| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Supreme god name "Kari Semang" | Malya | Supreme god who lets you know he is mad when it thunders Malya |
"Karttikeya" | Hindu | The son of Siva or Rudra, and to have been produced without the intervention of a woman. Siva cast his seed into fire, and it was afterwards received by the Ganges: Karttikeya was the result; hence he is called Agnibhu and Gangaja. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Keawe" | Hawaiian | Creator god. An androgynous though apparently male principle or monad, he lived once in the dark empty abyss of Po. There, Keawe transformed primordial chaos into an orderly cosmos. He fashioned the sky from the lid of his calabash (a water-carrying gourd) and the Sun from an orange disc formerly kept inside the calabash. Keawe's first son was KANE, the god of light, and his daughter was Na Wahine, both created through his own powers of conception. He subsequently entered into an incestuous relationship with Na Wahine to father the chief pantheon of Hawaiian gods and goddesses, including most notably KU, LONO and Kanaloa, who became known, collectively, as the tripartite god.... |
| God name "Keyeme Taulipsang" | S America | God and lord of the animals South America |
| Angel name "Khshathra Vairya" | Zoroastrianism | Khshathra Vairya 'Desirable Dominion', the angel presiding over metals. Zoroastrianism |
"Khwarenah" | Persia | A bit of a strange definition, possessed by all morals yet it is of fire which dwells in water |
| Goddess name "Kianda" | Angola | A goddess of the sea. She was traditionally worshipped by throwing offerings such as food and clothing into the sea. Angola |
| God name "Kianda" | Kimbundu / Angola, southern Africa | God of the sea. Guardian of the Atlantic Ocean and its creatures. Invoked by fishermen who place offerings on the spéñïś. His presence may be symbolized by a skull.... |
| God name "Kianda Kimbundu" | Angola | The god of the sea & fish |
| Demon name "Kigatilik" | Inuit | Delightful fanged demon who has no love of priests Inuit |
| Demon name "Kirmira" | India | A monster, brother of Vaka. He opposed the entrance of the Pandavas into the Kamyaka Forest, and threatened that he would eat Bhima. A furious combat ensued, in which Bhima and he hurled large trees at each other, but the demon was at length strangled and had all his bones broken by Bhima. India |
| Goddess name "Kishimo-jin" | Japan? | A goddess that changed her mind, maybe |
| Goddess name "Kiyo Hime" | Japan | Goddess of justice, opened Her heart to a mortal. But then she was abandoned by her lover. When She sought him, he fled from Her. coward, he hid in a temple bell. She took the form of a snake and enwrapped him until Her love-turned-to-anger ended his mortal existence. Japan |
| Spirit name "Koolukoolwani" | Africa | It is agreed among the Zoolus, that their forefathers believed in the existence of an overruling spirit, whom they called Villenangi [Umvelinqangi] (literally the First Appearer), and who soon after created another heavenly being of great power, called Koolukoolwani, [Unkulunkulwana,] who once visited this earth, in order to publish the news (as they express it), as also to separate the sexes and colours among mankind. Duling the period he was below, two messages were sent to him from Villenangi, the first conveyed by a cameleon, announcing that men were not to die; the second, by a lizard, with a contrary decision. The lizard, having outrun the slow-paced cameleon, arrived first, and delivered his message before the latter made his apperance. Amazulu, South Africa |
| God name "Kostrubonko" | Russia | God of spring. "...in Little Russia it used to be the custom at Eastertide to celebrate the funeral of a being called Kostrubonko, the deity of the spring. A circle was formed of singers who moved slowly around a girl who lay on the ground as if dead, and as they went they sang: |
| Cyclop name "Kronos or Cronus" | Greek | A son of Uråñuś and Ge, and the youngest among the Titans. He was married to Rhea, by whom he became the father of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Cheiron is also called a son of Cronus. At the instigation of his mother, Cronus unmanned his father for having thrown the Cyclopes, who were likewise his children by Ge, into Tartarus. Out of the blood thus shed sprang up the Erinnyes. Greek |
| Goddess name "Ksitigarbha (womb of the earth)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. Known exten sively from northern India to China and Japan. One of the group of female BODHISATTVAS or buddha designates. Color: yellow or green. Attrib utes: Book, bowl, jewel, staff and water jar. In China she is recognized as an underworld deity, Di zang. In Japan she becomes a guardian deity of påśśage, Jizo.... |
| Goddess name "Kuanja" | Angola | Goddess of hunting. Angola |
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