| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Osanobua" | Edo / Benin, West Africa | Creator god. The father of the god OLOKUN, he is regarded as a benevolent deity controlling prosperity, health and happiness.... |
| God name "Osanyin" | Africa | God of Medicine and herbs. Africa |
| God name "Oshala" | Brazil | In Brazil a god of creation. |
| God name "Oshats" | Mexico | A sky god and the Sun. The Sia, Pueblo Indians. New Mexico |
| God name "Oshe" | Yoruba | God of thunder and lightning. Yoruba |
| God name "Oshossi" | Yoruba | God of the Forest and hunting. Yoruba |
| Goddess name "Oshun" | Santeria | Goddess of love, maternity and marriage. Santeria |
| Goddess name "Oshun" | Yoruba | A goddess of healing, fertility & rivers |
| Goddess name "Oshun" | Yoruba | A spirit-goddess who reigns over love, intimacy, beauty, wealth and diplomacy. Yoruba |
| Goddess name "Oshun Ana" | Yoruba | Goddess of love. Yoruba |
| God name "Osiris" | Egyptian | The great Egyptian divinity, and husband of Isis. According to Herodotus they were the only divinities that were worshipped by all the Egyptians (Herodotus ii). Osiris is described as a son of Rhea and Helios. Osiris was the god of the Nile. |
| Spirit name "Osmand" | George | A necromancer who by his enchantments raised up an army to resist the Christians. six of the Champions of Christendom were enchanted by Osmand, but St. George restored them. Osmand tore off his hair in which lay his spirit of enchantment, bit his tongue in two, disembowelled himself, cut off his arms, and then died. |
| God name "Osowo" | Nigeria | The supreme being, a sky god, who is also identified with or represented by the big tree which is worshipped. Indem, Nigeria |
"Ossa" | Greek | The personification of rumour or report, the Latin Fama. As it is often impossible to trace a report to its source, it is said to come from Zeus, and hence Ossa is called the messenger of Zeus. Greek |
| King name "Osseo" | Hiawatha | Son of the Evening Star. When "old and ugly, broken with age, and weak with coughing," he married Oweenee, youngest of the ten daughters of a North hunter. She loved him in spite of his ugliness and decrepitude, because "all was beautiful within him." One day, as he was walking with his nine sisters-in-law and their husbands, he leaped into the hollow of an oak-tree, and came out "tall and straight and strong and handsome;" but Oweenee at the same moment was changed into a weak old woman, "wasted, wrinkled, old, and ugly;" but the love of Osse'o was not weakened. The nine brothers and sisters-in-law were all transformed into birds for mocking Osseo and Oweenee when they were ugly, and Oweenee, recovering her beauty, had a son, whose delight as he grew up was to shoot at his aunts and uncles, the birds that mocked his father and mother. Hiawatha |
"Ossipaga" | Roman | Ossipanga, Ossilago, a Roman divinity, who was prayed to, to harden and strengthen the bones of infants. |
"Ostara" | German | The old High German name for the Easter festival. |
| Goddess name "Ostara" | Germanic | Sun goddess. Associated with the coming of spring and one of the derivations of the term Easter, she equates with the Anglo-Saxon deity EOSTRE.... |
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