| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Spirit name "Aha (grandmother)" | Yakut / central Siberia | River spirit. The guardian and apotheosis of rivers.... |
| Spirit name "Ajysyt" | Yakut / central Siberia | Maternal spirit. The deity who oversees the lying-in of an expectant mother and who brings the child's soul to the child-bed. The term ajysyt can also apply to a male spirit, thus the ajysyt that oversees the birth of horses is male, while that of horned cattle is female.... |
| Spirit name "Ayi'-Uru'n Toyo'n (lord bright creator)" | Yakut / central Siberia | Creator spirit. See also URU'N AJY TOYO'N.... |
| Spirit name "Bhagavan (the lord)" | Northern / central Indian | Tutelary god. Worshiped by the Bhils and other tribes as the original creator spirit and a judge of the dead soul. Also an epithet of VISNU and KRSNA. Also Bhagwan.... |
| Spirit name "CERNUNNOS" | Celtic, Gallic | Fertility and chthonic god. Cernunnos appears to have been recognized in the region of Gaul which is now central France. He is typically drawn as a man bearing the antlers of a stag, not necessarily representing an animal spirit but a deity closely involved with animals and one which can transform instantly into animal shape. In the Celtic world, horns and antlers were generally regarded as symbols of virility and fertility.... |
| Spirit name "Itonde" | Mongo / Nkundo / central Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa | God of death. He consumes rats as food and is also the god of hunters in the dark jungle Forests. Described in the Epic of Lianja as the first man to die whose spirit reincarnated at the instant of death, into his son LIANJA. He possesses a bell with magical properties, the elefo, by which he predicts where death will strike.... |
| Spirit name "Ma Kiela" | Bakongo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Female spirit being. The deified head of a band of mortal women who died specifically from knife wounds.... |
| Supreme god name "Mayin" | Tungus / eastern / central Siberia | Supreme god. A benevolent but remote deity who breathes life into newborn children and receives the spirits of the dead.... |
| Spirit name "Mbomba" | Mongo / Nkundo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. He operates through intermediaries known as bilima and through the spirits of the dead, bakali. Also known as landa, Komba, Mbombo, Njakomba and WAI. Among the Ngbandi people there is recognized a vast water monster or river god by the same name.... |
| Spirit name "Tanara" | Yakut / central Siberia | sky spirit. The apotheosis of the sky.... |
| Spirit name "Ti'ykitiy" | Yakut / southeastern / central Siberia | Sun spirit. Often identified with the supreme being AYI'URU'N TOYO'N.... |
| Spirit name "Toro" | Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. He is perceived as a great serpent, the son of KANGALOGBA, who is both the spirit of the dragonfly and the symbol of the sacred river Oubangui.... |
| Spirit name "URU'N AJY TOYO'N (white creator lord)" | ORIGIN Yakut / central Siberia | Creator spirit. A creator being said to live in the zenith of the upper world, and also in the northeast, superintending the ICCI (masters or owners). He may also personify the Sun. He tends to act for good and horses were sacrificed to him. Generally addressed by a beneficent or white shaman (ajy ayuna).See also ULU'TUYAR ULU TOYO'N.... |
| Spirit name "Uslo" | Yakut / central Siberia | spirit of mountains. One of the guardians of the natural world answering to the mountain owner XAYA ICCITA.... |
| Spirit name "Xaya Iccita" | Yakut / central Siberia | mountain spirit. The owner or master of the mountains.... |
| Spirit name "Yulgen" | Central Asia | According to the belief of the Altaians, the good spirits,aru neme, are all subjects of the good god Yulgen, and the bad spirits, kara neme, of the evil god Erlik. Yulgen is so kind and generous that he never does harm to men. Sacrifices are offered to him by all, but no one fears him. Every bridegroom must sacrifice to him a horse of a light colour after his marriage. |
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