| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Anbay" | Pre - Islamic southern Arabian | Local tutelary god. Regarded as a god of justice and an oracular source attending the moon god AMM.... |
| God name "Ancaeus" | Greek | 1. A son of the Arjadian Lycurgus and Creophile or Eurynome, and father of Agapenor. He was one of the Argonauts and partook in the Calydonian hunt in which he was killed by the boar. (Apollodorus i. 9.) 2. A son of Poseidon and Astypalaea or Alta, king of the Leleges in Samos, and husband of Samia, the daughter of the river-god Maeander, by whom he became the father of Perilaus, Enodos, Samos, Alitherses, and Parthenope. |
| Goddess name "Andjety" | Egypt / Lower | Chthonic underworld god. Minor deity in anthropomorphic form known from the Pyramid Texts. Identified with the ninth nome (district). Responsible for rebirth in the afterlife and regarded as a consort of several fertility goddesses. He was revered at Busiris where he clearly heralded the cult of Osiris. Attributes: high conical crown (similar to the atef crown of Osiris) decorated with two tall plumes, crook and flail. In early Pyramid Texts, the feathers are replaced by a bicornuate uterus.See also Osiris.... |
| Goddess name "Ankalamman" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil | Guardian goddess. Known particularly in southern India where she wards off demons. Alternatively she is an aspect of KALI.... |
| God name "Anm (1)" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Creator god. Consort of ANTU(m). Derived from the older Sumerian god AN. Anu features strongly in the akitu festival in Babylon, Uruk and other cities until the Hellenic period and possibly as late as 200 BC. Some of his later pre-eminence may be attributable to identification with the Greek god of heaven, ZEUS, and with OURANOS.... |
| Goddess name "Anna Perenna" | Roman | Protective goddess. Allegedly she saved the plebeians from famine in their conflict with the patricians in ancient Roman mythology. An openair festival dedicated to her was held on March 15 each year in a grove lying to the north of Rome.... |
| Goddess name "Anuanaitu" | America | Soul of the ocean, member of a sea monster family. Goddess of the ocean and whirlpools Caribbean, S. America |
| Goddess name "Anunitu" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Mother goddess. See also ANTU.... |
| Goddess name "Anunnaki" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Children and courtiers of the god of heaven. Known from at least 2500 BC until circa 200BC (in Babylon). The Anunnaki originate as chthonic fertility deities but later feature as the seven fearsome judges of the underworld who answer to Kur and ERES KIGAL and who are responsible for påśśing sentences of death including that placed on the goddess INANA. They are often closely identified with the IGIGI.... |
| God name "Apsu" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of underground primeval waters. Derived from the Sumerian ABZU. In the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elis Apsu is killed, while sleeping, by ENKI, who establishes his own abode above the deeps. Apsu's death triggered the cosmic challenge between the forces of MARDUK and TIAMAT.... |
| God name "Ardhanari(svara) (the lord being half woman)" | Hindu / Puranic | God. The god SI IVA combined with his SAKTI as a single being. His attendant animal is the bull. In iconography the left side of the image is female and the right male. A tutelary deity of eunuchs in India. Attributes: (right side) blue lotus, cup, hatchet, lute, moon disc, pestle, skin, sword and trident; (left side) ax, mirror, noose, pitcher, rosary, sacred rope and trident. May appear as three-headed. Also Ammaiappan (Tamil); Naranari.... |
| God name "Arjuna (silvery)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Heroic god. Arjuna appears in the Mahabharata epic. One of the princely sons of the mythical Pandu family, his father is INDRA. He generally appears with the warrior god BHIMA. Allegedly responsible for requesting VIS'NU to take his VISVARUPA form but also identified as a minor incarnation or avatara of Vis'nu. Attributes: usually depicted bearing a bow received from AGNI the fire god, but may also appear carrying a sword and shield. Also NARA.... |
| God name "Arsu" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Astraltutelary god. Locally worshiped at Palmyra where he personifies the evening star, in company with his brother AZIZOS who is the morning star. He equates with Ruda elsewhere in northern Arabia. Associated in Palmyra with horses or camels.... |
| Goddess name "Aruru" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Mother goddess. See also NINHURSAG A.... |
| God name "Asalluha" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Minor god. A son of ENKI who apparently acts as a messenger and reporter to his father. Linked with rituals of exorcism. Cult center Ku'ara. In Babylonian times he became largely syncretized with MARDTK.... |
| God name "Asar" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Equestrian god. Known only from inscriptions at Palmyra.... |
| God name "Asira" | Arabian | Pre-Islamic north Arabian local god. |
| God name "Asira" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Local god. Mentioned only in name by the Babylonian king Nabonidus, worshiped at Taima and influenced strongly by Egyptian culture.See also SALM.... |
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