| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Karora" | Australia | A creator god. He was born in a lake and, after fathering many children, he returned there to slumber. Australia |
| Goddess name "Korobona" | Caribbean | Goddess of lakes Caribbean |
| Spirit name "Kuju" | Yukaghir / eastern Siberia | sky spirit. A benevolent being who supplies mankind with food. When fish appear in great numbers in the lakes, they are thought to have fallen from the sky.... |
| God name "Kumokums" | Modoc Indian / Oregon, USA | Creator god. He sat beside Tule lake, which was all that existed, and created the world by scooping out mud to form the earth. He added animals and plants, but finally became tired and went to sleep in a hole at the bottom of the lake, which he dug using a hill as a shovel.... |
| God name "Lalaia'il" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | God of shamans. The deity who initiates into the shamanistic circle. He lives in the Forest and carries a wooden wand bound with cedar bark which he waves, creating a singing noise. He also frequents woodland lakes and ponds. When a woman meets him she is said to menstruate, while a man develops a nose bleed. Also Kle-klati-e'il.... |
"Lalli" | Finland | Finn who slew Bishop Henry on the ice of lake Köyliö, according to a legend. |
| Goddess name "Latis" | British | lake goddess who later became a goddess of ale and meade British |
"Lerna" | Greek | A Lerna of ills (malorum Lerna). A very great evil. lake Lerna is where Hercules destroyed the hydra which did incalculable evil to Argos. Greek |
| Goddess name "Liban" | Ireland | Goddess of lakes Ireland |
| Goddess name "Limnades" | Greek | A goddesses of lakes, marshes, swamps |
| Nymph name "Limnaea" | Greek | Limnetes, Limnades, Limnegenes, i. e. inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh, is a surname of several divinities who were believed either to have sprung from a lake, or had their temples near a lake. Instances are, Dionysus at Athens, and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus, on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia, near Calamae, at Tegea, Patrae; it is also used as a surname of nymphs that dwell in lakes or marshes. Greek |
| God name "Meizabac (black powder maker)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | weather god. He sprinkles black dye on the clouds, which causes them to generate Rain. Believed to live on the edge of a lake. Also a fever god and a keeper of good souls. Also Metzabac.... |
"Midewiwin" | Canada | Showed and taught people the importance of maintaining a balanced living by herbal Medicines, vision questing, and the sacred teachings and songs. Prayers and songs invoked the power of the plant Medicines. Great lakes tribes. Canada |
"Mrantna'irgin" | Chukchee | She went to the lake. Then she began to sing on the lake-spéñïś. "From the lake, O śéméñ, come out!" Then a [mere] śéméñ appeared. She sat down upon it, and she herself copulated with it. At the dawn of the day she went home. Chukchee |
| God name "Mucalinda" | Buddhist | Tutelary god. The guardian of a lake near Bodh Gaya. He is identified as a king of the nagas or snake gods and is said to have protected the BUDDHA from a storm by coiling around him.... |
| God name "Mugizi" | Bunyoro / Uganda, East Africa | lake god. The guardian deity of lake Albert, invoked with offerings by those wishing to cross the lake in boats.... |
| Deity name "Mugizi Bunyoro" | Lake | Guardian deity of lake Albert Uganda |
| God name "Mukasa" | Lake | God of lake Victoria. Buganda, Uganda |
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