| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Ubelluris" | Hittite | A mountain god who carried the western edge of the sky on his shoulders. Hittite |
| God name "Ugar" | Western Semitic / Syrian | vegetation god. Possibly linked with the Canaanite city of Ugarit [Ras Samra].... |
| Spirit name "Ulutuyer Ulu Toyon" | Siberia | Ulu-Toyon. The chief of the 'dark' spirits is Ulutuyer-Ulu-Toyon, 'Onmipotent Lord'. He is always described as living in the western sky, and, in contrast to the inactive Art-Toyon-Aga, he is the personification of action and of the påśśions. Ulu-Toyon is not always harmful to men, for he gives to them one of his souls, sur, and defends them from the attacks of abåśśylar. The Yakut, Siberia |
| God name "Unumbote" | Bassari / Togo, West Africa | Creator god. Engendered all living things on earth.... |
"Vaimanika deities" | Jain | The lunar mansions, and the Daityas the first and lowest rank of the existences caused by Goodness. Jain |
"Vairotya" | Jain | One of the sixteen Mahavidyas who were accorded the most favoured position after the Jinas in Western India. Jain |
| Goddess name "Vajrasphota" | Buddhist | Goddess. A female dikpala or guardian of the western direction. Attribute: staff.... |
| God name "Vayu" | Buddhist | A god of the northwestern quarter |
| God name "Vayu (2)" | Buddhist | God. A dikpala or guardian of the northwestern quarter.... |
"Vestre" | Norse | The dwarf presiding over the west region. Norse |
| God name "Vodu" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | Collective name for gods. The origin of the term voodoo in the Caribbean region.... |
"Wagyl" | Australia | A snakelike creature who created the waterways in and around the south-west of Western Australia |
| God name "Were" | Africa | Supreme Creator God. North West Africa |
"Westri" | Norse | One of the four strong dwarfs who, with Nordri, Sudri and Austri, uphold the four corners of the heavenly vault. Norse |
| Deity name "Wodan" | Anglo-Saxon | The deity in Anglo-Saxon polytheism corresponding to Norse Odin, both continuations of a Proto-Germanic deity, Wodanaz. Other West Germanic forms of the name include Dutch Wodan, Alemannic Wuodan, and German Wotan. |
| God name "Wu" | Ewe / Benin, West Africa | Sea god. His priest, the Wu-no, invokes the god whenever the weather is too severe for the fishing boats to land. He is propitiated with offerings delivered from the spéñïś and in past times was occasionally appeased with human sacrifice taken out to sea and thrown overboard.... |
| Goddess name "Wuriupranili" | Australian aboriginal | Sun goddess. The position of Wuriupranili in the godly hierarchy is unclear, but mythology explains that she carries a burning torch made from tree bark and that she travels from east to west each day before descending to the western sea and using the embers to light her way through the underworld beneath the earth. The colors of the Sunrise and Sunset are said to be a reflection of the red ocher body paints with which she adorns herself.... |
| God name "Xewioso" | Ewe | Thunder god. [Benin, West Africa]. Depicted as a ram accompanied by an ax, he is also perceived as a fertility deity whose thunder and lightning are accompanied by Rain.... |
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