| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| King name "Una" | Christian | Truth, so called because truth is one. She starts with St. George on his adventure, and being driven by a storm into "Wandering Wood," retires for the night to Hypocrisy's cell. St. George quits the cell, leaving Una behind. In her search for him she is caressed by a lion, who afterwards attends her. She next sleeps in the hut of Superstition, and next morning meets Hypocrisy dressed as St. George. As they journey together Sansloy meets them, exposes Hypocrisy, kills the lion, and carries off Una on his steed to a wild Forest. Una fills the air with her shrieks, and is rescued by the fauns and satyrs, who attempt to worship her, but, being restrained, pay adoration to her åśś. She is delivered from the satyrs and fauns by Sir Satyrane, and is told by Archimago that St. George is dead, but subsequently hears that he is the captive of Orgoglio. She goes to king Arthur for aid, and the king both slays Orgoglio and rescues the knight. Una, now takes St. George to the house of Holiness, where he is carefully nursed, and then leads him to Eden, where their union is consummated. Spenser: Faerie queene |
"Unk" | Oglata | A female being of magical beauty full of påśśion but having, in part, an evil nature. Oglala. |
| God name "Unumbote" | Bassari / Togo, West Africa | Creator god. Engendered all living things on earth.... |
| God name "Upulero" | Indonesia | The god of heaven, who fertilizes Upunusa, the earth. Indonesia |
| God name "Upulvan" | Sri Lanka | 'the water-lily colored' One of a group of "four great gods", and each of these four gods was the patron of a certain part of the Island. Sri Lanka |
"Upunusa Grandmother Earth" | Indonesia | The female principle who was fertilized by Upulero. Indonesia |
| Goddess name "Uras" | Sumeria | Urash, a goddess of earth, and one of the consorts of the sky god An. She is the mother of the goddess Nininsinna. Sumeria |
| Goddess name "Uras" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Chthonic earth goddess. One of the named consorts of the sky god AN and the mother of NIN'INSINNA.... |
"Uruzimu" | Urartan | One of the fiends who seek to cast down the Seven Gates of the Stars. Urartan |
| Goddess name "Usas" | Hindu / Vedic | Goddess of the dawn. The daughter of Dyaus and, according to some texts, the consort of the Sun god SURYA. An auspicious deity, Usas brings the dawn, heralding Surya, and drives away darkness. She is the all-seeing eye of the gods. In the Rg Veda she is depicted as a beautiful young virginal figure who rides in a hundred chariots. She sets all things in motion and can render strength and fame to her devotees. In addition to being perceived as a sky goddess, she is also drawn as a mother goddess in the guise of a cow. Epithets include mother of the gods and mother of cows. She is invoked to give the boon of longevity, but a more malignant aspect reveals her as a huntress who wastes human life. Usas sometimes enjoys a domestic worship as a guardian hearth goddess who drives away darkness and evil spirits. She disappears, however, from the later traditions of Hinduism.... |
| God name "Utnapishtim" | Sumerian | Utnapishtim is the wise king of the Sumerian city state of Shuruppak who, along with his wife, survived a great flood sent by Enlil to drown every living thing on earth. Utnapishtim was secretly warned by the water god Ea of Enlil's planned and constructed a great boat or ark to save himself, his family and representatives of each species of animal. |
| God name "Uwolowu" | Togo | Creator god who first made a woman on the earth and bore with her the first child, the first human being. Akposso, Togo |
| Goddess name "Vaisnavi" | Hindu | One of seven mother-goddesses, each of whom is the sakti, or female counterpart, of a god. Hindu |
| God name "Vajradhara" | Buddhist | God. An epithet of the ADIBUDDHA but also an allegory for the highest buddha. Known particularly from Nepal and Tibet. His SAKTI is PRAJNAPARAMITA. Attributes: cup, hook, noose, regal ornaments and staff. Three-headed.... |
| Spirit name "Vajrapani" | Buddhist / mainly Tibet | God. An emanation of AKSOBHYA but also sometimes identified with ADIBUDDBA. Generally thought to reflect the second DHYANIBUDDHA or spiritual meditation buddba. Sometimes depicted with a peaçõçk. Alternatively considered to be a counterpart of the Hindu god INDRA. Color: dark blue or white. Attributes: noose, snake and staff. Also AcalaVajrapani; Acarya-Vajrapani.... |
| God name "Valevalenoa" | Polynesia | God of space and the son of tangaloa-the-explorer-of-lands and the queen of earth. Samoa, Polynesia |
| Goddess name "Valli" | Hindu | Goddess. The second consort of SKANDA, usually depicted standing to his right. In its original context the word Valli may mean earth.... |
| God name "Vamana" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Incarnation of the god VISNU. The fifth avatara of Vis'nu which appears as a dwarf, symbolizing the puny state of mankind in the cosmos. According to legend, the god took the guise in order to trick BALI, a greatgrandson of Hiranyakashipu (see NARASINHA), whose prestige had begun to overshadow that of INDRA. To restore a proper balance Vamana requested from Bali a plot of land three paces wide on which to meditate. Vis'nu returned to his proper stature and claimed heaven and earth in two steps. He declined to take the third which would have also claimed the underworld, but instead gave its rule to Bali. The dwarfish form bears two arms. Attributes: umbrella and waterpot.... |
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