Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Zanahary" | Madagascar | The creator gods in the indigenous mythology of Madagascar. Some Zanahary gods are good, while others are evil; some are male, and others are female. |
Goddess name "Zapotlantenan" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Healing goddess. deity of medicinal turpentine and ointment-dealers. One of the group clåśśed as the TLALOC complex.... |
Goddess name "Zara-Mama" | South American Indian / Peru | Maize goddess. A minor deity, models of whom were made from the leaves of the plant and kept for a year before being burned in a ritual to ensure a good maize harvest.... |
Goddess name "Zarpandit" | Assyria / Babylon | Aka Zerbanit, Zerbanitu, Zerpanitum, and Beltis. Goddess of pregnancy and birth, consort of Marduk. Assyria / Babylon |
Goddess name "Zarpandit aka Zerbanit" | Babylonian | Zerbanitu, Zerpanitum, and Beltis. Babylonian Goddess worshipped nightly at the appearance of the moon. |
Goddess name "Zarpanitu" | Babylonian | A birth goddess and a consort of Marduk. Babylonian |
Deities name "Zayahung Yihe Zayasha" | Buriat | The creating great one, who has created. This is at present the hedgehog, and in Buriat religion he is the wisest of all the deities, though greatly supplanted by other gods. |
God name "Zemepatis" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | Chthonic god. A tutelary deity of farmers and guardian of cattle.... |
Goddess name "Zemyna" | Lithuania | Goddess of childbirth and life Lithuania |
Goddess name "Zemyna" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | Chthonic goddess. A deity with responsibility for vegetation andcrops. She was invoked at sowing and harvesting times.... |
God name "Zhang Guo-lao" | Taoist / Chinese | God. One of the eight immortals of Taoist mythology. Once mortal beings, they achieved immortality through their lifestyle. According to tradition, Zhang Guo-lao was a bat before he took human form. Attributes include a bamboo drum and sticks and his attendant animal is an åśś.See also BA XIAN.... |
Goddess name "Zhiwud" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Messenger goddess. A deity connected and possibly syncretizing with the goddess DISANI but who, according to legend, carried vital messages to the heroic god MON during a primordial battle between gods and giants. Mon lives by a lake surrounded by fire, and the goddess's wings (a solitary inference that she can appear in the form of a bird) are scorched in the process until Mon heals them. In some variations Mon lives in the form of a bull which breathes fire. Also Zhuwut.... |
God name "Zibelthiurdos" | Thracian | storm god. Believed to send thunder and lightning.... |
Goddess name "Ziçúɱ aka Zikun" | Babylonian | Zigara, the primeval goddess, the mother of Anu and the gods. Babylonian |
God name "Zipakna" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | earthquake god. Usually coupled with the god KABRAKAN and identified as a creator of mountains which Kabrakan subsequently destroys.... |
Goddess name "Zipanu" | Etruscan | Goddess of beauty and love, åśśociated with Turan, the love goddess. Etruscan |
Goddess name "Zizilia" | Poland | Goddess of love and sexuality Poland |
Goddess name "Zoe (life)" | Greek / Gnostic Christian | Goddess of life. The daughter of PISTIS SOPHIA who, according to Gnostic mythology, became the consort of SABAOTH to create the angels, Israel and Jesus Christ.... |