Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Ah Cancun" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hunting god. One of a number of deities in Mayan religion identified with the hunt and the protection of animals. Also Acanum.... |
God name "Ah Kumix Unicob" | Maya | These are small attendant water gods |
Deities name "Ah Tabai" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hunting god. One of a number of deities in Mayan religion identified with the hunt and the protec tion of animals.... |
Goddess name "Ah Uaynih" | Guatemala | Goddess of sleep, specifically males Guatemala |
God name "Ah Uincir Dz'acab" | Mayan / Chorti, Meso american / eastern Guatemala | God of healing. The patron of herbalists and concerned with the preparation of remedies, he is depicted as having male and female identities, each concerned with the healing of their respective sexes. Also Ah Uincir Kopot.... |
Goddess name "Ah Wink ir Masa" | Guatemala | nature goddess Guatemala |
Spirit name "Aha" | Yakut / Siberia | A river spirit, female type |
Goddess name "Ahnt Alis Pok'" | Mexico | Very small goddess, only two feet tall who lives with her mother. Mexico |
Planet name "Aholibamah" | Christian | A granddaughter of Cain, loved by the seraph Samiasa. She is a proud, ambitious, queen-like beauty, a female type of Cain. When the flood came, her angel-lover carried her under his wings to some other planet. |
God name "Ahriman" | Zoroastrian / Farsi Per sian | Chthonic god of darkness. The antagonist of AHURA MAZDA, god of light, and his attendant, MITHRA. The name is a modern derivation of the original Avestan title ANGRU MAINYU. Ahriman is said to have tried to persuade his attendant animals, including the scor pion, ant and snake, to drink the blood of the bull slain by Mithra in the primeval legend of dualistic conflict (see Mithra); if he had succeeded he would have prevented life from forming on earth. In another legend he tried to thwart Ahura Mazda by sending a flood to destroy the world. Also recog nized in Roman Mithraism. Rituals included ani mal sacrifice. Also ARIMANIUS (Roman).... |
Goddess name "Aibheaeg" | Ireland | Fire goddess who had a magic well that contained mighty healing powers, especially effective against toothache so long as the petitioner left a small white stone at the well to represent the decayed tooth. She is åśśociated with wells and the number 5. Ireland |
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 |
Ghost name "Aitu" | Polynesia | ghosts or spirits, often malevolent. Polynesia |
"Aja" | African | Aja is an Orisha, patron of the Forest, the animals within it and herbal healers, whom she taught their art. |
Spirit name "Ajysyt" | Yakut / central Siberia | Maternal spirit. The deity who oversees the lying-in of an expectant mother and who brings the child's soul to the child-bed. The term ajysyt can also apply to a male spirit, thus the ajysyt that oversees the birth of horses is male, while that of horned cattle is female.... |
Deities name "Akeru" | Egypt | Pluralistic chthonic earth gods. Probably stemming from the pre-Dynastic period. Malevolent deities who can seize and imprison the souls of the deceased.... |
Spirit name "Akka (old lady)" | Finland | Female spirit, feminine counterpart of "Ukko"[7]. |
God name "Akuman" | Arab | The most malevolent of all the Persian gods. |