| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Jizo Bosatsu" | Japan | Works to ease the suffering and shorten the sentence of those serving time in hell. Jizo can appear in many different forms to alleviate suffering. In modern Japan, Jizo is popularly known as the guardian of unborn, aborted, miscarried, and stillborn babies. Japan |
| Goddess name "Jnanadakini (knowledge)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. An emanation of AKSOBHYA and the SAKTI of yogambara. Color: blue. Attributes: ax, bell, club, cup, staff and sword.... |
| Spirit name "Jnanaparamita (perfection of knowledge)" | Buddhist | Philosophical deity. spiritual offspring of RATNASAMBHAVA. Color: white. Attributes: the tree of wisdom and a jeweled banner.... |
| Goddess name "Jnanavasita (control of knowledge)" | Buddhist | Minor goddess. One of a group of VASITAS personifying the disciplines of spiritual regeneration. Color: whitish blue. Attributes: sword on a blue lotus.... |
"Joachim" | Greek | The father of the Virgin Mary. Generally represented as an old man carrying in a basket two turtle-doves, in allusion to the offering made for the purification of his daughter. His wife was Anne or Anna. Fairy Tale |
"Jocchu Vague Maorocon" | West Indies | An immortal invisible being who lived in the heavens. West Indies |
"Joda mate" | Latvia | Mother of the evil one Latvia |
| God name "Joh" | Egypt | Original word for God of the moon in Thebes Egypt |
| God name "Johanoai" | Navajo | Has precedence over all other gods and is the Sun-bearer and he is considered the most important deity and is the father or grandfather of all the other gods. Navajo |
| God name "Jok" | Uganda | God of the Alur tribesmen of Uganda and Zaire. He is also known as Jok Odudu the god of birth. Uganda |
| God name "Jok" | African | Creator god. A generic term employed by a large number of tribes. Generally the jok is represented by a totem and also has an animal name. The Acholi in Uganda perceive jok to live in caves to which they deliver food and drink offerings. For the Shilluk in Sudan, Jwok created mankind from river clay.... |
| God name "Jokinam" | Lake Albert / East Africa | lake god. The owner of the lake cows which graze at the bottom of lake Albert and which are herded by drowned fishermen.... |
| God name "Jomali" | Iceland | God of the sky. Very fond of gold chains. Iceland |
"Jongsuli-Young-Jongbu" | India | At first there was neither earth nor sky, Shuzanghu and his wife Zumiang-Nui lived alone...In due time Zumiang-Nui gave birth to a baby-girl, Subbu-Khai-Thung, who is the earth and to a baby-boy, Jongsuli-Young-Jongbu, who is the sky. India |
| Goddess name "Jord" | Icelandic / Germanic | An earth goddess mentioned in the Edda by Snorri |
| God name "Jori-Torem" | Vogul | The highest god. Also a sky god and the father of the gods. Vogul |
| God name "Jormungand" | Norse | The serpent, Jormungand was the middle child of Loki and the giantess, Angrboda. He had 2 siblings, Hel, and the wolf, Fenrir. Alarmed that Loki had fathered these children, Odin sent a group of gods to kidnap them. Once captured, Odin threw Jormungand into the ocean surrounding Midgard, where he lived from then on. The serpent grew so much that he encircled the whole world and bit his own tail. Norse |
| Spirit name "Jormungandar or Midgardsormen" | Norse | earth's monster. The great serpent, brother of Hela and Fenrir and son of Loki, the spirit of evil. It used to lie at the root of the celestial ash till All-Fader cast it into the ocean; it then grew so large that in time it encompåśśed the whole world, and was for ever biting its own tail. Norse |
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