| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Noctiluca" | Spanish | Goddess of the moon, fertility, life, death and hunting. Spanish |
| God name "Nong" | Afghanistan | God of Winter and cold weather who lives in a glacier, he does not like women Afghanistan |
| God name "Nong" | Kafir / Afghanistan | God of Winter and cold weather. Nong lives in a glacier. He cracks the ice and is seen in the melt water. He is perceived as a misogynist and depicted in a wooden effigy, though whether in human form is unclear. His cult center seems to have been the village of Zumu in the southern Hindukush. Also Zuzum.... |
| God name "Nong/ Zuzum" | Kafir / Afghanistan | The god of Winter & cold weather that lives in a glacier, he does not like women |
| God name "O-Kuni-Nushi-No-Mikoto" | Shinto / Japan | Creator god. The great organizer and consolidator of the earth in the creation mythology of Shintoism. He took up his duties after IZANAGI and IZANAMI had created the land. Tradition has it that he first underwent a series of ordeals and then reigned over the world. He has many consorts and innumerable offspring.... |
| God name "Obatala" | Yoruba | A creator god; he made human bodies, and his father, Olorun breathed life into them. While Olorun is considered the creator of the universe, Obatala created the world and humanity, being seen as the father of orishas and humankind. Yoruba |
| 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 "Occopirmus" | Lithuania | Ockopirmus. Baltic god of the sky and the stars. Lithuania |
| Goddess name "Okeanides" | Greek / Roman | Minor sea goddesses There were åśśigned to guard ship motions by the larger gods & invoked by seafarers, others say that they are river gods |
| Goddess name "Okeanides" | Greco - Roman | Sea deities. Minor goddesses åśśigned the guardianship of oceans by the great gods and invoked by seafarers. In alternative tradition, they are river gods, the sons of OKEANOS.... |
| God name "Okeanos" | Greek | God of the oceans. A deity who remained at his post when most of the other gods were summoned to Olympus by ZEUS. His consort is TETHYS and he fathered children who included the OKEANIDES, mainly river gods, and a large number of daughters headed by STYX, and including DORIS, METIS, and TYCHE.... |
| Goddess name "Omorca" | Babylonian | The goddess who was sovereign of the universe when it was first created. It was covered with water and darkness, but contained some few animals of monster forms, representations of which may be seen in the Temple of Bel. Babylonian |
| Goddess name "Onuris [Greek]" | Egypt | God of hunting and war. Onuris is first known from This, near Abydos in Upper Egypt. In later times his main cult center was at Samannud in the Nile delta. His consort is the lion goddess Mekhit. Onuris is generally depicted in human form as a bearded figure wearing a crown with four plumes and wielding a spear or occasionally holding a rope. He is sometimes accompanied by Mekhit in iconography. Seen as a hunter who caught and slew the enemies of RE, the Egyptian Sun god, some legends place him close to the battle between HORUS and SETH. In clåśśical times, Onuris became largely syncretized with the Greek war god ARES. Also Anhuret (Egyptian).... |
| God name "Ordog" | Pre - Christian Hungarian | Chthonic malevolent god. After Christianization he became syncretized with the devil.... |
| Spirit name "Oreades" | GrecoRoman | Animistic spirits of the mountains. Female personalities åśśigned the guardianship of mountains by the great gods. Invoked by travelers to ensure their safety.... |
| God name "Orehu" | Peru | A woman sent by the god Arawanili to teach the Arawaks about religion. Peru |
| Supreme god name "Orisha" | Yoruba | Orisa, Orixa, a spirit that reflects one of the manifestations of Olodumare, supreme god, in the Yoruba spiritual or religious system. |
| God name "Orunmila" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | God of destiny. He accompanied the creator god OLODUMARE at the creation of the world and when the destinies of mankind were decided. He is consulted in an oracular capacity at IFA and makes decisions on such matters as choice of sacrificial animals. He is also a god of healing and in many households enjoys personal shrines which include palm nuts, fragments of ivory and sea shells.... |
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