| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Spirit name "Ba-Pef" | Egypt | Chthonic underworld god. An obscure malevolent deity known from the Old kingdom (circa 2700 BC) in which he may have enjoyed a priesthood. According to limited references among the Pyramid Texts, he had a cult following and was åśśociated in some way with pain or spiritual anguish affecting the king.... |
| God name "Baa! Ma!age" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Local tutelary god. Probably of Canaanite origin, closely equating with BAAL SAMIN and known only from inscriptions.... |
| Deities name "Baa! Sapon" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Local tutelary god. Probably of Canaanite origin and closely equating with BAAL SAMIN. According to Ugaritic texts he lives on a mountain in the north of Phoenicia known as Saphan, which may have served as a beacon for mariners. Other local variations of mountain deities include Baal Hermon and Baal Brathy.... |
"Baalzephon" | Canaanite | Captain of guard and sentinels of Hell. Canaanite |
"Bacabs" | Mayan | They stand at the four corners of the world supporting the heavens. Mayan |
| God name "Bacax" | Roman - North African | Local god. A rare example of a named deity from this region, thought to have been worshiped as a cave god. Known from inscription at Cirta [Constantine].... |
"Bacis" | Greek | Seems to have been originally only a common noun derived from to speak, and to have signified any prophet or speaker. In later times, however, Bacis was regarded as a proper noun, and the ancients distinguish several seers of this name. Greek |
"Bahu" | India | the Creating Mother. India |
| God name "Bali" | Hindu | He was a Hindu god of the sky, but Vishnu took his power from him, casting him to the underworld where he would rule instead. |
"Balisarda or Balisardo" | Spain | Rogero's sword, made by a sorceress, and capable of cutting through enchanted substances. |
| God name "Barastar" | Ossetian / Caucasus region | Chthonic underworld god. The judge of souls, directing them either to Paradise or to oblivion.... |
| Goddess name "Bat" | Egypt / Upper | cow goddess of fertility. She was probably well known in the Old kingdom (circa 2700 BC onward). Associated principally with Upper Egypt, for a while she may have rivaled Hathor in Lower Egypt but by the time of the New kingdom (sixteenth century BC) her influence had waned. She may be represented on the Narmer Palette (Cairo Museum) which com memorates the unification of the two kingdoms. Bat is only rarely found in large sculptures and paintings, but is often the subject of Egyptian period jewelry, including amulets and ritual sistrum rattles. Depicted as a cow or anthropo morphically with bovine ears and horns. Also Bata.... |
| God name "Beelzebub" | Semitic | A deity worshipped in the Philistine city of Ekron. In ancient contexts, there appears to have been little, if any, meaningful distinction between Beelzebub and the polytheistic Semitic god named Baal. |
| God name "Bel" | Babylonian | Signifying "lord" or "master", is a title rather than a genuine name, applied to various gods in Babylonian religion. The feminine form is Belit 'Lady, Mistress'. Bel is represented in Greek and Latin by Belos and Belus respectively. Linguistically Bel is an East Semitic form cognate with Northwest Semitic Baal with the same meaning. |
| God name "Belatucadros" | Celtic / British | war god. According to some authors he is the horned god of the north equating to CERNUNNOS. The Romans syncretized him with the god MARS.... |
| Goddess name "Belili" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess. See GES TIN-ANA.... |
| Goddess name "Bendis" | Greece | A Thracian divinity in whom the moon was worshipped. Hesychius says "that the poet Cratinus called this goddess Two Spears, either because she had to discharge two duties, one towards heaven and the other towards the earth, or because she bore two lances, or lastly, because she had two lights, the one her own and the other derived from the Sun. In Greece she was sometimes identified with Persephone, but more commonly with Artemis. |
| 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." |
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