Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Kurdalaegon" | Caucasus | Kurdaligon. God of blacksmiths who shoes the hooves of dead men's horses. Caucasus |
God name "Kurdaligon" | Ossetian / Caucasus | God of smiths. He åśśists the påśśage of dead souls by attending to their horses' shoes.... |
Deities name "Kurma(vatara)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Incarnation of the god VIS'NU. The second avatara of Vis'nu, Kurma appears in the form of a tortoise which acts as a pivot for the mountainous churning rod the gods employ to make ambrosia from the primal sea of milk after the flood. Kurma is depicted with a human torso surmounting a tortoise shell. Vis'nu is said to have appeared in this form in order to recover some of the possessions lost during the deluge. Attributes: club, conch, lotus and prayer wheel. Also the name for a vehicle of various deities.... |
Spirit name "Kutji" | Australian aboriginal | Animistic spirits. Malevolent beings who conceal themselves in undergrowth and rock crevices and manifest as animals and birds, including eagles, crows, owls, kangaroos and emus. Kutji are considered to have taken over wild creatures if their behavior åśśumes unfamiliar patterns. Only shamans may contain the influence of these spirits. Otherwise, they possess the potential to inflict disease and death on to human beings.... |
"Labe" | Arabian | The Circe of the Arabians, who, by her enchantments, transformed men into horses and other brute beasts. She is introduced into the Arabian nights' Entertainments, where Beder, Prince of Persia, marries her, defeats her plots against him, and turns her into a mare. Being restored to her proper shape by her mother, she turns Beder into an owl; but the prince ultimately regains his own proper form. |
"Lampus" | Greek | The name of two horses, one belonging to Eos, the other to Hector. Greek |
Goddess name "Lasya (dancing girl)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. One of the group of ASTAMATARAS (mothers). She is generally depicted dancing the lasya dance. Color: white. Attribute: a mirror. Also the generic name of a group of four goddesses, including GITA, MALA, NRTYA and headed by LASYA.... |
Supreme god name "Latur Dano" | Indonesia | Counterpart of their supreme god which causes sickness, death and bad weather Indonesia / Nias Is. |
Goddess name "Leiwani" | Hittite / Hurrian | Chthonic underworld goddess. Associated with charnel houses and probably modeled on the Sumerian ERES KIGAL.... |
Spirit name "Lemures" | Greek | Spectres or spirits of the dead, which were believed by the Romans to return to the upper world and injure the living. Some writers describe Lemures as the common name for all the spirits of the dead and divide all Lemures into two clåśśes; viz. the souls of those who have been good men are said to become Lares, while those of the wicked become Larvae. Greek |
King name "Lestrigons" | Greek | A race of giants who lived in Sicily. Ulysses sent two of his men to request that he and his crew might land, but the king of the place ate one for dinner and the other fled. The Lestrigons åśśembled on the coast and threw stones against Ulysses and his crew. Greek |
God name "Letfeti" | Norse | Light-foot. One of the horses of the gods. Norse |
"Libethrides or nymphae Libethrides" | Greece | a name of the Muses, which they derived from the well Libethra in Thrace. Greece |
Goddess name "Liluri" | Syria | Goddess of mountainses who accepted a bull for a sacrifice Syria |
Goddess name "Limnades" | Greek | A goddesses of lakes, marshes, swamps |
"Lityerses" | Greek | Lived in Phrygia, engaged in rural pursuits, and hospitably received all strangers that påśśed his house, but he then compelled them to åśśist him in the harvest, and whenever they allowed themselves to be surpåśśed by him in their work, he cut off their heads in the evening, and concealed their bodies in the sheaves, accompanying his deed with songs. Heracles, however, slew him, and threw his body into the Maeander. Greek |
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 "Lothur" | Norse | God of physical senses norse / Icelandic |