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Goddess name "Asase Yaa" | Ashanti / Ghana, West Africa | Chthonic fertility goddess. A major deity revered over a wide area of Akanand Fante-speaking Ghana. She has no temples or priests but days (Thursdays) are set aside in her honor and no ploughing is permitted. By tradition a farmer sacrifices a çõçkerel to her each year to ensure a good harvest, sprinkling the blood on the ground. As the womb of the earth, she represents the goddess of the dead and she is also goddess of truth. Also Asase Efua (Fante).... |
God name "B'alam Quitze/ Balam Quitze,/ Balam Quitze" | S America | B'alam Quitze aka Balam Quitze, Balam Quitze, meaning "jaguar with the sweet smile," was the first of the men created from maize after the Great Flood sent by Hurakan. The gods created Caha-Paluma specifically for him to marry. |
God name "Brekyirihunuade" | Akan | Brekyirihunuade is the highest god in the religion of the Akan people, "he who knows and sees everything". |
God name "Capakan" | Maya | The god of earthquakes & mountains |
Goddess name "Chirakan Ixmucane" | Mayan | One of the new goddess formed by the four gods who made the world. Mayan |
God name "Huracan/ Hurucan/ Hurakan/ Hurukan" | Quiche | A creator god that fashioned the first humans |
God name "Hurakan" | Nicaragua | God of storms, thunder and hurricanes. Nicaragua |
Goddess name "Inyan" | Lakota | The first of the superior Gods. Uncreated and existing before time, he created Maka and gave it the earth Goddess Maka-akan, the second of the superior Gods and a part of Inyan. Creating Maka required all of Inyan's blood, which was blue, to form a great disk, beyond which there was nothing. This effort made Inyan hard and powerless. His blood became the blue waters and the sky, and Nagi Tanka (Sky God), the Great spirit who is all powerful and called Skan (Most Holy), the third superior God. Lakota |
God name "Kabrakan" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | earthquake god. The so-called destroyer of mountains usually coupled with the god ZIPAKNA who builds mountains.... |
God name "Nyame" | Akan / southern Ghana, West Africa | Creator god. An androgynous being symbolized in his male aspect by the Sun, and his female aspect by the moon. He gave mankind its soul and is the controller of destiny. He enjoys a dedicated priesthood and is worshiped in the form of a tree trunk. Also Odomankoma; Onyame; Onyanko pon; Totrobonsu.... |
Goddess name "Nyame Akan" | Ghana | a creator god / goddess and androgynous being |
Deities name "Obosom" | Akan | A generic name for the lessor gods, sometimes referred to as the deities. These spirits are embodied in the wind, rivers, oceans, streams, trees, mountains, rocks, animals, and other objects. Akan |
God name "Opo" | Akan / Ghana, West Africa | God of the ocean. One of the sons of the creator god NYAME, he is also considered to be the god of the great inland lakes and rivers of Ghana.... |
God name "Opo Akan" | Ghana | The god the ocean & inland lakes & rivers |
God name "Sakka(n)" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | God of cattle. A patron god of herdsmen, probably deriving from the Sumerian god LAHAR. Also Amakandu, Sumuqan.... |
God name "Sakka[n]/ Amakandu/ Sumuqan" | Mesopotamia / Babylon / Akkadian | A patron god of herdsmen & A god of cattle |
God name "Tano" | Akan | Stool god of Obo, åśśociated with the ancestral stools. Akan |
God name "Wakantanka" | Sioux | The name of God is Wakantanka. The name of the Lord is Itankan. Sioux |
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