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Goddess name "Ekajata (she who has but one chignon)" | Buddhist / Varjayana | Goddess of good fortune. She offers happiness and removes personal obstacles. Occasionally found attending the goddess Khadirayani-Tara. She is an emanation of AKSOBHYA and a form of TARA. She may have one or twelve heads. Color: blue. Attributes: arrow, ax, bell, blue lotus, Book, bow, conch, cup, hook, image of AMITABHA on the crown, knife, noose, skull, staff, sword and tiger skin. Three-eyed.... |
Goddess name "Ganapatihrdaya" | Buddhist | Minor goddess Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Ganapatihrdaya (the heart of Ganapati)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. The SAKTI of GANAPATI.... |
Goddess name "Ganda Tara" | Buddhist | Minor goddess Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Gandha Tara (fragrance-Tara)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. Color: red. Attribute: conch with sandalwood resin.... |
Goddess name "Grahamatrka (demon motber)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. One of the forms of VAIROCANA. Attributes: arrow, bow, lotus and staff. Three-headed.... |
Goddess name "Hanuman (with large jaws)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Monkey god. Hanuman attends RAMA, one of the incarnations of VISINU, and personifies the ideal and faithful servant. He is the son of PAVANA, the god of winds, and is noted for his speed and agility in which context he is often worshiped by young men and athletes. He leads a mythical Forest army of monkeys, and is depicted as a monkey with a long tail. He takes a major role in the Ramayana epic searching for, and rescuing, the goddess SITA who has been captured by the demon Ravana. He may appear trampling on the goddess of Lanka [Sri Lanka]. Worshiped particularly in southern India but more generally in villages. Color: red. Attributes: bow, club, mane, rock and staff. May appear five-headed.... |
Goddess name "Hayasya" | Hindu | (1) horse god. Probably identical with Hayagriva.(2) horse goddess. Buddhist. Attribute: the head of a horse.... |
Goddess name "Ih P'eu" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. The deity concerned with the growth of plants, and consort of the bean goddess IX KANAN. He is also god of family life, property and other wealth. The couple are invoked as a single personality with the sacrificeof turkeys and chickens at sowing time. Ih Fen may be represented sowing maize seed.... |
Goddess name "Isdustaya" | Proto-Hattic | Goddess of of fate Proto-Hattic |
Goddess name "Ix Ahau" | Mayan | Goddess of the moon Mayan |
Goddess name "Ix Ch'up" | Mayan | Goddess of the moon Mayan |
Goddess name "Ix Chebel Yax" | Mayan | Goddess of teaching, childbirth, the moon, sexual relations, storms and water Mayan |
Goddess name "Ix Chebel Yax" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Mother goddess. Goddess of weaving and patroness of weavers, whose tutelage is shared with IX CHEL.See also CHIBIRIAS.... |
Goddess name "Ix Chel" | Maya | The goddess of the moon. Maya |
Goddess name "Ix Chel" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon goddess. Also the goddess of childbirth and Medicine and of Rain bows. A consort of the Sun god. She has a major shrine as Cozumel and small figurines of the goddess have been conventionally placed beneath the beds of women in labor. Such women are considered to be in great danger at times of lunar eclipse when the unborn child may develop deformities. Ix Chel is a guardian against disease and the Quiche Indians regard her as a goddess of fertility and sexual inter course. A goddess of weaving, believed to be the first being on earth to weave cloth, she was employed in this craft when she first attracted the attention of the Sun god. She carries her loom sticks across the sky to protect her from jaguars. Under Chris tian influence she has been largely syncretized with the Virgin Mary.See also IX CHEBEL YAX.... |
Goddess name "Ix Kanan" | Mayan | Vgetation goddess who takes care of bean plant Mayan |
Goddess name "Ix Kanan" | Mayan / Mesoamer ican / Mexico | vegetation goddess. The guardian of the bean plant. Her consort is the maize god IH P'EN. The cou ple are invoked at sowing time when turkeys and chickens are sacrificed.... |