| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Vacuna" | Sabine | Minor goddess. A sanctuary dedicated to this deity is known to have existed near the villa belonging to the poet Horace. She may be synonymous with DIANA or MINERVA.... |
| God name "Vagitåñuś" | Roman | this minor god of påśśage was the guardian of the press first cry at birth |
| God name "Vagitåñuś" | Roman | Minor god of påśśage. The guardian of the infant's first cry at birth.... |
| Goddess name "Vajraghanta" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. A female dikpala or guardian of the northern direction. Color: green or white. Attributes: staff with bell.... |
| Goddess name "Vajrapasi" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. A female dikpala or guardian of the southern direction. Color: yellow. Attributes: staff with noose.... |
| Goddess name "Vajrasphota" | Buddhist | Goddess. A female dikpala or guardian of the western direction. Attribute: staff.... |
| Deities name "Vajrosnisa" | Buddhist | God. Apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the easterly direction. Color: white.See also PADMANTAKA.... |
| God name "Vayu (2)" | Buddhist | God. A dikpala or guardian of the northwestern quarter.... |
| God name "Venda" | Dravidian | Creator god, an ancient vegetation deity Dravidian / Tamil |
| God name "Venda" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Creator god. An ancient vegetation deity. Worshiped in villages on the plains, thought to live in trees and equated with Indra.... |
| God name "Vigrieaetaka (remover of obstacles)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. An emanation of AKSOBHYA who may equate with the Hindu god GANESA. Color: blue. He is also seen as a dikpala or guardian of the northerly direction, in which case his color is green. Attributes: cup, drum, hook, knife, noose and staff. Three-headed. Also Analarka.... |
| Goddess name "Virbius" | Roman | An ancient mythical king of Aricia and a favourite of Diana, who, when he had died, called him to life and intrusted him to the care of the nymph Aegeria. The fact of his being a favourite of Diana, the Taurian goddess, seems to have led the Romans to identify him with Hippolytus who, according to some traditions, had established the worship of Diana. Roman |
| God name "Virbius" | Roman | Minor chthonic god. A malevolent underworld deity who was frequently invoked during the worship of Diana in the Arician woodlands surrounding her sanctuary at Nemi. Virbius was reputed to prowl these woods and to be an emanation of Hippolytus, a mortal who had been trampled to death by his horses and made immortal by Aesculapius. For this reason the Arician woods were barred to horses.... |
| Demon name "Virudhaka (sprouted)" | Buddhist | God. A dikpala or guardian of the southerly direction. Color: blue or green. Attributes: skin from the head of an elephant and sword. Also identified as the head of a group of demons, the kumbhandas.... |
| Deities name "Visvosnisa" | Buddhist | God. An USNISA apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the southerly direction. Color: green.... |
| Goddess name "Volumna" | Roman | Nursery goddess. The guardian deity of the nursery and of infants.... |
| Spirit name "Wakai Taaika" | Dakota Indian / USA | Creator god. A remote and vaguely defined deity invoked by the shamans of the tribe. Also a generic term equating to the spirit which, in an animistic and shamanistic religion, all things existing in nature possess.... |
| Spirit name "Wakonea" | Omaha Indian / USA | Creator god. A remote and vaguely defined deity invoked by the shamans of the tribe. Also a generic term equating to the spirit which, in an animistic and shamanistic religion, all things existing in nature possess.... |
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