Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Asherat" | Phonecian | major Goddess of marriage, fidelity, and home life. Phonecian |
Goddess name "Asherat-of-the-sea" | Phonecian | Great Goddess of wisdom and the sea. Mother of the Gods and mistress of the Gods in wisdom. El's wife and counsellor, said to have 70 children, including Baal. Phonecian |
God name "Asira" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | Local god. Mentioned only in name by the Babylonian king Nabonidus, worshiped at Taima and influenced strongly by Egyptian culture.See also SALM.... |
God name "Asokottamasri (the great beauty of Asoka)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Physician god. Accounted among one of a series of Medicine buddhas or SMAN-BLA in Lamaism. Typically depicted with stretched earlobes. Color: red.... |
God name "Asopos" | Greek / Beotian | Local river god. Known only from regions of central Greece as one of the sons of POSEIDON.... |
Angel name "Asrael" | Arabic | Aka Ezra'il or Ezra'eil one of the names of the angel of death, and is an English form of the Arabic name traditionally attributed to the angel of death in Islam, |
Deity name "Astaphaios" | Gnostic Christian | Primordial deity. One of the androgynous principles born to YALDABAOTH, the prime parent, ruling the seven heavens of chaos in gnostic mythology.... |
Goddess name "Astart" | Phonecian | major Goddess of fertility, love, and pleasure. Patron of harlots and hedonists. Phonecian |
God name "Asterion" | Crete | Or Asterius, 1. A son of Teutamus, and king of the Cretans, who married Europa after she had been carried to Crete by Zeus. He also brought up the three sons, Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys whom she had by the father of the gods. (Apollodorus i) 2. A son of Cometes, Pyremus, or Priscus, by Antigone, the daughter of Pheres. He is mentioned as one of the Argonauts. (Argonautica) There are two more mythical personages of this name, one a river-god [Acraea], and the second a son of Minos, who was slain by Theseus. |
"Asteropeia" | Greek | Two mythical personages, one a daughter of Pelias, who in conjunction with her sisters murdered her father and the second a daughter of Deion and Diomede. Greek |
Goddess name "Astoria" | Ephebian | Goddess of love, held in extremely low regard by the god Om and sister to the goddess Patina. Mentioned in Small Gods and Discworld Noir. |
Spirit name "Astovidatu" | Persian | A spirit who divided the bones at death. Persian |
God name "Asuha-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of courtyards. A guardian deity, one of many in Shintoism, concerned with the protection of houses and their environs.... |
God name "Asurakumara" | Jain / India | God. One of the groups under the general title of BHVANAVASI (dwelling in places). They have a youthful appearance and are åśśociated with Rain and thunder.... |
Goddess name "Asratum" | Western Semitic / Canaanite | Fertility goddess. Probably a corruption of the Semitic ATHIRAT or ASERAH. Also mentioned in Babylonian texts from the Hellenistic period. Also Asrat (Akkadian).... |
God name "At" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the fourth of the five world ages each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestrial years. Assigned to water and presided over by CHALCHIUHTLICUE. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a deluge during which all the human population were turned into fish. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also 4(Atl), Atonatiuh and Chalchiutonatiuh.... |
God name "At ahua" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of lakes and fish hunters. One of the group clåśśed as the Mixcoatlcamaxtli complex.... |
"Athamas" | Greek | A son of Aeolus and Enarete, the daughter of Deimachus. He was thus a brother of Cretheus, Sisyphus, Salmoneus, etc. (Apollodorus i) |