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| Goddess name "Lunang" | Kafir / AfghanistanHindukush | River goddess. The patron goddess of the Prasun river, Lunang is perceived as a young and capricious girl, reflecting the turbulent moods of the river. She rules over the watermills.... |
| Goddess name "Lunang Kafir" | Afghanistan | Patron goddess of the Prasun river Afghanistan |
| Goddess name "Marama" | Polynesian / Maori | moon goddess. She equates with the Tahitian goddess HINA, daughter of TANGAROA. Tradition has it that her body wastes away with each lunar cycle but is restored when she bathes in the sea from which all life springs.... |
"Moon-drop" | Roman | In Latin, virus lunare, a vaporous drop supposed to be shed by the moon on certain herbs and other objects, when influenced by incantations. Roman |
"Mula" | Hindu | A Lunar mansion, or Nakshatra, in Hindu Astrology. |
| God name "Ninkigal" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Chthonic god. Worshiped at Ur and Umma during the period of the third dynasty of Ur. Celebrations included the eses monthly lunar festivals.... |
"Rohini" | India | The ninth lunar asterism and the wife of the moon. India |
| Goddess name "Selene" | Greek | Also called Mene, a female divinity presiding over the months, or Latin Luna, was the goddess of the moon, or the moon personified into a Divine being. She is called a daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and accordingly a sister of Helios and Eos (Theogony 371 ; Apollodorus; Argonautica) ; but others speak of her as a daughter of Hyperion by Euryphaessa, or of Pallas, or of Zeus and Latona, or lastly of Helios. Greek |
| Goddess name "Selene (radiant)" | Greek | moon goddess. The daughter of HYPERION (a TITAN) and sister of the Sun god HELIOS. The tutelary deity of magicians, she rides in a chariot drawn by two horses. According to legend she fell in love with the sleeping Endymion. She becomes largely syncretized with HEKATE and in Roman culture equates with the goddess LUNA.... |
| Deity name "Tarquiup Inua" | Inuit | A lunar deity. Inuit |
"Vaimanika deities" | Jain | The lunar mansions, and the Daityas the first and lowest rank of the existences caused by Goodness. Jain |
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