| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Benten-San" | Shinto / Japan | Goddess of luck. One of seven deities clåśśed as gods of fortune and the only goddess in the group. A popular deity with many sanctuaries dedicated to her, she is a patron of music and holds a biwa instrument in her hand. Snakes, believed to stand for jealousy, are often coiled around her statues. Because of this, married couples are reluctant to visit her shrines together. Her priesthood is both Shinto and Buddhist and she is closely linked with the goddess SARASVATI.... |
| Goddess name "Benthesicyme" | Greek | An Ethiopian sea nymph, a goddess of the waves and a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, the wife of king Enalos. She raised Eumolpus, son of Chione and Poseidon. (Apollodorus iii) Her husband Enalos: of the sea, may have been Triton, the god of lake Tritonis in Greek |
| God name "Benu" | Egypt | God of the Sun in a bird like form Egypt |
| God name "Benu" | Egypt / Upper | Transmuted bird-like form of a Sun god. A deity mentioned in Pyramid Texts (circa twenty-fifth century BC) and linked with the Sun god of Heliopolis, ATUM. He is also said to have been self-created from the primeval ocean and is sometimes a symbol of rebirth in the afterlife. Benu may have augmented the Greek clåśśical tradition of the Phoenix. He appears in the Old kingdom as a yellow wagtail but later becomes a heron, wearing the conical white crown of Upper Egypt with two slender feathers pointing backwards from its crest.... |
| Goddess name "Benzi-Ten/ Benten/ Benzai-Tenno" | Japan | The goddess of eloquence, language, arts, fortune, water, & knowledge |
| Goddess name "Bera Pennu" | India | earth and vegetation goddess. India |
| Goddess name "Bera Pennu" | Northern Indian | vegetation goddess. Worshiped by the Khonds in Bengal. She was the recipient of human sacrifice to ensure good harvest, particularly of the spice turmeric, and as a protection against disease and infirmity. The sacrificial victim or meriab was youthful, often kept for years as a holy person before death and was always either the offspring of a previous sacrificial victim, or purchased from impoverished families for the purpose. He or she was generally strangled, sometimes in the fork of a tree, after days of festivities. In other instances the victim was cut up alive.... |
| Goddess name "Berecyntia" | Gaul | Goddess of the earth. Gaul |
| Goddess name "Bereginy" | Slavic | Goddesses and spirits of nature. Slavic |
| King name "Bereguni" | Slavic | River nymphs accused of stealing newborn children. Probably a variation of the Hebrew Lilith myth. Driven by an insatiable hunger of envy, Lilith stalks the world by night raping men in their sleep and sucking their blood, or stealing their newborn children from their cots and eating them. Slavic |
| Goddess name "Berenice" | Egypt | Goddess of Coma Berenices. Eratosthenes referred to it as both "Ariadne's Hair" and "Berenice's Hair. Egypt |
"Bergelmir aka Bergelmer" | Scandinavian | A frost-giant, father of the Jotuns, or second dynasty of giants, son of Thrudgelmer and grandson of Aurgelmer. Scandinavian |
| Spirit name "Berlic" | Swiss | A mischievous nature spirit. Swiss |
"Beroe" | Greek | A Trojan woman, married to Doryclus, one of the companions of Aeneas. Iris åśśumed the appearance of Beroe when she persuaded the women to set fire to the ships of Aeneas on the coast of Sicily. |
| God name "Berstuk" | Slavic | evil god of the Forest. Slavic |
| Goddess name "Bertha" | German | Goddess the spinning-wheel principally, and of the household as dependent on it, in behalf of which and its economical management she is often harsh to idle spinners; at her festival thrift is the rule. South German |
| Demon name "Beru" | Brazil | The butterfly demon who appears at the female puberty rites |
| God name "Bes" | Egypt | Dwarfed semigod of childbirth, food, love, marriage, luck, recreation, relaxation and sleep. Egypt |
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