| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Yolkai Estan" | Navaho / USA | Fertility goddess. The sister of the principal fertility goddess, ESTSANATLEHI, she was engendered by the gods, who gave life to an image made from white shells.... |
| Goddess name "Yolkai Estsan" | Navaho | Goddess of war, the dawn, fire and the moon Navaho |
"Yoni" | Sanskrit | The Sanskrit word for "Divine Påśśage". The Ayurveda, or Science of Life, described yoni as a part of the female anatomy. Here the term was meant as a designation of respect for women who gave birth, thus contributing to the continuation of the community. |
"Yule Swain" | s | A kind of Santa Klaus among the Lapps. He is eleven feet high, and rides on a goat. He appears on St. Thomas's Day, and continues his visits till Christmas Eve; but where he comes from and whither he goes nobody has the least idea. |
| God name "Zababa" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | God of war. The tutelary god of the city of Kis,, whose sanctuary is the E-meteursag. Also Zamama.... |
| Goddess name "Zhiwud" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Messenger goddess. A deity connected and possibly syncretizing with the goddess DISANI but who, according to legend, carried vital messages to the heroic god MON during a primordial battle between gods and giants. Mon lives by a lake surrounded by fire, and the goddess's wings (a solitary inference that she can appear in the form of a bird) are scorched in the process until Mon heals them. In some variations Mon lives in the form of a bull which breathes fire. Also Zhuwut.... |
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