| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Demon name "Bennefilim" | Jewish | The demon of epilepsy. Jewish folklore |
| Hero name "Bensozia" | Greek | chief deviless of a certain Sabbatic meeting held in France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Diana of the Ancient Gauls, and was also called Nocticula, Herodias, and "The moon." |
| Goddess name "Bentakumari" | India | Goddess of water. The first fish of the season was given to her. India |
| Goddess name "Benten aka Benzi-Ten" | Japan / Shinto | Goddess of everything that flows: words, knowledge, speech, eloquence, and music. Japan / Shinto |
| Goddess name "Benten-San" | Japan / Shinto | The only goddess among of the seven deities of good fortune |
| Goddess name "Benten-San" | Shinto / Japan | Goddess of luck. One of seven deities clåśśed as gods of fortune and the only goddess in the group. A popular deity with many sanctuaries dedicated to her, she is a patron of music and holds a biwa instrument in her hand. Snakes, believed to stand for jealousy, are often coiled around her statues. Because of this, married couples are reluctant to visit her shrines together. Her priesthood is both Shinto and Buddhist and she is closely linked with the goddess SARASVATI.... |
| Goddess name "Benthesicyme" | Greek | An Ethiopian sea nymph, a goddess of the waves and a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, the wife of king Enalos. She raised Eumolpus, son of Chione and Poseidon. (Apollodorus iii) Her husband Enalos: of the sea, may have been Triton, the god of lake Tritonis in Greek |
| God name "Benu" | Egypt | God of the Sun in a bird like form Egypt |
| God name "Benu" | Egypt / Upper | Transmuted bird-like form of a Sun god. A deity mentioned in Pyramid Texts (circa twenty-fifth century BC) and linked with the Sun god of Heliopolis, ATUM. He is also said to have been self-created from the primeval ocean and is sometimes a symbol of rebirth in the afterlife. Benu may have augmented the Greek clåśśical tradition of the Phoenix. He appears in the Old kingdom as a yellow wagtail but later becomes a heron, wearing the conical white crown of Upper Egypt with two slender feathers pointing backwards from its crest.... |
| Goddess name "Benzi-Ten/ Benten/ Benzai-Tenno" | Japan | The goddess of eloquence, language, arts, fortune, water, & knowledge |
| Goddess name "Bera Pennu" | Northern Indian | vegetation goddess. Worshiped by the Khonds in Bengal. She was the recipient of human sacrifice to ensure good harvest, particularly of the spice turmeric, and as a protection against disease and infirmity. The sacrificial victim or meriab was youthful, often kept for years as a holy person before death and was always either the offspring of a previous sacrificial victim, or purchased from impoverished families for the purpose. He or she was generally strangled, sometimes in the fork of a tree, after days of festivities. In other instances the victim was cut up alive.... |
| Goddess name "Bharat Mata (Mother India)" | Modern Hindu | Mother goddess. Evolved from the writings of the nineteenth century Bengali, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Shrines are designed in the form of a map of India.... |
| Spirit name "Bmola" | Abenaki | bird spirit. Abenaki |
| God name "Bo" | Benin | God of the Ewe people in Benin. He was a protector of warriors. |
| Ghost name "Brahmadaityas" | Hindu | Benign ghosts of Brahmin priests with four faces and four hands. They guard their master against Shiva the destroyer. |
| God name "Candesvara (the lord of Canda)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor god. A benevolent aspect of S IVA. Also an attendant on S iva, said to have been a youthful cowherd. He sits on a lotus throne. Attributes: arrow, ax, bow, club, crown, hatchet, noose, rosary, snake, trident and water jar.... |
| God name "Candsvera" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | A Minor God & benevolent aspect of Siva |
| God name "Chaitanya" | Hindu / Puranic | Mendicant god. A deified mortal who became one of the many incarnations of the god VIS NU. Born at Nadiya in AD 1484, he died at Puri in 1527. Chaitanya was a sickly child who, according to legend, was left to his fate, hanging in a tree to die, but was revived by the gods and thus became deified. He was married twice before adopting a strict ascetic existence at the age of twenty-four, from which time he traveled extensively, eventually settling in the holy city of Benares. He is remembered as a great social reformer. His main sanctuary at Nadiya includes a small statue of KRSNA to whom he devoted himself.... |
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