| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Belobog" | Belun / Slavic | God of light, Sun, happiness, luck, and order. Belun / Slavic |
| God name "Belogob" | Slavic | God of the living. A wise old man with a long beard dressed in white, Belobog appears only during the day. Slavic |
"Belomancy" | Greek | Divination by arrows. Labels being attached to a given number of arrows, the archers let them fly, and the advice on the label of the arrow which flies farthest is accepted and acted on. This practice is common with the Arabs. Greek |
| Demon name "Belphegor aka Belphegore" | Moabite | Baalphegor. demon of discovery, invention, and riches. Moabite |
| Goddess name "Beltiya" | Babylon / Akkadia | Sublime and elevated, incomparable among the goddesses. Babylon / Akkadia |
| Goddess name "Beltiya (my lady)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Generic title of goddess. ZARPANITUM (SARPANITUM), the consort of the Babylonian god MARDUK, is often addressed as Beltiya.... |
| Hero name "Belus" | Greek | A son of Poseidon by Libya or Eurynome. He was a twin-brother of Agenor, and father of Aegyptus and Danaus. He was believed to be the ancestral hero and national divinity of several eastern nations, from whence the legends about him were transplanted to Greece and became mixed up with Greek myths. Greek |
| Goddess name "Bendis" | Greece | A Thracian divinity in whom the moon was worshipped. Hesychius says "that the poet Cratinus called this goddess Two Spears, either because she had to discharge two duties, one towards heaven and the other towards the earth, or because she bore two lances, or lastly, because she had two lights, the one her own and the other derived from the Sun. In Greece she was sometimes identified with Persephone, but more commonly with Artemis. |
| Goddess name "Bendis" | Thracian | Mother goddess. Hellenized and linked stylistically with ARTEMIS as a huntress. Appeared in Athens during the Peloponnesian war. Attributes: boots, torch and pointed cap.... |
"Bendith y Mamau" | Wales | Carmarthenshire name for fairies, means "Mother's Blessing". Phrase is used as a prayer to protect from evil. Wales |
| Angel name "Bene Elohim" | Hebrew | angels who belong to the choir of thrones having the duty of forever singing the ineffable praise of God. Hebrew |
| Demon name "Bennefilim" | Jewish | The demon of epilepsy. Jewish folklore |
| Hero name "Bensozia" | Greek | chief deviless of a certain Sabbatic meeting held in France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Diana of the Ancient Gauls, and was also called Nocticula, Herodias, and "The moon." |
| Goddess name "Bentakumari" | India | Goddess of water. The first fish of the season was given to her. India |
| Goddess name "Benten aka Benzi-Ten" | Japan / Shinto | Goddess of everything that flows: words, knowledge, speech, eloquence, and music. Japan / Shinto |
| Goddess name "Benten-San" | Japan / Shinto | The only goddess among of the seven deities of good fortune |
| Goddess name "Benten-San" | Shinto / Japan | Goddess of luck. One of seven deities clåśśed as gods of fortune and the only goddess in the group. A popular deity with many sanctuaries dedicated to her, she is a patron of music and holds a biwa instrument in her hand. Snakes, believed to stand for jealousy, are often coiled around her statues. Because of this, married couples are reluctant to visit her shrines together. Her priesthood is both Shinto and Buddhist and she is closely linked with the goddess SARASVATI.... |
| Goddess name "Benthesicyme" | Greek | An Ethiopian sea nymph, a goddess of the waves and a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, the wife of king Enalos. She raised Eumolpus, son of Chione and Poseidon. (Apollodorus iii) Her husband Enalos: of the sea, may have been Triton, the god of lake Tritonis in Greek |
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