Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Gunura" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | deity of uncertain status. Described variously as the husband of the goddess NIN'INSINA and the father of Damu (DUMUZI), but also as the sister of Damu.... |
Supreme god name "Hammon aka Ammon" | Libya | An oracle god who had the shape of a ram. This was taken over by the Egyptians, who identified the god with their supreme god Amun; they called god of the oracle 'Amun of Siwa, lord of good counsel'. Libya |
Goddess name "Heket" | Egypt | Frog goddess concerned with birth. Minor deity who by some traditions is the consort of HAROERIS (see also HORUS). Texts refer to a major sanctuary at Tuna et-Gebel which has been totally obliterated. The remains of another sanctuary survive at Qus in Upper Egypt. In the Pyramid Texts she is referred to as a deity who eases the final stages of labor. Depicted as wholly frog-like or as a frog-headed human figure, often found on amulets or other magical devices åśśociated with childbirth.... |
God name "Huisiniamui" | Peru | A god of the Sun and sky. He invented vegetation, but was also fond of headhunting and cannibalism. Peru |
Goddess name "Ipet/ Ipi" | Egypt | She started life as a hippopotamus goddess |
Goddess name "Ipy" | Egypt | Mother goddess. In the Pyramid Texts Ipy appears occasionally as a benevolent guardian and wet nurse to the king. She is also perceived to exert a benign influence on amulets. Depicted as a hippopotamus or anthropomorphically with a hippo's head. Also Ipet.... |
Goddess name "Ipy aka Ipet" | Egypt | Apet, Opet, a benign hippopotamus goddess known as a protective and nourishing deity. Egypt |
God name "Kaliya" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor serpent god. One of the nagas in the endless conflict between good and evil, he poisoned the fresh water with his venom. The young KRSNA revived all the life which had drunk from it and then almost destroyed Kaliya before taking the snake as one of his followers. By tradition he lives in depths of the river Yamuna.... |
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.... |
God name "Kamui" | Japan | sky god Japan |
Goddess name "Kamui-fuchi" | Ainu | Lady Hearth. A Hearth Goddess who is also known as the Supreme Ancestress and the spirit of female reproductivity and the home. Ainu, Japan |
God name "Kamui/ Tuntu" | Ainu / Japan | the sky god |
God name "Kematef" | Egypt | An epitaph for the primeval god Amun |
God name "Khadau" | Hindu | A pair of wooden sandles once worn by the hindu god Ram. Bharat placed them symbolically on Ayodhya's throne. Amur, Siberia |
Goddess name "Khons(u) (wanderer)" | Egypt / Upper | moon god. Recognized from at least 2500 BC but best known during the New kingdom (mid-sixteenth century BC). A significant deity at Thebes, where he is described as an offspring of AMUN and MUT. His sacred animal is the baboon. There is a Khonsu precinct as part of the Temple of Amun in the Karnak complex. From the Greco-Roman period there exists a sanctuary of Kom-ombo where Khonsu is seen as the offspring of the crocodile god SOBEK and the mother goddess HATHOR. Depicted anthropomorphically or with a falcon's head, but in either case enveloped in a close-fitting robe. He wears a crown consisting of a crescent moon subtending a full moon orb.... |
Spirit name "Kneph" | Egypt | Was originally the breath of life, his name meaning soul-breath. Indeed, according to Plutarch and Diodorus, kneph was identical with the Greek pneuma. Kneph in this context was a spirit that breathed life into things, giving them form. Egypt Kneph eventually became considered to be the creator god himself, in Elephantine, although his identity was finally åśśimilated into the more important god Amun. |
Goddess name "Komodia" | Greek | Goddess of happiness and amu√åǧïñåt Greek |
Goddess name "Krsodari (thin-waisted)" | Hindu | Goddess. An emaciated form of CAMUNDA, a personification of famine. She stands upon a corpse. Attributes: club, iron rod, skull and trident.... |