| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "ATEN" | Egypt | Creator Sun god. Aten, the Sun as a disc, was revered as a numen in his own right, distinct from Atum or Re, from circa 2000 BC and possibly earlier. His influence had been growing under several pharaohs including Amenhotep II, Tuthmosis IV and Amenhotep III, who initiated a cult of Aten at Heliopolis.... |
| Ghost name "Aatxe" | Basque | A Basque ghost. He is a cave-dwelling divinity who adopts the form of a young red bull, but sometimes in the shape of a man. At night, more so in stormy weather, he arises from the hollow which is his lair, also known as Euskal Herria. He attacks criminals and other mean people. He also protects people by making them stay home when danger is near. |
| God name "Abandinus" | Roman / Celtic / British | God of unknown affinities. The name appears in an inscription at Godmanchester, Cambridge, England.... |
| God name "Adro" | Lugbara / Lake Albert, East Africa | Tutelary god. The personification of gråśś fires and whirlwinds who, in antiquity, created mankind. Thought to live in the vicinity of rivers with many wives and children.... |
| Goddess name "Ah Kin (he of the sun)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Sun god. A deity of ambivalent personality, the young suitor of the moon goddess Acna, also the aged Sun god in the sky. He is feared as the bringer of drought, but also protects mankind from the powers of evil åśśociated with darkness. Said to be carried through the underworld at night on the shoulders of the god Sucunyum. Ah Kin is prayed to at Sunrise and rituals include the burning of incense. He is invoked to cure illness and to bring wives to bachelors. Attributes include a square third eye subtended by a loop, a strong Roman nose, a squint and incisor teeth filed to a T-shape. Also Acan Chob (Lacandon); Chi Chac Chob; Kinich Ahau; God G.... |
| Deities name "Ah Kumix Uiinicob" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Attendant water gods. The four diminutive deities which take over from the giant AH PATNAR UINICOB deities during the dry season.... |
| God name "Ah Patnar Uinicob" | Maya | They are large water gods |
| Deities name "Ah Patnar Uinicob (owners of the jars men)" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Attendant water gods. Four huge deities who pour water on to the earth from jars. The end of the dry season is marked on May 3, completing an eight day Rain ceremony.... |
| Deity name "Ahone" | Virginia | Supreme deity of the Powhatan who was indifferent to worship. Virginia |
"Ahura Mazda" | Persia | An exalted divinity of ancient proto-Indo-Iranian religion that was subsequently declared by Zarathustra (Zoroaster) to be the one uncreated creator of all. Persia |
| Supreme god name "Ai Apaec" | Mochica Indian / pre - Columbian South America / northern coast of Peru | Supreme god. Probably originated as a jaguar god but came to rule the destinies of the world. He was thought to live like ordinary people and could reveal himself as man or god at will. He is depicted in anthropomorphic form, but with huge fangs and a cat-like wrinkled face with whiskers coming from his nose. He received sacrificial victims hurled from the top of a high cliff.... |
| Supreme god name "Ai Apec" | Peru | Supreme god who rules the destinies of the world. Fond of strangling spéñïś demons. Peru |
| Supreme god name "Ai Apec Mochica" | Peru | The supreme god that rules the destinies of the world |
| Spirit name "Akka (old lady)" | Finland | Female spirit, feminine counterpart of "Ukko"[7]. |
| Goddess name "Allatu(m)" | Western Semitic | Chthonic underworld goddess. Modeled on the Mesopotamian goddess ERESKIGAL and possibly also equating with ARSAY in Canaanite mythology. Recognized by the Carthaginians as Allatu.... |
"Amaimon" | Hebrew | One of the chief devils whose dominion is on the north side of the infernal gulf. He might be bound or restrained from doing hurt from the third hour till noon, and from the ninth hour till evening. Hebrew |
| King name "Amata" | Greek | The wife of king Latinus and mother of Lavinia. |
| Demon name "Ambika" | Hindu | A feminine personification of Parvati in Hindu mythology who could transform herself into the fearsome Kali and kill demons with a supersonic hum. Hindu |
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