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God name
"Benu"
Egypt God of the Sun in a bird like form Egypt
God name
"Benu"
Egypt / Upper Transmuted bird-like form of a Sun god. A deity mentioned in Pyramid Texts (circa twenty-fifth century BC) and linked with the Sun god of Heliopolis, ATUM. He is also said to have been self-created from the primeval ocean and is sometimes a symbol of rebirth in the afterlife. Benu may have augmented the Greek clåśśical tradition of the Phoenix. He appears in the Old kingdom as a yellow wagtail but later becomes a heron, wearing the conical white crown of Upper Egypt with two slender feathers pointing backwards from its crest....
Goddess name
"Benzi-Ten/ Benten/ Benzai-Tenno"
Japan The goddess of eloquence, language, arts, fortune, water, & knowledge
Goddess name
"Bera Pennu"
India earth and vegetation goddess. India
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....
Goddess name
"Berecyntia"
Gaul Goddess of the earth. Gaul
Goddess name
"Bereginy"
Slavic Goddesses and spirits of nature. Slavic
King name
"Bereguni"
Slavic River nymphs accused of stealing newborn children. Probably a variation of the Hebrew Lilith myth. Driven by an insatiable hunger of envy, Lilith stalks the world by night raping men in their sleep and sucking their blood, or stealing their newborn children from their cots and eating them. Slavic
Goddess name
"Berenice"
Egypt Goddess of Coma Berenices. Eratosthenes referred to it as both "Ariadne's Hair" and "Berenice's Hair. Egypt

"Bergelmir aka Bergelmer"
Scandinavian A frost-giant, father of the Jotuns, or second dynasty of giants, son of Thrudgelmer and grandson of Aurgelmer. Scandinavian
Spirit name
"Berlic"
Swiss A mischievous nature spirit. Swiss

"Beroe"
Greek A Trojan woman, married to Doryclus, one of the companions of Aeneas. Iris åśśumed the appearance of Beroe when she persuaded the women to set fire to the ships of Aeneas on the coast of Sicily.
God name
"Berstuk"
Slavic evil god of the Forest. Slavic
Goddess name
"Bertha"
German Goddess the spinning-wheel principally, and of the household as dependent on it, in behalf of which and its economical management she is often harsh to idle spinners; at her festival thrift is the rule. South German
Demon name
"Beru"
Brazil The butterfly demon who appears at the female puberty rites
God name
"Bes"
Egypt Dwarfed semigod of childbirth, food, love, marriage, luck, recreation, relaxation and sleep. Egypt

"Bestla"
Norse wife of Bur and mother of Odin. Norse
Deity name
"Bethel"
Canaanite An ancient Canaanite deity which can be found in Jeremiah
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