Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Kishimo-jin" | Japan? | A goddess that changed her mind, maybe |
Goddess name "Kiyo Hime" | Japan | Goddess of justice, opened Her heart to a mortal. But then she was abandoned by her lover. When She sought him, he fled from Her. coward, he hid in a temple bell. She took the form of a snake and enwrapped him until Her love-turned-to-anger ended his mortal existence. Japan |
Goddess name "Kono Hana Sakuya" | Japan | Goddess of spring Japan |
Goddess name "Kono-Hana-Sakuya-Hime-No-Kami" | Japan | Goddess of mountains Japan / Shinto |
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 "Ksitigarbha (womb of the earth)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. Known exten sively from northern India to China and Japan. One of the group of female BODHISATTVAS or buddha designates. Color: yellow or green. Attrib utes: Book, bowl, jewel, staff and water jar. In China she is recognized as an underworld deity, Di zang. In Japan she becomes a guardian deity of påśśage, Jizo.... |
Goddess name "Kushi-Dama-Nigi-Haya-Hi (soft fast sun)" | Shinto / Japan | Sun god. The apotheosis of the morning Sun sent down by the Sun goddess AMATERASU before Prince NINIGI appeared on earth.... |
Goddess name "Kwannon" | Japan | Merciful One. A Buddhist boddhisattva and Asian Goddess. Japan |
Goddess name "Kwanonn" | Japan | Merciful One. A Buddhist boddhisattva and Asian Goddess. Japan |
Goddess name "Lha-Mo (the goddess)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Goddess. Coming from the old Bon pantheon and equating with the Hindu goddess SRIDEVI.... |
Goddess name "Lhamo" | Buddhist | Goddess of the Bon pantheon Buddhist / Tibet |
Goddess name "Lhamo/ Lha Mo" | Buddhist / Tibet | A goddess of the Bon pantheon |
Goddess name "MORRIGAN (queen of demons)" | Celtic / Irish | war, fertility and vegetation goddess. A complex goddess displaying various characteristics which are both generative and destructive (see also ANAT, INANA, IS'TAR, ATHENE). At the festival of Samain, she mates with the DAGDA to ensure the future prosperity of the land and as queen Maeve (Medb) of Connaught she was ritually wedded to the mortal king whose antecedent was Ailill. As Nemain (panic) and Badb Catha (raven of battle), she takes on a more warlike and destructive aspect. Rather than engaging directly in conflict, she uses her supernatural powers to spread fear and disarray. The Irish hero Cu Chulainn was thus visited on the battle field by BADB driving a chariot and dressed in a red cloak and with red eyebrows presenting an intimidating appearance. She is capable of changing her shape into various animal forms and in the guise of a raven or a crow is able to foretell the outcome of battle.... |
Goddess name "Mafdet" | Egypt | Minor goddess. She acts as a guardian against snakes and scorpions. She is depicted in the form of a panther, often with the instrument of an executioner.... |
Goddess name "Marishi Ten" | Japan | Goddess of dawn and warriors Japan |
Goddess name "Matres" | Celtic | Triads of mother goddesses Roman / Pan-Celtic |
Goddess name "Mika-Hiya-Hi" | Japan | God of the Sun, subservient to Goddess of the Sun Japan / Shinto |
Goddess name "Mika-Hiya-Hi (terrible swift sun)" | Shinto / Japan | Sun god. A deity subservient to the Sun goddess AMATERASU and engendered from the blood of the fire KAMI KAGU-TSUCHI. Certain Japanese still worship the Sun, going outside in the morning, facing east, bowing and clapping their hands in a daily ritual.See also HI-HIYA-HI.... |