Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Abonsam" | Africa / Ghana | Malevolent spirit driven away by firing guns and shouting loudly, emptying houses of furniture and beating the interiors with sticks. Gold Coast |
Spirit name "Abonsam" | West African | Malevolent spirit. Recognized by tribes in the Gold Coast, etc. Traditionally driven away in an annual expulsion ritual by firing guns and shouting loudly, emptying houses of furniture and beating the interiors with sticks. The abonsam was finally driven into the sea. The ritual was preceded by four weeks of total silence in the area.... |
Goddess name "Abundantia" | Roman | Minor fertility goddess. The personification of abundance. She continued in French mythology after the Roman occupation, as a lady who enters houses in the night, bringing prosperity.... |
Goddess name "Aditya (descendant of Aditi)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Collective name for Sun gods. These numbered six in Vedic times but later increased to twelve. The sons of the primordial goddess ADITI. Also an epithet for SURYA. Attributes: two or more lotuses.... |
God name "Ajalamo Yoruba" | Africa | God of fetuses. west Africa() / Nigeria |
Goddess name "Alemona" | Roman | A goddess of fetuses |
Demon name "Alrinach" | Eastern | The demon who causes shipwrecks and presides over storms, Rain, hail and earthquakes. Appears in the form and dress of a woman. Eastern mythology |
"Aonian" | Greek | Poetical, pertaining to the Muses. The Muses, according to Grecian mythology, dwelt in Aonia, that part of Boetia which contains Mount Helicon and the Muses' Fountain. Greek |
"Ardalus" | Greek | A son of Hephaestus who was said to have invented the flute, and to have built a sanctuary of the Muses at Troeze who derived from him the surname Ardalides Ardaliotides |
Goddess name "Aryaman (companion)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Minor Sun god. In Vedic times, the god of formal hospitality. One of six ADITYA sons of the goddess ADITI. Attributes: club, two lotuses and prayer wheel.... |
God name "Asuha-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of courtyards. A guardian deity, one of many in Shintoism, concerned with the protection of houses and their environs.... |
God name "Ataa Naa Nyongmo" | Gan / district around Accra, Ghana, West Africa | Creator god. He engendered the earth and also controls the Sun and the Rain. He causes disasters such as epidemics and earthquakes if his laws and rites are disobeyed.... |
God name "Ataa Naa Nyongmo Gan" | Ghana | The creator god that controls the Sun & the Rain, call causes disasters as epidemics & and earthquakes if you don't follow his rules |
Demon name "Balan" | Hebrew | A demon said to be high in the monarchy. The demon of finesse and ruses. Also a prince of hell. Hebrew |
King name "Bamapana" | Australia | Is a trickster hero who causes discord. He is obscene and profane and once committed incest, thus breaking a strict taboo. Australia |
Demon name "Bar-Lgura" | Semitic | A gargoyle type demon said to sit on the roofs of houses and leap on the inhabitants. People so afflicted were called d'baregara. Semitic |
Goddess name "Bhaga (the dispenser of fortune)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Minor Sun god. In Vedic times, the incarnation of women's good fortune in marriage. One of six ADITYAS, sons of the goddess ADITI. Consort: SIDDHI. Attributes: two lotuses, prayer wheel and trident.... |
Demon name "Bushyasta" | Zoroastrian | The yellow demon of lethargy and sloth. He is the evil genius which causes men to oversleep and to neglect their religious duties. Zoroastrian |