Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Dzalarhons" | Haida | Goddess of fire and volcanoes. Haida |
Goddess name "Emanjah" | Trinidad | Goddess of rivers and teacher of children. Trinidad |
God name "Fenrer" | Norse | Fenri or Fenris-wolf. The monster-wolf. He is the son of Loke, who bites the hand of Tyr. The gods put him in chains, where he remains until Ragnarok. In Ragnarok he gets loose, swallows the Sun and conquers Odin, but is killed by Vidar. Norse |
Goddess name "Flidais (Watch-Out-Dear)" | Ireland | A huntress and archer fond of the chase. A Celtic Artemis except, whereas Artemis was a virgin goddess, Flidais was very fond of jolly bonking. Ireland |
Goddess name "Gad" | Western Semitic / Punic / Carthaginian | God of uncertain status. Probably concerned with chance or fortune and known from Palmyrene inscriptions, and from the Vetus Testamentum in place names such as Baal-Gad and Midal-Gad. Popular across a wide area of Syrio-Palestine and Anatolia in preBiblical times. Thought to have been syncretized ultimately with the Greek goddess TYCHE.... |
God name "Gavida" | Irish | A minor god of the forge |
Goddess name "Gestin-Ana" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Chthonic goddess. The sister of DUMUZI and consort of Ningisida. The so-called heavenly grape-vine, this minor goddess is involved in the account of Dumuzi trying to escape from his fate at the hands of INANA and ERESKIGAL. In her house he is changed into a gazelle before being caught and finally transported to the underworld.... |
God name "Giszida" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / BabylonianAkkadian | God. See Nin-giszida. See also NINGISZIDA.... |
Goddess name "Gyhldeptis" | Haida | Kindly Forest goddess Tlingit / Haida |
God name "Haili'la" | Haida / PNW | A plague god åśśociated with small pox. Interesting history. Cool |
God name "Haili'laj" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Plague god. Particularly åśśociated with smallpox. Believed to be so terrible that he is not even propitiated with food. He sails in a canoe of pestilence with huge sails like those of the white man's ships which brought plague to the Indians.... |
God name "Hi'lina" | Haida | Tribal god who represents the Thunderbird Haida, PNW |
God name "Hi'lina" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Tribal god. The personification of the thunderbird known to many Indian tribes. The noise of the thunder is caused by the beating of its wings, and when it opens its eyes there is lightning. The thunder clouds are its cloak.... |
God name "Hymen" | Greek | The god of marriage, was conceived as a handsome youth, and invoked in the hymeneal or bridal song. The names originally designated the bridal song itself, which was subsequently personified. The first trace of this personification occurs in Euripides or perhaps in Sappho. Greek |
God name "Ida Ten" | Japan | Young god who protects monasteries and is rather quick Japan |
God name "Ida-Ten" | Japan | Buddhist god of law and monasteries. Japan |
God name "Idavold" | Norse | A plain where the gods first åśśemble, where they establish their heavenly abodes, and where they åśśemble again after Ragnarok. The plains of Ida. Norse |
Spirit name "Istadevata" | Hindu | (1) Generic title of a personal god. The name given to a deity chosen by an individual for special worship in return for protection and spiritual guidance. Also the name given to a household icon.(2) Tutelary god. Buddhist, particularly in Tibet. The personal deity of one preparing for Tantric initiation.... |