| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "ADAD (wind)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | weather god. His father is the supreme sky god ANU. He is described as a benevolent giver of life in the fields but is also a more violent storm god. His name in Akkadian cuneiform means wind. His animal is the bull. In human form he is depicted wearing horned headdress and tiered skirt or robe decorated with astral symbolism. He may carry a scimitar embellished with a single panther head and his symbol is the lightning fork often fixed upon a pair of pincers.... |
| Goddess name "AENGUS" | Celtic / Irish | KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 500 BC . The son of the DAGDA by the wife of Elcmar (one of the kings of Tara) who may have been the goddess BOANN, Aengus lived in the Valley of the Boyne and was closely linked with the ancient funerary tumuli in the region. According to legend, Aengus fell in love with a maiden whose identity he sought in vain. As he wasted away, his father and mother made enquiries until they located Caer, daughter of the king of Cannaught, who lived on Loch Bel dragon in the shape of a swan with 150 attendant swans. Aengus eventually found her and he also changed into a bird.... |
| Supreme god name "AME-NO-MINAKA-NUSHI-NOKAMI" | Shinto / Japan | Supreme god. he highest deity of the Shinto pantheon and the first to emerge in Takama-No-Hara (the plain of high heaven) when heaven and earth were fashioned. He was born alone, resides in the ninth heaven and has always hidden himself from mortal eyes. A remote and vague figure of whom no images are ever made and toward whom no cult is directed. His name only appears once in the Kojiki and never in the Nihongi. Originally his identity may have been strongly influenced by Chinese religion. His name is linked closely with those of two other lesser primordial beings, TAKA-MI-MISUBI-NO-KAMI and KAMI-MISUBI-NO-KAMI.... |
| God name "Ab Kin Xoc" | Mayan | Aka Piz Hui Tec, god of Poetry and war. Mayan |
| Spirit name "Abida" | Kalmuck | A god of the Kalmucks, who receives the souls of the dead at the moment of decease, and gives them permission to enter a new body, either human or not, and have another spell of life on earth. If the spirit is spotless it may, if it likes, rise and live in the air. |
"Ac Yanto" | Mayan | Created European immigrants and their products. Mayan |
| God name "Ac Yanto (our helper)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of white men. The brother of the creator god... |
| God name "Acan" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of wine. Identified with the local brew, balche, made from fermented honey to which the bark of the balche tree has been added.... |
| God name "Acat" | Mayan | God of tattoo artists. Mayan |
| God name "Acat" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of tattooers. Acca Larentia... |
| Goddess name "Acna" | Mayan | Mother goddess Mayan |
| Goddess name "Acna/ Akna" | Maya / Mexico | A mother goddess |
| Spirit name "Agathos Daimon (good demon)" | Greco - Roman | God of fortune. Known locally from Alexandria and depicted in the form of a snake. May have originated as an androgynous fertility spirit, but later becomes identified as the consort of Agathe Tyche (see TYCHE). Libations were made regularly to this deity after meals and he was regarded as a friendly household guardian.... |
| God name "Ah Bolom Tzacab" | Mayan | Meaning "the lead-nosed god," he was a god of Agriculture, thunder and Rain. He was depicted with a leaf in his nose. Mayan |
| God name "Ah Bolon Dz'acab" | Mayan | Fertility god åśśociated with Rain and thunder Mayan |
| God name "Ah Bolon Dz'acab (many generations)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic fertility god. A god identified with Rain and thunder. Also strongly linked with Agriculture and young crops. Possibly a vegetation avatara of the iguana god ITZAM NA. Attributes include a leaf-like ornament worn in the nose. Also God K.... |
| God name "Ah Can Čú𝔪" | Mayan | Hunter god; protector of the animals Mayan |
| God name "Ah Can Čú𝔪/ Acaum" | Maya | A hunter & protector of the animals god |
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