| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Kagu-Tsuchi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Fire god. One of a number of fire KAMIS who are honored in special Hi-Matsuri festivals. He is worshiped in the mountain shrine of Kono-Jinja. The sacred fire can only be generated by a board and stick and this is regarded as a powerful purifier in Shintoism. The most celebrated temple of the fire kamis is situated on Mount Atago near Kyoto to which worshipers are drawn from all over Japan to obtain charms as protection against fire.... |
| God name "Kagutsuchi" | Japan | God of fire Japan |
| Goddess name "Kahindo" | Zaire | Goddess of fire Zaire |
| God name "Kakaku" | Japan | God of rivers invoked to protect houses against fire Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Kakaku" | Shinto / Japan | River god. His name is often inscribed on the edge tiles of a house to protect against fire.... |
| God name "Kakupacat" | Mayan | God of war with a shield of fire Mayan |
| God name "Kakupacat (fiery glance)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | war god. Said to bear a shield of fire with which he protects himself in battle.... |
"Kali" | India | 'The black.' In Vedic days this name was åśśociated with Agni (fire), who has seven flickering tongues of flame for devouring oblations of butter. Of these seven, Kali was the black or terrific tongue. India |
| God name "Kaligii-Rudna (the funerary fire Rudra)" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor god. A violent representation of SIVA who is attendant at cremations and whose warlike attributes include sword, shield, bow and arrow.... |
| King name "Kaliya" | Hindu | A serpent king who had five heads, and dwelt in a deep pool of the Yamuna, with numerous attendant serpents. His mouths vomited fire and smoke and he laid waste all the country round. Hindu |
| God name "Kama-Gami" | Shinto / Japan | God of potters. Each kiln has a small stone statue of the deity standing upon it to which the potters offer sake and salt before lighting the fire. Also Kamadokami.... |
| God name "Kamantakamurti" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor god. A violent aspect of SI IVA in which he is depicted immolating Kama, the god of sexual love, using a blast of fire from his third eye. The reason given for this åśśault is that Kama had interrupted the ascetic meditation of SI iva by making him desirous of PARVATI.... |
| Deity name "Kana-yama-biko-no-kami" | Shinto | The deity of fire. Shinto |
"Karttikeya" | Hindu | The son of Siva or Rudra, and to have been produced without the intervention of a woman. Siva cast his seed into fire, and it was afterwards received by the Ganges: Karttikeya was the result; hence he is called Agnibhu and Gangaja. Hindu |
"Khwarenah" | Persia | A bit of a strange definition, possessed by all morals yet it is of fire which dwells in water |
| God name "Kukulcan" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. Kukulcan is, in origin, a Toltec god who was adopted by the Mayan culture and who corresponds closely with the Aztec deity QUETZALCOATL. He is chiefly concerned with reincarnation, but is also responsible for the elements of fire, earth and water. He is depicted with various attributes, including a torch or a lizard representing fire, maize for earth, and a fish for water. Also God B.... |
| Demon name "Kulshedra" | Albania | Female demonic individual in who may be either an enormous hag with pendulous breasts and / or a dragon like monster who spits fire Albania |
"Kundalini" | Yoga | The energy åśśociated with a spiralling, or circulating, fire serpent that lies dormant before its journey through the known chakras, and the hidden Dark Star whose perihelion påśśage through the system. Yoga |
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