| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "ADAD (wind)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | weather god. His father is the supreme sky god ANU. He is described as a benevolent giver of life in the fields but is also a more violent storm god. His name in Akkadian cuneiform means wind. His animal is the bull. In human form he is depicted wearing horned headdress and tiered skirt or robe decorated with astral symbolism. He may carry a scimitar embellished with a single panther head and his symbol is the lightning fork often fixed upon a pair of pincers.... |
| Supreme god name "AME-NO-MINAKA-NUSHI-NOKAMI" | Shinto / Japan | Supreme god. he highest deity of the Shinto pantheon and the first to emerge in Takama-No-Hara (the plain of high heaven) when heaven and earth were fashioned. He was born alone, resides in the ninth heaven and has always hidden himself from mortal eyes. A remote and vague figure of whom no images are ever made and toward whom no cult is directed. His name only appears once in the Kojiki and never in the Nihongi. Originally his identity may have been strongly influenced by Chinese religion. His name is linked closely with those of two other lesser primordial beings, TAKA-MI-MISUBI-NO-KAMI and KAMI-MISUBI-NO-KAMI.... |
| God name "AMUN" | Egypt | Supreme creator god. Amun is a Sun god, lord of the sky and king of the Egyptian world.... |
| God name "AN (1) (sky)" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Iraq | Supreme creator god. In Sumerian creation mythology An is the supreme being and, with his chthonic female principle, KI, is the founder of the cosmos. Also, in some texts, identified as the son of ANS'AR and KIS'AR. The head of the older generation of gods.... |
| God name "Abraham aka Avraham" | Arabic | Ashkenazi, Avrohom, Avruhom, regarded as the founding patriarch of the Israelites and of the Arabic people in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. In that tradition, Abraham is brought by God from his home in the ancient city of Ur into a new land, Canaan, where he enters into a covenant: in exchange for sole recognition of Yahweh as supreme universal authority. |
| Supreme god name "Ai Apaec" | Mochica Indian / pre - Columbian South America / northern coast of Peru | Supreme god. Probably originated as a jaguar god but came to rule the destinies of the world. He was thought to live like ordinary people and could reveal himself as man or god at will. He is depicted in anthropomorphic form, but with huge fangs and a cat-like wrinkled face with whiskers coming from his nose. He received sacrificial victims hurled from the top of a high cliff.... |
| Supreme god name "Ai Apec" | Peru | Supreme god who rules the destinies of the world. Fond of strangling spéñïś demons. Peru |
| Supreme god name "Ai Apec Mochica" | Peru | The supreme god that rules the destinies of the world |
| God name "Akongo" | Ngombe | Supreme and creator god. Ngombe |
| God name "Akongo" | Ngombe / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. The supreme deity considered to have given the world, and all that is in it, form and substance.... |
| Supreme god name "Alfodr or Alfadir" | Norse | Alfodr or Alfadir [Father of all]. The name of Odin as the supreme god. Norse |
| Supreme god name "Amayicoyondi" | Peru | Goddess of the sky and the wife of Niparaja, the omnipotent supreme god and creator of heaven and earth. Peru |
| Supreme god name "Amma" | Dogon | The supreme god |
| Supreme god name "Armaz" | George | The supreme god & a warrior deity pre Christian style |
| Supreme god name "Armaz" | Pre - Christian Georgian | Supreme god. Depicted as a warrior deity clad in golden armor, wearing jewels and wielding a sword.... |
| Supreme god name "Asis" | Kenya / Uganda | God of the Sun. The younger brother of the supreme god of heaven Tororut. In Nandi Asis becomes the supreme creator god. Kenya / Uganda |
| Supreme god name "Asis" | Suk / Pokot / Kenya / Uganda, East Africa | Sun god. These two tribes share the same pantheon. The younger brother of the supreme god of heaven TORORUT. In Nandi [Kenya] religion, Asis becomes the supreme creator god.... |
| Supreme god name "Atea" | Polynesian | Supreme god. The father of the gods depicted as a hybrid, his body divided vertically, the left half being fishy and the right half of human form. In the tradition of the Hervey Islands, he is the firstborn son of the primordial mother VARI-MA-TE-TAKERE. After a short existence low down in the world coconut living immediately above his mother, he moved to the opening of the upper world. He is largely comparable to TANE, the god of light. Also AVATEA, Vatea, Wakea.... |
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