Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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.... |
Goddess name "Kore (tbe girl)" | Greek | Youthful goddess of the corn. The more generic name for the goddess PERSEPHONE. Identified as the daughter of DEMETER. She is the spirit of the corn as distinct from her mother who is the giver of the corn. Depicted on coinage as a woman's head adorned with ears of corn. She is integral to the Eleusinian Mysteries in which she is abducted to Hades, resulting in the distress of her mother and the blighting of nature. At Samaria-Sebaste in Syrio-Palestine, Kore was the only deity worshiped, apart from the emperor.... |
Goddess name "Korravai" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | war goddess. Worshiped in desert regions in southern India, thought to live in trees and equating to DURGA. She has a son, MURUKAN. Also Katukilal; Korrawi.... |
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.... |
Goddess name "Kotys" | Thrace | A goddess whose worship spread throughout Greece & Italy |
Goddess name "Kubaba" | Anatolian / northern Syrian | Mother goddess. She was worshiped particularly at Carchemish and seems to equate with the Hittite goddess SAUSKA. Attributes include pomegranate and mir ror. Also Gubaba, Kupapa.... |
God name "Kuei Shing" | China | God of literature presides in Ursa major China |
God name "Kuei Shing" | Chinese | God of literature. Believed to reside in the star constellation of Ursa major. Also Zhong-Kui.... |
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" | Japan | God responsible for a harvest of full grown rice, his shrines are often served by Buddhist priests. Japan |
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 "Kuladevata (family god)" | Hindu | Generic name of a household god. The god is chosen by a family to be their guardian deity and they all åśśemble at his temple, as and when necessary, for worship. Also Kulanayaka.... |
Goddess name "Kumari (virgin)" | Hindu | Goddess. Generally recognized to be an epithet of DURGA. Worshiped at a famous temple on the southernmost tip of India at Cape Comorin. Also known in Nepal, where a small girl provides an earthly incarnation of the goddess.... |
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.... |
God name "Kushi-Dama-Nigi-Haya-Hi" | Japan | God of the Sun, the apotheosis of the morning Sun Japan / Shinto |