Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Anuradha" | Hindu / Puranic | A goddess of good luck. Like her sister, Bharani, she is a daughter of Daksha and a wife of Chandra. Hindu / Puranic |
Goddess name "Anuradha" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor goddess of fortune. A benevolent NAKSATRA or astral deity, daughter of DAKSA and wife of CANDRA (SOMA).... |
God name "Anzety" | Egypt | God and king of Busiris. Egypt |
God name "Aondo" | Africa | Creator god who lives in the sky and sends the Sun each morning. Central Nigeria, West Africa |
God name "Aondo" | Tiv / central Nigeria, West Africa | Creator god. An abstract principle who lives in the sky. He sends the Sun each morning, roars with the thunder which heralds his storms and is the creator of the earth.... |
Deities name "Apa" | Hindu / Puranic | Attendant god. One of a group of eight VASU deities answering to the god INDRA. Attributes: hook and plough.... |
God name "Apam Napat (grandchild of the water)" | Persian / Iran | (1) God of fresh water. He provides water in arid regions and suppresses rebellions.(2) God of fresh water. Hindu (Vedic). Mentioned in the Rg Veda, he is described as golden in appearance.... |
God name "Apap" | Teso / Uganda, East Africa | Creator god. Regarded as a benevolent sky god who brings the Rain to parched land. Also Akuj.... |
God name "Apap Teso" | Uganda | Creator god who as a benevolent sky god brings Rain Uganda |
Goddess name "Aparajita (unconquered)" | Hindu / Puranic | (1) God. One of the eleven EKADASARUDRAS or forms of RUDRA. Attributes: bell, bowl, club, drum, hook, lance, lotus, prayer wheel, rod, rosary, shield, sword and trident.(2) Minor god. Buddhist (Mahayana). (3) Goddess. Hindu (Puranic). Form of DURGA. Her attendant animal is a lion. Attributes: arrow, shield, snake and sword. 4. Goddess. Buddhist (Mahayana). She stands or treads on the god GANESA. Color: yellow. Attributes: bell, hook, image of RATNASAMBHAVA, noose and staff.... |
God name "Apedemak" | Sudan | God of war. Depicted with a lion's head and a human body. The elephant and cattle were sacred to him. Sudan |
God name "Apedemak" | Sudanese / Meroe | war god. An Egyptianized deity, his main sanctuary was contained in a vast religious complex and center of pilgrimage at Musawwarat-es-Sufra, north of the sixth Nile cataract. Sacred animals include cattle and the African elephant. Depicted with the head of a lion and a human body, holding a scepter embellished with a seated lion at the tip.... |
God name "Apesh" | Egypt | Tortoise god of night, evil, and the powers of darkness. Egypt |
Goddess name "Apet" | Egypt | Goddess who protects pregnant women, children, nursing mothers and justice. Egypt |
Goddess name "Aphrodite" | Greek | One of the great Olympian divinities, according to the popular and poetical notions of the Greeks, the goddess of love and beauty. Some traditions stated that she had sprung from the foam of the sea, which had gathered around the mutilated parts of Uråñuś, that had been thrown into the sea by Cronus after he had unmanned his father. (Theogony of Hesiod) |
Goddess name "Aphrodite Pandemos" | Greek | A goddess of sex likely conflated with Aphrodite |
God name "Apis" | Egyptian | Apis the Bull of Memphis, is called the greatest of gods, and the god of all nations, while others regard him more in the light of a symbol of some great divinity. Egyptian |
God name "Aplu" | Etruscan | weather god. No cult is identifiably addressed to this deity. He is depicted partly cloaked and wearing a laurel leaf, but otherwise naked. Attributes include a staff and laurel twig.... |