Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Khosaadam Yenisei" | Siberia | Driven out of heaven to become an eater of souls Siberia |
Angel name "Khshathra Vairya" | Zoroastrianism | Khshathra Vairya 'Desirable Dominion', the angel presiding over metals. Zoroastrianism |
God name "Kinnar (divine lyre)" | Western Semitic | Musician god. Mentioned in Ugaritic texts and known from Phoenicia. Probably equating with the Syrian ADONIS. Also Kinnur.... |
Spirit name "Kisin" | Mayan | The god of death and earthquakes. If a person lied, was a thief, or committed murder or incest, their soul is given to Kisin, who punishes the spirit by alternate burning or freezing. Mayan |
God name "Kondos" | Finnish | A god of cereal crops that was renamed by the Christians to St. urban |
God name "Kondos" | Pre - Christian Finnish | God of cereal crops. Particularly identified with the sowing of wheat. After Christianization, he was absorbed by the figure of St. Urban.... |
Deity name "Krishna" | Hindu | 'Black.' This name occurs in the Rigveda, but without any relation to the great deity of later times. The earliest mention of Krishna, the son of Devaki, is in the Chhandogya Upanishad, where he appears as a scholar. Hindu |
Goddess name "Kshumai" | Kafir / Afghanistan | A beneficent fertility goddess |
Goddess name "Kshumai" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Fertility goddess. A benefi cent goddess appearing in the guise of a goat. Legend has it that either she or her eldest daugh ter is the mother of the god MON. She is said to have given mankind the boon of goats, grapes, other fruit and vegetation in general. She was called upon in times of sickness. She is depicted in wooden statues with prominent long breasts and vulva. Also Kime.... |
Goddess name "Kshumai Kafir" | Afghanistan | Beneficent goddess of fertility Afghanistan |
God name "Ku Uasa" | Finnish | God of water. Finnish |
"Ladogenes or Ladonis" | Greek | A name by which the poets sometimes designated Daphne, the daughter of Ladon. Greek |
Goddess name "Laka" | Polynesian / Hawaii | Goddess of dancing. A minor deity who is nonetheless greatly revered by islanders in a hedonistic cult of song, dance and sexual liberality.... |
God name "Lalaia'il" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | God of shamans. The deity who initiates into the shamanistic circle. He lives in the Forest and carries a wooden wand bound with cedar bark which he waves, creating a singing noise. He also frequents woodland lakes and ponds. When a woman meets him she is said to menstruate, while a man develops a nose bleed. Also Kle-klati-e'il.... |
Angel name "Lang" | Enochian | The order of ministering angels. Enochian |
God name "Lempo" | Finnish | God of frenzied love Finnish |
Deities name "Libanza" | Bangala / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. One of a pair of supreme deities with his sister / consort Nsongo. He lives at the bottom of the river Congo, traveling the waterways and bringing floods as punishment as well as to generate prosperity. He is regarded as being generally benevolent. Also Ibanza.... |
"Lichas" | Greek | An attendant of Heracles. He brought to his master the deadly garment, and as a punishment, was thrown by him into the sea, where the Lichadian islands, between Euboea and the coast of Locris, were believed to have derived their name from him. Greek |