| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "MyokennBooklhisattva" | Buddhist Chinese | Astral god. The apotheosis of the Pole Star, equating with AME-NO-KAGASEWO in Japanese Shintoism.... |
| Goddess name "Naksatra(s)" | Hindu | Generic title for a group of astral goddesses. Stars or constellations which became personified as deities, accounted as twenty-seven daughters of DAKSA and consorts of CANDRA or SOMA. They can exert benign or evil influence.... |
"Nhur-Hai" | Nazorean | Nhur-Hai - Light of Life, one of the four sons of perfection behind the north star. Early Nazorean |
| God name "Occopirmus" | Lithuania | Ockopirmus. Baltic god of the sky and the stars. Lithuania |
| God name "Oko (hoe)" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | God of Agriculture. According to tradition he descended from heaven and lived at a farm near the town of Irao, where he attained a great age. One day he disappeared, leaving only his staff which was taken as a symbol of his presence. Annually, at the start of the Rainy season, a festival with strong fertility emphasis is held in his honor.... |
| King name "Osseo" | Hiawatha | Son of the Evening Star. When "old and ugly, broken with age, and weak with coughing," he married Oweenee, youngest of the ten daughters of a North hunter. She loved him in spite of his ugliness and decrepitude, because "all was beautiful within him." One day, as he was walking with his nine sisters-in-law and their husbands, he leaped into the hollow of an oak-tree, and came out "tall and straight and strong and handsome;" but Oweenee at the same moment was changed into a weak old woman, "wasted, wrinkled, old, and ugly;" but the love of Osse'o was not weakened. The nine brothers and sisters-in-law were all transformed into birds for mocking Osseo and Oweenee when they were ugly, and Oweenee, recovering her beauty, had a son, whose delight as he grew up was to shoot at his aunts and uncles, the birds that mocked his father and mother. Hiawatha |
"Ostara" | German | The old High German name for the Easter festival. |
| Goddess name "Ostara" | Germanic | Sun goddess. Associated with the coming of spring and one of the derivations of the term Easter, she equates with the Anglo-Saxon deity EOSTRE.... |
| Goddess name "Ostara/ Easter" | Germanic | A goddess of spring & the Sun |
| Spirit name "Ostaraki" | Buddhist | spirit of divinity and wisdom. Buddhist |
| Goddess name "Ostaraki (covering)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. An attendant of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
| Goddess name "Paiowa Yana Piaute" | Greek | Goddess of the Evening star, she and her daughter created the first people USA |
| God name "Phosphoros" | Greek | This is the god of the morning star |
| God name "Phosphoros" | Greek | God of the morning star. His mother is EOS, the dawn, and he is depicted as a naked youth running ahead of her, carrying a torch. In Roman culture he becomes Lucifer.... |
| God name "Phosphorus" | Greek | The lightbearer and god of the morning star. To dream of seeing phosphorus is indicative of evanescent joys. For a young woman, it foretells a brilliant but brief success with admirers. Greek |
"Ping-Deng-Wang" | China | Sinful souls receive punishment starting from the 1st Tribunal right up to the 8th Tribunal according to the nature and severity of their sins but there are others whose sins are much greater - such more sinful souls are sent to my Tribunal to be judged with impartiality. If, after due consideration. I find that the sin is not too great or serious, I will direct that the soul be sent to the 10th Tribunal to await rebirth. I deal with sinful souls impartially. From: White Sun - Tao of heaven. China |
| God name "Poxiom" | Mayan / Tzeltal Indian, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of disease. Apparently perceived as a star in the sky or a ball of fire. He may also be depicted as a fertility god shelling maize or as a fisherman, doctor, musician or hunter. An image of the god was discovered in the Christian church in Oxchuc, and the Indians were forced to revoke and spit on the icon before it was publicly burnt.... |
"Punarvasu" | Hindu | Refers to the two brightest stars in the constellation of Gemini: Castor and Pollux. In Malayalam Punarvasu is termed Punartham. Hindu Zodiac |
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