Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Mitra (friend)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Minor Sun god. An Aditya, one of six descendants of ADITI, he was originally åśśociated with VARUNA (Vedic), ruling the day while Varuna ruled the night. It is from this model that first MITHRA (Persian) and then MITHRAS (Roman) were derived. He is also the god of intimate friendship. Attributes: two lotuses, trident and a sacrificial drink or soma.... |
Goddess name "Ninsikil" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | The goddess of Dilmun. The patron deity of the mythical Paradise land of Dilmun which seems to have been perceived as somewhere off the coast of the Persian Gulf but firmly beyond the frontiers of Sumer. It is Ninsikil who pleads with Enki to provide the earth with the boon of fresh water in the sacred rivers Tigris and Euphrates.... |
Goddess name "Pairikas" | Persia | Goddesses of drought. Persia |
God name "Rasnu" | Persian / Iran | God of påśśage and justice. The guardian of the bridge which leads to the otherworld. He weighs souls in the scales at the final judgment.... |
Goddess name "Sadwes" | Persia | A goddess Rain, of storms, thunder, lightning, hail, snow |
Goddess name "Sirara" | Akkadia | Goddess of the Persian Gulf. In creation mythology she is given charge over the waters of the Gulf by the god Enki Akkadia |
Goddess name "Sirara" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess of the Persian Gulf. In creation mythology she is given charge over the waters of the Gulf by the god ENKI.... |
God name "Vata" | Hindu / Persian | God of the wind and a deity with a violent personality. Hindu / Persian |
God name "Vata" | Hindu / Vedic / / Persian / Iran | God of wind. The name appears in the Rg Veda as a deity of violent personality. According to Asvestan tradition the god of victory, VERETHRAGNA, appeared to Zarathustra in the guise of Vata.... |
God name "Verethragna" | Persian / Iran | God of victories. He is embodied by the wild boar which possesses iron-shod feet to crush opponents and is perceived to be present in the wind.... |
God name "Verethragna Persia" | Iran | The god of victory, he is perceived to be present in the wind |
God name "Zurvan" | Persia | God of infinite time Persia |
God name "Zurvan" | Persian / Iran | God of temporal time and fate. Once the focus of a cult of Zervanism in which he appeared as the father of AHURA MAZDA, the god of light, and AHRIMAN, god of darkness, in Zoroastrianism. He is perceived as a god of destiny and the controller of all roads which mankind may take, leading ultimately to the otherworld. He was adopted into Manichaean religion. Also Zervan.... |
God name "sMan-Bla (physician)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | God. One of the more popular Medicine-buddhas and possibly derived from Persian light-religion. Attributes: fruit and waterjar.... |