| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Krttika(s)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess(es) of fortune. Strongly malevolent NAKSATRA(S) con sisting of the six stars in the Pleiades constellation who become nurses of the god SKANDA. (In Hindu mythology there are only six Pleiades, not the seven recognized in modern astronomy.)... |
| God name "Kuei Shing" | Chinese | God of literature. Believed to reside in the star constellation of Ursa major. Also Zhong-Kui.... |
| God name "Kukulcan" | Maya | He is the wind god that started life as a god of the Toltec |
| God name "Kukulcan" | Mayan | wind god who started life as a god of the Toltec Mayan |
"Kundalini" | Yoga | The energy åśśociated with a spiralling, or circulating, fire serpent that lies dormant before its journey through the known chakras, and the hidden Dark Star whose perihelion påśśage through the system. Yoga |
| Demon name "Kurma" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | Avatar of Visnu. In the form of a tortoise he placed himself at the bottom of the sea of milk, and made his back the base or pivot of the mountain Mandara. The gods and demons twisted the great serpent Vasuki round the mountain' and, dividing into two parties, each took an end of the snake as a rope, and thus churned the sea until they recovered the desired objects. Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
| Deities name "Kurma(vatara)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Incarnation of the god VIS'NU. The second avatara of Vis'nu, Kurma appears in the form of a tortoise which acts as a pivot for the mountainous churning rod the gods employ to make ambrosia from the primal sea of milk after the flood. Kurma is depicted with a human torso surmounting a tortoise shell. Vis'nu is said to have appeared in this form in order to recover some of the possessions lost during the deluge. Attributes: club, conch, lotus and prayer wheel. Also the name for a vehicle of various deities.... |
"Kurma[vatara]" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | An avatar of Visnu |
| Goddess name "Kybele/ Kybebe/ Cybele" | Phrygian / NW Turkey | A rather important Asian mother goddess who likely started as a mountain goddess |
"Ladon" | Greek | The dragon who was believed to guard the apples of the Hesperides. He is said to have been able to åśśume various tones of voice, and to have been the offspring of Typhon and Echidna but he is also called a son of Ge, or of Phorcys and Ceto. He had been appointed to watch in the gardens of the Hesperides by Juno, and never slept; but he was slain by Heracles and the image of the fight was placed by Zeus among the stars. Greek |
"Land of Beulah" | s | In Pilgrim's Progress it is that land of heavenly joy where the pilgrims tarry till they are summoned to enter the cerestial City; the Paradise before the resurrection. |
| Goddess name "Lasya (dancing girl)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. One of the group of ASTAMATARAS (mothers). She is generally depicted dancing the lasya dance. Color: white. Attribute: a mirror. Also the generic name of a group of four goddesses, including GITA, MALA, NRTYA and headed by LASYA.... |
| Demon name "Lilith" | Jewish | A rather startling young lady started out as a wife & became a demoness |
| Demon name "Lilith" | Jewish | Rather startling young lady started out as adam's first wife and became a demoness Jewish |
"Loviatar" | Finland | The blind daughter of Tuoni and the mother of Nine diseases. |
| God name "Luchtain / Luchtar" | Irish | A Minor war & death god |
| God name "Luchtar Lud" | Welsh | Chief god Ireland / Welsh |
"Lucifer" | Gnostic | The morning star. Venus is both an evening and a morning star: When she follows the Sun, and is an evening star, she is called Hesperus; when she precedes the Sun, and appears before Sunrise, she is called Lucifer, the light-bringer. Gnostic |
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