| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| King name "Vairgin" | Chukchee | The Sun, moon, stars, and constellations are also known as vairgit; but the Sun is a special vairgin, represented as a man clad in a bright garment, driving dogs or reindeer. He descends every evening to his wife, the 'Walking-around-Woman'. The moon is also represented as a man. He is not a vairgin, however, but the son of a kele of the lower worlds. He has a låśśo, with which he catches people who look too fixedly at him. Shamans invoke the moon in incantations and spells. Chukchee |
| Deities name "Vajrosnisa" | Buddhist | God. Apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the easterly direction. Color: white.See also PADMANTAKA.... |
"Valaskjalf" | Norse | One of Odin's dwellings. Norse |
| Deity name "Vasya-Tara" | Java | The presiding deity of Candi Kalasan. Java |
"Vatapattrasayin (reclining on a fig leaf)" | Hindu / Puranic | Aspect of VISNU. The image is found in clåśśical bronze sculptures and represents either Vis'nu in a violent form, or KRSNA, reposed on a fig leaf that floats upon the primeval ocean of a new cosmos after the previous world order has been destroyed.... |
| Deities name "Visvosnisa" | Buddhist | God. An USNISA apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the southerly direction. Color: green.... |
| Deity name "Vitzilipuztli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican | Aspect of HUITZILPOCHTLI. Invoked twice a year, in May and December, during an agrarian festival. Virginal female worshipers created an image of the deity from dough consisting of maize flour, beet seed and honey. The image was given eyes and teeth using pieces of colored glåśś and whole maize seeds and was paraded, before being broken into pieces and eaten as a form of sacrament.... |
"Wild Huntsman" | German | The German tradition is that a spectral hunter with dogs frequents the Black Forest to chase the wild animals. The English name is "Herne the Hunter," who was once a keeper in windsor Forest. In Winter time, at midnight, he walks about Herne's Oak, and blasts trees and cattle. He wears horns, and rattles a chain in a "most hideous manner". Another legend is that a certain Jew would not suffer Jesus to drink out of a horse-trough, but pointed to some water in a hoof-print as good enough for "such an enemy of Moses," and that this man is the "Wild Huntsman." Various |
"Xanthippus" | Greek | One of the sons of Melas, who revolted against Oeneus, and were slain by Tydeus. Greek |
| Goddess name "Xochiquetzal" | Aztec / classi cal Mesoamerican / Mexico | Goddess of fertility and childbirth. The mother of the demigoddess (unnamed) whose consort was Piltz intecuhtli and who engendered the first mortals Oxomoco and CIPACTONAL. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. A popular deity among Aztec women, the goddess is invoked particularly to make a marriage fruitful. The bride plaits her hair and coils it around, leaving two plumes representing the feathers of the Quetzal which is sacred to Xochiquetzal. Pottery figurines are adorned with plumes of feathers. Worshiped at various sites, including Tula (Hidalgo). Also recognized as the patron goddess of weavers.... |
| Goddess name "Xochiquetzal-Ichpuchtli (maiden)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility goddess. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. Depicted as a youthful deity åśśociated with sexual love, flowers and pleasure.... |
| Deity name "Xolas" | Tierra del Fuego | The supreme deity. At birth he is said to place the soul into every body, receiving it back after death to await rebirth. Tierra del Fuego |
| God name "Xolotl (monster)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Monstrous deity. He performed the role of executioner when the gods sacrificed themselves to create mankind. He then sacrificed himself. In alternative tradition he tried to evade his own fate, but was himself executed by EHECATL-QUETZALCOATL. Also one of a pair of twins in the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex, regarded as patron of the ball game.... |
| Deity name "Xolotl Naaiahuatl (rumour)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Monstrous deity. One of the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex, described as a twin of XOLOTL and co-patron of ball games.... |
| God name "YAW (enemy)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Omnipotent god. A universal and generally malevolent deity. One of the group clåśśed as the TEZ CATLIPOCA complex.... |
| God name "Yacacoliuhqui (curved nose)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of commerce and merchants. One of the group clåśśed as the YACATECUHTLI complex.... |
| Goddess name "Yacahuiztli (nose spine)" | Aztec / Mesoamer ican / Mexico | underworld goddess. With her consort YACATECUHTLI she engendered the night in Aztec cosmogony. One of the group clåśśed as the MICTLANTE CUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Yacapitzahuac (sheep-nose)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of commerce and merchants. One of the group clåśśed as the YACATECUHTLI complex.... |
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