| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Tsuki-Yomi" | Japan | A god of the moon |
| God name "Tsuki-Yomi" | Shinto / Japan | moon god. Engendered from the right eye of IZANAGI immediately after AMATERASU was engendered from the left. There is very little reference to him in the sacred texts and his is a highly aesthetic form of worship. Allegedly he slew the food KAMI Uke-Mochi. He is depicted riding a horse and a number of sanctuaries are addressed to his cult, including the two TsukiYomi-No-Miya shrines in the Ise Jingu temple. He also enjoys an ancient sanctuary on the island of Iki. Also Tsuki-Yomi-Otoko.... |
| Deity name "Tsukiyomi" | Japan | deity, of uncertain gender, of the moon. Japan |
"Uarahiulu" | Brazil | A stone being who was the wife of Darukavaitere and the mother of the Sun and moon. Brazil |
| God name "Ucchusma" | Buddhist | God. An emanation of AKSOBHYA or RATNASAMBHAVA. Also a form of JAMBHALA. He is depicted as pot-bellied and stands upon Kubera, the Hindu god of riches, who lies with jewels spewing from his mouth. Attributes: cup, ichneumon fly, image of Aksobhya in the hair, moon disc and snakes. Three-eyed.... |
| King name "Vairgin" | Chukchee | The Sun, moon, stars, and constellations are also known as vairgit; but the Sun is a special vairgin, represented as a man clad in a bright garment, driving dogs or reindeer. He descends every evening to his wife, the 'Walking-around-Woman'. The moon is also represented as a man. He is not a vairgin, however, but the son of a kele of the lower worlds. He has a låśśo, with which he catches people who look too fixedly at him. Shamans invoke the moon in incantations and spells. Chukchee |
| Goddess name "Varahi" | Hindu | The new-moon and the illumination aspects of the mother-goddess. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Varali" | Mahayana | Minor moon goddess. Mahayana |
| Deities name "Vasu(s) (excellent)" | Hindu / Vedic | Generic title for a group of gods. Eight deities attendant on the Vedic weather god INDRA, comprising day, dawn, fire, moon, pole star, Sun, water and wind. Generally carrying a rosary and with a SAKTI.... |
| God name "Wadd" | Greek | The Minaean moon god. Snakes were believed to be sacred to him. |
| God name "Wadd" | Pre - Islamic southern Arabian | moon god. His sacred animal is the snake.... |
"Wanadi" | Venezuela | Celestial father, maker of the Sun, the moon and all beings. Venezuela |
| Goddess name "Whope" | Lakota | The daughter of the Sun Wi and the moon, a goddess of peace and the wife of the south wind. Lakota |
| God name "Xixarama" | Colombia | Principal god and father of the Sun and the moon. Colombia |
| Goddess name "Xochiquetzal" | Aztec | Goddess of Agriculture, fertility, love, sensual pleasure, sex, happiness, the moon and weavers. Aztec |
| Goddess name "Xochiquetzal" | Aztec | A goddess of flowers, fertility, games, dancing and Agriculture, as well as craftsmen, prostitutes and pregnant women. She was originally a moon and love goddess. Aztec |
| Spirit name "Ya'china'ut (moon woman)" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | moon spirit. The personification of the moon.... |
| God name "Yah" | Egypt | moon god. Yah may have been an import to Egypt brought by Semitic immigrants who based his profile on the Mesopotamian god SIN. He is mentioned largely from the twentieth century BC onward and is depicted in human form, but can also be represented by the falcon and the ibis.... |
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