Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Faunus" | Roman | Minor vegetation god. Consort of FAUNA with guardianship of woods and plants. He was given many of the attributes of the Greek god PAN including horns and legs of a goat.... |
God name "Flipplopa" | Pan-cultural | The god who grants forgiveness to politicians. Pan-cultural |
God name "Foto-Tama" | Japan / Shinto | An ancestral god |
God name "Fudo" | Japan | God of wisdom. Likes to look at the stars. Japan |
God name "Fugen Bosatsu" | Japan | God of enlightening wisdom, intelligence, understanding, intuition, long life. Japan |
Goddess name "Fuji" | Japan / Ainu | Goddess of fire and volcano and chief goddess. Japan / Ainu |
God name "Fujin" | Japan | God of winds Japan / Shinto |
God name "Fujin" | Shinto / Japan | God of winds. Depicted carrying a sack on his shoulder which contains the four winds.... |
God name "Fukurokuju" | Japan | God of wisdom, luck and prosperity. Japan |
Deities name "Fukurokuju" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. One of seven deities in Shintoism concerned with fortune. He is allegedly a Chinese hermit who lived during the Sung dynasty and whose name means happiness, wealth and longevity. He is depicted as a little old man, bald and with a prominent high forehead. He carries a Book of sacred teachings tied to his staff. Other occasional attributes include a crane, deer or tortoise.... |
Goddess name "Futo-Tama" | Shinto / Japan | Ancestral god. A significant deity in mythology because he took part in the divination and ritual necessary before the process of drawing the Sun goddess AMATERASU out of her cave could begin. He collected together various magical objects, pushed forward the perfect Divine mirror, recited the sacred liturgy and begged Amaterasu never again to hide her face. The guardian of Prince NINIGI, ancestor of the imperial dynasty, Futo-Tama is more specifically the ancestor of the Imba clan in Japan.... |
God name "Futsu-Nushi-No-Kami" | Japan | God of war, fire and lightning Japan / Shinto |
Deities name "Futsu-Nushi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of war. One of two deities who made the way clear for Prince NINIGI to descend to earth and begin the imperial dynasty. A tutelary deity of swordsmen and judoka artists. Linked with the god TAKE-MIKA-DZUCHI NO-KAMI.... |
Deity name "Gad" | Babylonian | The pan-Semitic deity of fortune worshipped during the babylonian captivity. |
Angel name "Gadriel" | Hebrew / Christian | An angel of the 5th heaven in charge of wars. He also accompanies prayers to the 6th heaven. |
Spirit name "Gaki" | Japan | The spirits of jealous or greedy people who, as punishment for their mortal vices, have been cursed with an insatiable hunger for a particular substance or object. Japan |
Goddess name "Gaomei" | China | Ancient goddess and first mother was called Kao Mi in the Ching Dynasty and was changed into a male divinity during the Japanese occupation. China |
Demon name "Garuda (the devourer)" | Hindu / Vedic | Archaic Sun god and Divine vehicle. Originally depicted as a solar deity, Garuda evolved into a bird-like human hybrid who became the deified mount of VIS'NU. Also a chief adversary of nagas (snake-like demons), which he devours. In early depictions Garuda has a parrot's beak. Said to have been born from an egg, the son of Vinata and KASYAPA. Epithets include Amrtaharana, Garutman, Tarksya. Attributes: conch, club, lotus and nectar, but may also bear the attributes of Vis'nu.(2) Mount or vahana of VAJRAPANI. Buddhist. Attributes: flower, horse-head, noose, skin and staff. Three-eyed and three-headed.... |