Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Angel name "Dragon" | Christian | dragon in Christian art symbolises Satan or sin. In the pictures of St. Michael and St. Margaret it typifies their conquest over sin. Similarly, when represented at the feet of Christ and the Virgin Mary. The conquest of St. George and St. Silvester over a dragon means their triumph over paganism. In the pictures of St. Martha it means the inundation of the Rhone, spreading pestilence and death; similarly, St. Romåñuś delivered Rouen from the inundation of the Seine, and Apollo's conquest of the python means the same thing. St. John the Evangelist is sometimes represented holding a chalice, from which a winged dragon is issuing. |
Goddess name "Eri" | Ireland | Eri of the Golden Hair, Virgin Goddess of the Tuatha De Danann. Ireland |
Goddess name "Eri of the Golden Hair" | Irish | A virgin goddess of the Tuatha De Danann |
Goddess name "Erzulie" | Haiti | Goddess of health, clothes, flowers, jewelry, of fertility, love, virginity, beauty and sex. Haiti |
Goddess name "Etugen" | Mongol | A virgin earth goddess |
Goddess name "Etugen aka Itugen" | Mongol | Virgin goddess of the earth. Mongol |
Goddess name "Fatima" | Syrian | The great goddess of the moon and fate, the source of the Sun and the virgin queen of heaven. Syrian |
Goddess name "Flidais (Watch-Out-Dear)" | Ireland | A huntress and archer fond of the chase. A Celtic Artemis except, whereas Artemis was a virgin goddess, Flidais was very fond of jolly bonking. Ireland |
Angel name "Gabamiah" | Germany | Recite the following words: "Gabamiah, Adonay, Agla, O Lord God of Powers, do Thou åśśist us!" When you see the angel, say in an affable tone of voice: "Blessed spirit, be thou welcome! I conjure thee once more, in the Name of the Most Holy Adonay, to give me prompt enlightenment about stuff. And if for reasons unknown to us, thou art unwilling to proceed in an audible tone of voice, I conjure thee in the Most Holy Name of Adonay to write upon the virgin parchment here present, between now and to-morrow morning, or at least reveal unto me that which I desire this coming might in my sleep. Solonic goetic rite. |
"Gallicen?" | Gallic | The nine virgin priestesses of the Gallic oracle. By their charms they could raise the wind and waves, turn themselves into any animal form they liked, cure wounds and diseases, and predict future events. |
Goddess name "Gilfaethwy" | Celtic | A son of the goddess Don and brother of Gwydion and Arianrhod in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi. His uncle Math ap Mathonwy, king of Gwynedd, must keep his feet in the lap of a young virgin at all times unless he is going to war. Celtic |
"Goewin" | Welsh | Was Math fab Mathonwy's foot-holder; she was raped by Gilfaethwy. Learning that she was no longer a virgin, Math punished Gilfaethwy and his accomplice Gwydion, and married Goewin himself. Welsh |
Goddess name "Ho-Hsien-Ku" | Chinese | One of the `eight immortals' and the virgin of the mountains, goddess of agility, immortality and mother reverence. Chinese |
Nymph name "Houri" | Koran | The large blackeyed damsels of Paradise, possessed of perpetual youth and beauty, whose virginity is renewable at pleasure. Every believer will have seventy-two of these houris in Paradise, and his intercourse with them will be fruitful or otherwise, according to his wish. If an offspring is desired, it will grow to full estate in an hour. (Persian, huri; Arabic, huriya, nymphs of Paradise. Koran |
Deity name "Huiracocha/ Viracocho" | Inca | The supreme deity accused of a virgin birth & creator of of the world |
Goddess name "Ilmatar" | Finland | The virgin goddess of the air. She is portrayed as androgynous with both male and female aspects, though she is primarily female. Despite her virginity, she was the mother of Vainamoinen, the god of music, Lemminkainen, god of magic, and Ilmarinen, the god of smithing. Finland |
"Immaculate Conception" | Roman | The dogma that the Virgin Mary was conceived without Original sin. This dogma was first broached by St. Bernard, and was stoutly maintained by Duns Scotus and his disciples, but was not received by the Roman Catholic Church as an article of faith till 1854. |
Demon name "Immat" | Kafir / Afghanistan | demonic god. A deity to whom sacrifices were addressed in the Ashkun villages of southwestern Kafiristan. Legend has it that Immat carries off twenty virgin daughters every year. A festival includes blood sacrifice and dances by twenty carefully selected young priestesses.... |