Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Neharennia" | Roman / Celtic | Goddess of seafarers. Worshiped extensively between the second and thirteenth centuries AD, particularly in the Netherlands with sanctuaries at Domberg at the mouth of the Rhine and Colijnsplaat on the Scheldt. Probably began as a tribal deity of the Morini tribe. She is generally depicted with the attributes of fertilitya basket of fruit or cornucopia. She may also often have a small lapdog. Alternatively, she stands with one foot on the prow of a boat and grasps an oar or the rope.... |
Goddess name "Nehebka" | Egypt | serpent-headed Goddess who aided Anubis in the embalming and funeral rites. Egypt |
God name "Nehebu-Kau" | Egypt | A serpent god who participated in the creation of the world when he swam around the solar boat of Re in the watery chaos. Egypt |
God name "Nehebu-Kau" | Egypt | Minor snake god. Known from circa 1500 BC. Essentially a chthonic deity he is, according to tradition, the son of the god GEB. Allegedly having eaten seven cobras, NehebuKau offers protection against snake bite and scorpion sting. He is also one of the guardians of the Egyptian king in the afterlife.... |
God name "Neit" | Ireland | A god of war, the husband of Nemain, and sometimes of the Badb. Ireland |
Goddess name "Neit" | Celtic / Irish | God of war. A minor deity identified as the consort of the goddess MORRIGAN in her aspect as Nemain. Also the grandfather of Balor, he was killed at the second legendary Battle of Moytura.... |
God name "Neit Irish A Tuatha" | De | Danann war god |
Goddess name "Neith" | Egypt | Net, Neit, Nit, creator goddess and of war, the hunt and domestic arts. In later times she was also thought to have been an androgynous demiurge - a creation deity - who had both male and female attributes. Egypt |
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 "Nekhebet" | Egypt | Vulture goddess of Upper Egypt |
Goddess name "Nekhebt" | Egypt | The vulture goddess of Upper Egypt |
Goddess name "Nekmet Awai" | Egypt | A goddess of justice and in |
Goddess name "Nekmet Awai" | Egypt | Goddess of justice. Locally known from Hermopolis, she later became syncretized with the goddess HATHOR.... |
Goddess name "Nelaima" | Latvia | Goddess of destiny whose name means misfortune. Latvia |
God name "Neleus" | Greek | A son of Cretheus and Tyro, the daughter of Salmoneus. Tyro, previous to her marriage with Neleus, is said to have loved the river-god Enipeus and in the form of Enipeus Poseidon once appeared to her, and became by her the father of Pelias and Neleus. Tyro exposed the two boys, but they were found and reared by horse-herds, and when they had grown up they learned who their mother was, and Pelias killed their foster-mother, who had ill-used Tyro. Greek |
Goddess name "Nemain" | Celtic | A goddess of war, and possibly an aspect of the Morrigan. Her name means 'panic' or 'frenzy', and causing it among warriors was her specialty. Celtic |
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 |