| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Demon name "Immat" | Kafir / Afghanistan | demonic god. A deity to whom sacrifices were addressed in the Ashkun villages of southwestern Kafiristan. Legend has it that Immat carries off twenty virgin daughters every year. A festival includes blood sacrifice and dances by twenty carefully selected young priestesses.... |
| God name "In r" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Tutelary and weather god. The brother of GISH and father of DISANI and Pano. Probably derived from the more widely recognized Aryan god INDRA, Indr is known chiefly from the Waigal and Prasun areas of the southern Hindukush. It is generally åśśumed that he was ousted from major importance by the god IMRA. Indr is also a god of wine who owns substantial vineyards and is åśśociated in south Nuristan with wine rituals (the annals of Alexander the Great suggest that he met with winedrinking “worshipers of DIONYSOSin the Hindukush). In the Ashkun region of southwestern Kafiristan, a famous vineyard near the village of Wamais is sacred to Indr. Also Inder.... |
| Spirit name "Itonde" | Mongo / Nkundo / central Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa | God of death. He consumes rats as food and is also the god of hunters in the dark jungle Forests. Described in the Epic of Lianja as the first man to die whose spirit reincarnated at the instant of death, into his son LIANJA. He possesses a bell with magical properties, the elefo, by which he predicts where death will strike.... |
"Jukun" | Nigeria | The creator of the Shido and Chido people. Nigeria |
"Kakunupmawa" | Chumash | the radiance of the child of the Winter solstice. The dawn light of each new day is Kakunupmawa's breath expressed as a sigh. Bears, rattlesnakes, deer, mountain lions and ravens were the "pets of Sun. The Chumash, California |
| Spirit name "Kere'tkun" | Chukchee / eastern Siberia | Sea spirit. The chief being in the ocean depths, known to the maritime Chukchee. His consort is Cinei'nen. He owns all the creatures of the sea and is said to wear a cloak of walrus gut and to be extremely fierce. He feeds on the bodies of drowned fishermen and is the subject of sacrifice. Also Peruten.... |
| God name "Keret'kun" | Siberia | God of the sea. Siberia. |
| God name "Keret'kun/ Keretkun" | Chukchee / Siberia | A god of the sea |
| God name "Ku'nkunxuliga" | Ma'malelegale Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Tribal god. The personification of the thunderbird, known to many Indian tribes, who lives in a palace in the upper world. The noise of the thunder is the beating of its wings.... |
| God name "Ku'nkunxuliga Ma'maelegae" | BC Canada | Tribal god and personification of the Thunderbird BC Canada |
"Kun" | China | A mythological bird. China |
| God name "Kun Aymara" | Bolivia | Snow god and main deity Bolivia |
| Spirit name "Kun Lun" | Chinese | The Kunlun mountains are well known in Chinese mythology and are believed to be Taoist Paradise. The first to visit this Paradise was king Mu. He supposedly discovered there the Jade Palace of Huang-Di, the mythical Yellow Emperor and originator of Chinese culture, and met Hsi Wang Mu, the 'Spirit Mother of the West' usually called the 'Queen Mother of the West', who was the object of an ancient religious cult which reached its peak in the Han Dynasty, also had her mythical abode in these mountains. |
| God name "Kun tu bzan po" | Tibet | Head of god in the Bon pantheon Tibet |
| God name "Kun-Rig" | Buddhist | God åśśociated åśśociated with the prayer wheel Buddhist / Tibet |
| God name "Kun-Rig (knowing all)" | Buddhist / Tibet | God. Four-headed form of VAIROCANA. Attribute: prayer wheel.... |
| Deity name "Kunado-No-Kami" | Japan | Guardian deity of roads and crossroads Japan / Shinto |
| Deities name "Kunado-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Guardian deity. One of three KAMIS particularly concerned with the protection of roads and crossroads. They also guard the boundaries of the house and the ways leading to it. They may be known as Yakushin deities who protect against plague. Generally identified as MICHI-NO-KAMI or Chiburi-NoKami.... |
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