Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Amelenwa" | Ghana | Goddess of rivers, and justice. Because she is merciless and unforgiving, her followers try to avoid offending her. Ghana |
Goddess name "Ament" | Egypt / Libya | Aka Amenti, "The Westerner," "hidden goddess." Goddess of the underworld and consort of Amen. She greeted all dead people to the land of the dead with bread and water. If they ate and drank, they could not return to the land of the living. Egypt / Libya |
Goddess name "Amma" | Africa | Creator god. He first created the Sun from a clay pot and coils of copper and the moon using a clay pot and bråśś. Black people were created from Sunlight and white from moonlight. He then proceeded to cirçúɱsise the earth goddess, whose çlïtořïś was an anthill and their first offspring was a jackal. She then got pregnant by Rain and produced plants. He then became the father of mankind. Dogon Mali, West Africa |
Goddess name "Amma (2)" | Dogon / Mali, West Africa | Creator god. He first created the Sun by baking a clay pot until it was white hot and coiling a band of copper around it eight times. He created the moon in similar fashion but used bråśś. Black people were created from Sunlight and white from moonlight. Later, having cirçúɱcised the earth goddess, whose çlïtořïś was an anthill, he impregnated her and produced the first creature, a jackal. Next he fertilized her with Rain to engender plant life and finally became the father of mankind.... |
Goddess name "Ammavaru" | Hindu / India / Dravidian | Primordial mother goddess who laid an egg that hatched into the Divine trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Hindu / India / Dravidian |
Goddess name "Ammavaru" | Hindu - Dravidian | Primordial mother goddess. Known locally from east central India and worshiped by the Dravidian tribe of Telugu. She is said to have generated the cosmic egg in the sea of milk from which the major gods BRAHMA, VIS'NU and SIVA were born.... |
Goddess name "Ammit" | Egypt | Goddess who ate the hearts of unworthy souls. Egypt |
Goddess name "Ammut" | Egypt | An underworld goddess that eats the hearts of the evil |
Goddess name "Ammut (devouress of the dead)" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld goddess. A significant deity who allegedly consumes the dead if their hearts are found weighed down with guilt in the Judgment Hall of the Two Truths during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony. Ammut has a fearsome aspect and sits alongside forty-two juror gods named in the Book of the Dead. Depicted with the head of a crocodile, the trunk and fore-limbs of a lion and the hind part of a hippopotamus.See also THOTH and MAAT.... |
Goddess name "Amn" | Egypt | Goddess of justice. Egypt |
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.... |
Goddess name "Amphitrite" | Greek | According to Hesiod (Theogony) and Apollodorus a Nereid, though in other places Apollodorus calls her an Oceanid. She is represented as the wife of Poseidon and the goddess of the sea (the Mediterranean), and she is therefore a kind of female Poseidon. |
Goddess name "Amphitrite" | Greek | Sea goddess. According to Theogony (Hesiod), one of the fifty daughters of NEREUS and DORIS. Considered to calm stormy seas, traveling in a boat made of mussels. She was among those present at the birth of APOLLO.... |
Goddess name "Amponyinamoa" | Ghana | Creator goddess of Ghana. She carries a head and a bråśś pan. |
Goddess name "Amunet" | Egypt | Goddess of mystery. Egypt |
Goddess name "Amunet/ Nuit" | Egypt | A goddess of mystery |
Goddess name "Amutnen" | Egypt | Goddess of milk cows. Egypt |
Goddess name "Amymone" | Greek | A goddess of springs |