| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "AENGUS" | Celtic / Irish | KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 500 BC . The son of the DAGDA by the wife of Elcmar (one of the kings of Tara) who may have been the goddess BOANN, Aengus lived in the Valley of the Boyne and was closely linked with the ancient funerary tumuli in the region. According to legend, Aengus fell in love with a maiden whose identity he sought in vain. As he wasted away, his father and mother made enquiries until they located Caer, daughter of the king of Cannaught, who lived on Loch Bel dragon in the shape of a swan with 150 attendant swans. Aengus eventually found her and he also changed into a bird.... |
| 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 "Achor" | Cyrenea | God of flies, worshipped by the Cyreneans, that they might not be annoyed with these tiny tormentors. |
"Actiacus" | Greek | A surname of Apollo, derived from Actium, one of the principal places of his worship. Greek |
| Goddess name "Adidharma (the primeval law)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Primordial goddess. Particularly worshiped in Lamaism, she is the SAKTI of ADIBUDDHA. Attributes: cup and knife.... |
"Aengus" | Celtic / Irish | worshipped from about 500 BC / 400 AD |
| Goddess name "Aericura aka Erecura" | Roman / Celtic | Herecura, Eracura, was a goddess worshipped in ancient times, often thought to be Celtic in origin, mostly represented with the attributes of Proserpina and åśśociated with the Roman underworld god Dis Pater. Roman / Celtic |
"Aesymnetes" | Greek | A surname of Dionysus, which signifies the Lord, or Ruler, and under which he was worshipped at Aroe in Achaia. Greek |
"Ag'o" | Dahomean | Worshipped by hunters. Dahomean |
| 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 "Agnostos Theos" | Greek | Unknown gods who were always worshipped as a group Greek |
| Goddess name "Agrona" | Welsh | A goddess of strife and war worshipped in Britain. The river Aeron in Wales comes from her name. Welsh |
| Deity name "Ahone" | Virginia | Supreme deity of the Powhatan who was indifferent to worship. Virginia |
| Hero name "Alabandus" | Greek | A Carian hero, son of Euippus and Calirrhoe, whom the inhabitants of Alabanda worshipped as the founder of their town. |
| Deities name "Alcis" | Germanic / possibly Icelandic / Nordic | Unknown status. The Alcis are twin deities (brothers) known only as sons of the sky gods. From Germanic times we have a La Tene urn with pictures of paired men on horseback and linked by a wooden beam. Tacitus describes the worship of twin gods by the Naharvali tribe, their priests dressed in effeminate costume (see also the Phrygian deity ATTIS). They may have been worshiped in Forest sanctuaries along the northern coast of Europe.... |
| God name "Almaqah" | Pre - Islamic southern Arabian | Tutelary astral god. Worshiped by the Saba tribe, his sacred animal is the bull. Attributes include lightning bolts and a sinuate weapon.... |
| God name "Amm" | Arabian | moon god worshipped in ancient Qataban. The inhabitants of that South Arabian kingdom referred to themselves as the Banu Amm, or the "Children of Amm". |
| Goddess name "Ammavaru" | Hindu - Dravidian | Primordial mother goddess. Known locally from east central India and worshiped by the Dravidian tribe of Telugu. She is said to have generated the cosmic egg in the sea of milk from which the major gods BRAHMA, VIS'NU and SIVA were born.... |
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