| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Asia" | Greek | 1. A surname of Athena in Colchis. Her worship was believed to have been brought from thence by Castor and Polydeuces to Laconia, where a temple was built to her at Las. 2. A daughter of Oceåñuś and Tethys, who became by Japetus the mother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. (Theogony of Hesiod 359.) According to some traditions the continent of Asia derived its name from her. |
| Goddess name "Aso" | Ethiopia | Goddess of justice and the queen of Ethiopia. |
| God name "Asopus" | Greek | The god of the river Asopus, was a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys, or according to others, of Poseidon and Pero, of Zeus and Eurynome, or lastly of Poseidon and Cegluse. |
| God name "Astar" | Ethiopia | sky god who forms a triad with Beher and Medr. Ethiopia |
| God name "Astar" | Ethiopian | Astral god. Identified in Axum Empire inscriptions from circa AD 200-400.... |
| Goddess name "Astarte/ Ashtoreth" | Phoenicia / Babylon / Assyria / conference / Canaan | A goddess of fertility, sacred love, sexuality & of sex & the moon |
| Goddess name "Astoreth" | Israel | Goddess of fertility Palestine / Israel / Lebanon |
| Goddess name "Astaroth" | Western Semitic | Fertility goddess. Goddess of sheep herders equating with the Phoenician goddess ASTARTE. Also a plural form of the name Astoreth and used as a collective name for goddesses (cf. BAAL).... |
| Goddess name "Atete" | Christian | Goddess of fertility in Ethiopia and was åśśimilated into the Christian as the Virgin Mary, Atete was invoked by Pagans during ancient fertility rituals known as the Astar yo Mariam. |
| Goddess name "Atete" | Kafa / Ethiopia, northeastern Africa | Fertility goddess. She was åśśimilated into the Christian cult of the Virgin Mary, but is probably the subject of an ancient fertility rite performed by women who collect various sacred plants and throw them into the river. The festival is known as Astar yo Mariam (Epiphany of Mary).... |
"Athamas" | Greek | A son of Aeolus and Enarete, the daughter of Deimachus. He was thus a brother of Cretheus, Sisyphus, Salmoneus, etc. (Apollodorus i) |
"Atlas" | Greek | According to Hesiod (Theogony 507), a son of Japetus and Clymene, and a brother of Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. According to Apollodorus his mother's name was Asia and, according to Hyginus, he was a son of Aether and Gaia. |
"Auxo 1" | Greek | One of the Horae. 2. An ancient Attic divinity, who was worshipped, according to Pausanias, together with Hegemone, under the name of Charites |
| God name "Azrael" | Christian | Also known as the Great Attractor and the death of Universes, is apparently not a worshipped god on the Discworld, but he exists nonetheless, and is an entity of enormously unthinkable scope and size. |
"Baira" | Ethiopia | The supreme being of the Amar Kokke. Ethiopia |
"Bairo" | Ethiopia | The supreme being of the Banna. Ethiopia |
"Bamballe aka Waq" | Ethiopia | The supreme being of the Konso. Ethiopia |
| Goddess name "Bariebdjedet" | Egypt / Lower | Ram god. Possibly concerned with arbitration, his consort is the fish goddess HATMEHYT. He is the father of HARPOKRATES. According to tradition (Chester Beatty I papyrus) he was called upon to intercede in the contest for the Egyptian kingdoms between HORUS and SETH. He is placed in some accounts in Upper Egypt on the island of Seheil at the first Nile cataract, but his cult is centered on Mendes in the Delta region of Lower Egypt [Tell et-Ruba] and is closely linked with the mother of Rameses III. He is generally depicted in anthropomorphic form, but with the head of a ram.... |
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