| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Achlys" | Greek | According to some ancient cosmogonies, the eternal night, and the first created being which existed even before chaos. According to Hesiod, she was the personification of misery and sadness, and as such she was represented on the shield of Heracles: pale, emaciated, and weeping, with chattering teeth, swollen knees, long nails on her fingers, bloody cheeks, and her shoulders thickly covered with dust. |
| Spirit name "Adonai" | Zanoni | The mysterious spirit of pure mind, love, and beauty that inspires. Zanoni |
| 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. |
"Aegle" | Greek | 1. The most beautiful of the Naiads, daughter of Zeus and Neaera by whom Helios begot the Charites. |
"Agla" | Hebrew | An acronymic, representing the Hebrew phrase: "Ateh Gibor le-Olam Adonai", ie. "Thou art mighty forever,O Lord". Often found in magical or Qabalistic texts. |
| Goddess name "Akonadi" | Ghanaian / West Africa | Oracular goddess. Known in the region around Accra where she has had a celebrated oracular shrine. She is regarded as a goddess of justice and a guardian deity of women.... |
| Goddess name "Anaitis" | Persia | Goddess of fertility Persia |
| Goddess name "Anaitis" | Persian / Iran | Fertility goddess. Her influence extended through eastern Europe. In pre-Christian Armenia, the center of her cult was at Acilisena where noble families regularly surrendered their daughters to service as cultic prostitutes.... |
| Goddess name "Anna Perenna" | Roman | Protective goddess. Allegedly she saved the plebeians from famine in their conflict with the patricians in ancient Roman mythology. An openair festival dedicated to her was held on March 15 each year in a grove lying to the north of Rome.... |
"Annis . Black Anna, Black Anny, Black Agnes, Cat Anna" | Britain / Celtic | Annis aka Black Anna, Black Anny, Black Agnes, Cat Anna, Leicester witch with very sharp nails who wore a skirt made from the skins of her human prey. Britain / Celtic |
| Goddess name "Anuanaitu" | America | Soul of the ocean, member of a sea monster family. Goddess of the ocean and whirlpools Caribbean, S. America |
| Goddess name "Ashiakie" | Gan / district around Accra, Ghana, West Africa | Goddess of wealth. The daughter of NAI, god of the sea, she was born in the ocean and came to land in a canoe. Her colors are red and white.... |
| Goddess name "Ashiakle" | Africa | Goddess of wealth. The daughter of Nai, god of the sea, she was born in the ocean and came to land in a canoe. Ghana, West Africa |
| Nymph name "Asterodeia" | Greek | The Naiad nymph of a gold-carrying stream of the Kaukasos mountains. She was loved by Aeetes of Colchis, bearing him a son Apsyrtos. Greek |
"Ayya Vaikundar" | Tamil | According to Akilattirattu Ammanai, a scripture of the Ayyavazhi, was an avatar of Narayana. As per the Ayyavazhi mythology the body in which Ayya Vaikundar incarnated is that of Mudisoodum Perumal. Tamil |
| God name "Banaitja" | Australia | Banaitja is a creator god. Australia |
| Demon name "Beyreva" | Indian | Indian demon, master of souls that roam through space after being changed into airy demons. It is said to have crooked nails with which it lopped off one of Brahma's heads. |
"Chalcon2" | Greek | Of Cyparissus, the shield-bearer of Antilochus. He was in love with the Amazon Penthesileia, but on hastening to her åśśistance he was killed by Achilles, and the Greeks nailed his body to a cross. Greek |
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