Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Kagu-Tsuchi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Fire god. One of a number of fire KAMIS who are honored in special Hi-Matsuri festivals. He is worshiped in the mountain shrine of Kono-Jinja. The sacred fire can only be generated by a board and stick and this is regarded as a powerful purifier in Shintoism. The most celebrated temple of the fire kamis is situated on Mount Atago near Kyoto to which worshipers are drawn from all over Japan to obtain charms as protection against fire.... |
God name "Koto-Shiro-Nushi" | Japan | God of love Japan / Shinto |
God name "Koto-Shiro-Nushi" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. Probably syncretized early in Shintoism with the god EBISU.... |
"Kotys or Cotys" | Phrygian | A Thracian divinity, whose festival, the Cotyttia resembled that of the Phrygian Cybele, and was celebrated on hills with riotous proceedings. |
God name "Kushi-Iwa-Mado-No-Mikoto" | Shinto / Japan | Guardian deity. The god who protects entrance gates.... |
God name "Kushi-Iwa-Mado-no-Mikoto" | Japan | Guardian god, protects entrance gates Japan / Shinto |
God name "Libanza Upotos" | Zaire | Creator god Zaire |
God name "Libanza Upotos/ Bangala" | Zaire | a creator god |
King name "Locrus" | Greek | 1. A son of Physcius and grandson of Amphictyon, became by Cabya the father of Locrus, the mythical ancestor of the Ozolian Locrians. According to some the wife of the former Locrus was called Cambyse or Protogeneia. 2. A son of Zeus and Maera, the daughter of the Argive king Proetus arid Antaia. Greek |
"Lotus" | Greek | Lotus-eaters or Lotophagi, in Homeric legend, are a people who ate of the lotus-tree, the effect of which was to make them forget their friends and homes, and to lose all desire of returning to their native land, their only wish being to live in idleness in Lotus-land. Greek |
Supreme god name "Maret Jikky" | Botocudo | Supreme goddess Botocudo |
Supreme god name "Maretkhmakniam" | Botocudo | Supreme god Botocudo |
God name "Matsuo" | Shinto / Japan | God of sake brewers. Celebrated annually in a festival in Kyoto, when the presence of the god is carried on a palanquin. It is rowed down the river prior to a general celebration, during which sake is drunk liberally.... |
Goddess name "Modron" | Welsh | Divine Mother, one of the most powerful of the Celtic mother goddesses. She may have been the prototype of Morgan le Fay from Arthurian legend. Welsh |
God name "Moma" | S America | The moon god, ancestor of mankind and maker of the world. Uitoto, South America |
God name "Moma" | Uitoto Indian / South America | Creator god. Originally the creator of mankind. When he was slain he entered and ruled the underworld. Also the apotheosis of the moon.... |
God name "Moma Uitoto" | SA | A god that originally was the creator of mankind & the apotheosis of the moon |
Spirit name "Naimuena" | Colombia / Ecuador | A great ancestral spirit worshipped as a supreme being, the creator, and a vegetation god. The Uitoto, Colombia and Ecuador |