| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Vestal Virgin" | Greek | A nun, a religieuse, properly a maiden dedicated to the service of the goddess Vesta. The duty of these virgins was to keep the fire of the temple always burning, both day and night. They were required to be of spotless chastity. Greek |
| Goddess name "Vetali" | BuddhistLamaist / Tibet | Goddess of terrifying appearance. One of a group of gauri. Color: red. Attribute: a chain.... |
| God name "Viracocha" | Inca | God of storms and war, the chief deity. Inca |
| Goddess name "Vrtra" | Hindu / Vedic | demonic god of chaos. A primordial being who existed before the formation of the cosmos and who was slain by the mother goddess SARASVATI.... |
| Goddess name "Warna" | Scilly Isles | Goddess of healing charms and ship wreckers. |
| God name "Watauinewa" | Tierra del Fuego | The Ancient of Days, "The One Who Does Not Change." The supreme omnipresent and beneficent god of the Yahgan, Tierra del Fuego |
| God name "Wen-chang" | Chinese | God of literature and writing. Chinese |
| God name "Wenchang Wen-ch'ang" | China | Wen Ch'ang, god of literature. China |
| Deities name "Whiro" | Polynesian / Maori | God of death. Regarded as an errant son of the creator deities, RANGINUI and PAPATUANUKU, Whiro stands as the chief antagonist of TANEMAHUTA, the creator god of light. He is, therefore, the personification of darkness and evil. During the time of creation from chaos, Whiro is said to have fought an epic battle against Tanemahuta in the newly formed heavens. He was vanquished and forced to descend into the underworld where he became ruler over the dead and chief among the lesser underworld deities who are responsible for various forms of disease and sickness. In the temporal world the lizard, a symbol of death, embodies him, and various creatures of the night, including the owl and the bat, are earthly representatives from his kingdom, as are such malignant insect pests as the mosquito. This deity is not to be confused with the legendary human voyager and adventurer of the same name whose traditions have, in the past, often been muddled with those of the god.... |
| God name "Willow Pattern" | s | The tradition. The mandarin had an only daughter named Li-chi, who fell in love with Chang, a young man who lived in the island home represented at the top of the pattern, and who had been her father's secretary. The father overheard them one day making vows of love under the orange-tree, and sternly forbade the unequal match; but the lovers contrived to elope, lay concealed for a while in the gardener's cottage, and thence made their escape in a boat to the island home of the young lover. The enraged mandarin pursued them with a whip, and would have beaten them to death had not the gods rewarded their fidelity by changing them both into turtle-doves. The picture is called the willow pattern not only because it is a tale of disastrous love, but because the elopement occurred "when the willow begins to shed its leaves." |
| God name "Wong Taisin (the great immortal Wong)" | Chinese | God. Probably an incarnation or avatara of the god HUANG TI (the yellow emperor), he is considered benevolent. Closely åśśociated with a district in Kowloon which is named after him. His cult arrived in Hong Kong in 1915 from Kwangtung in the form of a painting brought by a man and his son. It was installed in a small temple in Wanchai. In 1921 a larger sanctuary was built, from public funds, facing the sea and backed by Lion Rock.... |
| God name "Xaman Ek" | Aztec | The god of the North Star merchants, business, economy, trade. Aztec |
| God name "Xil Sga'nagwai" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Medicine god. Said to appear as a raven.... |
| God name "Yacacoliuhqui (curved nose)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of commerce and merchants. One of the group clåśśed as the YACATECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Yacapitzahuac (sheep-nose)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of commerce and merchants. One of the group clåśśed as the YACATECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Yacatecuhtli" | Aztec | He Who Goes Before, the patron god of commerce and travelers, especially merchant travelers. Aztec |
| God name "Yacatecuhtli (nose lord)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of commerce and merchants. Head of the group clåśśed as the Yacatecuhtli complex.... |
| God name "Yaldabaoth" | Gnostic Christian | Creator God. The so-called prime parent of Gnostic cosmogony, engendered by PISTIS SOPHIA out of the nothingness of chaos, provided with form and given charge over the substance of the cosmos. Yaldabaoth is, at first, unaware of the existence of Pistis Sophia and, by his own powers, engenders seven androgynous beings, placing them in seven heavens. He decrees himself alone and allpowerful, whereupon Pistis Sophia names him SAMAEL (blind god). Of his offspring, the most significant is SABAOTH, who stands against his father and on the side of Pistis Sophia. When she eventually reveals herself to Yaldabaoth as pure radiant light, he is humbled.... |
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