| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "AEGIR (water)" | Icelandic / Nordic | God of the ocean. A lesser known AESIR god of Asgard concerned with the moods of the sea and their implications for mariners. The river Eider was known to the Vikings as Aegir's Door. Aegir is also depicted in some poetry as the ale brewer, perhaps an allusion to the caldrons of mead which were thought to come from under the sea (see also the Celtic deities DAGDA and GOBNIU). There are references in literature to Saxons sacrificing captives, probably to Aegir, before setting sail for home. Linked in uncertain manner to the goddess RAN he was believed to have sired nine children, the waves of the sea, who were possibly giantesses.... |
| Goddess name "Aditi (the free one)" | Hindu / Vedic | Archaic mother goddess. According to the Rg Veda Aditi is said to be the wife of KASYAPA or of BRAHMA and mother of the ADITYAS, a group of minor gods including MITRA, ARYAMAN, BHAGA, VARUNA, DAKSA and Anisa. No other consort is mentioned in the literature. She is also accounted as the mother of HARI. Other legends account her as the mother of the Rain god INDRA. No human physical features are drawn, though she is sometimes identified in the guise of a cow. Aditi is also perceived as a guardian goddess who brings prosperity and who can free her devotees from problems and clear away obstacles. She disappears largely from later Hindu traditions.... |
| God name "Adonai aka Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh" | Jewish | El, Elohim, Shaddai, Shalom, Yah, YHWH / YHWH Tzevaot, God. YHWH is often transliterated "Jehovah" or "Yahweh", but only by people outside of Jewish tradition. |
"Aksayajnana-Karmanda" | Buddhist | 1 of the 12 Dharnis & the deification of literature |
"Aksayajnana-Karmanda (undecaying knowledge of Karma)" | Buddhist | Deification of literature. One of a group of twelve DHARANIS. Color: red. Attributes: basket with jewels, and staff.... |
"Anantamukhi (with the face of Ananta)" | Buddhist | Deification of literature. One of a group of twelve DHARANIS. Color: green. Attributes: staff and water jar with treasure.... |
"Ansar" | Islamic | An Islamic term that literally means "helper" and denotes the Medinan citizens that helped Muhammad and the Muhajirun on the arival to the city after the Migration to Medina |
| Deities name "Aryaman" | Hindu | One of the early Vedic deities (devas). His name literally means a bosom friend, but is often confused as "the protector of the Aryans" Hindu / Vedic |
"Breidablik" | Norse | [Literally to gleam, twinkle]. Balder's dwelling. Norse |
| Goddess name "Cunda" | Buddhist / Tibet | Goddess considered a deification of literature. Buddhist / Tibet |
| Goddess name "Cunda" | Buddhist / eastern Bengal / Tibet | Goddess. An emanation of Vajrasattva or Vairocana. A female BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate. Also seen separately as a deification of literature, one of a group of twelve DHARANIS. She may stand upon a man. Color: white or green. Very large variety of attributes. Also Aryacunda.... |
| God name "Deus ex machina" | Roman | The intervention of a god, or some unlikely event. Literally, it means "a god let down upon the stage or flying in the air by machinery." |
| Goddess name "E Alom" | Mayan | Primeval creator goddessess, literally, those who conceive and give birth Mayan |
"Edda" | Norse | The literal meaning of the word is great-grandmother, but the term is usually applied to the mythological collection of poems discovered by Brynjolf Sveinsson in the year 1643. In the Rigsmal (Lay of Rig) Edda is the progenitrix of the race of thralls. Norse |
"Epimetheus" | Greek | Was the brother of Prometheus ("foresight", literally "fore-thought"), a pair of Titans who "acted as representatives of mankind". They were the inseparable sons of Japetus, who in other contexts was the father of Atlas. Greek |
"Hapi" | Egypt | One of the Four sons of Horus depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Osiris in the underworld. Hapi is depicted as a baboon-headed mummified human on funerary furniture and especially the canopic jars that held the organs of the deceased. Hapi's jar held the lungs. Hapi was also the protector of the North. Egypt |
"Heka aka Hike" | Egypt | The deification of magic, his name being the egyptian word for magic. Heka literally means activating the Ka, which Egyptians thought was how magic worked. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Heket" | Egypt | Frog goddess concerned with birth. Minor deity who by some traditions is the consort of HAROERIS (see also HORUS). Texts refer to a major sanctuary at Tuna et-Gebel which has been totally obliterated. The remains of another sanctuary survive at Qus in Upper Egypt. In the Pyramid Texts she is referred to as a deity who eases the final stages of labor. Depicted as wholly frog-like or as a frog-headed human figure, often found on amulets or other magical devices åśśociated with childbirth.... |
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