Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Kalahari aka Cagn Mantis" | Africa | a creator god of the people of the Kalahari in Africa and in particular Botswana. He is credited with having made all things (he made the moon from an old shoe), and is the god of natural phenomena. Omnipresent, he manifests himself in everything in the world, but especially in the mantis and caterpillar, which seem to be his favored animals. He has one wife, Coti, and, with her, two sons, Cogaz and Gewi. At one time, he lived on earth but he later moved his dwelling to the top of the sky. |
God name "Kalisia" | Pygmy / Zaire / Congo | A creator god that is the guardian of hunters & the jungle Forests |
God name "Kalisia" | Pigmy / Democratic Republic of Congo / Congo, central Africa | Creator god. The guardian of hunters and the jungle Forests. Pigmy hunters invoke the god with special rituals and he delivers dream messages identifying the location of game.... |
God name "Kalisia Pygmy" | Congo | Creator god who is the guardian of hunters and the jungle Forests Congo / Zaire |
God name "Kalrnga" | Ndonga / northern Namibia, southern Africa | Creator god. Said to take the form of a giant man who is always partially hidden by clouds and generally seen only by women intermediaries known as nelagos who go to converse with him in sacred places. He is the father of MUSISI. The god is invoked at times of warfare and illness, but also as a fertility deity and before making a journey.... |
"Kalunga Ndonga" | Africa | Creator of all things Africa(south) |
Deities name "Kami-Musubi-No-Kami" | Japan | Third creator being in the primordial a list of deities, this being was born alone in the cosmos and its presence remains hidden from humans Japan / Shinto |
Deities name "Kami-Musubi-No-Kami (divine producing wondrous deity)" | Shinto / Japan | Creator being. The third in the list of primordial deities appearing in the Kojiki and Nibongi sacred texts. A remote and vaguely defined deity who was born alone in the cosmos and whose presence remains hidden from mankind. Probably influenced by Chinese religion.... |
Demon name "Kando" | Japan | The Ainus consider the heavens to be three in number. The first in order is called Shi-nish kando, "the greatest skies;" this is supposed to be the home of the chief of the gods, i.e. the Creator. The second order of heavens is called Nochiu-o kando, "the skies which bear the stars;" the second order of gods is supposed to dwell here. The last or lowest heavens are named range kando or urara kando, i.e. "the hanging skies" or "the fog skies;" the lowest orders of gods and some of the demons, especially the demons of thunder, are supposed to live here. Japan |
Spirit name "Kangalogba" | Pokot / Suk / Uganda / western Kenya, East Africa | Primordial spirit. The female spirit personified in the dragonfly and also the apotheosis of the sacred river Oubangui. The mother of the creator god TORO.... |
God name "Karora" | Australia | A creator god. He was born in a lake and, after fathering many children, he returned there to slumber. Australia |
"Katavul" | India | Ultimate creator all who exists in the world and able to judge humanity and to reward or punish India / Tamil / Sri Lanka |
Supreme god name "Katavul" | Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Supreme god. The ultimate creator of all that exists in the world and the judge of humanity able to reward or punish at will.... |
Supreme god name "Katavul Tamil" | S India / Sri Lanka | Such a supreme god that he was the ultimate creator all that exists in the world & able to judge humanity & to reward or punish at well |
God name "Kazyoba" | Nyamwezi / Tanzania, East Africa | Sun god. Regarded as the tutelary deity and creator of the tribe.... |
God name "Kazyoba Nyamwezi" | Tanzania | God of the Sun-held to be the creator and tutelary deity of the tribe Tanzania |
Goddess name "Keawe" | Hawaiian | Creator god. An androgynous though apparently male principle or monad, he lived once in the dark empty abyss of Po. There, Keawe transformed primordial chaos into an orderly cosmos. He fashioned the sky from the lid of his calabash (a water-carrying gourd) and the Sun from an orange disc formerly kept inside the calabash. Keawe's first son was KANE, the god of light, and his daughter was Na Wahine, both created through his own powers of conception. He subsequently entered into an incestuous relationship with Na Wahine to father the chief pantheon of Hawaiian gods and goddesses, including most notably KU, LONO and Kanaloa, who became known, collectively, as the tripartite god.... |
"Ketq Skwaye" | Huron | Creator Huron |