Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Krsodari (thin-waisted)" | Hindu | Goddess. An emaciated form of CAMUNDA, a personification of famine. She stands upon a corpse. Attributes: club, iron rod, skull and trident.... |
God name "Ku'nkunxuliga" | Ma'malelegale Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Tribal god. The personification of the thunderbird, known to many Indian tribes, who lives in a palace in the upper world. The noise of the thunder is the beating of its wings.... |
God name "Ku'nkunxuliga Ma'maelegae" | BC Canada | Tribal god and personification of the Thunderbird BC Canada |
Goddess name "Kubjika (hump-back)" | Hindu | Goddess of writing. Personification of the thirty-two Tantric syllables.... |
God name "Kulla" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of builders. The god responsible for the creation of bricks.... |
Demon name "Kulshedra" | Albania | Female demonic individual in who may be either an enormous hag with pendulous breasts and / or a dragon like monster who spits fire Albania |
God name "Kus" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of herdsmen. Identified in the Theogony of Dunnu.... |
Goddess name "LIbitina" | Roman | Chthonic goddess of death. Associated with funerals and interment.... |
"Ladogenes or Ladonis" | Greek | A name by which the poets sometimes designated Daphne, the daughter of Ladon. Greek |
Goddess name "Lahamu" | Babylonian | In the Babylonian story of creation, Lahama is the daughter of the primordial goddess Tiamat. She guards the gate to the sea; the sea is her dominion. She holds an overflowing vase; she contains, bestows the waters of life. The Seven Tablets of Creation |
Deity name "Lahamu" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Primordial deity. Known from the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elis as one of a pair who were created by TIAMAT from the primeval ocean and who, it is suggested, were represented by the silt of the sea-bed. Lahamu and LAHMU in turn created ANS'AR and KIS'AR, who created ANU.... |
Deity name "Lahmu" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Primordial deity. Known from the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elis as one of a pair who were created by TIAMAT from the primeval ocean and who, it is suggested, were represented by the silt of the sea-bed. Lahmu and LAHAMU in turn created ANS'AR and KIS'AR, who created ANU.... |
"Lais" | Greek | A courtesan or Greek Hetaira. There were two of the name; the elder was the most beautiful woman of Corinth, and lived at the time of the Peloponnesian war. The beauty of the latter excited the jealousy of the Thessalonian women, who pricked her to death with their bodkins. She was contemporary with Phryne, her rival, and sat to Apelles as a model. |
Goddess name "Laka" | Polynesian / Hawaii | Goddess of dancing. A minor deity who is nonetheless greatly revered by islanders in a hedonistic cult of song, dance and sexual liberality.... |
"Lamp of Phoebus" | Greek | The Sun. Phoebus is the mythological personification of the Sun. Greek |
"Laodamas 2" | Greek | A son of Antenor, was slain at Troy by the Telamonian Ajax. |
Ghost name "Lares" | Roman | Either domestic or public. Domestic lares were the souls of virtuous ancestors exalted to the rank of protectors. Public lares were the protectors of roads and streets. Domestic lares were images, like dogs, set behind the hall door, or in the lararium or shrine. Wicked souls became lemures or ghosts that made night hideous. Penates were the natural powers personified, and their office was to bring wealth and plenty, rather than to protect and avert danger. Roman |
Goddess name "Larunda" | Sabine | Chthonic and earth mother goddess Sabine |