Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Kagu-Tsuchi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Fire god. One of a number of fire KAMIS who are honored in special Hi-Matsuri festivals. He is worshiped in the mountain shrine of Kono-Jinja. The sacred fire can only be generated by a board and stick and this is regarded as a powerful purifier in Shintoism. The most celebrated temple of the fire kamis is situated on Mount Atago near Kyoto to which worshipers are drawn from all over Japan to obtain charms as protection against fire.... |
God name "Kagutsuchi" | Japan | God of fire Japan |
God name "Kahdir" | Africa | vegetation god of the got his immortality by drinking from the well of life Africa |
God name "Kahdir/ Al Kahdir" | N Africa | A vegetation god of the got his immortality by drinking from the well of life |
God name "Kahilan" | Arabic | A tutelary god known only from inscriptions |
God name "Kahilan" | Pre - Islamic / Arabian | Tutelary god. Known only from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Kahindo" | Zaire | Goddess of fire Zaire |
God name "Kahukura" | Polynesian / Maori | God of Agriculture and creator of the Rainbow. The son of RONGOMAI, Kahukura is invoked for the well-being of crops and in some regions the name appears to be synonymous with that of RONGOMATANE, the god of Agriculture. Kahukura is particularly åśśociated with a staple vegetable of the Maori, the kumara, a root tuber that was introduced to New Zealand by man and is said to possess many magical properties. Kahukura is not to be confused with a legendary character of the same name, a mortal hero who, in antiquity, learned the art of making fish nets.... |
God name "Kahukura aka Rongo" | Maori | A major god, the god of cultivated food. He separated the primordial parents Rangi and Papa to allow daylight into the world. Tawhirimatea, the god of storms did not consent to this plan and afterwards attacked his brothers with unrelenting fury. Rongo and Haumia, the god of wild food, took refuge in the body of Papa, mother earth, who hid them until the storm påśśed. Maori |
God name "Kai Yum" | Mayan | God of music Mayan |
God name "Kai Yum (singing lord)" | Mayan / Lacandon / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of music. He lives in the sky and is attendant on CACOCH, one of the aspects the Mayan creator god. Depicted as a brazier shaped like a pottery drum.... |
Goddess name "Kaikara" | Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa | Harvest goddess. Propitiated before harvesting with offerings of millet.... |
Goddess name "Kaikara Bunyoro" | Uganda | Harvest goddess Uganda |
God name "Kaka" | Akkadia | Minor god with political pull Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia |
God name "Kakaku" | Japan | God of rivers invoked to protect houses against fire Japan / Shinto |
God name "Kakaku" | Shinto / Japan | River god. His name is often inscribed on the edge tiles of a house to protect against fire.... |
Goddess name "Kakasya (crow faced)" | Buddhist | Minor goddess. No further information available.... |
God name "Kakka" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Minor god. He was the attendant and minister of state to both ANU and ANS AR, and is known particularly from the text of Nergal and Ere skigal.... |