Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Amaterasu" | Japan | The Sun goddess, grandmother of Jimmu Tenno, the first ruler of Japan. |
Goddess name "Amaterasu" | Japan / Shinto | Sun Goddess, to unite the gods, she is given the highest respect The Great Ise Shrine in the east coast of Japan is dedicated to her. called Amaterasusume Omikami. Japan / Shinto |
Goddess name "Amaterasu O-Mi-Kami/ Amaterasu Omikami" | Japan / Shinto | The Sun goddess |
Goddess name "Amaunet" | Egypt | Goddess of fertility. Egypt |
Goddess name "Amaunet (the hidden one)" | Egypt / Upper | Fertility goddess. Amaunet seems to have a taken a role as an early consort of AMUN, one of the eight deities of the OGDOAD and representing hidden power. In that context she is depicted anthropomorphically but with the head of a snake. She is shown in reliefs and as the subject of a notable statue from the Record Hall of Tuthmosis III at the Karnak complex of Thebes, where she was recognized as a benign protective deity especially called on at times of royal accession. As a fertility goddess she was largely eclipsed by the goddess MUT. She is sometimes equated with NEITH, the creator goddess of Sais, and her attributes may include the red crown of the Delta.... |
Supreme god name "Amayicoyondi" | Peru | Goddess of the sky and the wife of Niparaja, the omnipotent supreme god and creator of heaven and earth. Peru |
Goddess name "Ame-No-Uzume" | Shinto / Japan | Goddess of dancers. She plays a part in enticing the Sun goddess, AMATERASU, from her cave using the perfect Divine mirror.... |
Goddess name "Anunit aka Anunitu" | Chaldea | The Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess Astarte. Anunit, Astarte and Atarsamain are alternative names for Ishtar. Chaldea |
Goddess name "Aramazd" | Armenia | The father of all gods and goddesses, the creator of heaven and earth. Armenia |
Goddess name "Aryaman (companion)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Minor Sun god. In Vedic times, the god of formal hospitality. One of six ADITYA sons of the goddess ADITI. Attributes: club, two lotuses and prayer wheel.... |
Goddess name "Astamastara" | Hindu / Puranic | A group of mother goddesses |
Goddess name "Astamatara" | Hindu / Puranic | Generic term for a group of mother goddesses. Eight deities who are varieties of the goddess CAMUNDA, often malevolent.... |
Goddess name "Atalacamani" | Aztec | Goddess of ocean storms, an aspect of Chalchiuhtlicue. Aztec |
Goddess name "Atars'amain (morning star of heaven)" | Pre - Islamic northern / central Arabian | Astral deity of uncertain gender. Worshiped particularly by the Isamme tribe, but revered widely among other Arabs. Known from circa 800 BC and identified in letters of the Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. May be synonymous with the Arab goddess ALLAT whose cult was centered on Palmyra.... |
Goddess name "Axo Mama" | Peru | Goddess of the potato crops Peru |
Goddess name "Axo-Mama" | South American Indian / Peru | Goddess of potato crops. A model of this minor deity was made out of parts of the plant as a harvest fetish and kept for a year before being burned in a ritual to ensure a good potato harvest.... |
Goddess name "Aya" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian Akkadian | Mother goddess. Derived from the Sumerian model of S ERIDA. Consort of the Sun god S AMAS whose marriage was celebrated at New Year in Babylon.... |
Goddess name "Badi Mata" | Hindu / northern Indian | Mother goddess. A SAKTI and one of the seven SAPTAMATARAS (mothers) who in later Hinduism became regarded as of evil intent, attacking children during puberty. Particularly recognized in Bengal.... |