Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Emeli Hin Tuareg" | Sudan | A creator god & generic term meaning Lord |
Demon name "Erh Lang" | China | God, with a magic dog, who fights the mountain demons. China |
God name "Eurydice" | Greek | The most famous was a woman-or a nymph-who was the wife of Orpheus. While fleeing from Aristaeus, she was bitten by a serpent and died. Distraught, Orpheus played such sad songs and sang so mournfully that all the nymphs and gods wept and gave him advice. Orpheus accomplished something no other person ever has: he traveled to the underworld and by his music softened the heart of Hades and Persephone, who allowed Eurydice to return with him to the world of the living. Greek |
God name "Fan K'uei" | China | God of butchers. China |
God name "Faro" | Bambara / Mali, West Africa | River god. Regarded as the deity who brought order to the world at the time of creation. He impregnated himself and gave birth to twins who were the first human beings. He is also the progenitor of fish stocks in the river Niger. His chief adversary is the god of the desert wind, TELIKO. Faro is propitiated annually by a Komo society of men in a ritual of dancing. They use a special mask which is created anew each year. According to legend Faro came to earth after a long period of drought during which most of the living things died. He also gave mankind the gift of speech.... |
God name "Fei Lien" | China | A demigod, one of the Counts of the winds. China |
God name "Fei Lien/ Fewi Lian/ Feng Bo" | China | A god of the wind |
Goddess name "Feng Pho Pho" | China | A goddess of the winds |
God name "Feng Po" | China | A sky god of the wind |
God name "Feng Po" | Chinese | sky god. Described as the Count of the wind, which he releases from a sack, he has strong links with the sea. He was originally regarded as malevolent and the antagonist of the god Shen Yi. Feng Po may be depicted in human form as an old man with a white beard, or in the guise of a dragon with the head of a bird or a deer. Also Fei Lian; Fei Lien; Feng Bo.... |
Goddess name "Feng Po Po" | China | Goddess of the wind and embodies the elements of air and water. China |
God name "Fengbo" | China | Another god of the wind |
God name "Foto-Tama" | Japan / Shinto | An ancestral god |
God name "Frigg" | Norse | [Love]. She is the wife of Odin, and mother of Balder and queen of the gods, and reigns with Odin in Hlidskjalf. She exacts an oath from all things that they shall not harm Balder. Norse |
God name "Fu Hsi" | China | God of fishing nets,vegetation, of happiness and the inventor of writing. China |
God name "Fu Shen" | China | God of happiness. China |
God name "Fu Shen" | Chinese | God of luck. He is often linked in iconography with TSAI SHEN, god of wealth, and SHOU LAO, god of longevity. Usually depicted with his son, and wearing blue robes, which sig nify his official position.... |
God name "Fu-His" | China | God of Agriculture / vegetation and inventor of writing. China |