| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Quinkini A'qu" | Koryak / Siberia | The founder of the world |
| God name "Ra" | Egypt | God of the mid-day Sun, sky, earth, and the underworld. Egypt |
| God name "Ragnarok" | Norse | Sentence, judgment, from rekja, is the whole development from creation to dissolution, and would, in this word, denote the dissolution, doomsday, of the gods; or it may be from rokr, reykkr, smoke, twilight, and then the word means the twilight of the gods. The last day; the dissolution of the gods and the world. Norse |
| Supreme god name "Raiden Atzhie" | Europe | The supreme god and ruler over all the gods, men, and things in the world. The first person in a trinity of Raiden-Attje, Raiden-Akka, Raiden-Kiedde. The Lapps, Northern Europe |
| God name "Rasnu" | Persian / Iran | God of påśśage and justice. The guardian of the bridge which leads to the otherworld. He weighs souls in the scales at the final judgment.... |
| God name "Rati mbati ndua" | Fiji | The god of the underworld who devours the dead |
| God name "Rati-mbati-ndua" | Fiji | The winged god of the underworld who devours the dead. Fiji |
| God name "Reg" | Discworld | The God of Club Musicians. Discworld |
| God name "Resheph/ Mikal/ Mekal" | Phoenicia | The god of plague & of the underworld |
| God name "Reshephi" | Phoenicia | God of plague and the underworld. Phoenicia |
| God name "Rhadamanthos" | Greek / Roman | A marriage of chthonic underworld god |
| Goddess name "Rhadamanthos" | Greco - Roman | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of three judges attending the goddess of justice THEMIS evaluating the souls of the dead entering Hades.... |
| King name "Rhadamanthys" | Greek | A son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of king Minos of Crete, or, according to others, a son of Hephaestus. From fear of his brother he fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, and there married Alcmene. In consequence of his justice throughout life, he became, after his death, one of the judges in the lower world, and took up his abode in Elysium. Greek |
| Goddess name "Rhiannon" | Celtic / Irish | Chthonic horse goddess. The daughter of Hefaidd Hen and consort of PWYLL, she rides upon a white mare and is åśśociated with the underworld and with fertility. May be virtually synonymous with the Romano-Celtic goddess Rigantona whose name means great queen. Authors suggest she is modeled on the goddess MODRON and she partly equates with EPONA.... |
"Rincewind the Wizzard" | Discworld | A failed student at the Unseen University for wizards in Ankh-Morpork. Discworld |
| God name "Rongo" | Maori | God of cultivated plants. Rongo, with his brothers Tu, Tane, Tawhirimatea, Tangaroa, and Haumia-tiketike, separated the primordial parents Rangi and Papa to allow daylight into the world. Maori |
| God name "Rongomai" | Polynesian / Maori | Whale god. He is the son of TANGAROA, the creator deity responsible for the oceans and the fish, and the father of KAHUKURA, the deity responsible for the appearance of the Rainbow. He is also regarded as the ancestor of several Maori clans. Various traditions are åśśociated with Rongomai. In some regions of New Zealand he is also regarded as a god of war and is thought to have discovered the magic arts during a visit to the underworld, including the power of kaiwhatu, a preventative charm against witchcraft. Rongomai is sometimes mistakenly identified with RONGOMATANE, or Rongo, though the latter is generally considered a distinct personality. As the god responsible for the well-being of whales Rongomai may take the form of a whale, a guise in which he once challenged MARU, a more widely recognized New Zealand war god. Separate mythology places him in the heavens in the form of a comet.... |
| God name "Ruhanga" | Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa | Creator god. The initiator of the world, he is regarded as a distant figure and seldom invoked.... |
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