Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Abattur" | Mandaean | Judges the dead and weighs souls and their deeds. Mandaean |
Angel name "Abel" | Christian | angel åśśistant to St. Peter. He checks souls as they arrive in heaven. Christian |
Spirit name "Abida" | Kalmuck | A god of the Kalmucks, who receives the souls of the dead at the moment of decease, and gives them permission to enter a new body, either human or not, and have another spell of life on earth. If the spirit is spotless it may, if it likes, rise and live in the air. |
Spirit name "Adhyatman" | Hindu | The supreme spirit; the soul of the universe. Hindu |
God name "Aeacos" | Greco - Roman | Chthonic underworld god. One of three judges of Hades åśśessing the souls of the dead entering the underworld (see also MINOS and RHADAMANTHOS). Identified by Plato as the son of ZEUS and Aigina. In the Theogony (Hesiod), Aeacos is also the consort of Psamathe and father of Phocos. Also Aiakos.... |
Goddess name "Ahemait" | Egypt | underworld goddess who eats the souls of the unworthy. Egypt |
God name "Airyaman" | Persia | God of social bonds, contracts, and marriage who at the end of time will fish souls of the the temporarily damned called a Hell by using a net Persia |
Spirit name "Ajysyt" | Yakut / central Siberia | Maternal spirit. The deity who oversees the lying-in of an expectant mother and who brings the child's soul to the child-bed. The term ajysyt can also apply to a male spirit, thus the ajysyt that oversees the birth of horses is male, while that of horned cattle is female.... |
Deities name "Akeru" | Egypt | Pluralistic chthonic earth gods. Probably stemming from the pre-Dynastic period. Malevolent deities who can seize and imprison the souls of the deceased.... |
Spirit name "Aktunowihio" | Cheyenne | Soul of the earth and a subterranean spirit. Cheyenne |
Spirit name "Amagandar" | Siberia / Tungus | Protective female spirits who protect innocent souls from the curse that belongs anothers. Siberia |
Goddess name "Ammit" | Egypt | Goddess who ate the hearts of unworthy souls. Egypt |
Deities name "Anito" | Luzon | The souls of the ancestors worshiped as household deities. Irayas, Catalangans. Luzon |
Spirit name "Anjea" | Australia | Fertility spirit. People's souls reside within her in between their incarnations. Australia |
Goddess name "Anuanaitu" | America | Soul of the ocean, member of a sea monster family. Goddess of the ocean and whirlpools Caribbean, S. America |
God name "Anubis" | Egypt | Aka Anpu, Sekhem Em Pet. Messenger from the gods to humans. Pictured with the head of a jackal or dog, or as a dark colored jackal. He, with Maat, weighed human souls for truth and he rules over Wisdom, intelligence, death, embalming, endings, truth, justice, surgery, hospital stays, finding lost things, anesthetics, Medicine, journeys, protection, boats, diplomacy, astral travel, cemeteries. Egypt |
"Apuat" | Egypt | Aka Upuat. Pictured as Anubis is except he is white or gray instead of black. He guides souls to their place of rest after their hearts are weighed against the feather. Egypt |
Goddess name "Arianrhod" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic earth goddess. Responsible for initiation of souls in the otherworld in the tower of Caer Sidi. Mentioned in the Mabinogion texts as the possible daughter of Beli, consort of DON and mother of LLEW LLAW GYFFES and Dylan.... |