| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "ADONIS (lord)" | Lebanon / Syria | Fertility and vegetation god. Adonis is modeled on the Mesopotamian dying vegetation god DUMUZI (Hebrew: Tammuz). He appears as a youthful deity. The river Adonis [Nahr Ibrahim] is sacred to him largely because its waters flow red after heavy Winter Rains, having become saturated with ferrous oxide. In Hellenic tradition he is the son of the mythical Cyprian king Cinyras and his mother is MYRRHA. According to Hesiod he is also the son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea. He is the consort of APHRODITE. Tradition has it that he was killed by a boar during a hunting expedition and is condemned to the underworld for six months of each year, during which the earth's vegetation parches and dies under the summer Sun and drought. He was honored in a spring festival when priests in effeminate costume gashed themselves with knives. Frequently depicted nude and sometimes carrying a lyre. Also ATTIS (Phrygian); ATUNIS (Etruscan).... |
| God name "Agnikumara" | Jain / India | They are youthful appearing gods åśśociated with Rain & thunder |
| God name "Agnikumara" | Jain / India | God. One of the groups under the general title of BHAVANAVASI (dwelling in places). They have a youthful appearance and are åśśociated with Rain and thunder.... |
| God name "Ah Bolon Dz'acab (many generations)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. A god identified with Rain and thunder. Also strongly linked with Agriculture and young crops. Possibly a vegetation avatara of the iguana god ITZAM NA. Attributes include a leaf-like ornament worn in the nose. Also God K.... |
| Goddess name "Ah Kin (he of the sun)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Sun god. A deity of ambivalent personality, the young suitor of the moon goddess Acna, also the aged Sun god in the sky. He is feared as the bringer of drought, but also protects mankind from the powers of evil åśśociated with darkness. Said to be carried through the underworld at night on the shoulders of the god Sucunyum. Ah Kin is prayed to at Sunrise and rituals include the burning of incense. He is invoked to cure illness and to bring wives to bachelors. Attributes include a square third eye subtended by a loop, a strong Roman nose, a squint and incisor teeth filed to a T-shape. Also Acan Chob (Lacandon); Chi Chac Chob; Kinich Ahau; God G.... |
| God name "Ame-Waka-Hiko (heavenly young prince)" | Shinto / Japan | God. According to tradition he was sent to earth on a vital mission but became preoccupied with a number of mortal women, forgot his purpose and did not report back to heaven. His punishment was to be slain by an arrow fired from the heavenly true deer bow.... |
| Goddess name "Amor" | Roman | God of love. Developed from the Greek god Eros. Depicted as a winged youth. According to tradition he awoke the goddess Psyche with a kiss. Attributes include arrows, bow and torch. The popular epithet Cupid was only applied by poets.... |
| Supreme god name "Asis" | Kenya / Uganda | God of the Sun. The younger brother of the supreme god of heaven Tororut. In Nandi Asis becomes the supreme creator god. Kenya / Uganda |
| Supreme god name "Asis" | Suk / Pokot / Kenya / Uganda, East Africa | Sun god. These two tribes share the same pantheon. The younger brother of the supreme god of heaven TORORUT. In Nandi [Kenya] religion, Asis becomes the supreme creator god.... |
| God name "Asurakumara" | Jain / India | God. One of the groups under the general title of BHVANAVASI (dwelling in places). They have a youthful appearance and are åśśociated with Rain and thunder.... |
| God name "Asurkumara" | Bhavanpati | Asurkumara along with Parmagati Amb and Ambrish, youthful gods åśśociated with Rain and thunder. Bhavanpati |
| God name "Ataa Naa Nyongmo Gan" | Ghana | The creator god that controls the Sun & the Rain, call causes disasters as epidemics & and earthquakes if you don't follow his rules |
| God name "Bacchus" | Greek | The youthful, beautiful, but effeminate god of wine. He is also called both by Greeks and Romans Dionysus. |
| God name "Baj Bajania" | Yakut | Rather joyous Forest god.Yakut |
| Goddess name "Bala (girl)" | Hindu | (1) Mother goddess. (Epic and Puranic). Of vague affinity but generally of youthful appearance. Seated upon a lotus throne. Attributes: Book and rosary. 2. Messenger goddess. Jain [India]. One of the twenty-four SASANADEVATAS.... |
| Goddess name "Bala-Sakti" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Goddess. Youthful deity who presides over six CAKRAS or prayer wheels. Often accompanied by a geometric magical diagram or yantra. Attributes: Book, hook, noose and rosary.... |
| God name "Belata-Cardu" | Gaul | God of the destruction of your enemies. Gaul |
| Goddess name "Bera Pennu" | Northern Indian | vegetation goddess. Worshiped by the Khonds in Bengal. She was the recipient of human sacrifice to ensure good harvest, particularly of the spice turmeric, and as a protection against disease and infirmity. The sacrificial victim or meriab was youthful, often kept for years as a holy person before death and was always either the offspring of a previous sacrificial victim, or purchased from impoverished families for the purpose. He or she was generally strangled, sometimes in the fork of a tree, after days of festivities. In other instances the victim was cut up alive.... |
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