| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Naas" | Gnostic | Uses several tactics, including sexually pleasuring both Adam and Eve, to gain power over and destroy Adam and Eve. Naas is said to have "had Adam like a boy". Naas' sins were called arsenokoitai. This suggests arsenoskoitai refers to a male using superior power or position to take sexual advantage of another. Gnostic |
"Naastrand" | Norse | Naastrand [The spéñïś of corpses]. A place of punishment for the wicked after Ragnarok. Norse |
| Goddess name "Nabudi" | Oceania | Goddesses of illness. Oceania |
| Goddess name "Naeeeegaaei (slayer of alien gods)" | Navaho / USA | God of war. The most powerful of the Navaho war gods. The son of the Sun god TSOHANOAI and the fertility goddess ESTSANATLEHI. According to tradition, he vanquished a race of giants who had nearly destroyed the human race. He is a benevolent god, ready to help mankind in times of trouble. He also cures diseases brought about through witchcraft. Said to live at the junction of two rivers in the San Juan valley, he is invoked by warriors preparing for battle. His priest wears a buckskin bag mask, painted black and adorned with five zigzag lightning streaks, the eye and mouth holes covered with white sea shells. He also wears a fox skin collar, a crimson cloth around the hips and a leather belt with silver ornamentation, but is otherwise naked. No depictions are made of this deity.... |
| King name "Naga" | Hindu | serpents; the king of them is Sesha, the sacred serpent of Vishnu. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Nagadya" | Uganda | Goddess who causes the Rains to fall, allowing food to grow. Uganda |
| Goddess name "Nagawonyi" | Uganda | Goddess who, along with Nagadya, causes the Rains to fall, allowing food to grow. Uganda |
| Goddess name "Naksatara[s]" | Hindu | A group of astral goddesses |
| Goddess name "Naksataras" | Hindu | Group of astral goddesses. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Naksatra(s)" | Hindu | Generic title for a group of astral goddesses. Stars or constellations which became personified as deities, accounted as twenty-seven daughters of DAKSA and consorts of CANDRA or SOMA. They can exert benign or evil influence.... |
| Demon name "Namtaru" | Mesopotamia | A hellish deity, god of death, and the messenger of An, Ereshkigal, and Nergal, considered responsible for diseases and pests. It was said that he commanded sixty diseases in the form of demons that could penetrate different parts of the human body. Mesopotamia |
| Goddess name "Navasakti(s)" | Hindu | Generic title of a group of goddesses. The nine MATARAS or mothers. In southern India they are considered virgin goddesses and are held in higher esteem that the comparable group of SAPTAMATARAS.... |
| Goddess name "Nekhbet" | Egypt / Upper | Local mother goddess. Known from Nekhab (el-Kab), she is generally depicted in the form of a vulture with one or both wings spread and holding the symbols of eternity in her talons. Nekhbet is known from at least 3000 BC and is mentioned in the Pyramid Texts as the great white cowa familiar epithet in respect of Egyptian mother or creator goddesses.... |
| Goddess name "Nemain" | Ireland | One of the triune crone goddesses of battle Ireland |
| Goddess name "Nemain" | Irish | She is one of the triune crone goddesses of battle |
"Nete" | Greek | Delphic Muse of the lyre. The other Delphic Muses were Hypate and Mese. Greek |
| Demon name "Nevertheless" | Hebrew | Few if any Biblical uses of "Baal" refer to Hadad, the lord over the åśśembly of gods on the holy mount of heaven, but rather refer to any number of local spirit-deities worshipped as cult images, each called baal and regarded as an "idol". Therefore, in any text using the word baal it is important first to determine precisely which god, spirit or demon is meant. |
"Nidhug" | Norse | A serpent of the nether world, that tears the carcases of the dead. He also lacerates Ygdrasil. Norse |
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