Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Aataentsic" | Iroquois | Goddess Iroquois |
God name "Adonai aka Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh" | Jewish | El, Elohim, Shaddai, Shalom, Yah, YHWH / YHWH Tzevaot, God. YHWH is often transliterated "Jehovah" or "Yahweh", but only by people outside of Jewish tradition. |
Goddess name "Aeval .Aibell Aoibhell" | Celtic | Aeval aka Aibell Aoibhell, was a goddess or fairy queen of Munster. She determined if husbands were sexually satsifying their wives. Celtic |
"Ataentsic aka Atseatsine" | Haudenosaunee | Woman-Who-Fell-To-Earth. First woman. Haudenosaunee |
"Awitelin Tsita" | Zuni | The Fourfold Containing Mother-earth,' Zuni |
"Bartsing" | Formoza | One of the creators of the Sun, moon, and stars. the other was Dgagha. The Amia, Formosa |
"Bozaloshtsh" | Wendish | A messenger of death who cries like a child outside a house where someone is about to die. Wendish |
Spirit name "Hastseltsi" | Navaho | Male spirit of racing. Navaho |
God name "Hastseltsi" | Navaho / USA | God of racing. He organizes and oversees athletic races. The priest who impersonates him has to be a good runner and challenges others, using high-pitched squeaking calls. If the priest wins, the contender is whipped with a yucca scourge. If the contender wins, there is no penalty! A fastidious deity who avoids contact with any unclean objects. His ceremonial mask is a domino shape covering mouth and throat with white shells over the eyes and mouth.... |
Spirit name "Hatdastsisi" | Navaho | Benevolent male spirit who helps cure disease Navaho |
God name "Hatdastsisi" | Navaho / USA | God. A benevolent deity, he cures disease through the medium of his priest, who flagellates the affected parts. His home is believed to be near Tsegihi in New Mexico. Sacrifices to Hatdastsisi are made up from reeds decorated with a design representing the blue yucca plant, which is buried in the earth to the east of the tribal lodge. His priest wears a buckskin mask decorated with owl feathers, and a spruce collar, but otherwise ordinary Navaho dress with white buckskin leggings.... |
God name "Heitsi" | Africa | Shape-shifting sorcerer God. Hottentots. Africa |
King name "Heitsi-Eibib" | Namaqua | A flood hero deity who "came from the east," landing in the west of Cape South Africa, a very long time ago, with fellow survivors from a Sunken kingdom. Namaqua |
Deities name "Hi-Hiya-Hi" | Shinto / Japan | Sun god. One of a number of minor Sun deities, engendered from the blood of the god KAGU-TSUCHI and worshiped in the mountain sanctuary of the fire KAMIS, Kono-Jinja. In Japan certain older people still worship the Sun. They go outside at Sunrise, face east and bow, clapping their hands.... |
King name "Hutsipamamau'u Ocean Woman" | Chemehuevis | The Great Mother, the creator of all things who created the earth from her flaking skin. Chemehuevis |
God name "Iae" | Brazil | God of the moon. Iae and his brother, Kuat, stole the light from the vulture god Urubutsin. Kuat became the Sun god and Iae god of the moon. Brazil |
"Iatiku & Nautsiti Acoma" | NA | The sisters who created man |
Spirit name "Iatiku and Nautsiti" | Acoma | Sisters who, when giving life to the snakes and fishes, accidentally created the evil spirit. Acoma. Native American |