| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Baiame / Baayami / Baayama" | Australia | Baiame aka Baayami or Baayama, the ancestor and patron god of the Kamilaroi. He is a sky god and a deity of death and life, and a god of Rain and the shamans. Australia |
| God name "Baiame/ Daramulun/ Nurundere Kamilaroi/ Wiradyuri" | Aus | A god of all things & master of life death |
| Goddess name "Bala-Sakti" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Goddess. Youthful deity who presides over six CAKRAS or prayer wheels. Often accompanied by a geometric magical diagram or yantra. Attributes: Book, hook, noose and rosary.... |
| Goddess name "Baltis" | Pre - Islamic / Arabian | Local goddess. Known from Carrhae in western Mesopotamia and identified as the apotheosis of the planet Venus.... |
| God name "Barsamin" | Armenia | weather and sky god. Armenia |
| God name "Barsamin" | Pre Christian Armenian | weather or sky god. Probably derived from the Semitic god BAAL S AMIN.... |
| God name "Basamum" | Arabia | The god of healing in pre-Islamic South Arabia. His name may be derived from the proto-Arabic basam, or balsam, a plant that was used in ancient Medicines. |
| God name "Basamum" | Pre Islamic southern Arabian | God of healing. The name probably derives from the remedial plant balsam.... |
| Goddess name "Beiwe" | Saami | Goddess of the Summer solstice and war Saami / Lappland |
| Goddess name "Bel" | Akkadian | Bel became especially used of the Babylonian god Marduk and when found in Assyrian and neo-Babylonian personal names or mentioned in inscriptions in Mesoptamian context it can usually be taken as referring to Marduk and no other god. Similarly Belit without some disambiguation mostly refers to Bel Marduk's spouse Sarpanit. However Marduk's mother, the Sumerian goddess called Ninhursag, Ningal and Ninmah and other names in Sumerian, was often known as Belit-ili 'Lady of the Gods' in Akkadian. |
| God name "Bel" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Generic title meaning lord. The Babylonian god MARDUK was often addressed as Bel, and the name occurs in the Vetus Testamentum. The New Year festival of akitu in Babylon included a ceremony of leading Bel by the hand. The name also appears at Palmyra as the tutelary creator god whose attributes include lightning and an eagle.... |
| Goddess name "Belet-Ili (lady of tbe gods)" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Mother goddess. Known in Babylon and probably modeled on NINHURSAG A.... |
| Goddess name "Belet-Seri" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Chthonic underworld goddess. The recorder of the dead entering the otherworld. Known as the Scribe of the earth.... |
| Goddess name "Belili" | Mesopotamia | Goddess of the moon Mesopotamia |
| Goddess name "Belili" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess. See GES TIN-ANA.... |
| Goddess name "Beltiya (my lady)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Generic title of goddess. ZARPANITUM (SARPANITUM), the consort of the Babylonian god MARDUK, is often addressed as Beltiya.... |
| God name "Benu" | Egypt / Upper | Transmuted bird-like form of a Sun god. A deity mentioned in Pyramid Texts (circa twenty-fifth century BC) and linked with the Sun god of Heliopolis, ATUM. He is also said to have been self-created from the primeval ocean and is sometimes a symbol of rebirth in the afterlife. Benu may have augmented the Greek clåśśical tradition of the Phoenix. He appears in the Old kingdom as a yellow wagtail but later becomes a heron, wearing the conical white crown of Upper Egypt with two slender feathers pointing backwards from its crest.... |
| Goddess name "Bera Pennu" | Northern Indian | vegetation goddess. Worshiped by the Khonds in Bengal. She was the recipient of human sacrifice to ensure good harvest, particularly of the spice turmeric, and as a protection against disease and infirmity. The sacrificial victim or meriab was youthful, often kept for years as a holy person before death and was always either the offspring of a previous sacrificial victim, or purchased from impoverished families for the purpose. He or she was generally strangled, sometimes in the fork of a tree, after days of festivities. In other instances the victim was cut up alive.... |
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