Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Bhumi (the earth on which all things are formed)" | Buddhist / Varyana | Collective name for a group of deities. Twelve personifications of the spiritual spheres through which a BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate påśśes in his quest for perfection of knowledge. Common attribute: a staff.... |
Spirit name "Bhutadamara" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Turmoil of the spirits four-armed God. Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Bhutadamara (tumult of demons)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. May be depicted reclining on the Hindu goddess APARAJITA. Attributes: snakes in the hair, and staff. Three-eyed.... |
Goddess name "Birrahgnooloo" | Australian aboriginal | Creator goddess. She is recognized by several aboriginal clans as the chief consort of BAIAME, the creator god. Revered as the all-mother of humankind and creator of living things on earth, her role largely parallels that of Baiame. Traditions suggest that during the Dreamtime she planted vegetation as she moved through the primordial world, fashioning creatures from clay and breathing spirit into human beings. Her eldest son is DARAMULUM or Gayandi, regarded as an intermediary between Baiame and humankind.... |
Deities name "Bitol" | Mayan | A sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity. Mayan |
God name "Bolon Ti Ku" | Mayan | Collective name for the the nine underworld gods who are not well defined Mayan |
Deities name "Bolon Ti Ku" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic underworld gods. A collective term for a group of nine deities not otherwise clearly defined. They are probably still invoked by modern Mexican Indians.... |
Goddess name "Bombat KaMayann" | Hindu | Local deceased goddess. Hindu |
Goddess name "Bombat Kamayan" | Hindu | A local deceased goddess |
Goddess name "Bombay Kamayan" | Hindu / northern India | Local disease goddess. Particularly worshiped at Gaya.... |
"Buddhakapala" | Buddhist / Mahayana | (Buddha's skullcap) A significant emanation of AKSOBHYA. Alternatively a form of HERUKA. His SAKTI is CITRASENA. Color: blue-black. Attributes: club, cup, drum, image of Aksobhya and knife. |
God name "Buluc Chabtan" | Mayan | Sometimes referred to as "God F," he was a war god who received human sacrifices. Mayan |
God name "Buluc Chabtan" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of war. Associated with human sacrifice and depicted with a characteristic black line encircling the eye and extending down the cheek. Also God F.... |
God name "Cabaguil" | Mayan | God who helped create the world and mortals. Mayan |
Deities name "Cacoch" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. According to tradition he engendered the water lily from which sprang all the other deities of the Mayan pantheon. He is also portrayed as a messenger of the creator god HACHACYUM. Also Kacoch.... |
"Caha-Paluma" | Mayan | falling water, she was a woman created specifically to be the wife of Balam-Quitze. Mayan |
"Cakixia" | Mayan | Cakixia "water of parrots," she was a woman created specifically to be the wife of Iqi-Balam |
God name "Cakulha" | Mayan | A lightning god, an underling of Yaluk. His brother was Coyopa. Mayan |