Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Junner" | Scandinavian | A giant in Scandinavian mythology, said in the Edda to represent the "eternal principle." Its skull forms the heavens; its eyes the Sun and moon; its shoulders the mountains; its bones the rocks, etc.; hence the poets call heaven "Junner's skull;" the Sun, "Junner's right eye;" the moon, "Junner's left eye;" the rivers, "the ichor of old Junner." |
God name "Juti Mara Edutzi" | Bolivia | The Sun god of the Araona. Bolivia |
God name "Kabezya-Mpungu" | Bantu | Kabezya-Mpungu decides to become invisible after creating the world and the first humans who did not yet have a heart. After balancing the Rain, Sun, moon, and darkness, he leaves. To replace the visible god, he sends the people Mutima ("heart"), the life-giving or Divine part of humans. Bantu |
Goddess name "Kagaba" | Uganda | Sun goddess, creator and mother of all. Uganda |
"Kakunupmawa" | Chumash | the radiance of the child of the Winter solstice. The dawn light of each new day is Kakunupmawa's breath expressed as a sigh. Bears, rattlesnakes, deer, mountain lions and ravens were the "pets of Sun. The Chumash, California |
"Kana d-Zidqa aka Habs'aba. Habshaba" | Nazorean | the Day of the Sun, and his bride Kana d Zidqa (the holy feast food offerings). heavenly Helpers of earthly Nazoreans during their ascent upward. Habshaba is said to deliver souls out of purgatory on his special day. Early Nazorean |
Hero name "Kanati" | Cherokee | Kanati "The Lucky Hunter". Sometimes called First Man. He lives with his wife Selu ("Corn") in the east where the Sun rises, and their sons, the Twin Thunder Boys, live in the west. Cherokee |
Goddess name "Kauket" | Egypt | Primordial goddess. One of the eight deities of the OGDOAD representing chaos, she is coupled with the god KEK and appears in anthropomorphic form but with the head of a snake. The pair epitomize the primordial darkness. She is also depicted greeting the rising Sun in the guise of a baboon.... |
Spirit name "Kavra'nna" | Chukchee / E Siberia | A Sun spirit, female type |
Spirit name "Kavra'nna Chukchee" | East | Sun spirit, female type Siberia(East) |
Spirit name "Kavra'riria (walking around woman)" | Chukchee / eastern Siberia | Sun spirit. The consort of the Sun in Chukchee mythology. Also Ko'rgina (rejoicing woman).... |
God name "Kazyoba" | Nyamwezi / Tanzania, East Africa | Sun god. Regarded as the tutelary deity and creator of the tribe.... |
God name "Kazyoba Nyamwezi" | Tanzania | God of the Sun-held to be the creator and tutelary deity of the tribe Tanzania |
Goddess name "Keawe" | Hawaiian | Creator god. An androgynous though apparently male principle or monad, he lived once in the dark empty abyss of Po. There, Keawe transformed primordial chaos into an orderly cosmos. He fashioned the sky from the lid of his calabash (a water-carrying gourd) and the Sun from an orange disc formerly kept inside the calabash. Keawe's first son was KANE, the god of light, and his daughter was Na Wahine, both created through his own powers of conception. He subsequently entered into an incestuous relationship with Na Wahine to father the chief pantheon of Hawaiian gods and goddesses, including most notably KU, LONO and Kanaloa, who became known, collectively, as the tripartite god.... |
Goddess name "Keca Aba" | Russia | Goddess of the Sun. Russia |
Goddess name "Kek" | Egypt | Primordial god. One of the eight deities of the OGDOAD representing chaos, he is coupled with the goddess KAUKET and appears in anthropomorphic form but with the head of a frog. The pair epitomize the primordial darkness. He is also depicted greeting the rising Sun in the guise of a baboon.... |
"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 |
Demon name "Kesi" | India | A demon with and was defeated by Indra. In the Puranas, a Daitya who took the form of a horse and attacked Krishna, but was killed that hero's thrusting his arm into his jaws and rending him asunder. India |