| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Ki (the great one)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Archetypal chthonic principle. According to some traditions, Ki is the daughter of ANS'AR and KIS'AR and consort of AN. As the cosmos came into being, An took the role of god of heaven and Ki became the personification of the earth and underworld. She is the mother of the god of the air, ENLIL, with whom she descended from the heavens. Some authorities argue that she was never regarded as a deity. There is no evidence of a cult and the name appears in a limited number of Sumerian creation texts. The name URAS (tilth) may relate.See also ANTU(M).... |
| Goddess name "Kianda" | Angola | A goddess of the sea. She was traditionally worshipped by throwing offerings such as food and clothing into the sea. Angola |
| 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 "Kono-Hana-Sakuya-Hime-No-Kami" | Japan | Goddess of mountains Japan / Shinto |
| Goddess name "Kono-Hana-Sakuya-Hime-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | mountain goddess. The deity who guards the sacred Mount Fuji. A daughter of O-YAMA-TSU-MI and the consort of Prince NINIGI, her shrine is located on the summit of the mountain. She is also closely åśśociated with Mount Asama about 80 kilometers to the north.... |
| God name "Koto-Shiro-Nushi" | Japan | God of love Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Koto-Shiro-Nushi" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. Probably syncretized early in Shintoism with the god EBISU.... |
| Supreme god name "Kronos" | Pre - Greek | Archetypal fertility god. He is of unknown origin but is the son of the earth mother GAIA and the sky god OURANOS, whom he usurped after castrating him. His consort is RHEA. So as not to suffer a similar fate to his father he swallowed all his children except ZEUS who was kept from him by a ruse. Zeus eventually hurled Kronos into Tartaros, the abyss in which all the TITANS were confined. He was celebrated in the Greek harvest festival of kronia which equalled the Roman saturnalia. During Hellenic times he was the supreme god at Byblos [Syria]. He is depicted on coinage of Antiochus IV (175-164 BC) nude, leaning on a scepter, with three pairs of wings, two spread and one folded.... |
| God name "Kuku-Ki-Waka-Muro-Tsuna-Ne-NoKami" | Shinto / Japan | Guardian deity. The god who guards the house and its environs as a whole.... |
| God name "Kuku-Ki-Waka-Murpo-Tsuna-Ne-No-Kami" | Japan / Shinto | The god that guards the home & its environs |
| God name "Kuku-Toshi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of grain. The deity responsible for the harvest of full-grown rice. His shrines are often serviced by Buddhist priests.... |
| God name "Kura-Okami-No-Kami" | Japan | Rain god who may also cause snow falls Japan / Shinto |
| God name "Kura-Okami-No-Kami (great producer of rain on the heights)" | Shinto / Japan | Rain god. Known alternatively as the dark Rain god, he may also generate snow falls.... |
| Demon name "Kurma" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | Avatar of Visnu. In the form of a tortoise he placed himself at the bottom of the sea of milk, and made his back the base or pivot of the mountain Mandara. The gods and demons twisted the great serpent Vasuki round the mountain' and, dividing into two parties, each took an end of the snake as a rope, and thus churned the sea until they recovered the desired objects. Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
| God name "Kushi-Dama-Nigi-Haya-Hi" | Japan | God of the Sun, the apotheosis of the morning Sun Japan / Shinto |
| Goddess name "Kushi-Dama-Nigi-Haya-Hi (soft fast sun)" | Shinto / Japan | Sun god. The apotheosis of the morning Sun sent down by the Sun goddess AMATERASU before Prince NINIGI appeared on earth.... |
| God name "Kushi-Iwa-Mado-No-Mikoto" | Shinto / Japan | Guardian deity. The god who protects entrance gates.... |
| God name "Kushi-Iwa-Mado-no-Mikoto" | Japan | Guardian god, protects entrance gates Japan / Shinto |
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