| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Khio" | Thai | Goddess of song and green sapphires. Thai |
| Goddess name "Khipa" | Hittite / Hurrian | Tutelary deity. This may be an archaic name for the goddess MA. Also Khebe.... |
| God name "Khnum" | Egypt | Khnemu, one of the earliest Egyptian gods, originally the god of the source of the Nile River. Since the annual flooding of the Nile brought with it silt and clay, and its water brought life to its surrounds, he was thought to be the creator of human children, which he made at a potter's wheel, from clay, and placed in their mothers' wombs. He was later described as having molded the other gods, and he had the titles Divine Potter and Lord of created things from himself. Egypt |
| Goddess name "Khnum" | Egypt / Upper | Chthonic or earth god. Said to create human life on a potter's wheel but strictly at the behest of creator deities. He is usually seated before a potter's wheel on which stands a naked figure in the process of molding. The Khnum cult was principally directed from sanctuaries at Esna, north of the first Nile cataract, and at Elephantine where mummified rams covered with gold leaf and buried in stone sarcophagi have been discovered. Khnum supervises the annual Nile flood, which is physically generated by the god HAPY. His consort at Esna is the goddess Menhyt. Khnum is also described at other sites as the BA or soul of various deities including GEB and OSIRIS. Depicted anthropomorphically or with the head of a ram.... |
| God name "Khnum/ Kneph/ Khnemu" | Egypt | A smith god who forms humans on his potter's wheel |
| God name "Kho" | Vietnamese | Vietnamese god of fishermen. |
| Goddess name "Khon-Ma" | Tibetan | Chthonic goddess. Ruler of a horde of demons who live in the earth and who may infest houses. She is depicted typically wearing yellow robes and with attributes including a golden noose. Her vehicle is a ram. To guard against her influence, a ram's skull is hung from the doorpost of a dwelling and filled with offerings.... |
| God name "Khons" | Egyptian | God of healing. Egyptian |
| Goddess name "Khons(u) (wanderer)" | Egypt / Upper | moon god. Recognized from at least 2500 BC but best known during the New kingdom (mid-sixteenth century BC). A significant deity at Thebes, where he is described as an offspring of AMUN and MUT. His sacred animal is the baboon. There is a Khonsu precinct as part of the Temple of Amun in the Karnak complex. From the Greco-Roman period there exists a sanctuary of Kom-ombo where Khonsu is seen as the offspring of the crocodile god SOBEK and the mother goddess HATHOR. Depicted anthropomorphically or with a falcon's head, but in either case enveloped in a close-fitting robe. He wears a crown consisting of a crescent moon subtending a full moon orb.... |
| God name "Khons[u]/ Khons Hor" | Egypt | A god of healing & the moon |
| God name "Khonuum" | Pygmies / Africa | The chief god |
| God name "Khonuum Pygmies" | Africa | Chief god Africa |
| God name "Khopun" | Slavonic | River god. He drowned people in retribution for their misdeeds. Slavonic |
| God name "Khors" | Slavic | Korsha, Korssa, Chors, Corsa, Xors. A Sun or daylight god, he may be synonymous with Dazhbog and Bielbog. He was invoked him for hunting and against diseases. Slavic |
| God name "Khu" | Vietnamese | the brother of the Vietnamese god of fishermen. |
| God name "Khusor" | Semitic | God of navigation and incantations Semitic |
| God name "Khyung-Gai mGo-Can" | Buddhist | Local god Buddhist / Tibet / Bon |
| God name "Khyung-Gai mGo-Can" | Buddhist / Tibet | Local god. Equating to the Hindu god GARUDA.... |
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