Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Gao Yao/ Ting-jian" | China | A god of judgment |
Goddess name "Gaomei" | China | Ancient goddess and first mother was called Kao Mi in the Ching Dynasty and was changed into a male divinity during the Japanese occupation. China |
Goddess name "Ge Gu" | China | Goddess of health and Medicine China |
Goddess name "Gish" | Kafir / Afghanistan | God of war. Known chiefly among the Kati people in the southern Hindukush. Gish seems partly modeled on the Aryan (Vedic) god INDRA (see also INDR). One of the offspring of the creator god IMRA, his mother is named as Utr; she carried him for eighteen months before he wrenched himself from her belly, stitching her up with a needle. His consort is the goddess SANJU. He slaughters with great efficiency but is considered lacking in graces and intellect, emerging in a generally boorish light (see also THOR). His home is a fortress of steel atop a mythical walnut tree propped up by his mother which provides nourishment and strength for his warriors. The Rainbow is a sling with which he carries his quiver. Gish is åśśociated chiefly with the villages of Kamdesh and Shtiwe but has been worshiped throughout the Kafir region with the sacrifice of hornless oxen, particularly prior to combat. A feast was given in his honor if the outcome was successful. Also Giwish.... |
Goddess name "Gnowee" | Australia | Sun goddess who lived on earth before there was a Sun. Gnowee's baby son wandered off while she was gathering yams and she began searching for him carrying a large torch. She continues to do so and her torch is the Sun. Australia |
God name "God of Prosperity" | Chinese | One of the Gods found in Malaysia and is very important to local Malaysian Chinese especially businessmen. Chinese |
God name "Gong Gong" | China | water god who is responsible for the great floods, together with his åśśociate, Xiang Yao who has nine heads and the body of a snake. China |
God name "Gou Mang & Ru Shu" | China | These are the messengers of the sky god |
God name "Gou Mang and Ru Shu" | China | Messengers of the sky god China |
King name "Grangousier" | Utopia | king of Utopia, who married, in "the vigour of his old age," Gargamelle, daughter of the king of the Parpaillons, and became the father of Gargantua, the giant. He is described as a man in his dotage, whose delight was to draw scratches on the hearth with a burnt stick while watching the broiling of his chestnuts. (Rabelais: Gargantua.) |
God name "Guan Di" | Chinese | The god of martial arts. Chinese |
Goddess name "Guan Yin" | China | Goddess of mercy China |
Goddess name "Guan Yin/ Guanyin" | Chinese | The goddess of mercy |
"Guan Yu" | China | Deified in the Sui Dynasty as the epitome of loyalty and righteousness. China |
"Gui Xian" | China | The great Tortoise, one of the four Holy animals of Chinese mythology and a symbol of Longevity and Immortality. China |
Demon name "Gui Xian/ Gui" | China | These demonic beings are descended from people that had either drowned & / or committed suicide & could not be reincarnated |
Goddess name "Gum Lin" | China | Goddess of rivers and Bamboo. China |
God name "Hachiman" | Shinto / Japan | God of war and peace. A deity whose origins are confused. The name does not appear in either of the sacred texts of Shintoism, but such a deity was probably worshiped in the distant past with the alternative title of HimeGami or Hime-O-Kami. The cult center was on the southern island of Kyushu at Usa. In modern Shintoism, Hachiman originates as a member of the imperial dynasty. Named Ojin-Tenno and born in AD 200 to the empress Jingu-Kogo, he greatly improved the living standards and culture of Japan during his remarkable reign. The place of his birth was marked by a sanctuary and several centuries after his death, a vision of a child KAMI appeared there to a priest. The kami identified himself by the Chinese ideogram representing the name Hachiman, and thus the link developed. The site is, today, the location of a magnificent shrine, the Umi-Hachiman-Gu, where Hachiman has been perceived as a god of war. Soldiers departing for battle once took with them relics from the shrine. Hachiman is also a deity of peace and a guardian of human life and, when pacifism dominated Japan during the post-war era, he became more strongly identified in the latter context.... |