Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Monster name "Achiyalatopa" | Zuni | Celestial giant monster with feathers of flint knives. Zuni |
Spirit name "Aisha Qandisha" | Morocco | loving to be watered a jinniya (female spirit), recognized by her beautiful face, pendulous breasts and goat legs. She was wanton and free, seducing young men, despite having a jinn-consort named Hammu Qaiyu. Her name strongly suggests a connection to the Qadesha, the sexually free temple women of Canaan who served Astarte. Morocco |
God name "Ayiyanayaka" | Ceylon | God of fields and woodland who protects against plague. Northern part of the island of Ceylon. |
God name "Ayiyanayaka" | Singhalese / Sri Lanka | Plague god. A deity of fields and woodlands who is still revered as a guardian of crops and a protector against plague.... |
Goddess name "Beltiya" | Babylon / Akkadia | Sublime and elevated, incomparable among the goddesses. Babylon / Akkadia |
Goddess name "Beltiya (my lady)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Generic title of goddess. ZARPANITUM (SARPANITUM), the consort of the Babylonian god MARDUK, is often addressed as Beltiya.... |
God name "Bhumiya" | Hindu / Puranic / Vedic | A fertility god who was eventually identified as a form of Vishnu. Hindu / Puranic / Vedic |
God name "Bhumiya (guardian of fields)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic / northern India | Fertility god. Guardian deity of fields, worshiped as a rough stone icon. In later times a form of VIS NU.... |
God name "Buriyas" | Iran | God of war Iran / Kåśśite |
God name "Buriyas" | Kassite / Iran | Tutelary war god. He was invoked by the Kåśśite armies which overthrew Babylonia in the sixteenth century BC.... |
God name "Buriyas Kasite" | Iran | A war god |
Goddess name "Cenaaianiyammai (lady of the red paddyfield)" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil | Local goddess. Guardian of paddyfields in southern India.... |
Goddess name "Cenkalaniyammal" | Hindu | Local goddess who guards the maize fields Hindu. |
God name "Chaitanya" | Hindu / Puranic | Mendicant god. A deified mortal who became one of the many incarnations of the god VIS NU. Born at Nadiya in AD 1484, he died at Puri in 1527. Chaitanya was a sickly child who, according to legend, was left to his fate, hanging in a tree to die, but was revived by the gods and thus became deified. He was married twice before adopting a strict ascetic existence at the age of twenty-four, from which time he traveled extensively, eventually settling in the holy city of Benares. He is remembered as a great social reformer. His main sanctuary at Nadiya includes a small statue of KRSNA to whom he devoted himself.... |
Goddess name "Ellaman (lady of the boundary)" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Goddess of påśśage. A goddess guarding boundaries of villages and fields. One of the NAVASAKTI or astral deities. Also Ellaiyamman.... |
Angel name "Gezuriya" | Malarcy | The head guard of one of the celestial halls and the boss of the angel of the Sun. Malarcy |
God name "Hapantalli aka Hapantalliyas" | Irsirra | He took his place at the moon-god's side when he fell from heaven on the 'kilammar'. Irsirra |
God name "Hapantalliyas/ Hapantalli" | Hittite | He took his place at the moon god's side |