| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Abu" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Minor vegetation god. Said to have sprung from the head of the god ENKI, thus symbolizing plants emerging from the earth's soil.... |
| Goddess name "Acala (immovable)" | Buddhist / Vajrayana | (1) Minor goddess. One of twelve deified BHUMIS recognized as different spiritual spheres through which a disciple påśśes. Color: white. Attributes: staff on a lotus.(2) Tutelary god. Buddhist (Mahayana). Also a dikpala or guardian of the northeastern quarter. Color: blue. Attributes: jewel, lotus, staff and sword.... |
| Goddess name "Acchupta (untouched)" | Jain / India | Goddess of learning. One of sixteen VIDYADEVI headed by the goddess SARASVATI.... |
"Acephali" | Libya | A fabulous race of people, reported by ancient writers to have had no heads. Libya |
| God name "Adam[m]as" | Nassenes | The parental godhead of the gnostic movement |
| Nymph name "Adamanthea" | Greek | A nymph who nursed Zeus Greek |
| Spirit name "Adamastor" | Greek | The spirit of the stormy Cape (Good Hope), described by Camoens in the Lusiad as a hideous phantom. According to Barreto, he was one of the giants who invaded heaven. |
"Adammas" | Nassenes | Along with Sophea, the male half of the first couple on the earth. Nåśśenes |
"Adissechen" | Indian | The serpent with a thousand heads which sustains the universe. Indian |
| God name "Adonis" | Phoenicia / Syria | A dying & resurrected god that embodies vegetation scorched by the heat of the summer Sunshine |
| Nymph name "Adrasteia" | Greek | A Cretan nymph, daughter of Melisseus, to whom Rhea entrusted the infant Zeus to be reared in the Dictaean grotto. |
| God name "Adroa" | Africa | A god of the Lugbara people of central Africa. Adroa has two aspects: one good and one evil. He is the creator of heaven and earth, and he appears to those about to die. Adroa is depicted as a tall, white man with only half a body one eye, one arm, one leg, one ear. Africa |
| Goddess name "Aebhel aka Aeval" | Ireland | Goddess who in popular legend is a faery, who held a midnight court to hear the debate on whether the men were keeping their women sexually satisfied. She commanded that the men bow to the women's sexual wishes. Rules over Lust, sex magic, wisdom in making judgements. Ireland |
"Aegis" | Greek | In Homer, is the shield or buckler of Zeus, fashioned for him by Hephaestus, furnished with tåśśels and bearing the Gorgon's head in the centre. Originally symbolic of the storm-cloud, it is probably derived from aisso, signifying rapid, violent motion. |
| God name "Aesculapius" | Roman | God of healing. Developed from the Greek deity ASKLEPIOS and introduced into Rome in 293 BC as a plague god. Attributes include the caduceus (winged scepter), the symbol of modern Medicine.... |
| God name "Aesculapius/ Asklepios" | Greek / Roman | A god of healing & of Medicine |
| Goddess name "Agamede" | Greek | A goddess of healing |
| Deity name "Aglibol" | Roman / Syria / Greek / Palmaryia | A lunar deity in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. His name means "Calf of Bel" ("Calf of the Lord"). He is depicted with a Lunar disk decorating his head, and sometimes his shoulders. Roman / Syria / Greek / Palmaryia |
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