| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Kostrubonko" | Russia | God of spring. "...in Little Russia it used to be the custom at Eastertide to celebrate the funeral of a being called Kostrubonko, the deity of the spring. A circle was formed of singers who moved slowly around a girl who lay on the ground as if dead, and as they went they sang: |
| God name "Kotar" | Western Semitic / Syrian | Blacksmith god. Identified in the Ugaritic (Ras Samra) texts as building a palace for the god BAAL and forging his weapons for the conflict against the sea god YAMM. Known also from Phoenician inscriptions. Also Kosar, Chusor, KINYRAS.... |
| God name "Kothar u Khasis" | Canaan | The god of crafts |
| Goddess name "Kotisri" | Buddhist | Mother goddess. The so-called mother of 7,000 buddbas.... |
"Kotitonttu" | Finland | Tutelary of the home. |
| God name "Koto-Shiro-Nushi" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. Probably syncretized early in Shintoism with the god EBISU.... |
"Kottos" | Greek | One of the Titans. He had a hundred hands. (See Briareus.) Greek |
"Kotys or Cotys" | Phrygian | A Thracian divinity, whose festival, the Cotyttia resembled that of the Phrygian Cybele, and was celebrated on hills with riotous proceedings. |
| Spirit name "Kouretes" | Greek | Rustic spirits appointed by Rhea to guard the infant god Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida. Greek |
| Deities name "Kouretes" | Greek | Forest deities. Known from Ephesus and other sites as the spirits of trees and streams, they are also perceived as nymphs who dance in attendance on the baby ZEUS. The term is also applied to a bride or young woman.... |
| Spirit name "Koyote" | North American Indian | Tutelary god. Recognized by several tribes, including the Navaho and Apache. He acts as a cult hero who intercedes with more remote creator spirits and teaches the Indian.... |
| God name "Koyote or Coyote" | Navaho | At the time Coyote danced to make the corn grow, the story of the Great God Coyote commences. This is where Coyote first used his power given to him by the gods. At a Yeibache, ye'i·bicai, the people will dress up a poor man to look and act like Coyote. First Man told him to do many things. The other gods had the power, but they did not have the knowledge. First Man and First Woman were jealous of the others trying to grow corn and did not give them the knowledge to grow corn. They sent Coyote to go and make the corn grow. First Man and First Woman are themselves not to do such things, but they will have a hand in such things and send Coyote as their representative. Towards the end of the life of Coyote, he became almost mad with his power and it was taken from him because of this. Navaho |
"Krak" | Poland | Legendary founder of Cracow. He rescued the people from control of a dragon. |
"Krasnyi" | Russian | 'Red' or 'Beautiful'. Russian epithet to a girl and the Sun. |
| Goddess name "Kratos" | Greek | God of strength. One of the sons of the goddess STYX and brother of BIA (force).... |
| Deity name "Krishna" | Hindu | 'Black.' This name occurs in the Rigveda, but without any relation to the great deity of later times. The earliest mention of Krishna, the son of Devaki, is in the Chhandogya Upanishad, where he appears as a scholar. Hindu |
| Deities name "Krishna" | Indian | The modern deity Krishna is the most celebrated hero of Indian mythology, and the most popular of all the deities. He is said to be the eighth Avatara or incarnation of Vishnu, or rather a direct manifestation of Vishnu himself. This hero, around whom a vast måśś of legend and fable has been gathered, probably lived in the Epic age, when the Hindus had not advanced far beyond their early settlements in the north-west. |
| Goddess name "Krittika" | India | Goddesses of the Pleiades India |
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