| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Kaliyuga" | Hindu | The last of the four Hindu periods contained in the great Yuga, equal to the Iron Age of clåśśic mythology. It consisted of 432,000 solar-sidereal years, and began 3,102 years before the Christian era. The bull, representing truth and right, has but one foot in this period, because all the world delights in wickedness. |
| Deities name "Kalki(n) (with white horse)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | horse god. Possibly the tenth avatara of VIS'NU. He rewards the good and punishes evil. The counterpart of the Buddhist deity MAITREYA. horses became åśśociated with Divine kingship in ancient India because of their speed of movement. Solar deities were perceived to ride horses across the sky and horse sacrifice became highly significant. Kalki is depicted either anthropomorphically or with the head of a horse and has four arms. He is attended by a white horse. Attributes: arrow, conch, prayer wheel, shield and sword. Also Vis'nuyasas.... |
| God name "Kalki[n]" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic / Epic | This god will be the 10th avatar of Visnu that rewards good & punishes people |
| Goddess name "Kalligeneia" | Greek | Obscure birth goddess. Known only from ritual texts in Athens.... |
| Goddess name "Kallingenia" | Greek | Rather obscure goddess of birth found only in the ritual texts of Athens Greek |
| King name "Kalmashapada" | Hindu | A king of the Solar race, son of Sudasa (hence he is called Saudasa), and a descendant of Ikshwaku. Saktri turned him into a man-eating goblin. Hindu |
"Kalpa" | India | A day and night of Brahma, a period of 4,320,000,000 solar-sidereal years. Some say there are an infinity of Kalpas, others limit the number to thirty. A Great Kalpa is a life of Brahma; the whole duration of time from the creation to the destruction of the world. |
"Kalpa-Tarou" | Indian | A tree in Indian mythology from which might be gathered whatever a person desired. This tree is "the tree of the imagination." |
| God name "Kalrnga" | Ndonga / northern Namibia, southern Africa | Creator god. Said to take the form of a giant man who is always partially hidden by clouds and generally seen only by women intermediaries known as nelagos who go to converse with him in sacred places. He is the father of MUSISI. The god is invoked at times of warfare and illness, but also as a fertility deity and before making a journey.... |
| Goddess name "Kaltesh" | Ugric / western Siberian | Fertility goddess. A goddess concerned with childbirth and the future destiny of the infant. Consort of the sky god Nun. Her sacred animals include the hare and the goose and she may be symbolized by a birch tree.... |
| Goddess name "Kaltesh Ugric" | Siberia | Goddess concerned with the birth and destiny of the child Siberia(west) |
| Spirit name "Kalyb" | Britain | The "Lady of the Woods," who stole St. George from his nurse, brought him up as her own child, and endowed him with gifts. St. George enclosed her in a rock, where she was torn to pieces by spirits. Britain |
| Goddess name "Kam,enae/ Camenae" | Italy | Goddesses unbowed of springs & wells with a shrine in Rome where of the of vestal virgins got their water |
| God name "Kama" | Hindu | The Hindu god of love. His wife is Rati (voluptuousness), and he is represented as riding on sparrow, holding in his hand a bow of flowers and five arrows. |
| God name "Kama-Gami" | Shinto / Japan | God of potters. Each kiln has a small stone statue of the deity standing upon it to which the potters offer sake and salt before lighting the fire. Also Kamadokami.... |
| Deity name "Kama-no-kami" | Shinto | This is the deity of the Furnace held in reverence by all people. Shinto |
"Kamadhenu" | Hindu | The cow which grants desires, belonging to the sage Vasishtha. She was produced at the churning of the ocean. Hindu |
| God name "Kamado-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | household god. Specifically the kami responsible for the cooking stove.... |