Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Baba" | Sumeria | Goddess of healing and fertility. Sumeria |
God name "Babi" | Egypt | Malevolent god. Known from as early as the Old kingdom (circa 2700 BC). Babi is seen as a violent and hostile deity whose presence can be highly dangerous during the ceremony of the Weighing of the Heart in the Hall of the Two Truths (see also AMMUT). Conversely he can also act in a protective capacity. Closely åśśociated with sexual virility in the underworld, Babi is ithyphallic. A god active in the darkness, his śéméñ serves variously as the mast on the underworld ferry boat, and the bolt on heaven's doors. Depicted as an ithyphallic male baboon.... |
"Bacabs" | Mayan | They stand at the four corners of the world supporting the heavens. Mayan |
"Badhava" | Hindu | Aka Haya-Siras. A flame with the head of a horse. Hindu |
God name "Bahyra" | Brazil | The creator god of the heavens and the earth who "expressed his wrath by thunder and lightning." The Apiaca, Brazil |
Goddess name "Baiji" | China | A goddess of health & epidemics |
Angel name "Baradiel" | Hebrew | One of the princes of the seven heavens mentioned in the Third Book of Enoch. An angel of hail. |
Book name "Baraqyal" | Hebrew | One of the Watchers who descended from heaven to cohabit with mortal women. Book of Enoch. |
Goddess name "Bariebdjedet" | Egypt / Lower | Ram god. Possibly concerned with arbitration, his consort is the fish goddess HATMEHYT. He is the father of HARPOKRATES. According to tradition (Chester Beatty I papyrus) he was called upon to intercede in the contest for the Egyptian kingdoms between HORUS and SETH. He is placed in some accounts in Upper Egypt on the island of Seheil at the first Nile cataract, but his cult is centered on Mendes in the Delta region of Lower Egypt [Tell et-Ruba] and is closely linked with the mother of Rameses III. He is generally depicted in anthropomorphic form, but with the head of a ram.... |
God name "Basamum" | Arabia | The god of healing in pre-Islamic South Arabia. His name may be derived from the proto-Arabic basam, or balsam, a plant that was used in ancient Medicines. |
God name "Basamum" | Pre Islamic southern Arabian | God of healing. The name probably derives from the remedial plant balsam.... |
Goddess name "Bast" | Egypt | Cat goddess, healing, life and war, protector of the pharaoh, Egypt |
Goddess name "Bast/ Pasht" | Egypt | A cat goddess, healing, life & war |
Angel name "Batqol" | Christian | A female angel whose name means "heavenly voice." and her voice was heard by Cain asking "Where is thy brother, Abel?" after Cain murdered his brother. |
Goddess name "Bau" | Sumeria | Goddess of fertility, depicted with the head of a dog, and her name means 'bark', 'woof'. Bau was known as the patron deity of Lagash. Sumeria |
"Beelsamin" | Romn | Lord of heaven. Phoenician equivalent to Zeus |
God name "Belenus" | Celtic | God charged with the welfare of sheep and cattle, he also was God of the Sun and healer in some regions and åśśociated with Beltane Pan-Celtic |
Goddess name "Bendis" | Greece | A Thracian divinity in whom the moon was worshipped. Hesychius says "that the poet Cratinus called this goddess Two Spears, either because she had to discharge two duties, one towards heaven and the other towards the earth, or because she bore two lances, or lastly, because she had two lights, the one her own and the other derived from the Sun. In Greece she was sometimes identified with Persephone, but more commonly with Artemis. |