Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Jagadhamba" | Hindu | She Who dances the dance of life. The goddess of the cosmic energy which motivates evolution. Hindu |
God name "Jok" | African | Creator god. A generic term employed by a large number of tribes. Generally the jok is represented by a totem and also has an animal name. The Acholi in Uganda perceive jok to live in caves to which they deliver food and drink offerings. For the Shilluk in Sudan, Jwok created mankind from river clay.... |
God name "Jumjum" | Sudan | The high god of the Dyong, Sudan |
God name "Kai Yum (singing lord)" | Mayan / Lacandon / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of music. He lives in the sky and is attendant on CACOCH, one of the aspects the Mayan creator god. Depicted as a brazier shaped like a pottery drum.... |
God name "Kakka" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Minor god. He was the attendant and minister of state to both ANU and ANS AR, and is known particularly from the text of Nergal and Ere skigal.... |
Goddess name "Kala-Bhadra" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor goddess of death. An auspicious attendant of funerals who is invoked in burial grounds in order to safeguard the påśśage of the dead to the otherworld. She is sometimes referred to as Karala-Bhadra.... |
Goddess name "Kali" | Hindu | Goddess of cemeteries, destruction and death who helped dance the universe into existence Hindu / Puranic / India |
Goddess name "Kali" | Hindu / Puranic / India | A goddess of cemeteries, destruction & death that helped dance the universe into existence |
God name "Kaligii-Rudna (the funerary fire Rudra)" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor god. A violent representation of SIVA who is attendant at cremations and whose warlike attributes include sword, shield, bow and arrow.... |
Goddess name "Kamini (loving woman)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
God name "Kamos Moab" | Jordan | Chief god who when Hellenized became equated with Ares Jordan |
Goddess name "Kapalini (carrying a cup)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
Goddess name "Karini" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Inferior goddess. An attendant of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
God name "Karttikeya" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | (1) God. A form of SKANDA who was reared by the Pleiades stars and is generally represented therefore with six heads. (In Hindu mythology there are only six Pleiades, not the seven recognized in modern astronomy.) His SAKTI is KARTTIKI and his attendant animal is a peaçõçk. Attributes: conch, hook, noose, prayer wheel, shield, spear, staff, sword and wood apple.(2) God. Buddhist. Equating with the Hindu god Skanda. Color: red. Rides upon a peaçõçk. Attributes: çõçk, Sakti and staff.... |
Goddess name "Katyayarii" | Hindu / Puranic | Form of the goddess DURGA or PARVATI. Parvati, as the ascetic KALI, possessed a black skin. When SIVA ridiculed her she cast it off, and it was subsequently filled with the combined brilliance of the gods to create Katyayani. Her attendant animal is a lion or tiger.... |
God name "Kemos" | Moabite / Jordan | Tutelary god. Mentioned under the name of Chemosh in the Vetus Testamentum kings, as being one of the gods worshiped by the Israelite king Solomon. Eventually adopted by the Greeks and absorbed into the cult of ARES.... |
God name "Kemos Moab" | Jordan | Tutelary god Jordan |
Goddess name "Keret" | Phonecian | A son of El and soldier of the Goddess Sapas, but not very brave. Fought against the moon God Terah at his father's behest (eventually), but lost. Bought a costly wife: his son, Danel, was a prodigy. Phonecian |