| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Cessair" | Ireland | The first ruler of Ireland and a well known pre-Celtic Mother Goddess figure much like Dana. Ireland |
| Goddess name "Coventina" | Celtic | A goddess of healing & wells |
| God name "Daikokr" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. One of seven gods of fortune in Shintoism and often linked with the god EBISU. Originally a god of kitchens, he became a deity concerned with happiness. He is depicted as a fat, well-to-do figure seated on two rice bales and carrying a sack on his back. He also holds a hammer in his right hand. In depictions there is often a mouse nibbling at one of the rice bales. Small gold icons of the god may be carried as talismans of wealth. According to tradition, when Daikoku's hammer is shaken, money falls out in great profusion. In western Japan he is also syncretized with the god of rice paddies, TA-NO-KAMI, and thus becomes the god of Agriculture and farmers. He may have developed from the Buddhist god MAHAKALA.... |
| God name "Dikkumara" | Jain / India | God. One of the groups under the general title of BHAVANAVASI (dwelling in places). They have youthful appearance and are åśśociated with Rain and thunder.... |
| God name "Dvipakumara" | Jain / India | God. One of the groups under the general title of BHAVANAVASI (dwelling in places). They are of youthful appearance and åśśociated with Rain and thunder.... |
| God name "Dwyn Kazoba Baziba" | Africa | He is in the god of the Sun and as well as the moon |
| God name "Ebisu" | Japan | God of fishermen, good luck, and workingmen, as well as the guardian of the health of small children. Japan |
| God name "Emes" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | vegetation god. Emes was created at the wish of ENLIL to take responsibility on earth for woods, fields, sheep folds and stables. He is identified with the abundance of the earth and with summer. An unidentified deity who is depicted iconographically with a plough may well be Emes.... |
| Goddess name "Ereshkigal" | Akkadia / Hittite | This goddess is the mother of the storm god as well as an underworld goddess |
| Goddess name "Fauna" | Etruscan | Goddess of the earth, wildlife, Forests, and fertility. Symbolizes prosperity as well. Etruscan |
| God name "Forseti" | Nordic / Icelandic | God of unknown status. A god of Asgard said by Snorri to be the son of Balder and NANNA. According to an Icelandic list of dwellings of the gods, Forseti owned a gold and silver hall, Glitnir, and was a good law maker and arbiter of disputes. Also Fosite (Friesian).... |
| Goddess name "Fortuna" | Roman | Goddess of good fortune. A deity who particularly appealed to women, partly in an oracular context. She is depicted carrying a globe, rudder and cornucopiae. She probably evolved from the model of the Greek goddess TYCHE. Her main symbol is the wheel of fate which she may stand upon and Renaissance artists tended to depict her thus. Among her more celebrated sanctuaries in Rome, the temple of Fortuna Redux was built by Domitian to celebrate his victories in Germany. She is depicted in a well-known stone carving in Gloucester Museum, England, holding her three main attributes.... |
| Goddess name "Freya, Freyja" | Norse | Freya or Freyja [Feminine of Freyr]. The daughter of Njord and sister of Frey. She dwells in Folkvang. Half the fallen in battle belong to her, the other half to Odin. She lends her feather disguise to Loke. She is the goddess of love. Her husband is Oder. Her necklace is Brisingamen. She has a boar with golden bristles. Norse |
| God name "Ganaskidi (humpback)" | Navaho / USA | God of harvests, plenty and of mists. He is said to live at Depehahatil, a canyon with many ruined cliff dwellings north of San Juan. According to tradition he is the apotheosis of a bighorn sheep. His priest wears a blue mask with no hair fringe but with a spruce crown and collar. He has a black bag on his back, filled out with a twig frame, that appears as a deformity, and he carries a staff.... |
| Goddess name "Gatumdug/ Gula" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Babylon / Akkadia | A fertility goddess as well as the tutelary goddess of Lagas |
| God name "Gaunab Kohl" | Hottentot / Namibia / S Africa | A malevolent God of darkness as well as the god of of of the black heaven |
| Goddess name "Gefjun or Gefjon" | Norse | A goddess. She is a maid, and all those who die maids become her maid-servants. She is present at ?ger's feast. Odin says she knows men's destinies as well as he does himself. Norse |
| God name "Gigantes" | Greek | According to Homer, they were a gigantic and savage race of men, governed by Eurymedon, and dwelling in the distant west, in the island of Thrinacia; but they were extirpated by Eurymedon on account of their insolence towards the gods. Greek |
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