Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Atahensic" | Iroquois | Goddess of the sky who fell to the earth at the beginning of creation. The earth was created from her corpse after she died giving birth to the twins Hahgwehdiyu and Hahgwehdaetgah. Iroquois |
Goddess name "Atargatis" | Northern Syrian | Mother goddess. She enjoyed major cults at Khirbet Tannur, where she is depicted as the vegetation goddess in nine separate variations, and at Khirbet Brak, where she is åśśociated with dolphins. She often carries a cornucopia linking her with the goddess TYCHE (fortune) and may commonly be flanked by lions. She sometimes carries a rudder or wears the mural crown of a city guardian. There are hints of sky affinities in some depictions, with a sign of the zodiac or a nimbus-like veil.... |
"Atlas" | Greek | A Titan that has to hold up the sky forever, he irritated Zeus |
Goddess name "Attabeira Atahensic" | Iroquois | The sky goddess who fell to earth |
God name "Atua I Kafika" | Tikopia / Polynesia | Supreme sky god. Tikopia / Polynesia |
God name "Au" | Gilbert Island | God of the Sun and sky lord Gilbert Island. |
Goddess name "Azele Yaba" | Africa | Goddess of justice. wife of Nyamele, a sky god Africa |
God name "Ba-Chi" | Nigeria | Iju, god of the sky who sends the fertilizing Rain. Nigeria |
Deities name "Baa! Samin (lord of heaven)" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Head of the pantheon. Probably originated in Canaanite culture as a god of Rain and vegetation, but became extensively revered in places as far apart as Cyprus and Carthage. Epithets include bearer of thunder. Baal Samin is first mentioned in a fourteenth century BC treaty between the Hittite king Suppiluliuma and Nigmadu II of Ugarit. He had a major sanctuary at Byblos, according to inscription, built by Yehemilk. Josephus confirms that his cult existed at the time of Solomon. At Karatepe his name appears at the head of a list of national deities and on Seleucid coinage he is depicted wearing a half-moon crown and carrying a radiate Sun disc. Other epithets include lord of eternity and he may also have been god of storms at sea, a patron deity of mariners. By Hellenic times he equated with ZEUS in the Greek pantheon and the Romans identified him as Caelus (sky). Also Baal-Samem.... |
God name "Baalshamin" | Semitic | God of the sky. Semitic |
God name "Bag-Mashtu / Bag-mazda" | Armenia | Bag-Mashtu aka Bag-mazda A sky god with whom Khaldi was identified. Armenia |
God name "Bagos Papaios" | Asia Minor | A Phrygian sky god. Asia Minor |
Spirit name "Baiame" | Australia | The omniscient intangible great spirit is self-created, lives in the sky, is the creator of all things. He is important in initiation rites; he "receives the souls of the innocent." His voice is the thunder, his will is manifest through the wind. The Kamilaroi, Wiradjuri, and Euahlayi, Australia |
God name "Baiame / Baayami / Baayama" | Australia | Baiame aka Baayami or Baayama, the ancestor and patron god of the Kamilaroi. He is a sky god and a deity of death and life, and a god of Rain and the shamans. Australia |
God name "Bali" | Hindu | He was a Hindu god of the sky, but Vishnu took his power from him, casting him to the underworld where he would rule instead. |
God name "Balor" | Ireland | God of war, death, inspiration, conquest, martial arts, sky, and fate. Ireland |
Goddess name "Bamya" | Zoroaster | In Zoroastrian tradition, this Goddess guides the Sun god Mithra's vehicle through the sky. Also the Goddess of twilight. |
God name "Barsamin" | Armenia | weather and sky god. Armenia |