Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Abellio" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Tree god. Known from inscriptions in the Garonne valley of southwestern France and thought to be åśśociated with apple trees.... |
God name "Abello aka Abelio and Abelionni" | Enoch | Abello aka Abelio and Abelionni, was a god of apple trees, worshipped in the Garonne Valley in southwest France. |
God name "Abello/ Abellio" | Gaul | A god of apple trees |
God name "Acan" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of wine. Identified with the local brew, balche, made from fermented honey to which the bark of the balche tree has been added.... |
Nymph name "Aegeirus" | Greek | A Hamadryad nymph of the Oak tree. Greek |
God name "Agdistis" | Phrygian | A mythical being connected with the Phrygian worship of Attes or Atys. Pausanias relates the following story about Agdistis. On one occasion Zeus unwittingly begot by the earth a superhuman being which was at once man and woman, and was called Agdistis. The gods dreaded it and unmanned it, and from its severed genitalia there grew up an almond-tree. |
God name "Aguara" | Roman | Fox god who gave the carob tree to the people Tunpa / Chiriguano |
"Agyieus" | Greek | A surname of Apollo describing him as the protector of the streets and public places. Greek |
"Alisanos" | Celtic / France | A personification of "alder-tree Forestation. Celtic / France |
Nymph name "Ampulus" | Greek | A Hamadryad nymph of the Vine tree. |
Spirit name "Anjea" | Australasia | Animistic fertility spirit. Known to tribesmen on the Pennefather River, queensland, Australia and believed to place mud babies in the wombs of pregnant women. The grandmother of a newly born infant buried the afterbirth, which was collected by Anjea and kept in a hollow tree or some such sanctuary until the time came to instill it into another child in the womb.... |
Goddess name "Aranyani" | Hindu / Vedic | Minor goddess of woodlands. Possibly having evolved from a primitive animistic guardian spirit of animals, Aranyani is an elusive, rarely seen, deity who is recognized in the sounds of the trees, particularly at dusk. She is a benign figure, sweet-scented and unwilling to destroy unless severely provoked.... |
Goddess name "Ayaba" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | Hearth goddess. The sister of LOKO, god of the trees, whose wood is burned in the home to cook food.... |
Goddess name "Azer Ava" | Russian | Ancient Russian goddess, the name Azer-Ava translates into "forest mother" or "the friendly tree goddess". Azer-Ava lives in trees and welcomes those who venture out to pick berries and mushrooms. She is known as a goddess of fruitfulness who brings Rain and corn, and oaths are taken in her name. |
Nymph name "Balanos" | Greek | A Hamadryad nymph of the Oak tree. Greek |
Spirit name "Belas" | Indonesian | Indonesian tree spirits who should be asked to move before chopping a tree down |
Goddess name "Bele Alua" | Ghana | Tree goddess. Ghana |
Goddess name "Bera Pennu" | Northern Indian | vegetation goddess. Worshiped by the Khonds in Bengal. She was the recipient of human sacrifice to ensure good harvest, particularly of the spice turmeric, and as a protection against disease and infirmity. The sacrificial victim or meriab was youthful, often kept for years as a holy person before death and was always either the offspring of a previous sacrificial victim, or purchased from impoverished families for the purpose. He or she was generally strangled, sometimes in the fork of a tree, after days of festivities. In other instances the victim was cut up alive.... |