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Hero name "Q'a'mtalat" |
Canada |
The Kwakiutl flood hero, who died in the Great Flood while successfully trying to save his children by removing them to the summit of a high mountain. They became the ancestors of a post-deluge humanity. Canada |
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Hero name "Q'o'mogwa" |
Kwakiutl |
Copper-maker, leading culture hero of the Kwakiutl, native inhabitants of the Canadian Pacific coast. |
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Spirit name "QUIKINN.A'QU (big raven)" |
Koryak / Kamchatka peninsula, southeastern Siberia |
A spirit of a primitive culture still heavily influenced by animism. Founder of the world.... |
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Goddess name "Qa" |
Gigo |
Goddess of the Omnibombly bird. Gigo |
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Supreme god name "Qa'wadiliquala" |
Dza'wadeenox Indian / British Columbia, Canada |
Supreme god. The guardian of the tribe but also a river deity responsible for bringing the salmon each year. Said to live in the river Gwae. His eldest son is TEWI'XILAK, the god of goat hunters. His attributes include a headband of red cedar bark.... |
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Supreme god name "Qa'wadliliquala Dza'wadeenox" |
BC Canada |
Not only the Supreme God, but the guardian of the tribe as well as a river deity that insurers the salmon run |
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Goddess name "Qadshu" |
Syria |
Goddess of fertility and sexuality. Syria |
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Deities name "Qaholom" |
Mayan |
A sky god and one of the seven deities of creation and humans. Mayan |
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Spirit name "Qaitakalnin" |
Koryak |
Guardian spirit of the North. Koryak |
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Spirit name "Qaitakalnin" |
Koryak / southeastern Siberia |
Guardian spirit. The brother of Big Raven, QUIKINNA'QU, and of the mother spirit Ha'na (A'na).... |
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Goddess name "Qamai'ts" |
Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada |
Creator goddess. Said to live in the upper heaven, Atsa'axl, from where she controls the earth. According to tradition the mountains were once malevolent beings who made the world uninhabitable, until she conquered them and reduced them in size. She is never invoked or prayed to. Also Tsi Sisnaaxil (our woman); Ek Yakimtolsil (afraid of nothing).... |
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Goddess name "Qamai'ts/ Sisnaaxil/ Ek Yakimtolsil" |
Bella Coola / BC Canada |
The creator goddess that lives in the upper heavens & controls the earth, she is never prayed to |
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Goddess name "Qamaits" |
British |
A warrior goddess of the indigenous Nuxalk people. British Columbia, Canada. |
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God name "Qamata" |
Africa |
Creator god of the Xhosa people. South Africa |
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Spirit name "Qasavara" |
Islands |
The gatherer of the spirits of the damned, who he then feeds to monsters. Banks islands, Vanuatu |
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God name "Qasynan" |
S Arabia |
the god of the of smithies |
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Spirit name "Qat" |
Islands |
The Great spirit who made everything. Banks islands, Vanuatu |
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Deity name "Qawaneca" |
Oregon |
The deity who created the earth. The Athapascan, Oregon |
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God name "Qawm" |
Arabic |
The Nabataean god of war and the night, and guardian of caravans. |
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God name "Qaynan" |
Pre - Islamic southern Arabian |
God of smithies. Known from inscriptions.... |
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God name "Qebehsenuf" |
Egyptian |
God whose canopic jar was used for the intestines. One of the four sons of Horus. Egyptian |
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God name "Qebui" |
Egypt |
Four headed, winged, ram headed god of the north wind Egypt |
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"Qedem" |
Hebrew |
The personification of the east wind. Hebrew |
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Goddess name "Qenqentet" |
Egypt |
Goddess of memory Egypt |
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"Qeskina'qu" |
Siberia |
Qeskina'qu "Big Light" the son of the creator being Tenanto'mwan. Koryak, Siberia |
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Spirit name "Qeskina'qu (big light)" |
Koryak / southeastern Siberia |
sky spirit. One of the sons of QUIKINNA'QU, he is the apotheosis of daylight, a precious commodity during the long Winter months.... |
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Goddess name "Qetesh" |
Egypt |
Goddess of love and beauty. Egypt |
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Goddess name "Qetesh" |
Semitic |
A goddess of sex rather than fertility, who is thought to have originally been a Semitic god, from Chaldean mythology |
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Goddess name "Qetesh" |
Syria |
A goddess of nature, whose cult was orgiastic |
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"Qi or Chi" |
China |
The energy of the universe which flows through everything. China |
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Goddess name "Qi-Gu" |
China |
Goddess of the toilet. China |
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God name "Qi-Yu" |
China |
God of war and Rainfall. China |
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"Qin-Guang-Wang" |
Chinese |
The ruler of the first court of Feng-Du the Chinese hell. |
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"Qin-Shubao" |
China |
Qin-Shubao a general from the Tang Dynasty who became associated with the ancient threshold guardians. China |
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Deity name "Qoluncotun" |
Nativ American |
Creator deity of the Sinkaietk who, angered by the ingratitude of their ancestors, hurled a star at the earth, which burst into flames. Southern Okanagon |
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God name "Qos" |
Edomite |
warrior and fertility god. Edomite |
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God name "Qos" |
Pre - Islamic northern Arabian |
Local weather god. Apparently known as the deification of an outcrop of black basalt on the north side of the Wadi Hesa [near Kirbet Tannur]. Also a god of Rainbows. Depicted seated on a throne flanked by bulls. Attributes include a branched thunderbolt held in the left hand. A worshiper is seen offering him an eagle.... |
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"Quaayayp" |
Greek |
The son of the creator of the world, Niparaya, and the virgin Anayicoyondi. North America |
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Goddess name "Quabso" |
Tanzania |
wind-rider, a goddess of the weather, health, fertility and Rain. Tanzania |
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Goddess name "Quades" |
Semitic |
Goddess of fertility Western Semitic |
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Goddess name "Quades (the holy one)" |
Western Semitic |
Fertility goddess. probably originating in Syria. She epitomizes female sexuality and eroticism in the mold of ASTARTE. She was adopted by Egypt with the fertility gods MIN and RESEP and became partly associated with the goddess HATHOR. She is usually depicted nude standing on the back of a lion (see also INANA and NINHURSAG A) between Min to whom she offers a lotus blossom, and Resep for whom she bears snakes. Her cult followed the typically ancient Near Eastern pattern of a sacred marriage carried out by her votary priestesses and their priests or kings.... |
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"Quan Yin" |
Asian |
The bodhisattva of compassion as venerated by East Asian Buddhists. |
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Goddess name "Quan Yin" |
China |
Goddess of Compassion. China |
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Deities name "Quaoar" |
Nativ American |
Sings and dances the world and other deities into existence. Tongva, Native American |
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God name "Quat" |
Banks Is / Melanesia |
A creator god that knows how to enjoy life |
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Deities name "Quat" |
Polynesian / Banks Islands |
Creator god. As with many Polynesian deities, the god is depicted as being very inactive, sitting around all day doing nothing.... |
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Goddess name "Quaxolotl" |
Aztec |
Goddess of twins and duality. Aztec |
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Spirit name "Qudsi" |
Bahai |
The personification of the 'Most Great spirit'. Bahai |
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"Qudsu" |
W Sumeria |
the personification of holiness |
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"Qudsu" |
Western Semitic |
Personification of holiness. Known from inscriptions at Tyre where a human figure stands naked on a lion, wearing a spiral headdress and holding lotus blossoms and serpents.... |
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"Queen Maeve" |
Ireland |
A protagonist in the story of the Cattle Raid of Cooley. Ireland |
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Goddess name "Queen Maeve/ Medb/ Medhbh/ Madb" |
Irish |
She was once a powerful goddess |
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Goddess name "Queen of Elphame" |
Celtic |
Goddess of death and disease often equated with Hecate. Celtic |
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"Queen of Heaven" |
Egyptian |
With the ancient Phoenicians was Astarte; Greeks, Hera; Romans, Juno; Trivia, Hecate, Diana, the Egyptian Isis, etc., were all so called; but with the Roman Catholics it is the Virgin Mary. |
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"Quetzalcoatl" |
Aztec |
A great teacher, according to the traditions of the Toltecs, who came to them from Tullan or Yucatan and dwelt for twenty years among the people, teaching them to follow a virtuous life, to cease all wars and violent deeds of any kind, to abolish human and animal sacrifices and instead to give offerings of bread and flowers. Aztec |
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God name "Quetzalcoatl" |
Toltec |
God of the air and presided over commerce, fertility, wind and of wisdom. Toltec |
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God name "Quetzalcoatl/ Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli" |
Aztec |
A manifestation of Sun the god, he is a savior of his people as well & there is not enough room here to tell his story |
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God name "Quiabelagayu" |
Maya |
God of boozy afternoons and lazy Sunday bonking sessions. Maya |
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God name "Quiahuitl" |
Aztec |
The creator god / Sun deity of the third of the five world ages |
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God name "Quiahuitl" |
Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico |
Creator god. The Sun deity representing the third of the five world ages each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fiftytwo terrestrial years. Assigned to the element fire and presided over by the Rain god TLALOC. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a great fiery Rain. The human population perished and in doing so were transformed into dogs, turkeys and butterflies. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also Quiauhtonatiuh; Tletonatiuh.... |
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"Quikinna'qu" |
British |
The first man. He was the only survivor of an island that had been transformed into a whale by the Thunderbird. Chuckchee, British Columbia |
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Goddess name "Quilla" |
Inca |
moon goddess married to Inti, the Sun god. Inca |
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"Quinanes" |
Central America |
A race of giants whose traditions were prevalent at the time of the conquest of Central America. |
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"Quinkini" |
Siberia |
Founder of the world. Koryak, Siberia |
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"Quinkini A'qu" |
Koryak / Siberia |
The founder of the world |
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Goddess name "Quinoa-Mama" |
Peru |
Minor goddess in charge of rabbits. Peru |
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Goddess name "Quinoa-Mama" |
PreColumbian Indian / Peru |
Minor goddess of the quinoa crop. Models of the deity were made from the leaves of the plant and kept for a year before being burned in a ritual to ensure a good quinine harvest.... |
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Goddess name "Quinuama" |
Inca |
Goddess of grain. Inca |
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God name "Quirinus" |
Roman |
An early god of the Roman state. |
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God name "Quirinus" |
Roman |
A god of war & the tutelary god of the Sabines |
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God name "Quirinus" |
Roman |
God of war. One of a triad of warrior gods including JUPITER and MARS. He originated as the tutelary god of the Sabines, living on the Quirinal, one of the seven hills of Rome. His warrior status is primarily one of defense and he is depicted bearded and in a compromise of military and clerical clothing. The myrtle is sacred to him.... |
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Goddess name "Quootis Hooi" |
Chinook |
Creator goddess who hatched mankind from thunderbird eggs. Chinook |
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God name "Quzah" |
Arabic |
God of storms, thunder, hailstorms, mountain and the weather. Arabic |
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God name "Quzah (archer)" |
Pre - Islamic northern Arabian |
mountain and weather god. Probably equating to QOS and worshiped by the Idumaean tribe to the south of Judea as a storm god. Also claimed to have been known near Mecca. Attributes include a bow which shoots arrows of hail.... |
