| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Deities name "Raijin" | Shinto / Japan | weather god(s). A generic title for a large group of deities controlling thunder, storms and Rain. Among the most significant is RYUJIN, the dragon god of thunder and Rain.... |
| Goddess name "Rainha Barba" | Brazil | Goddess of thunder and lightning. Brazil |
| God name "Raja Guru" | Batak | Who, with his hounds Sordaudau and Auto Portburu, catches souls for the other gods. Batak |
| God name "Raja Indainda" | Batak | God of thunder, who is the spy and messenger of the other gods. Batak |
| Goddess name "Rajamatangi" | Hindu | Goddess. She stands upon a lotus. Attributes: blue lotus, lute, moon and parrot.... |
| Goddess name "Raka (trouble) (2)" | Polynesian / Hervey Islands | God of winds. The fifth child of VARI-MA-TE-TAKERE, the primordial mother. His home is Moana-Irakau (deep ocean). He received as a gift from his mother a great basket containing the winds, which became his children, each allotted a hole in the edge of the horizon through which to blow. The mother goddess also gave him knowledge of many useful things which he påśśes on to mankind.... |
| God name "Rakta-Yamari (red Yamari)" | Buddhist | God. An emanation of AKSOBHYA and a variety of YAMARI. Color: red.... |
| God name "Raktalokesvara" | Buddhist | God. A variety of the BODHISATTVA AVALOKITESVARA. he is generally depicted sitting beneath an asoka tree with red blossoms and is popularly known as the Red Lord. His attributes include a hook, bow, red lotus flower, arrow and noose.... |
| God name "Raluvimbha" | Baventa / northern Transvaal, South Africa | Creator god. The tribal chief converses with the god, who is responsible for all natural phenomena from thunderstorms to floods and plagues.... |
| Demon name "Rama (pleasing)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Incarnation of the god VIS NU. The seventh avatara (sun aspect) of Vis nu. Rama began as a comparatively minor incarnation who became one of the great heroes of the Ramayana epic, as well as featuring in the Mahabharata. The son of Dasaratha and Kausalya, he was a king of Ayodhya who, in the Ramayana, slew the demon Ravana that had captured his consort SITA and was upheld as a deity par excellence in respect of manhood and honor, though his subsequent treatment of his wife might be regarded as cavalier (see Sita). The Ramayana epic was composed by the poet and sage Valmeeki during the reign of Ramachandra and it gave form to a story that had been in existence for many centuries as an oral tradition. Valmeeki portrayed Rama not as an incarnate deity but as a great mortal hero. The saga is strongly political and serves to unite a vast and fragmented people in a common focus, irrespective of caste and language. It defines the historical schism between the Hindu culture of India and the largely Buddhist tradition of Sri Lanka. Rama rides in a chariot and is depicted in human form with two arms, typically holding a sugar cane bow and with a quiver at his shoulder. Also Ramacandra.... |
| Goddess name "Ran" | Nordic / Icelandic | storm goddess. The consort of the god AEGIR. She was presumed to gather mariners in her net having carried them to the bottom of the sea in whirlpools. She was propitiated with money and other offerings thrown overboard.... |
| Goddess name "Rana Neida" | Nordic | Goddess of beauty and fertility. Nordic |
| Goddess name "Randeng" | China | Goddess sent by heaven to bring dread calamity down on to king Zhou because of his blasphemies and evil ways, China |
| God name "Rangi" | Maori / New Zealand | A god of the sky |
| God name "Ranginui" | Polynesian / including Maori | sky god. The socalled sky father of the Polynesian culture whose consort is PAPATUANUKU, the earth mother. During a prolonged period of inseparable intercourse they became the prime parents of the Polynesian pantheon of gods. The children found life between the bodies of the parents too cramped and conspired to force them apart. Though one offspring, TUMATAUENGA, wanted to slay them, the advice of TANEMAHUTA, the Forest god, prevailed and RANGINUI and Papatuanuku were merely forced apart.... |
| Goddess name "Rapithwin" | Iran | The goddess of the warmth of the earth. She dominates the evil frost and encourages regrowth. Iran |
| God name "Rasnu" | Persian / Iran | God of påśśage and justice. The guardian of the bridge which leads to the otherworld. He weighs souls in the scales at the final judgment.... |
| Goddess name "Rat" | Egyptain | Mother of Maat and a goddess of wisdom and knowledge. Egyptain |
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