Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Ogmius ( Ogma, Ogmios )" | Celtic / Irish | God of poetry and speech. Very little is known of him, but the Roman writer Lucian mentions a Romano-Celtic god of wisdom, Ogmios, apparently åśśimilated with HERCULES and described as an old man with lion's skin holding a crowd of people chained to his tongue by their ears. NOTE: a goddess Ogma is also mentioned; she may have been a mother goddess in the original Irish pantheon.... |
God name "Ogo" | Dogon | Trickster God of the Dogon people. |
God name "Ogoun/ Ogun" | Haiti / Vodun | A god of war & fire |
God name "Ogun" | Nago / Edo / Yoruba / W Africa | A god of iron, hunting & war |
God name "Ogun" | Edo / Benin, West Africa | God of war, hunting and metalwork. This rather loosely defined deity was sent by the god OSANOBUA to cut open the land to allow crops to be planted. He is the strength inherent in metals and piles of metal objects are left beside his sanctuaries. As a god of war he defends the tribe and is depicted wearing armor and with red eyes. As a god of hunters and farmers he is generally benevolent.... |
God name "Ogun Edo" | Benin | A god of war that was sent to cut up the land to allow crops to the planted |
God name "Ohe" | Nigeria | The omnipresent and supreme sky god. The Egede, Nigeria |
God name "Ohoromoxtotil" | Maya | this god was the creator the Sun that made the world in habitable by destroying the jaguars that once infesterd it |
God name "Ohoroxtotil (god almighty)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The creator of the Sun and the deity who made the world inhabitable for mankind by destroying the jaguars which once infested it.... |
Spirit name "Oi" | Suk / western Kenya, East Africa | Sickness god. A spirit of personal illness rather than plague. The sick person's house is emptied and the priest exorcizes Oi out of the dwelling.... |
God name "Oi Suk" | Kenya | A god more long the lines of personal illness rather than plague |
Goddess name "Okeanides" | Greek / Roman | Minor sea goddesses There were åśśigned to guard ship motions by the larger gods & invoked by seafarers, others say that they are river gods |
Goddess name "Okeanides" | Greco - Roman | Sea deities. Minor goddesses åśśigned the guardianship of oceans by the great gods and invoked by seafarers. In alternative tradition, they are river gods, the sons of OKEANOS.... |
God name "Okeanos" | Greek | The god of the oceans |
God name "Okeanos" | Greek | God of the oceans. A deity who remained at his post when most of the other gods were summoned to Olympus by ZEUS. His consort is TETHYS and he fathered children who included the OKEANIDES, mainly river gods, and a large number of daughters headed by STYX, and including DORIS, METIS, and TYCHE.... |
God name "Oki-Tsu-Hiko-No-Kami" | Japan | A child of the harvest god and the god of kitchens. Japan |
God name "Oki-Tsu-Hiko-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of kitchens. One of the offspring of O-Toshi-No-Kami, the god of harvests. The consort of Oki-Tsu-Hime-No-Kami and responsible for the caldron in which water is boiled.... |
Goddess name "Oki-Tsu-Hime-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | The goddess of kitchens |