| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Jehovah" | Israel | Creator god of Israel. A mix of of letters from Jhwh / Yhwh and Adonai - created so that people wouldn't utter the actual name. When Christians, unaware of the Jewish tradition, started to read the Hebrew Bible, they read it with the Masoretic vowels together with the consonants as written, and obtained Iehovah. Today this transcription is generally recognized as mistaken. Many religious groups continue to use the form Jehovah, because it is familiar and because the correct pronunciation is unknown. |
| God name "Jehovah" | Christian | Creator god. The name came into usage from circa AD 1200 and is an adulteration which has largely replaced the title YHWH in the English-speaking churches.See also YHWH.... |
| God name "Jesus aka Iesous" | Christian | Joshua, Yehoshua, Yeshua. Another Son of God, the second person in the Trinity of Jehovah, and the source of Christian belief. |
| Supreme god name "Jumala" | Finland | A generic name for a major deity. Originally the name given by the Finns to the sky, the sky-god, and the supreme god. Later taivas and Ukko were used as the names for the sky and the sky-god. The word means god and was later used for the Christian God. The origin of the word is unknown some possible explanations are derivation from Jomali, the supreme deity of the Permians and origination from the Estonian word jume. |
| God name "Jumis" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Fertility god. Symbolized by cereal stalks joined at the heads, or bent over and buried in the ground.... |
"Kaliyuga" | Hindu | The last of the four Hindu periods contained in the great Yuga, equal to the Iron Age of clåśśic mythology. It consisted of 432,000 solar-sidereal years, and began 3,102 years before the Christian era. The bull, representing truth and right, has but one foot in this period, because all the world delights in wickedness. |
| Goddess name "Karta" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Goddess of destiny. Known only from folk traditions.... |
| God name "Kondos" | Finnish | A god of cereal crops that was renamed by the Christians to St. urban |
| God name "Kondos" | Pre - Christian Finnish | God of cereal crops. Particularly identified with the sowing of wheat. After Christianization, he was absorbed by the figure of St. Urban.... |
| Spirit name "Kwoith" | Nuer / Sudan | Creator god. The Nuer people have been affected by the expansion of Islam, and probably by Christianity, and recognize a supreme deity, or spiritual being, responsible for all creation. One of his epithets is Tutgar, meaning strong and without limit.... |
| Angel name "Kyriel" | Christians | angels of the Mansions of the moon. |
| Goddess name "Laima" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Goddess of fate. Particularly concerned with guarding women at childbirth, and with the newborn. Regarded as a household goddess of prosperity and good fortune.... |
| Goddess name "Lamaria" | Svan / Caucasus | Tutelary goddess. Particularly invoked by women as a hearth goddess and protector of cows. Her name may have been derived under Christian influence.... |
| Goddess name "Lamaria Svan" | Caucasus | A tutelary goddess, it is suspected that her name as been christianized |
"Lamps" | Christendom | The seven lamps of sleep. In the mansion of the Knight of the Black Castle were seven lamps, which could be quenched only with water from an enchanted fountain. So long as these lamps kept burning, everyone within the room fell into a deep sleep, from which nothing could rouse them till the lamps were extinguished. Christendom |
| Goddess name "Lauka Mate" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Goddess of Agriculture. Worshiped in the fields at ploughing time.... |
"Lawrence" | Christian | Patron saint of curriers, because his skin was broiled on a gridiron. Christian |
| Deities name "Lei Kung" | Taoist / Chinese | God of thunder. He heads the deities of the pantheon who are responsible for storm, wind and Rain and is usually accompanied by YU SHIH, the god of Rain. He appears in anthropomorphic form from about the beginning of the Christian era, depicted as a strong, youthful figure holding hammer and chisel. In drama his movements are punctuated by rumblings on strings and drums. Circa AD 1000 he becomes depicted as a bird-like being with a monkey face. The transition was probably influenced by the popularity of the Hindu god GARUDA.... |
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