| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| King name "Andraemon" | Greek | The husband of Gorge, the daughter of the Calydonian king Oeneus, and father of Thoas. When Diomedes delivered Oeneus, who had been imprisoned by the sons of Agrius, he gave the kingdom to Andraemon, since Oeneus was already too old. |
| Demon name "Aningan" | Inuit | The moon, brother to the Sun whom moon chases across the sky. Aningan has a great igloo in the sky where he rests. Irdlirvirissong, his demon cousin, lives there as well. The moon is a great hunter, and his sledge is always piled high with seal skins and meat. Inuit |
| God name "Anti-Christ / AntiChrist" | Christian | Anti-Christ or the Man of Sin, expected by some to precede the second coming of Christ. St. John so calls every one who denies the incarnation of the eternal Son of God. Christian |
| Goddess name "Anunnaki" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Children and courtiers of the god of heaven. Known from at least 2500 BC until circa 200BC (in Babylon). The Anunnaki originate as chthonic fertility deities but later feature as the seven fearsome judges of the underworld who answer to Kur and ERES KIGAL and who are responsible for påśśing sentences of death including that placed on the goddess INANA. They are often closely identified with the IGIGI.... |
| Goddess name "Apet" | Egypt | Goddess who protects pregnant women, children, nursing mothers and justice. Egypt |
"Aphaea" | Greek | Aka Britomartis, appears to have originally been a Cretan divinity of hunters and fishermen. Her name is usually derived from sweet or blessing, and a maiden, so that the name would mean, the sweet or blessing maiden. Greek |
| Goddess name "Apit" | Egypt | Mother Goddess, nursing mother. Egypt |
| God name "Arawn" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic underworld god. The leader of the phantom hunt seen chasing a white stag with a pack of red-eared hounds. He equates with GWYNN AP NUDD, a similar deity known in South Wales. His chief underworld opponent is Hafgan and he bribes PWYLL, prince of Dyfed, to challenge Hafgan in exchange for a gift of pigs.... |
| God name "Aray" | Pre - Christian Armenian | war god. Probably derived locally from the Greek ARES. Some traditions suggests that he was also a dying-andrising god.... |
| God name "Ardhanari(svara) (the lord being half woman)" | Hindu / Puranic | God. The god SI IVA combined with his SAKTI as a single being. His attendant animal is the bull. In iconography the left side of the image is female and the right male. A tutelary deity of eunuchs in India. Attributes: (right side) blue lotus, cup, hatchet, lute, moon disc, pestle, skin, sword and trident; (left side) ax, mirror, noose, pitcher, rosary, sacred rope and trident. May appear as three-headed. Also Ammaiappan (Tamil); Naranari.... |
"Arsinoe" | Grek | A daughter of Phegeus, and wife of Alcmaeon. As she disapproved of the murder of Alcmaeon, the sons of Phegeus put her into a chest and carried her to Tegea, where they accused her of having killed Alcmaeon herself. |
"Asintmah" | Canada | earth Mother. She wove a fireweed and willow blanket to cover earth. Canada |
| Goddess name "Asvayujau (harnessing horses)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess of fortune. A benevolent NAKSATRA, or astral deity; daughter of DAKSA and wife of CANDRA (SOMA). Also Asvini and Asvinyau.... |
"Ataentsic aka Atseatsine" | Haudenosaunee | Woman-Who-Fell-To-Earth. First woman. Haudenosaunee |
| Goddess name "Atai" | Africa | Goddess who encouraged the creation of humans, choosing earth for us to inhabit. Africa |
"Atseatsan" | Haudenosaunee | First man and a solar divinity, He and his wife raise the Sun up into the heavens on long poles, since it is too hot to take hold of directly. Haudenosaunee |
"Avalokitesvara" | Buddhist | The Buddhist epitome of mercy and compåśśion. When Avalokitesvara attained to supreme consciousness, he chose not to påśś into nirvana, but vowed to stay behind as the succor of the afflicted. He was filled with compåśśion, karuna, for the sufferings of the living, which he sought to bring to enlightenment. He was represented as a handsome young man holding a lotus flower in his hand who wore a picture of Amithaba in his hair. His female consort was Tara, also known as Pandaravasini, 'clad in white'. |
| Goddess name "Aveta" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Goddess of birth and midwifery. Known mainly from clay figurines found at Toulon-sur-Allier, France. The models show the goddess with infants at the breast and apparently she is concerned especially with nursing mothers. The figure is often accompanied by a small lapdog.... |
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