| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Baugi aka Bauge" | Norse | A brother of Suttung, for whom Odin worked one summer in order to get his help in obtaining Suttung's mead of poetry. Norse |
| Goddess name "Bebhinn" | Britain | A goddess of the underworld and daughter of its ruler and a breathtakingly beautiful giantess with long golden hair. Britain |
| Deity name "Belatu-Cadros aka Belatucadros" | Britain | Belatucadrus, "fair shining one" or "fair slayer", a deity worshipped in northern Britain, particularly in Čú𝔪berland and Westmorland. He may be related to Belenus and Cernunnos, equated with Mars. |
| God name "Belatucadros" | Britain | The war god |
| Hero name "Bensozia" | Greek | chief deviless of a certain Sabbatic meeting held in France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Diana of the Ancient Gauls, and was also called Nocticula, Herodias, and "The moon." |
| God name "Benu" | Egypt / Upper | Transmuted bird-like form of a Sun god. A deity mentioned in Pyramid Texts (circa twenty-fifth century BC) and linked with the Sun god of Heliopolis, ATUM. He is also said to have been self-created from the primeval ocean and is sometimes a symbol of rebirth in the afterlife. Benu may have augmented the Greek clåśśical tradition of the Phoenix. He appears in the Old kingdom as a yellow wagtail but later becomes a heron, wearing the conical white crown of Upper Egypt with two slender feathers pointing backwards from its crest.... |
"Biblys" | Greek | Fell in love with her brother and when he refused her love, she turned into a constantly. flowing fountain. Greek |
| King name "Binzuru-Sonja" | Japan | One of the pupils of Buddha, the first of the sixteen Rakan. Rakan with grey hair and long eyebrows. Originally he was a retainer of the king, Uuten. He became a priest and attained miracle power by performing Arakan's vow. It is said that he was praised by Shaka for he used the miracle power for the world and that he didn't enter Nirvana and made efforts cultivating ordinary people. He was worshipped on the above in Theravada Buddhism, however, many are worshipped in restaurants in China. He is enshrined in front of a temple in Japan. It is believed that stroking him eliminates distresses. Japan |
| God name "Borvo/ Bromo/ Bormåñuś/ Gramnnos/ Belenos/ Toutiorix" | Britain / Gaul | The god of hot springs who replaced his mother Sirona |
| Goddess name "Briant" | Britain | Goddess of the river which holds her name. Britain |
| Goddess name "Brigantia" | British | A goddess in Britain and Europe. She was the tutelary goddess of the Brigantes in northern Britain (modern Yorkshire) and of the Brigantes on lake Constance in Austria. British |
"Brisingamen" | Scandinavian | Freyja's necklace made by the fairies. Freyja left her husband Odin in order to obtain this necklace; and Odin deserted her because her love was changed into vanity. It is not possible to love Brisingamen and Odin too, for no one can serve two masters. |
| Goddess name "Britannia" | Roman / Celtic / British | Tutelary goddess. The genia loci of Britain who first appears on the coinage of Antoninus Pius in the second century AD. She became the symbol of the British Empire after being partly syncretized with the Roman war goddess MINERVA.... |
"Burlond" | Britain | A giant whose legs Sir Tryamour cut off. Britain |
| Goddess name "CIPACTLI (great earth mother)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial goddess. Not strictly a goddess, but significant enough in Aztec cosmogony to be included here. According to tradition she was created in the form of a huge alligator-like monster by the underworld deities MICTLANTECUHLTI and MICTECACIHUATL. She may equate with TLALTECUHTLI, the toad-like earth monster torn apart to form heaven and earth. According to one tradition she emerged from the primordial waters and engaged in a fierce struggle with the Sun god TEZCATLIPOCA during which he tore off her lower jaw to prevent her sinking back into the depths and she bit off his right foot. The mountains are said to be the scaly ridges of her skin.... |
| Goddess name "COATLICUE (the serpent-skirted goddess)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Mother goddess. The creator goddess of the earth and mankind and the female aspect of OMETEOTL. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. She has 400 sons, the stars of the southern sky, and is the mother of the goddess COYOLXAUHQUI. Later, as a widow, she was impregnated by a ball of feathers as she was sweeping the serpent mountain of Coatepec near Tula. Her other children decapitated her as punishment for her dishonor, but she gave birth to the Sun god HUITZILOPOCHTLI who subsequently slew Coyolxauhqui and her brothers, thus banishing night for day. According to tradition Coatlicue feeds off human corpses. She is also recognized as the patron deity of florists.... |
| Goddess name "COVENTINA" | Roman / Celtic / British | Tutelary and water goddess of uncertain affinities. Little is known of Coventina other than that she was a purely local British goddess of some importance. She is best observed from the period of the Roman occupation, at which time she shows a clåśśical influence but is clearly Celtic in origin.... |
"Cacus" | Greek | A fabulous Italian shepherd, brother of Caca, who was believed to have lived in a cave, and to have committed various kinds of robberies. Among others, he also stole a part of the cattle of Hercules or Recaråñuś and, as he dragged the animals into his cave by their tails, it was impossible to discover their traces. But when the remaining oxen påśśed by the cave, those within began to bellow, and were thus discovered. Greek |
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