| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Ogiuwu" | Edo / Benin, West Africa | God of death. Believed to own the blood of all living things which he smears on the walls of his palace in the otherworld. Until recent times human sacrifice was made regularly to this deity in the capital of the Edo region, Benin City.... |
"Ogiuwu Edo" | Benin | The harbinger of death who is supposed to own the blood of all living things. Benin |
| God name "Ogun" | Edo / Benin, West Africa | God of war, hunting and metalwork. This rather loosely defined deity was sent by the god OSANOBUA to cut open the land to allow crops to be planted. He is the strength inherent in metals and piles of metal objects are left beside his sanctuaries. As a god of war he defends the tribe and is depicted wearing armor and with red eyes. As a god of hunters and farmers he is generally benevolent.... |
| God name "Ogun Edo" | Benin | A god of war that was sent to cut up the land to allow crops to the planted |
"Olojo Oni" | Yoruba | The owner and controller of this day and of the daily happenings. All men and women totally depend on the Supreme Being. Yoruba |
| God name "Olokun" | Fon / Yoruba / Benin / Nigeria, West Africa | God of fresh waters and oceans. The eldest son of the creator god OSANOBUA. He is symbolized in the sacred river Olokun, which runs almost the length of Benin and from the source of which come the souls of unborn children. A girl baby is given a shrine of the god which includes a pot of river water and which she takes with her to her new home when she marries. The god is particularly popular among women and has a cult of priestesses. Olokun is also a guardian deity of mariners.... |
| God name "Osandobua Edo" | Benin | A benign creator god that controls prosperity, health & happiness |
| God name "Osanobua" | Edo / Benin, West Africa | Creator god. The father of the god OLOKUN, he is regarded as a benevolent deity controlling prosperity, health and happiness.... |
| King name "Osseo" | Hiawatha | Son of the Evening Star. When "old and ugly, broken with age, and weak with coughing," he married Oweenee, youngest of the ten daughters of a North hunter. She loved him in spite of his ugliness and decrepitude, because "all was beautiful within him." One day, as he was walking with his nine sisters-in-law and their husbands, he leaped into the hollow of an oak-tree, and came out "tall and straight and strong and handsome;" but Oweenee at the same moment was changed into a weak old woman, "wasted, wrinkled, old, and ugly;" but the love of Osse'o was not weakened. The nine brothers and sisters-in-law were all transformed into birds for mocking Osseo and Oweenee when they were ugly, and Oweenee, recovering her beauty, had a son, whose delight as he grew up was to shoot at his aunts and uncles, the birds that mocked his father and mother. Hiawatha |
| Goddess name "Paiowa Yana Piaute" | Greek | Goddess of the Evening star, she and her daughter created the first people USA |
"Pallene" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Sithon, from whom the town of Pallene in the peninsula of the same name was said to have derived its name. |
| God name "Pisacas" | Hindu | Demigods created by Brahma, the creator of the universe. People, with all parts of their bodies smeared with mud; besmearing their friends here and there with mud; speaking, for the sake of love, various beautiful utterances concerning persons having sexual intercourse and the women fit for cohabitation, instigating sex-instinct; saying indecent words and crying aloud - should play. On that day, in the morning, the Pisacas of dreadful sight - the followers of Nikumbha - enter all the human beings. In the evening, they leave the body of one who does so and is bathed and enter that of another, cursing him, who does not do so. Then the bathed persons should worship Kes'ava. Hindu |
"Poeninus" | Roman / Celtic | The divinity of the Pennines, Britain. Roman / Celtic |
| God name "Poeninus" | Roman / Celtic / European | mountain god. Known locally from the alpine regions and generally thought to be åśśimilated with JUPITER.... |
| Spirit name "QUIKINN.A'QU (big raven)" | Koryak / Kamchatka peninsula, southeastern Siberia | A spirit of a primitive culture still heavily influenced by animism. Founder of the world.... |
| Goddess name "Rozanica" | Slavic | Glistening goddess who predicts the fate of the new-born. Slavic |
| God name "Ruda" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Tutelary god. An androgynous being symbolized by the evening star. Also ARSU (Palmyra).... |
| God name "S ar" | Western Semitic / Syrian | God of the dawn. Generally linked with the god of evening, S ALIM.... |
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