| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "ADAD (wind)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | weather god. His father is the supreme sky god ANU. He is described as a benevolent giver of life in the fields but is also a more violent storm god. His name in Akkadian cuneiform means wind. His animal is the bull. In human form he is depicted wearing horned headdress and tiered skirt or robe decorated with astral symbolism. He may carry a scimitar embellished with a single panther head and his symbol is the lightning fork often fixed upon a pair of pincers.... |
| God name "Adad" | Mesopotamia / Babylonn | Son of Anu and the god of wind, storm, flood and Rain. Giver of life in the fields. Mesopotamia / Babylonn |
| God name "Ahti (or Ahto)" | Finland | God of the depths, giver of fish. |
| Goddess name "Anqet" | Egypt / Libya | Aka Anuket, Anukis, "The Clasper." water Goddess of the Nile Cataracts. Her symbal was the cowrie shell. Pictured as a woman donning a tall plumed crown. Also has been depicted as having four arms. Rules Over: Producer and giver of life, water. Egypt / Libya |
| God name "Apam Napat" | Hindu / Persia / Vedic | Child of the waters. One of the Ahuras in Old Iranian religion, a beneficent god who is the giver of water to man. Hindu / Persia / Vedic |
"Atea" | Marquesas Isl | The giver of light |
| Goddess name "Bau" | Phoenicia | The giver of life, goddess of the dawn and the sky. Phoenicia |
| Goddess name "Bhavani" | India | A ferocious aspect of Hindu goddess Shakti or Devi. Bhavani means "giver of life", the power of nature or the source of creative energy. In addition to her ferocious aspect, she is also known as Karunaswaroopini, "filled with mercy". India |
"Boon-givers" | India | Favourers, finders of light, and heaven, with gracious love accept my songs, my prayer, my hymn. The Rig-Veda |
"Dasyllius" | Greek | The giver of foliage. Greek |
| God name "Dedun aka Dedwen" | Egypt | God who was the lord and giver of incense, depicted as a lion. Egypt |
| God name "Dedun/ Dewden" | Egypt | A god that was the lord & giver of incense |
"Demeter" | Greek | One of the great divinities of the Greeks. The name Demeter is supposed by some to be the same as mother earth, while others consider Deo, which is synonymous with Demeter and as derived from the Cretan word barley, so that Demeter would be the mother or giver of barley or of food generally. Greek |
| God name "Dendrites" | Greek | The god of the tree, a surname of Dionysus, which has the same import as Dasyllius, the giver of foliage. Greek |
"Djamar" | Australia | The supreme being and creator, the giver of the moral laws and of initiation rites. He was responsible for the first bull-roar. |
| God name "Ea" | Babylon / Mesopotamia | As a member of the supreme trinity he was god of the waters, giver of arts and sciences and the healer of the sick. Babylon / Mesopotamia |
| God name "Epidotes" | Greek | A divinity who was worshipped at Lacedaemon, and averted the anger of Zeus Hicesius for the crime committed by Pausanias. Epidotes, which means the "liberal giver," occurs also as a surname of other divinities, such as Zeus at Mantineia and Sparta, of the god of sleep at Sicyon. Greek |
| Spirit name "Gitche Manitou" | Algonquin | The Great spirit, the Creator of all things and the Giver of Life. Algonquin |
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