Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Aveta" | Celtic | A goddess of female-fertility, childbirth and midwives, also åśśociated with all fresh water. Celtic |
Supreme god name "Awonawilona" | Pueblo / Zuni | The One Who Contains Everything. The Supreme God, the Creator of All. Before the creation there was only Awonawilona; all else was darkness and emptiness. Both male and female, Awonawilona created everything from himself and taking form became the maker of light, the Sun. Pueblo / Zuni |
Goddess name "BRIGIT (exalted one)" | Celtic / Continental / European / Irish | Fertility goddess. A major Celtic pastoral deity, described as a wise woman, the daughter of the DAGDA, Brigit became Christianized as St. Brigit of Kildare, who lived from AD 450-523 and founded the first female Christian community in Ireland. She was originally celebrated on February 1 in the festival of Imbolc.... |
God name "Bacchantes" | Greek | The female devotees of the god Dionysus |
Spirit name "Banshee" | Ireland | Grey Lady of death who haunts certain Irish families. A female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage, by wailing, a death in a family. Ireland |
Angel name "Barbeliots" | Greek | A sect of Gnostics. Their first immortal son they called Barbeloth, omniscient, eternal, and incorruptible. He engendered light by the instrumentality of Christ, author of Wisdom. From Wisdom sprang Autogenes, and from Autogenes, Adam (male and female), and from Adam, matter. The first angel created was the Holy ghost, from whom sprang the first prince, named Protarchontes, who married Arrogance, whose offspring was Sin. Burnt by the Christians |
Angel name "Batqol" | Christian | A female angel whose name means "heavenly voice." and her voice was heard by Cain asking "Where is thy brother, Abel?" after Cain murdered his brother. |
Demon name "Beru" | Brazil | The butterfly demon who appears at the female puberty rites |
Goddess name "Bhrkuti-Tara (she who frowns)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. In Lamaism particularly, a cruel form of TARA, the mother of the BUDDHA. The so-called yellow Tara. An emanation of AMITABHA. Also identified as a female BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate. Color: yellow. Attribute: image of Amitabha, lotus, rosary, staff, trident and water jar. Threeeyed. Also JANGULI and VAJRATARA.... |
Goddess name "Bidhgoe" | Celtic | Female of Illusion, Goddess of love and of sexuality Celtic |
Goddess name "Buddhaalocana" | Buddhist | Goddess and female Buddha Buddhist / Shingon |
Goddess name "Buddhalocana (Buddha's eye)" | Buddhist / Shingon | Goddess. A female buddha (see LOCANA).... |
Goddess name "COATLICUE (the serpent-skirted goddess)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Mother goddess. The creator goddess of the earth and mankind and the female aspect of OMETEOTL. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. She has 400 sons, the stars of the southern sky, and is the mother of the goddess COYOLXAUHQUI. Later, as a widow, she was impregnated by a ball of feathers as she was sweeping the serpent mountain of Coatepec near Tula. Her other children decapitated her as punishment for her dishonor, but she gave birth to the Sun god HUITZILOPOCHTLI who subsequently slew Coyolxauhqui and her brothers, thus banishing night for day. According to tradition Coatlicue feeds off human corpses. She is also recognized as the patron deity of florists.... |
Deity name "Chaos" | Greco Roman | Primordial deity. The amorphous male power who, with the female presence, NYX, personifies the empty space which existed before the formation of the cosmos.... |
"Chrysothemis" | Greek | There are four mythical females of this name, and one male, a son of Carmanor, the priest of Apollo at Tarrha in Crete. He is said to have been a poet, and to have won the first victory in the Pythian games by a hymn on Apollo. Greek |
Goddess name "Cunda" | Buddhist / eastern Bengal / Tibet | Goddess. An emanation of Vajrasattva or Vairocana. A female BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate. Also seen separately as a deification of literature, one of a group of twelve DHARANIS. She may stand upon a man. Color: white or green. Very large variety of attributes. Also Aryacunda.... |
"Da" | Dahomey | The Rainbow serpent, "the symbol of flowing, sinuous movement" is of a dual nature, male and female. The Fon, Dahomey |
"Da-Shi-Zhi" | Buddhist / China | One of Amitabha Buddha's two great female Bodhisattva companions in the Pure Land. Buddhist / China |