| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Ismud" | Sumerian | The visier of Enki, whose secrets he kept. Sumerian |
| Angel name "Jacob's Ladder" | Genesis | A ladder seen by the patriarch Jacob in a vision. It was set on the earth, and reached to heaven, and angels seemed to be ascending and descending on it. Genesis |
| King name "Jinn" | Arabian | A sort of fairies in Arabian mythology, the offspring of fire. They propagate their species like human beings, and are governed by a race of kings named Suleyman, one of whom built the pyramids. Their chief abode is the mountain Kaf, and they appear to men under the forms of serpents, dogs, cats, monsters, or even human beings, and become invisible at pleasure. The evil jinn are hideously ugly, but the good are exquisitely beautiful. According to fable, they were created from fire two thousand years before Adam was made of earth. The singular of jinn is jinnee. |
"Jocchu Vague Maorocon" | West Indies | An immortal invisible being who lived in the heavens. West Indies |
| Goddess name "Jubbu-jang-sange" | Brazil | Goddess of the jurema (a sacred tree). The tree provides a narcotic used in inducing visions. Bakairi Brazil |
| God name "Kabezya-Mpungu" | Bantu | Kabezya-Mpungu decides to become invisible after creating the world and the first humans who did not yet have a heart. After balancing the Rain, Sun, moon, and darkness, he leaves. To replace the visible god, he sends the people Mutima ("heart"), the life-giving or Divine part of humans. Bantu |
| God name "Kalisia" | Pygmy / Zaire / Congo | A creator god that is the guardian of hunters & the jungle Forests |
| God name "Kalisia" | Pigmy / Democratic Republic of Congo / Congo, central Africa | Creator god. The guardian of hunters and the jungle Forests. Pigmy hunters invoke the god with special rituals and he delivers dream messages identifying the location of game.... |
| God name "Kalisia Pygmy" | Congo | Creator god who is the guardian of hunters and the jungle Forests Congo / Zaire |
| God name "Kalrnga" | Ndonga / northern Namibia, southern Africa | Creator god. Said to take the form of a giant man who is always partially hidden by clouds and generally seen only by women intermediaries known as nelagos who go to converse with him in sacred places. He is the father of MUSISI. The god is invoked at times of warfare and illness, but also as a fertility deity and before making a journey.... |
| God name "Kamalasana" | Hindu / Puranic | God. An epithet of BRAHMA. One of the clåśśic depictions in Hindu art wherein Brahma is drawn seated on a lotus, which blossoms from the navel of VISINU.... |
| Goddess name "Kauket" | Egypt | Primordial goddess. One of the eight deities of the OGDOAD representing chaos, she is coupled with the god KEK and appears in anthropomorphic form but with the head of a snake. The pair epitomize the primordial darkness. She is also depicted greeting the rising Sun in the guise of a baboon.... |
| Goddess name "Kek" | Egypt | Primordial god. One of the eight deities of the OGDOAD representing chaos, he is coupled with the goddess KAUKET and appears in anthropomorphic form but with the head of a frog. The pair epitomize the primordial darkness. He is also depicted greeting the rising Sun in the guise of a baboon.... |
| Spirit name "Keneun" | Iroquois | Chief of the Thunderbirds an invisible spirit Iroquois |
"Kesava (long-haired)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor avatara of VISINU. His SAKTI is KIRTI.... |
| Spirit name "Kisin" | Mayan | The god of death and earthquakes. If a person lied, was a thief, or committed murder or incest, their soul is given to Kisin, who punishes the spirit by alternate burning or freezing. Mayan |
| God name "Kitanitowit" | Algonquin / E Canada | A being who is present everywhere in the universe, he is invisible, like most gods |
| God name "Kitanitowit (good creator)" | Algonquin Indian / eastern Canada | Creator god. The first being who is present everywhere in the universe. He is invisible and is represented diagrammatically by a point surrounded by a circle on which are marked the four quarters.... |
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