Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Lokapala" | Hindu | Gods Hindu |
Deities name "Lokesvara" | Buddhist | Generic name for a group of deities such as Siva and Visnu Buddhist |
Deities name "Lokesvara (lord of the world)" | Buddhist | Generic name for a group of deities. These are thought to be a syncretization of Hindu and Buddhist deities and include such gods as SIVA, V IS'NU and others which have come to be defined as forms of a primeval buddha or DHYANIBUDDHA. The lokesvara are usually repre sented by a small figure, identified as ADIBUD DHA or AMITABHA, which rests on the head of the main statue. Also a group name for the many forms of the Buddhist deity AVALOKITESVARA.... |
God name "Loki" | Norse | Loki. To end, finish; Loke is the end and consummation of divinity. The evil giant-god of the Norse mythology. He steers the ship Naglfar in Ragnarok. He borrows Freyja's feather-garb and accompanies Thor to the giant Thrym, who has stolen Thor's hammer. He is the father of Sleipner; also of the Midgard serpent, of the Fenris-wolf and of Hel. He causes Balder's death, abuses the gods in ?ger's feast, but is captured in Fraanangerforce and is bound by the gods. Norse |
God name "Loko" | Benin | God of trees. Fon Benin |
Goddess name "Loko" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | God of trees. The brother of the hearth goddess AYABA. Invoked particularly by herbalists before obtaining Medicines from the bark and leaves of Forest trees.... |
God name "Loko Fon" | Benin | A god of trees |
Goddess name "Lomo" | Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Goddess of peace. One of seven deities invoked at Sunrise each day.... |
Goddess name "Lomo Ngbandi" | Zaire | Goddess of peace, invoked at Sunrise every day. Zaire |
Goddess name "Long Mu" | Chinese | Mother of dragons was a Chinese woman who was deified as a goddess after raising five infant dragons. |
"Longatis" | Greek | A surname of Athena derived from her being worshipped in a Boeotian district called Longas. Greek |
King name "Longius" | Roman | The Roman soldier who smote Jesus with his spear. In the romance of king Arthur, this spear was brought by Joseph of Arimathea to Listenise, when he visited king Pellam, "who was nigh of Joseph's kin." Sir Balim the Savage, being in want of a weapon, seized this spear, with which he wounded king Pellam. "Three whole countries were destoyed" by that one stroke, and Sir Balim saw "the people thereof lying dead on all sides." |
"Longmen" | China | The dragon gate where a carp can transform into a dragon. China |
God name "Lono" | Hawaii | Primordial god of Agriculture, peace, Rain, clouds and the sky Hawaii |
God name "Lono (sound)" | Polynesian / Hawaii | Primordial being. An aspect of a tripartite god which also includes KANE, the light, and KU, stability. They first existed in chaos and night which they broke into pieces, allowing light to come in. Also Ono (Marquesas Islands).... |
Goddess name "Loo Wit" | Klickitat / PNW | A goddess of fire, volcanoes |
Goddess name "Loo Wit Klickitat" | Native American | Goddess of fire, volcanoes PNW |
Goddess name "Lopemat" | Latavia | This is the goddess that created cattle |