| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Amerant" | Greek | A cruel giant slain by Guy of warwick. |
"Amoghapasa" | Buddhist | Brings believers hope and tranquility. Amoghapasa has four pairs of arms. One pair is held with palms together in a prayerful attitude. Some are raised, others are held slightly away from the body. The hands may be in symbolic positions called mudra or may hold symbolic articles like a lotus blossom, symbol of compåśśion; a monk's staff; a whisk representing the brushing away of earthly cares; and the låśśo. Buddhist |
| Spirit name "Amoghasiddhi" | Buddhist | Fifth meditation Buddha. He is one of five mystic spiritual counterparts of the human buddha in Vajrayana Buddhism; a product of Adibuddha who represents the branch of the cosmos concerned with consciousness. Buddhist |
| King name "Amphictyon" | Greek | A son of Deucalion and Pyrrha or according to others an autochthon, who after having married Cranae, the daughter of Cranaus, king of Attica, expelled his father-in-law from his kingdom and usurped his throne. He ruled for twelve years, and was then in turn expelled by Erichthomus. |
| Goddess name "Amphitrite" | Greek | According to Hesiod (Theogony) and Apollodorus a Nereid, though in other places Apollodorus calls her an Oceanid. She is represented as the wife of Poseidon and the goddess of the sea (the Mediterranean), and she is therefore a kind of female Poseidon. |
| Goddess name "Anaitis" | Persian / Iran | Fertility goddess. Her influence extended through eastern Europe. In pre-Christian Armenia, the center of her cult was at Acilisena where noble families regularly surrendered their daughters to service as cultic prostitutes.... |
| God name "Anala" | Hindu / Puranic | Is one of the Vasus, gods of the material world. He is equated with Agni, and the name usually used for Agni when listed among the Vasus. Hindu / Puranic |
| Deities name "Anala (fire)" | Hindu / Puranic | Attendant god. One of a group of eight Vasu deities answering to the god INDRA.... |
| Deities name "Ananta" | Hindu / Puranic | A snake god & one of the seven snake deities |
| Deities name "Ananta" | Hindu / Puranic | The world serpent in Hindu mythology. During the night of Brahma, Vishnu sleeps on coils of prodigious snake, Sesha, also known as Ananta, 'the endless' whose thousand heads rise above the deity like a canopy. This scene and everything in it, the deities' serpentine couch, the water on which the snake lies, are all manifestations of the primeval essence. Hindu / Puranic |
| Deities name "Ananta" | Hindu / Puranic | Snake god. One of a group of seven snake deities or MAHANAGAS.... |
"Anantamukhi (with the face of Ananta)" | Buddhist | Deification of literature. One of a group of twelve DHARANIS. Color: green. Attributes: staff and water jar with treasure.... |
| Deity name "Anantesa" | Hindu | Minor deity and one of the eight Lords of of knowledge Hindu / Puranic |
| Deity name "Anantesa" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor deity. One of a group of eight emancipated lords of knowledge or VIDYESVARAS considered to be aspects of SIVA.... |
| Goddess name "Anapel" | Siberia / Koryak | Little Grandmother Goddess who presides over birth and reincarnation Koryak |
| Goddess name "Anat / Athene" | Greek | Anat and Athene In a Cyprian inscription the Greek goddess Athêna Sôteira Nikê is equated with Anat. Anat is also presumably the goddess whom Sanchuniathon calls Athene, a daughter of El, mother unnamed, who with Hermes (that is Anubis) councelled El on the making of a sickle and a spear of iron, presumably to use against his father Uråñuś. However, in the Baal cycle, that rôle is åśśigned to Asherah / Elat and Anat is there called the "Virgin." |
"Anchises" | Greek | A son of Capys and Themis, the daughter of Ilus. His descent is traced by Aeneas, his son, from Zeus himself. (Apollodorus iii) Hyginus makes him a son of Assaracus and grandson of Capys. |
| Goddess name "Andriam Vabi Rano" | Africa | A goddess of water & lakes |
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