Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Neharennia" | Roman / Celtic | Goddess of seafarers. Worshiped extensively between the second and thirteenth centuries AD, particularly in the Netherlands with sanctuaries at Domberg at the mouth of the Rhine and Colijnsplaat on the Scheldt. Probably began as a tribal deity of the Morini tribe. She is generally depicted with the attributes of fertilitya basket of fruit or cornucopia. She may also often have a small lapdog. Alternatively, she stands with one foot on the prow of a boat and grasps an oar or the rope.... |
God name "Nehebu-Kau" | Egypt | A serpent god who participated in the creation of the world when he swam around the solar boat of Re in the watery chaos. Egypt |
Goddess name "Neith" | Egypt | Net, Neit, Nit, creator goddess and of war, the hunt and domestic arts. In later times she was also thought to have been an androgynous demiurge - a creation deity - who had both male and female attributes. Egypt |
Goddess name "Nemesis" | Greco - Roman | Goddess of justice and revenge. The dreaded deity who, with the Furies, is responsible for transporting the souls of the guilty to Tartarus. She is also described as the deification of indignation. Her presence may be symbolized by the fabulous winged griffon. Her cult was predominantly at Rhamnus (Attica), where a magnificent temple was built in her honor in the fifth century BC, and in Smyrna. She also had a temple at Iconium in Asia Minor. According to legend, ZEUS raped her and she bore HELEN in consequence. In certain respects she provides a parallel with the goddess ERINYS. Her cult became one of morality.... |
Goddess name "Nepit" | Egypt | Goddess of grain, female counterpart of the god Neper. Egypt |
"Neptune's Horse" | Roman | Hippocampos; it had but two legs, the hinder part of the body being that of a fish. Roman |
"Neptunus - Neptune" | Roman | The chief marine divinity of the Romans. His name is probably connected with the verb valu or nato, and a contraction of namtunus. As the early Romans were not a maritime people, and had not much to do with the sea, the marine divinities are not often mentioned, and we scarcely know with any certainty what day in the year was set apart as the festival of Neptunus, though it seems to have been the 23rd of July. Roman |
Goddess name "Nerthus" | Danish | Goddess of fertility who, bless her heart, was åśśociated with a piece Danish |
God name "Neur" | Kataragama | God and maker of heaven and earth. Kataragama |
God name "Niamye" | Baule / Ivory Coast, West Africa | Creator god. He engendered a consort for himself and proceeded to create all other living things on earth. His anger is evidenced by lightning and thunderbolts.... |
Goddess name "Nidaba" | Sumeria | Goddess of fertility, in particular of the date palm and the reed. Sumeria |
Angel name "Nidbai" | Nazorean | Ned-vay (and Silmai) - Two angelic ones who make baptisms valid on a spiritual level. heavenly Helpers of earthly Nazoreans in becoming pure. "He who established prayers." Signs with the pure sign in baptism. Early Nazorean |
Goddess name "Nikkal" | Canaan | Great Lady and Fruitful. Goddess of the fruits of the earth. Canaan |
God name "Niladanda" | Buddhist | Guardian god of the southwestern quarter. Buddhist |
God name "Niladanda" | Buddhist | God. A dikpala or guardian deity of the southwestern quarter. Color: blue. Attributes: jewel, lotus, staff, sword and trident.... |
Goddess name "Niladevi (black goddess)" | Hindu / Puranic | Consort of the god V IS NU. Mentioned only in the Vaikhanasagama text as the third wife of Vis nu, no art representation of this goddess has been discovered. She may be identical with the goddess Pinnai known in Tamilspeaking regions.... |
"Nilalohita" | Hindu | Sent by Shiva to take birth on earth to drive away the insanity of the people under the preachings of the Mayavadis and to propagate Srouta Sivaradhya Sampradayam. Hindu |
God name "Ningirama" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of magic. A minor deity invoked particularly as a protection against snakes.... |