Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Quetzalcoatl" | Toltec | God of the air and presided over commerce, fertility, wind and of wisdom. Toltec |
God name "Quiabelagayu" | Maya | God of boozy afternoons and lazy Sunday bonking sessions. Maya |
God name "Quiahuitl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the third of the five world ages each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fiftytwo terrestrial years. Assigned to the element fire and presided over by the Rain god TLALOC. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a great fiery Rain. The human population perished and in doing so were transformed into dogs, turkeys and butterflies. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also Quiauhtonatiuh; Tletonatiuh.... |
Goddess name "Quinoa-Mama" | PreColumbian Indian / Peru | Minor goddess of the quinoa crop. Models of the deity were made from the leaves of the plant and kept for a year before being burned in a ritual to ensure a good quinine harvest.... |
God name "Quirinus" | Roman | God of war. One of a triad of warrior gods including JUPITER and MARS. He originated as the tutelary god of the Sabines, living on the Quirinal, one of the seven hills of Rome. His warrior status is primarily one of defense and he is depicted bearded and in a compromise of military and clerical clothing. The myrtle is sacred to him.... |
God name "Quzah" | Arabic | God of storms, thunder, hailstorms, mountain and the weather. Arabic |
God name "Quzah (archer)" | Pre - Islamic northern Arabian | mountain and weather god. Probably equating to QOS and worshiped by the Idumaean tribe to the south of Judea as a storm god. Also claimed to have been known near Mecca. Attributes include a bow which shoots arrows of hail.... |
God name "Ra" | Egypt | God of the mid-day Sun, sky, earth, and the underworld. Egypt |
Goddess name "Ra" | Nigeria | Goddess of wealth and fertility. Nigeria |
Goddess name "RaHathor (Het-Hert, Het-Heru, Hwt-Hert, Hethara" | Egipt | meaning "House of Horus [the Elder]", was a goddess of many things, from the celestial to the alcoholic! She was a celestial goddess, The Mistress of heaven. A goddess of love, music and beauty as the Goddess of love, Cheerfulness, Music and Dance. Hathor was known as the Mother of Mothers and the Celestial Nurse who presided over women, fertility, children and childbirth. Yet Hathor was also a goddess of baser things - she was the Vengeful Eye of Ra, the Lady of Drunkenness, and a goddess of the dead as Lady of the West. |
Goddess name "Rachmay" | Canaan | The Maiden Merciful and a goddess of health and nursing. Canaan |
God name "Radegaste" | Slavonic | A tutelary god of the Slavi. The head was that of a cow, the breast was covered with an aegis, the left hand held a spear, and a çõçk surmounted its helmet. Slavonic |
Goddess name "Rafu Sen" | Japan | Goddess of spring and plum blossoms. Japan |
God name "Ragnarok" | Norse | Sentence, judgment, from rekja, is the whole development from creation to dissolution, and would, in this word, denote the dissolution, doomsday, of the gods; or it may be from rokr, reykkr, smoke, twilight, and then the word means the twilight of the gods. The last day; the dissolution of the gods and the world. Norse |
Goddess name "Ragno" | Hopi | Creation and earth goddess who planted the acorn of life. Hopi |
God name "Rahko" | Finland | The Karelian god of time; Rahko tars the moon describes the phases of the moon. |
God name "Rahu" | Blavatsky | The seizer supposed to seize the Sun and moon and thus cause eclipses. "A giant, a Demi-god, the lower part of whose body ended in a dragon or serpent's tail. During the churning of the Ocean, when the gods produced amrita -- the water of Immortality -- he stole some of it, and drinking, became immortal. The Sun and moon, who had detected him in his theft, denounced him to Vishnu, who placed him in the stellar spheres, the upper portion of his body representing the dragon's head and the lower the dragon's tail; the two being the ascending and descending nodes. Since then, Rahu wreaks his vengeance on the Sun and moon by occasionally swallowing them. The secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky |
Supreme god name "Raiden Atzhie" | Europe | The supreme god and ruler over all the gods, men, and things in the world. The first person in a trinity of Raiden-Attje, Raiden-Akka, Raiden-Kiedde. The Lapps, Northern Europe |