| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Phyi-Sgrub" | Buddhist | Form of the god Yama Buddhist / Tibet |
| God name "Phyi-Sgrub (the external one)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | God. A form of the god YAMA who rides a buffalo or a bull. Color: blue, yellow or white. Attributes: noose, prayer wheel and staff surmounted by a skeleton.... |
| God name "Rakta-Yamari (red Yamari)" | Buddhist | God. An emanation of AKSOBHYA and a variety of YAMARI. Color: red.... |
| God name "San Sgrub Bon" | Tibet | A god that was absorbed into a variety of Yama in Lamaism |
| Goddess name "Sanjna (conscience)" | Hindu | Goddess. The daughter of TVASTAR, a consort of SURYA and, in some texts, the mother of YAMA.... |
| Goddess name "Saranyu (the fleet one)" | Hindu / Vedic | Primordial goddess of uncertain affinities. Saranyu is the daughter of the god TVASTAR, and the sister of VISVARUPA. Her consort is Vivasvat, by whom she is said to be the mother of YAMA and YAMI, the twin progenitors of the human race. Little else is known of her, but she is accounted as having an impetuous nature.See also VIVASVAN.... |
| Deities name "Shiia-Tsu-Niko" | Shinto / Japan | God of winds. The most senior of his group of wind deities, he disperses the morning mists and brings soft rustling breezes. His consort is Shina-Tsu-Hime and the couple are extensively worshiped by farmers and seafarers. They were allegedly responsible for bringing about a miracle in the thirteenth century AD when they kept at bay, with off-spéñïś winds, the army of Gengis Khan. They are honored in the main IseJingu temple of Shintoism but their chief sanctuary is at Tatta, a small town in Yamamoto. Also Shina-Tobe-No-Mikoto.... |
| God name "Sraddha-deva" | Hindu | An epithet of Yama, the god of death and king of the underworld. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Syamatara" | Buddhist | Goddess, believed to be incarnated as the Nepali princess. Buddhist |
| Goddess name "Syamatara (tbe black Tara)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Goddess. A gracious form of the goddess TARA. Also an emanation of AMOGHASIDDHI and a form of AVALOKITESVARA. Color: black, possibly green. Attribute: blue lotus.... |
| God name "Tanokami" | Japan | Rice field god of the Yamagata Prefecture. Japan |
| Goddess name "Tara (power of hunger)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | (1) Goddess. May originally have had astral connotations, since the word can be interpreted as star. One of a group of MAHAVIDYAS personifying the SAKTI of SI IVA. She may also be the consort of CANDRA (SOMA). Aspects include Krodharatri. Attributes: knife, skin, skull, snakes and sword. Three-eyed.(2) Goddess. Buddhist (Mahayana and Vajrayana). An epithet of the mother of the BUDDHA, Maya. Also one of a series of female deities, the DHYANIBUDDHASAKTI considered to be aspects of the Sakti of AVALOKITESVARA or of AMOGASHIDDHI. She may also be the Sakti of ADIBIDDHA and of the various DHYANIBUDDHAS, in which case she is characterized by their colors. These Taras thus become White Tara and so on.See also BHRKUTI, EKAJATA, KURUKULLA, SITATARA and SYAMATARA. In Tibetan Buddhism she is known as sGrol-ma.... |
| Goddess name "Vivasvan (shining)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Sun god. The original Vedic list of six descendants of the goddess ADITI or ADITYAS, all of whom take the role of Sun gods was, in later times, enlarged to twelve, including Vivasvan. One of his titles is the embodiment of ancestral law. His consort is SARANYU and he is identified as the father of YAMA and YAMI, as well as MANU and the ASVINS. His color is golden and his attributes a Forest garland, two lotuses and a trident. Also Vivasvat.... |
| Goddess name "Waka-Sa-Na-Me-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Agricultural goddess. The deity specifically concerned with the transplanting of young rice. A daughter of Ha-Yama-To-No-Kami and O-Ge-Tsu-Hime. Generally served by Buddhist priests. See also WAKA-TOSHI-NO-KAMI and KUKU-TOSHI-NO-KAMI.... |
| God name "Waka-Toshi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Agricultural god. The deity specifically concerned with the growing of young rice. A son of Ha-Yama-To-No-Kami and O-GeTsu-Hime. Generally served by Buddhist priests. See also WAKA-SA-NA-ME-NO-KAMI and KUKU-TOSHI-NO-KAMI.... |
| Goddess name "Yama (1) (twin; alternatively the restrainer)" | Hindu / Vedic | God of death. The son of Vavasvan and Saranju, or of SURYA and SANJNA, his consort is DHUMORNA or YAMI. Yama is also the judge of the dead and the twin sibling of Yami, goddess of death. When KRSNA is perceived as the embodiment of the cosmos, his eye-teeth are Yama. He evolved into a dikpala or guardian of the southerly direction. His animal is a black buffalo. Color: black.... |
| God name "Yama-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | mountain god. Specifically the deity who comes down to the rice paddies in spring and returns in autumn. The festival of Nolde-No-Shinji marks his descent.... |
| Goddess name "Yamaduti" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Messenger goddess. An attendant of YAMA. Her vehicle is a buffalo. Color: blue. Attributes: cup, fly whisk, knife and lotus.... |
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