Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
---|---|---|
Spirit name "Airsekui" | Huron | Great spirit invoked at times of great danger. Huron |
Spirit name "Aisha Qandisha" | Morocco | loving to be watered a jinniya (female spirit), recognized by her beautiful face, pendulous breasts and goat legs. She was wanton and free, seducing young men, despite having a jinn-consort named Hammu Qaiyu. Her name strongly suggests a connection to the Qadesha, the sexually free temple women of Canaan who served Astarte. Morocco |
Ghost name "Aitu" | Polynesia | ghosts or spirits, often malevolent. Polynesia |
Spirit name "Aitvaras" | Lithuanian | A household spirit in Lithuanian mythology. An Aitvaras looks like a white or black rooster with a fiery tail. An Aitvaras may hatch from an egg of a 9 12 year old rooster. If the Aitvaras dies, he becomes a spark. |
Spirit name "Ajalamo" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | God of unborn children. According to legend, in some vague mythological realm there exist rows of shelves with spirits of the unborn. These are the responsibility of Ajalamo.... |
Spirit name "Ajatar (sometimes Ajattara)" | Finland | An evil Forest spirit. |
Spirit name "Ajysyt" | Yakut / central Siberia | Maternal spirit. The deity who oversees the lying-in of an expectant mother and who brings the child's soul to the child-bed. The term ajysyt can also apply to a male spirit, thus the ajysyt that oversees the birth of horses is male, while that of horned cattle is female.... |
Spirit name "Akasagarbha (essence of tbe sky)" | Buddhist / Mahayana / / Lamaist / Tibet | Astral god. One of the BODHISATTVAS or spiritual meditation buddhas. He lives in the womb of the sky. Color: green. Attributes: Book, jewel, lotus and Sun disc. Also Khagarbha. In Japanese Buddhism this deity becomes the god Kokuzo.... |
Spirit name "Akhkhazu" | Babylonian | The Seizer. An evil spirit, who had the power of securing his victim under his control. Babylonian |
Spirit name "Akka (old lady)" | Finland | Female spirit, feminine counterpart of "Ukko"[7]. |
Spirit name "Akratos" | Greek | The spirit of the unmixed wine. Greek |
Spirit name "Aktunowihio" | Cheyenne | Soul of the earth and a subterranean spirit. Cheyenne |
Deities name "Alad Udug Lama" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Collective name of guardian deities. Vague spirits who accompany major deities and dispense good fortune.... |
Spirit name "Alalu Ossetian" | Cen Caucasians | A spirit of smallpox & protects women |
Spirit name "Alastor" | Greek | A mortal that became a minor spirit that avenged evil deeds & demanded vengeance for crimes |
Spirit name "Alfs" | Norse | Male ancestral spirits. Norse |
Spirit name "Alicon" | Islam | The seventh heaven, to which Azrael conveys the spirits of the just. Islam |
Spirit name "Alpleich or Elfenreigen" | Greek | The weird spirit-song, the music which some hear before death. |