Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Kiri Amma" | Sri Lanka | Goddess of healing, childhood diseases. Sri Lanka |
Spirit name "Kisin" | Mayan | The god of death and earthquakes. If a person lied, was a thief, or committed murder or incest, their soul is given to Kisin, who punishes the spirit by alternate burning or freezing. Mayan |
God name "Kitanitowit" | Algonquin / E Canada | A being who is present everywhere in the universe, he is invisible, like most gods |
God name "Kitanitowit (good creator)" | Algonquin Indian / eastern Canada | Creator god. The first being who is present everywhere in the universe. He is invisible and is represented diagrammatically by a point surrounded by a circle on which are marked the four quarters.... |
"Kiya'marak" | Inuit | Supreme being from he remains out of touch, and distinct and remote as regards ordinary mortals Inuit |
"Kiya'rnarak (I exist)" | Inuit | Supreme being. An indistinct and remote character, out of touch with ordinary mortals, who created the world.... |
"Klaboutermannikin" | Dutch | Inhabit the figureheads of ships, giving them guidance and protection. Dutch |
God name "Klehanoai (night-bearer)" | Navaho / USA | moon god. According to tradition, he was created at the same primordial time as the dawn, from a crystal bordered with white shells. His face is said to be covered with sheet lightning and the sacred primeval waters. The moon disc is actually a shield behind which the god moves invisibly across the night sky. He is never impersonated or depicted. Also Tlehanoai.... |
Goddess name "Klotes" | Greek | A goddess of spinning |
Goddess name "Klotho" | Greek | Clotho or Moirae, Goddess of spinning, one of the three fates. Hesiod (Theogony 127) has the personification complete for he calls them, together with the Keres, daughters of night; and distinguishes three, viz. Clotho, or the spinning fate; Lachesis, or the one who åśśigns to man his fate and Atropos, or the fate that cannot be avoided. Greek |
Goddess name "Klotho" | Pre - Homeric Greek | Goddess of spinning. According to Hesiod, one of the daughters of ZEUS and THEMIS. An ancient deity linked with LACHESIS and ATROPOS as one of a trio of MOIRAI or Fates. She is depicted with a spindle.... |
"Knaritja" | Australia | The earth and the sky had always existed and had always been the home of Supernatural Beings. The western Aranda believe that the sky is inhabited by an emu-footed Great Father (Knaritja), who is also the Eternal Youth (altjira nditja). He has dog-footed wives and many sons and daughters. "They lived on fruits and vegetable foods in an eternally green land, unaffected by droughts, through which the milky Way flowed like a broad river...".' They have an Eden-like place where only trees, fruits and flowers flourish. All these sky-dwellers are seen as ageless and beyond death. The Aranda, Australia |
Spirit name "Kneph" | Egypt | Was originally the breath of life, his name meaning soul-breath. Indeed, according to Plutarch and Diodorus, kneph was identical with the Greek pneuma. Kneph in this context was a spirit that breathed life into things, giving them form. Egypt Kneph eventually became considered to be the creator god himself, in Elephantine, although his identity was finally åśśimilated into the more important god Amun. |
"Kobold" | German | A German household goblin, also frequenting mines. |
Goddess name "Kodamata" | India | Goddess of health and healing. India |
Goddess name "Kokomikeis" | S America | Goddess of the moon mother of the Morning Star Blackfoot |
Goddess name "Kokomikeis Blackfoot" | NA | ? The moon goddess mother of the Morning Star |
God name "Kondos" | Pre - Christian Finnish | God of cereal crops. Particularly identified with the sowing of wheat. After Christianization, he was absorbed by the figure of St. Urban.... |