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God name "Kalahari aka Cagn Mantis" | Africa | a creator god of the people of the Kalahari in Africa and in particular Botswana. He is credited with having made all things (he made the moon from an old shoe), and is the god of natural phenomena. Omnipresent, he manifests himself in everything in the world, but especially in the mantis and caterpillar, which seem to be his favored animals. He has one wife, Coti, and, with her, two sons, Cogaz and Gewi. At one time, he lived on earth but he later moved his dwelling to the top of the sky. |
God name "Kasku" | Hittite | God of the moon known from inscriptions Hittite / Hurrian |
God name "Kasku" | Pre - Hittite / Hittite | moon god. Known from inscriptions. Also KUS UH (Hurrian).... |
Goddess name "Kaumudi" | Hindu | Goddess of the light of the moon Hindu |
Goddess name "Kaumudi (moonlight)" | Hindu | Goddess of the light of the moon. The consort of CANDRA.... |
Goddess name "Keret" | Phonecian | A son of El and soldier of the Goddess Sapas, but not very brave. Fought against the moon God Terah at his father's behest (eventually), but lost. Bought a costly wife: his son, Danel, was a prodigy. Phonecian |
"Keri and Kame Bacairi." | Bochica | Keri and Kame Bacairi. Twin brothers who steal the Sun and the moon from a vulture then created humanity. Bochica |
Deities name "Ketua" | Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | God of fortune. One of seven deities invoked at daybreak. He controls both good luck and ill-fortune. According to tradition he has seven children: morning, noon, evening, night, Sun, moon and water. He accords to water the privileges of a firstborn son.... |
Goddess name "Khons(u) (wanderer)" | Egypt / Upper | moon god. Recognized from at least 2500 BC but best known during the New kingdom (mid-sixteenth century BC). A significant deity at Thebes, where he is described as an offspring of AMUN and MUT. His sacred animal is the baboon. There is a Khonsu precinct as part of the Temple of Amun in the Karnak complex. From the Greco-Roman period there exists a sanctuary of Kom-ombo where Khonsu is seen as the offspring of the crocodile god SOBEK and the mother goddess HATHOR. Depicted anthropomorphically or with a falcon's head, but in either case enveloped in a close-fitting robe. He wears a crown consisting of a crescent moon subtending a full moon orb.... |
God name "Khons[u]/ Khons Hor" | Egypt | A god of healing & the moon |
Deity name "Khonsu" | Egypt | Aka Chons, Khensu, Khons, Khonsu or Khonshu, is an ancient lunar deity, from before formal structure was given to a pantheon. His name reflects the fact that the moon travels across the night sky, for it means The Wanderer, and also had the titles Embracer, Pathfinder, and Defender, as he was thought to watch over night travelers. Egypt |
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 "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 |
King name "Kulika" | Hindu | One of the eight serpent kings, described as of a dusky brown colour and having a half-moon on his head. Hindu |
God name "Kusuh" | Hurrian | God of the moon. Hurrian |
God name "Kusuh" | Hittite / Hurrian / Anatolia | moon god. Also KAS'KU.... |
God name "Kuu" | Finland | God of moon. |