| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Ix Chel" | Mayan / Yucatec / Quiche, Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon goddess. Also the goddess of childbirth and Medicine and of Rain bows. A consort of the Sun god. She has a major shrine as Cozumel and small figurines of the goddess have been conventionally placed beneath the beds of women in labor. Such women are considered to be in great danger at times of lunar eclipse when the unborn child may develop deformities. Ix Chel is a guardian against disease and the Quiche Indians regard her as a goddess of fertility and sexual inter course. A goddess of weaving, believed to be the first being on earth to weave cloth, she was employed in this craft when she first attracted the attention of the Sun god. She carries her loom sticks across the sky to protect her from jaguars. Under Chris tian influence she has been largely syncretized with the Virgin Mary.See also IX CHEBEL YAX.... |
| God name "Jamma" | Phonecia / Canaan | A god of of water, to be primarily a sea god |
| Goddess name "Jandira" | Brazil | Goddess of the sea. Brazil |
| Goddess name "Junkgowa" | Australia | Sisters and goddesses of the Sea and Marine Life. Active during the Dreamtime. Australia |
| Goddess name "Juras Mate/ Jurasmat" | Latvia | A goddess of the sea |
| Goddess name "Jurasmat" | Latvia | Goddess of the sea and of healing who fell in love with a mortal called Kastysis. Latvia |
| Goddess name "Jurate and Kastytis" | Lithuanian | Heroes of a Lithuanian legend. The queen of the amber palace Jurate may be considered a manifestation of the goddess of Sea. |
| God name "Kamalasana" | Hindu / Puranic | God. An epithet of BRAHMA. One of the clåśśic depictions in Hindu art wherein Brahma is drawn seated on a lotus, which blossoms from the navel of VISINU.... |
| Goddess name "Kankar Mata" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. A SAKTI who in later Hinduism became regarded as a SAPTAMATARA (mother) of evil intent. Known particularly from Bengal as a goddess who spreads disease.... |
| God name "Keret'kun" | Siberia | God of the sea. Siberia. |
| God name "Keret'kun/ Keretkun" | Chukchee / Siberia | A god of the sea |
| Goddess name "Khnum" | Egypt / Upper | Chthonic or earth god. Said to create human life on a potter's wheel but strictly at the behest of creator deities. He is usually seated before a potter's wheel on which stands a naked figure in the process of molding. The Khnum cult was principally directed from sanctuaries at Esna, north of the first Nile cataract, and at Elephantine where mummified rams covered with gold leaf and buried in stone sarcophagi have been discovered. Khnum supervises the annual Nile flood, which is physically generated by the god HAPY. His consort at Esna is the goddess Menhyt. Khnum is also described at other sites as the BA or soul of various deities including GEB and OSIRIS. Depicted anthropomorphically or with the head of a ram.... |
| God name "Khors" | Slavic | Korsha, Korssa, Chors, Corsa, Xors. A Sun or daylight god, he may be synonymous with Dazhbog and Bielbog. He was invoked him for hunting and against diseases. Slavic |
| Goddess name "Kianda" | Angola | A goddess of the sea. She was traditionally worshipped by throwing offerings such as food and clothing into the sea. Angola |
| God name "Kianda" | Kimbundu / Angola, southern Africa | God of the sea. Guardian of the Atlantic Ocean and its creatures. Invoked by fishermen who place offerings on the spéñïś. His presence may be symbolized by a skull.... |
| God name "Kianda Kimbundu" | Angola | The god of the sea & fish |
| God name "Kianto" | Mayan | The god of foreign aliens, and the disease they brought with them. Mayan |
| God name "Kianto Lacandon" | Maya | This is the god of foreigners & all diseases |
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