Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Supreme god name "Katavul" | Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Supreme god. The ultimate creator of all that exists in the world and the judge of humanity able to reward or punish at will.... |
Supreme god name "Katavul Tamil" | S India / Sri Lanka | Such a supreme god that he was the ultimate creator all that exists in the world & able to judge humanity & to reward or punish at well |
Goddess name "Korravai" | Davidian / Tamil / S India / Sri Lanka | though sweet to the to for (?) A war goddess |
Goddess name "Korravai" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | war goddess. Worshiped in desert regions in southern India, thought to live in trees and equating to DURGA. She has a son, MURUKAN. Also Katukilal; Korrawi.... |
Goddess name "Korraval" | Dravidian | Goddess of war India / Dravidian / Tamil / Sri Lanka |
Goddess name "Korrawi" | India | Goddess of battle and victory India / Tamil / Sri Lanka |
Goddess name "Korrawi Tamil" | India / Sri Lanka | the goddess of battle & victory |
God name "Mal" | Dravidian | Pastoral god whose name means either the the great one or the dark one Dravidian / Tamil |
God name "Mal" | Dravidian / Tamil | He is a pastoral god whose name means either the the great one or the dark one |
God name "Mal" | Early Dravidian / Tamil | Creator god. Probably equating with a syncretization of VIS'NU and KRSNA. The name implies a deity of great stature. In Sangam texts, his face is like the moon, his eyes are lotuses and his CAKRA is the beams of the Sun. Also TIRUMAL.... |
God name "Manmatha" | Dravidian / Tamil | Form of the god of carnal love. A local southern Indian form of Kama with similar attributes and genealogy, named in Sangam literature.... |
Goddess name "Mari" | Davidian / Tamil | A Rain goddess & the goddess of smallpox |
Goddess name "Mari" | Dravidian | Rain goddess and the goddess of smallpox Dravidian / Tamil |
Goddess name "Mari (1) (killing)" | Buddhist | (1) Deification of literature. One of a group of DHARANIS. Color: reddish white. Attributes: needle, thread and staff.(2) Mother goddess. Dravidian (Tamil) [southern India]. See also MARI MAI.... |
Goddess name "Mari Mai (mother death)" | Hindu | Plague goddess. The sister of SITALA, åśśociated with cholera. Her Tamil counterpart is MARIYAMMAN.... |
Goddess name "Mariyamman" | Dravidian | Plague goddess with a bizarre form of penance Dravidian / Tamil |
Goddess name "Mariyamman (mother of smallpox)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Plague goddess. A terrible goddess, one of the NAVASAKTIS and linked with the goddess KALI. She is honored in a ritual during which victims (in penance) are suspended from a rope and an iron hook through the flesh of the back and whirled around a pole. Also Mariyattal.... |
Goddess name "Mata (great mother)" | Hindu | Primeval mother goddess. The archetypal progenitrix of all living things. She becomes the tutelary goddess of every village in northern India, but is also seen as a plague goddess åśśociated with smallpox, in which case her epithet becomes Maha Mai. Her Tamil counterpart is Amman.... |