| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Vari" | Polynesia | A self created being of the beginning times. Polynesia |
| Goddess name "Vari-Ma-Te-Takere (the very beginning)" | Polynesian / Hervey Islands | Mother goddess. The creator being who lives at the very bottom of the world coconut, sitting in a cramped space with her knees and chin touching. She lives in Te-Enua-Te-Ki (mute land) in eternal silence and is the mother of six children, all deities, three of which she plucked from her right side and three from her left.See also AVATEA, TINIRAU, TANGO, TUMUTEANAOA, RAKA and TU-METUA.... |
"Vari-ma-te-takere" | Polynesia | The primeval mother who lived in Avaiki, the coconut shell at the begining of the universe. Mangaia, Polynesia |
| Goddess name "Vasanta" | India | Goddess of spring, learning, music, poetry and disco. North India |
| Goddess name "Vasantadevi" | Buddhist / Tibet | A goddess of spring |
| Goddess name "Vasantadevi" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Goddess of spring. Particularly known from Tibet, where she appears in the retinue of SRIDEVI. Her animal is a mule. Attributes: cup and sword.... |
| Deities name "Vasu(s) (excellent)" | Hindu / Vedic | Generic title for a group of gods. Eight deities attendant on the Vedic weather god INDRA, comprising day, dawn, fire, moon, pole star, Sun, water and wind. Generally carrying a rosary and with a SAKTI.... |
| Deities name "Vasus" | Hindu | Attendant deities of Indra, and later Vishnu. They are eight elemental gods representing aspects of nature, representing cosmic natural phenomenon. The name Vasu means 'Dweller' or 'Dwelling'. Hindu |
| Deity name "Vasya-Tara" | Java | The presiding deity of Candi Kalasan. Java |
| Goddess name "Vasya-tara (the subjected Tara)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. An emanation of AMOGHASIDDHI and considered to be indistinguishable from ARYA-TARA. Color: green. Attributes: blue lotus and image of Amoghasiddhi on the crown.... |
| God name "Vata" | Hindu / Vedic / / Persian / Iran | God of wind. The name appears in the Rg Veda as a deity of violent personality. According to Asvestan tradition the god of victory, VERETHRAGNA, appeared to Zarathustra in the guise of Vata.... |
"Vatapattrasayin (reclining on a fig leaf)" | Hindu / Puranic | Aspect of VISNU. The image is found in clåśśical bronze sculptures and represents either Vis'nu in a violent form, or KRSNA, reposed on a fig leaf that floats upon the primeval ocean of a new cosmos after the previous world order has been destroyed.... |
| Spirit name "Veehaldjas" | Estonian | spirit of the water, the weaver of a spring. Estonian |
| 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. |
| Spirit name "Vejopatis" | Lithuanian | The spirit of wind. He is the father of the winds, usually described as a wrathful, inexorable, evil spirit with a beard, wings and two faces. Lithuanian and Prussian |
| Spirit name "Vele" | Lithuanian | spirits of dead human beings. Lithuanian |
| Goddess name "Vellamo" | Finnish | Goddess the goddess of the sea, the wife of Ahti, the god of the sea and of fishing. Finnish |
| Goddess name "Velu Mate" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Chthonic underworld goddess. The queen of the dead. She is depicted wearing white and she greets the dead at the cemetery.... |
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