| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Ugatame" | New Guinea | The omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent creator. New Guinea |
| God name "Ukko" | Finnish | God of Rain storms, thunder, weather and the sky. Finnish |
| God name "Ukko" | Pre - Christian Finnish | Thunder god. Drives a cart which generates flashes of lightning as the horses' hoofs hit stones along the way; the noise of thunder comes from the wheels or from Ukko grinding corn with a big stone. Attributes: ax, blue robe, hammer and sword.... |
| King name "Urgan" | s | A mortal born and christened, but stolen by the king of the fairies and brought up in elf-land. He was sent to Lord Richard, the husband of Alice Brand, to lay on him the "curse of the sleepless eye" for killing his wife's brother Ethert. When Lord Richard saw the hideous dwarf he crossed himself, but the elf said, "I fear not sign made with a bloody hand." Then forward stepped Alice and made the sign, and the dwarf said if any woman would sign his brow thrice with a cross he should recover his mortal form. Alice signed him thrice, and the elf became "the fairest knight in all Scotland, in whom she recognised her brother Ethert." Scotland |
| Deity name "Usnisa" | Buddhist | The deity who can eliminate all evil karmic hindrances and eradicate the suffering of all evil paths." Buddhist |
| Deities name "Usnisa" | Buddhist | God. A dikpala or guardian of the zenith direction. Also a collective term for a group of eight deities, including Usnisa, who are perceived as extensions of the DHYANIBUDDHAS. NOTE: the word describes, additionally, a type of curled hairstyle found in the characteristic iconography of buddbas. Color: yellow. Attributes: jewel, lotus, prayer wheel and sword. Threeheaded.... |
| Goddess name "Usnisavijaya" | Buddhist | A goddess of longevity in Buddhism. She wears an image of the Budda Vairocana in her headdress. She is the most popular Budda goddess in Nepal, Tibet, and Mongolia. |
| Goddess name "Usnisavijaya (victorious)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Primordial goddess. Form of VAIROCANA, widely worshiped in Tibet. Regarded as a female BODHISATTVA or buddbadesignate, and a dikpala or guardian of the zenith direction. Also a deification of literature. One of a group of DHARANIS. Color: white. Attributes: arrow, bow, image of the BUDDHA on a lotus leaf, jewel, noose, prayer wheel, staff and waterjar. Three-eyed, three-headed and with eight arms.... |
"Vainamoinen" | Finnish | The central character in the Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala. He was described as an old and wise man, and he possessed a potent, magical voice. |
| Deities name "Vajrosnisa" | Buddhist | God. Apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the easterly direction. Color: white.See also PADMANTAKA.... |
| Goddess name "Veden Emo" | Finnish | Goddess of water. Finnish |
| Goddess name "Vedenemo" | Finnish | mother of waters, Karelian goddess of water. Finnish |
| Spirit name "Veen" | Finnish | The water Mother, a spirit believed to rule the waters and their bounty. Finnish |
| Goddess name "Vellamo" | Finnish | Goddess the goddess of the sea, the wife of Ahti, the god of the sea and of fishing. Finnish |
| Deities name "Visvosnisa" | Buddhist | God. An USNISA apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the southerly direction. Color: green.... |
| Goddess name "Vor" | Nordic / Icelandic | Goddess. Of Germanic origin, one of the AESIR goddesses listed by Snorri in Prose Edda. He suggests that Vor may be concerned with the making of oaths and of marriage agreements, punishing those who break them. Possibly also Var(a), though Snorri lists her as a separate Aesir goddess.... |
"Väinämöinen" | Finland | The old and wise man, who possessed a potent, magical voice. The central character in Finnish folklore and he is the main character in the Kalevala. |
| God name "Wak" | Ethiopia | The Father of the Universe, the omniscient sky god who is åśśociated with Rains and thunder. Ethiopia |
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