Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Mummu" | Babylonian | Vizier of primeval gods Apsu, the fresh water, and Tiamat, the salt water. An ancient Sumero-Babylonian craftsman-god, and personification of technical skill. |
Goddess name "NAMMU" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian / Iraq | Chthonic creator and birth goddess. Nammu is identified in various texts as the goddess of the watery deeps. As a consort of AN she is the mother of ENKI and the power of the riverbed to produce water. Alternatively Nammu is the progenitrix of An and KI, the archetypal deities of heaven and earth. She also engendered other early gods and in one poem is the mother of all mortal life. She molded clay collected by creatures called sig-en-sig-du and brought it to life, thus creating mankind. She is attended by seven minor goddesses and may ultimately have become syncretized with NINHURSAG A.... |
Deities name "Nahui Ehecati" | Aztec / mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor water god. One of the group of deities belonging to the TLALOC complex. Also (4)Ehecatl.... |
Spirit name "Naiades" | Greco - Roman | Animistic water spirits. Female personalities åśśigned the guardianship of fresh waters by the great gods, and invoked locally at sacred pools and springs. They were also regarded as minor patrons of music and poetry.... |
God name "Namasangiti (the chanting of the name)" | Buddhist | God. A form of AVALOKITESVARA, but also a distinct emanation of VAIROCANA. The personification of a sacred text. He stands upon a lotus. Color: white. Attributes: club, lotus, sword, half-staff and waterjar.... |
Goddess name "Nana Buruku" | Cuba | Goddess of earth and water Cuba |
Goddess name "Nantosuelta (winding river)" | Celtic / Gallic | Goddess of water. Identified as a possible consort of the god SUCELLOS. She frequently holds a pole surmounted by a dove-cote. In addition she carries the cornucopia of a fertility or mother goddess, but is also a domestic guardian deity and is often depicted with ravens, which may suggest further links with the underworld.... |
God name "Nareu" | Melanesia / Vanuatu | Creator god. As in many comparable legends, he created the world inside the shell of a mussel. He engendered a son from sand and water who, in turn, created the Sun and moon from his father's eyes, rocks from his flesh and bones and mankind from his spine.... |
God name "Narkissos" | Greek | Minor god. The son of the river god Kephissos, he wasted away after falling in love with his own image reflected in water. The gods took pity on him and changed him into the flower of the same name. In Roman religion he becomes Narcissus.... |
God name "Nehebu-Kau" | Egypt | A serpent god who participated in the creation of the world when he swam around the solar boat of Re in the watery chaos. Egypt |
God name "Nemausis" | Gaelic | God of water who has a sacred spring at Nimes in France Roman / Gaelic |
God name "Nemausius" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | God of water. Associated locally with a sacred spring at Nimes in France.... |
Planet name "Neptunus" | Italic / Roman | God of irrigation. Identified with the planet Neptune, but thought to have originated as an agricultural deity concerned with watering. He was celebrated in the festival of Neptunalia on July 23. Also the patron deity of horseracing. He became syncretized with the Greek god POSEIDON, but Neptune's modern åśśociation with the sea is a misrepresentation.... |
God name "Nethinium" | Hebrew | The hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of God, an office which the Gibeomtes were condemned to by Joshua. The word means given to God. Joshua ix. 27 |
God name "Nethu s" | Etruscan | God of fresh water. Identified with wells and springs and depicted as a naked bearded figure. He is probably to be equated with the Roman god NEPTUNUS.... |
God name "Nethuns" | Etruscan | God of wells and of all water, including the sea. He was the same as the Greek Poseidon and Roman Neptune. Etruscan |
Goddess name "Ninlil" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Goddess of the air and of grain. She is the daughter of the god of stores, Haia, and the barley goddess, Ninsebargunnu. The consort of the air god Enlil, who impregnated her with water to create the moon god Nana, she also conceived the underworld god Nergal when Enlil impregnated her disguised as the gateman of Nippur. In a similar manner she conceived the underworld god Ninazu when Enlil impregnated her disguised as the man of the river of the nether world, the man-devouring river. According to some texts she is also the mother of Ninurta, the god of the plough and thunderstorms.... |
Goddess name "Ninsikil" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | The goddess of Dilmun. The patron deity of the mythical Paradise land of Dilmun which seems to have been perceived as somewhere off the coast of the Persian Gulf but firmly beyond the frontiers of Sumer. It is Ninsikil who pleads with Enki to provide the earth with the boon of fresh water in the sacred rivers Tigris and Euphrates.... |