Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Aclla" | Inca / Quechua | Goddesses of war and virgins comparable to the Roman Vestal Virgins. Inca / Quechua |
God name "Adimurti (the primeval personification)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Form or avatara of the god VIS'NU. Probably very similar to NARAYANA. Conventionally perceived as Vis'nu seated on the coils of the serpent SESA (Adisesa) and attended by two wives. Attributes: those of Vis'nu. Also Vaikunthanatha, Paramapathanatha.... |
God name "Ah Uincir Dz'acab" | Mayan / Chorti, Meso american / eastern Guatemala | God of healing. The patron of herbalists and concerned with the preparation of remedies, he is depicted as having male and female identities, each concerned with the healing of their respective sexes. Also Ah Uincir Kopot.... |
"Aksobhya" | Buddhist | 'immovable' or 'imperturbable' - is the name given to a Buddha who is said to reside in the eastern Paradise of Abhirati. Buddhist |
"Akupara" | Hindu | The turtle on which the earth rests. Hindu |
"Al Raqim" | Quran | The dog of the Seven Sleepers, now in Paradise and in charge of letters and other correspondence. Quran |
Goddess name "Alkonost" | Greek | The bird of Paradise in Slavic mythology. It has the body of a bird with the face of a woman. The name Alkonost came from the name of Greek demi-goddess Alcyone transformed by gods into a kingfisher. |
Goddess name "Ama-Tsu-Mara" | Shinto / Japan | God of smiths. Depicted as a one-eyed ithyphallic god comparable to the Greek Cyclopes. He is strongly instrumental in fashioning the perfect Divine mirror with which the Sun goddess, AMATERASU, is lured from her cave. Also Ma-Hiko-Tsu-No-Kami.... |
Supreme god name "Amayicoyondi" | Peru | Goddess of the sky and the wife of Niparaja, the omnipotent supreme god and creator of heaven and earth. Peru |
"Amida-Nyorai" | Buddhist / Japan | Presides over the Pure Land of the Western Paradise, the Japanese people turned to him at their moment of death. Buddhist / Japan |
God name "Amun" | Egyptian | An Egyptian deity who combined with the Sun god to become Amun-Re, Amun was paramount in the Egyptian pantheon during the height of the pharaonic empire. |
Goddess name "Anat in Mesopotamia" | Akkadian | In Akkadian the form one would expect Anat to take would be Antu earlier Antum. This would also be the normal femanine form that would be taken by Anu, the Akkadian form of An 'Sky', the Sumerian god of heaven. Antu appears in Akkadian texts mostly as a rather colorless consort of Anu, the mother of Ishtar in the Gilgamesh story, but is also identified with the northwest Semitic goddess Anat of essentially the same name. It is unknown whether this is an equation of two originally separate goddesses whose names happened to fall together or whether Anat's cult spread to Mesopotamia where she came to be worshippped as Anu's spouse because the Mesopotamia form of her name suggested she was a counterpart to Anu. |
Goddess name "Aparajita" | Buddhist | Minor god / goddess Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Aparajita" | Buddhist / Mahayana | A minor god / goddess |
God name "Aparajita" | Hindu | God, one of eleven ekadasarudras, a form of Rudra Hindu / Puranic |
God name "Aparajita" | Hindu / Puranic | A god, a form of Rudra |
"Aparajita" | Hindu / Puranic | Form of Durga Terrible in appearance and likes to trample Ganesha under foot. Hindu / Puranic |
Goddess name "Aparajita (unconquered)" | Hindu / Puranic | (1) God. One of the eleven EKADASARUDRAS or forms of RUDRA. Attributes: bell, bowl, club, drum, hook, lance, lotus, prayer wheel, rod, rosary, shield, sword and trident.(2) Minor god. Buddhist (Mahayana). (3) Goddess. Hindu (Puranic). Form of DURGA. Her attendant animal is a lion. Attributes: arrow, shield, snake and sword. 4. Goddess. Buddhist (Mahayana). She stands or treads on the god GANESA. Color: yellow. Attributes: bell, hook, image of RATNASAMBHAVA, noose and staff.... |