| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Ammavaru" | Hindu - Dravidian | Primordial mother goddess. Known locally from east central India and worshiped by the Dravidian tribe of Telugu. She is said to have generated the cosmic egg in the sea of milk from which the major gods BRAHMA, VIS'NU and SIVA were born.... |
| 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.... |
"Ardhanarit" | savara | / Ammaiappan / Naranari Siva & Sakti combined |
| Deities name "BRARMA (the creator)" | Hindu / India | Creator god. With VIS'NU and SIVA, Brahma is one of a trinity of supreme creator deities in the Hindu pantheon. Brahma is depicted with four heads, often bearded, facing in four directions, and with four hands, sometimes with one of them raised in blessing or promise. As a god of knowledge he often carries the Vedas (earliest Sanskrit mythology said to have sprung from his head) in one of his hands. According to one legendary source he was created from the right side of the primordial creator force.... |
| Goddess name "Bagala (power of cruelty)" | Hindu | Goddess. One of a group of ten MAHAVIDYAS personifying the SAKTI of SIVA. Aspects include VIRARATRI.... |
| Goddess name "Bhadra (auspicious)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess. Attendant of SIVA. Generally seated. Attributes: blue lotus, fruit, rosary and trident.... |
"Bhaiarva" | Hindu / Puranic | A minor form of Siva |
| God name "Bhairava (terrible)" | Hindu / Puranic / later | Minor frightful form of the god SIVA. Guardian deity of doorways. A so-called ugra aspect, generally depicted in similar style to Siva but with up to five heads and ten arms and said to have been born from Siva's blood. Attributes: hook and noose. Aspects and epithets include Kalaratri, KSETRAPALA and MAHAKALA. Also Bhairon, linked with the cult of dogs and BHAIRAVA, one of a group of MAHAVIDYAS personifying the SAKTI of Siva.... |
| Goddess name "Bhuvanesvari (lady of the spheres)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. One of a group of ten MAHAVIDYAS personifying the SAKTI of SIVA. Also an epithet applied to several goddesses. Aspects include Siddharatri. Attributes: hook and noose.... |
| Deity name "Brahmins" | Hindu | Their "tri-murti" is a three-headed deity, representing Brahma (as creator), Vishnu (as preserver), and Siva (as destroyer). |
| Demon name "Candesvari aka Candika" | Nepal | A form of Durga or Gauri, the Consort of Siva; she is one of the astamatrka and the navadurga who destroyed her demonic offspring. Nepal |
| God name "Candfrasekhara" | Hindu / Puranic | A form of a god Siva |
| God name "Candrasekhara (moon crested)" | Hindu / Puranic | Form of the god SIVA. Portrayed standing stiffly upright and wearing snake jewelry with the moon on the left side of his headdress. Attributes: ax and an antelope.... |
| God name "Candsvera" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | A Minor God & benevolent aspect of Siva |
| God name "Caturmurti" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | God. The specific form of Vis'nu with four faces. Also the syncretization of BRAHMA, VIS'NU, SIVA and Surya.... |
| God name "Daksa (skilled and able)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Sun god. The son of BRAHMA and ADITI, he is an ADITYA and demiurge. His consort is PRASUTI, and he is said to have had up to sixty daughters. He appears in conflict with his son-in-law SIVA as the main offender against Siva's consort SATI (accounted as one of his daughters), who was so insulted by Daksa that she committed suicide by jumping into a ritual fire. Siva took revenge by decapitating Daksa but later, after intercession from other gods, Brahma brought him back to life, giving him the substitute head of a sacrificial goat. Attribute: head of a goat. Also PRAJAPATI.... |
| Deities name "Deva (the god)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Generic name of a god. Originally, in the Rg Veda, thirty or thirty-three devas are indicated, divided into three groups of eleven. In later Hinduism, the term deva is generally applied to deities not included in the chief triad of BRAHMA, VISNU and SIVA.... |
| Deity name "Devi" | Hindu | The consort of Siva and daughter of Himavat, the Himalaya mountains. As the female energy of Siva she considered either as a beneficent or as a malignant deity. Hindu |
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