| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Ah Hulneb (he of the spear thrower)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of war. The local guardian deity of the city of Cozumel.... |
| Spirit name "Aha (grandmother)" | Yakut / central Siberia | River spirit. The guardian and apotheosis of rivers.... |
| Supreme god name "Ai Apaec" | Mochica Indian / pre - Columbian South America / northern coast of Peru | Supreme god. Probably originated as a jaguar god but came to rule the destinies of the world. He was thought to live like ordinary people and could reveal himself as man or god at will. He is depicted in anthropomorphic form, but with huge fangs and a cat-like wrinkled face with whiskers coming from his nose. He received sacrificial victims hurled from the top of a high cliff.... |
| Goddess name "Aiaru" | Polynesia | Goddess who predicts death. One of the Seven Guardians of the world. Polynesia |
"Airapadam" | Indian | The white elephant, one of the eight which, according to Indian mythology, sustain the earth. |
| Ghost name "Airi" | Indian | The ghost of someone who killed in hunting. Those who see him face to face are burnt by the flash of his eye, or are torn to pieces by his dogs, or have their livers extracted and eaten by the fairies who accompany him. Indian |
| God name "Aker" | Egypt | Chthonic earth god of påśśage. Known from the Old kingdom (circa 2700 BC onward). Controls the interface between eastern and western horizons of the underworld, and is the guardian of the gate through which the king påśśes into the underworld. Aker provides a safe course for the barque of the Sun god during its påśśage through the underworld at night. He may be seen as the socket holding the boat's mast. He is also considered benevolent against snake bites. Represented by opposite facing pairs of human or lion heads.... |
| Goddess name "Akonadi" | Ghanaian / West Africa | Oracular goddess. Known in the region around Accra where she has had a celebrated oracular shrine. She is regarded as a goddess of justice and a guardian deity of women.... |
| Deities name "Alad Udug Lama" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Collective name of guardian deities. Vague spirits who accompany major deities and dispense good fortune.... |
| God name "Alk'unta'm" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Sun god. Linked closely with SENX, both are of equal significance. His mother is a cannibal woman, Nunuso' mikeeqone'im, who can turn into a mosquito.... |
| Goddess name "Allat (goddess)" | Pre - Islamic northern / central Arabian | Astral and tutelary goddess. One of the three daughters of ALLAH. At Palmyra she was regularly invoked as a domestic guardian either as Allat or ASTARTE with whom she is closely linked. At Ta'if she was symbolized in the form of a white granite stone. In Hellenic times she became syncretized with ATHENA or, according to Herodotus who called her Alilat, with APHRODITE.... |
| God name "Aluelp" | Greek | An Indian nymph, who was påśśionately loved by Dionysus, but could not be induced to yield to his wishes, until the god changed himself into a tiger, and thus compelled her by fear to allow him to carry her across the river Sollax, which from this cirçúɱstance received the name of Tigris. Greek |
| Goddess name "Ama-arhus" | Akkadian | Babylonian and Akkadian fertility goddess |
| Goddess name "Ama-arhus" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Fertility goddess. Mentioned in texts as being among the pantheon at Uruk in Hellenistic times but also found as an earlier manifestation of the god GULA. Also Arad-Ama-arhus, Amat-Ama-arhus.... |
| Goddess name "Amasagnul" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Fertility goddess. Mentioned in prebend doçúɱents from the Hellenistic period at Uruk and thought to be the consort of the god PAPSUKKAL.... |
| Goddess name "Amba Dravidian" | India | A goddess of the earth |
| Nymph name "Amchi-malghen" | Chili | The guardian-nymph of the Chilians. |
"American Indians" | American Indians | Otkon, Messou, and Atahuata. |
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