divinity connected with the winds (venti) and the sea. Virgil and Ovid describe her as a nymph, a sister of Amata, and the wife of Faunus, by whom she became the mother of Turnus, Jutuma, and Canens. Aeneid x. Metamorphoses by Ovid xiv.) |
| 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 |
| Goddess name "Vertumnus" | Roman | Minor god of gardens and orchards. Of Etruscan origin, he is the consort of the goddess POMONA. Usually represented with garden implements and offered fruit and flowers. He was celebrated annually in the Vertumnalia festival on August 13.... |
| God name "Vindhya" | Hindu | mountain god. Personification of the hills forming the northern edge of the Deccan area of central India.... |
| 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.... |
| Supreme god name "Voltumna" | Etruscan | Tutelary god. Originally a vegetation deity who was elevated to the position of supreme god in the Etruscan pantheon and known in Roman culture as VERTUMNUS.... |
| God name "Vulcan" | Greek | The Roman smith god, identified with the Greek god Hephaestus. He was traditionally introduced to Rome by either Romulus or Titus Tatius. There were no specific legends concerning Vulcan but he played an important part in the success of various heroes by providing invincible armour for them. In Virgil's Aeneid, Vulcan made a superb suit of armour for Aeneas at Venus' request. He made a shield (called the Aegis) and thunderbolts for Jupiter and in return received Venus as his wife. |
| God name "Vulcåñuś" | Roman | The Roman god of fire, whose name seems to be connected with fulgere, fulgur, and fulmen. |
"Wabun" | Hiawatha | Son of Mudjekeewis, East-Wind, the Native American Apollo. Young and beautiful, he chases darkness with his arrows over hill and valley, wakes the villager, calls the Thunder, and brings the Morning. He married Wabun-Annung, and transplanted her to heaven, where she became the Morning Star. Hiawatha |
"Wabung Annung" | Hiawatha | The Morning Star. She was a country maiden wooed and won by Wabun, the Native American Apollo, who transplanted her to the skies. Hiawatha |
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