| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Indrani" | Hindu | The goddess of wrath and jealousy, and a daughter of Puloman, a demon who was killed by Indrani's future husband, Indra. She is beautiful and has one-thousand eyes. She is åśśociated with lions and elephants. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Indrani" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Goddess of wrath. Daughter of Puloman, a demonic figure killed by the god INDRA, and the SAKTI and consort of Indra. One of seven MATARAS (mothers) who in later Hinduism became regarded as of evil intent. Also one of a group of eight ASTAMATARAS personifying jealousy (also named Aindri in this capacity). In another grouping one of nine NAVASAKTIS or astral deities who, in southern India, rank higher than the SAPTAMATARAS. Her attendant animal is either an elephant or a lion. Attributes: hook, rosary, Santana flower, staff and waterjar. One thousand-eyed. Also Aindri; Mahendri; Paulomi; Saci; Sujata.... |
| God name "Intonsus" | Greek | I. e. unshorn, a surname of Apollo and Bacchus, alluding to the eternal youth of these gods, as the Greek youths allowed their hair to grow until they attained the age of manhood, though in the case of Apollo it may also allude to his being the god of the Sun, whence the long floating hair would indicate the rays of the Sun. Greek |
| God name "Inuus" | Roman | An ancient protector of livestock, one of the di indigetes, indigenous gods. He was probably a god of fertility or sexual intercourse, as his name was thought by some to be connected with the word inire, "to copulate". He was also sometimes identified with the Roman god Faunus. Roman |
| Goddess name "Is'ara" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian / / western Semitic | Goddess of marriage and childbirth. Also a deity concerned with the enforcing of oaths. Known chiefly from early inscriptions and some Akkadian texts. Her Mesopotamian cult center was the Babylonian town of Kisurra, but she is also thought to have been worshiped across a wide area among Syrians, Canaanites and Hittites. Her symbol is the scorpion. Also Es ara.... |
| Book name "Isa - Soma - Ulu'tuyar - Ulu Toyo'n - Uru'n Ajy Toyo'n" | Egyptian | Ulu Toyo'n "Thou Beautiful Power, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven, Power of heaven, From the Egyptian Book of the Dead |
| God name "Island of Flame" | Egypt | Though not a god, without it eight gods would never have came into being Egypt |
| King name "Ixion" | Greek | A son of Phlegyas or, according to others, a son of Antion by Perimela, of Pasion, or of Ares. According to the common tradition, his mother was Dia, a daughter of Deioneus. He was king of the Lapithae or Phlegyes, and the father of Peirithous. He was bound to a revolving wheel of fire in the Infernal regions, for his impious presumption in trying to imitate the thunder of heaven. Greek |
| God name "Jakomba" | Bangala / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | God of morality. Also known as the god of hearts, he controls human thought. Also Nzakomba.... |
| God name "Jakomba Bangala" | Zaire | A god of morality that controls human thought |
| God name "Jawhe" | Israel | Thought to be God of mountains prior to becoming the god of Israel,Mount Sinai is his suspected mountain Israel |
| God name "Jawhe/ Jahve/ Jehovah" | Israel | Thought to be a mountain god prior to becoming the god of Israel, Mount Sinai is his suspected mountain |
| King name "Jinn" | Arabian | A sort of fairies in Arabian mythology, the offspring of fire. They propagate their species like human beings, and are governed by a race of kings named Suleyman, one of whom built the pyramids. Their chief abode is the mountain Kaf, and they appear to men under the forms of serpents, dogs, cats, monsters, or even human beings, and become invisible at pleasure. The evil jinn are hideously ugly, but the good are exquisitely beautiful. According to fable, they were created from fire two thousand years before Adam was made of earth. The singular of jinn is jinnee. |
| Goddess name "Kabandha" | India | A monstrous evil spirit slain by Rama. A son of the goddess Sriand "covered with hair, vast as a mountain, without head or neck, having a mouth armed with immense teeth in the middle of his belly, arms a league long, and one enormous eye in his breast." India |
| Deities name "Kabeiroi" | Greek | Blacksmith gods. According to tradition the sons or grandsons of the blacksmith god HEPHAISTOS. The cult was centered particularly on Lemnos, where there was an Etruscan tradition until circa 500 BC, and at Thebes. The Kabeiroi are thought to derive from pre-Greek Asian fertility deities in Anatolia [Turkey].... |
| Deities name "Kabirroi" | Greek | bees were of vegetation and deities, commonly thought of as twins & Mail |
"Kadru" | Hindu | The mother of a thousand powerful many-headed serpents and many other fierce and venomous serpents. Hindu |
"Karttikeya" | Hindu | The son of Siva or Rudra, and to have been produced without the intervention of a woman. Siva cast his seed into fire, and it was afterwards received by the Ganges: Karttikeya was the result; hence he is called Agnibhu and Gangaja. Hindu |
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