Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Nyamwezi" | Africa | Goddess of justice Africa |
God name "Nyankopon" | Ashanti | God of the Sun Ashanti |
God name "Nyasaye" | Margoli | Chief god Margoli |
God name "Nyasi" | Kenya | The supreme being and creator god who controls birth and death. Kenya |
Goddess name "Nyavirezi" | Rwanda | Goddess of lions, and the representation of a mortal figure with sacred character. Rwanda |
Goddess name "Nyavirezi" | Rwanda / central Africa | Lion goddess. According to legend she was originally a mortal daughter of the tribal chief. While walking, she was trans formed into a lioness. Though returning to human form, she occasionally became leonine again and, in this guise, slew at least one husband who discovered her secret.... |
God name "Nyesoa" | Africa | The creator god of the French Ivory Coast. Africa |
God name "Nyimpo" | Ghana | The remote supreme being and creator god. The Effutu, Ghana |
God name "Nymphae" | Greek | The name of a numerous clåśś of inferior female divinities, though they are designated by the title of Olympian, are called to the meetings of the gods in Olympus, and described as the daughters of Zeus. But they were believed to dwell on earth in groves, on the summits of mountains, in rivers, streams, glens, and grottoes. Greek |
God name "Nysa" | Greek | A daughter of Aristaeus, who was believed to have brought up the infant god Dionysus, and from whom one of the many towns of the name of Nysa was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
God name "Nyx" | Greek | Nox or night personified. Homer calls her the subduer of gods and men, and relates that Zeus himself stood in awe of her. Greek |
Goddess name "Nyx" | Greek | Primordial goddess. The essence of the night whose sons were the twin brothers HYPNOS, god of sleep, and THANATOS, god of death.... |
God name "Nyyrikki" | Finland | The god of hunting, son of Tapio. |
God name "Nzambe" | Africa | the ancient god of the Kota, Sangho |
Goddess name "Nzambi" | Africa | Goddess of justice, the earth and of death. Africa |
God name "Nzambi" | Bakongo / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. He created the first mor tal pair or, in alternative tradition, an androgy nous being in the guise of a palm tree called Muntu Walunga (the complete person). He also endowed this being with intelligence. In wooden sculptures the tree bears a woman's head and breast on one side and a bearded face on the other. Eventually the tree divided into two sepa rate sexes. Also Nyambi; Nzambe; Yambe; Zambi.... |
God name "Nzame" | Gabon | A three in one god: Nzame, Mebere, and Nkwa. It was the Nzame part of the god that created the universe and the earth, and brought life to it. Gabon |
Deities name "Nzapa" | Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. One of seven deities invoked at Sunrise each morning. The progenitor of all life on earth, he also gave mankind laws and controls destiny or fate. He has four children who specifically appear in the guise of palm trees.... |