| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Nastrond" | Scandinavian | Nastrond [dead-man's region ]. The worst marsh in the infernal regions, where serpents pour forth venom incessantly from the high walls. Here the murderer and the perjured will be doomed to live for ever. Scandinavian |
| Goddess name "Nat" | Norse | night-goddess, daughter of Mimer (Wisdom) and sister of Urd (Fate). She brings to mankind refreshment and inspiration. Her lover is Delling, the red elf of dawn, and their son is Dag (Day). Norse |
| God name "Nataraja" | Hindu | The king of Dance, is the dancing posture of the Hindu god Shiva, who performs his Divine dance as a part of his Divine duties of creation and destruction. Hindu |
| Demon name "Nataraja (lord of the dance)" | Hindu / Puranic | Form of the god SI IVA. Emerging from AD 1200 onward, this form depicts SI iva as lord of the dance ringed by fire and with one foot on a demon in the form of a black dwarf. Nataraja arguably epitomizes the moving power in the cosmos. Largely seen in southern Indian bronzes which display the dance-form anandatandava.... |
"Nath" | Sanskrit | Natha, is the proper name of a siddha sampradaya (initiatory tradition) and the word itself literally means "lord, protector, refuge". The related Sanskrit term Adi Natha means first or original Lord, and is therefore a synonym for Shiva, Mahadeva, or Maheshvara, and beyond these mental concepts, the Supreme Absolute Reality as the basis supporting all aspects and manifestatons of consciousness. |
| God name "Natha" | Buddhist / Sri Lanka | Tutelary god. One of four local emanations of the BODHISATTVA AVALOKITESVARA.... |
| Deity name "Natos" | Indians | Sun deity of the Blackfoot Indians. |
| Goddess name "Naueet" | Egypt | Primordial goddess. One of the eight deities of the OGDOAD representing chaos, she is coupled with the god NUN and appears in anthropomorphic form but with the head of a snake. The pair epitomize the primordial abyss. She is also depicted greeting the rising Sun in the guise of a baboon.... |
| Goddess name "Naunet" | Egypt | Primordial goddess one of the eight Ogdoad. Egypt |
"Nauplius" | Greek | A son of Poseidon and Amymone, of Argos, the husband of Philyra and a famous navigator, and father of Proetus and Damastor (Apollon. Rhod. i. 136). He is the reputed founder of the town of Nauplia, which derived its name from him. He is also said to have discovered the constellation of the great bear. Greek |
| King name "Nausithous" | Greek | A son of Poseidon with Periboea the daughter of Eurymedon, was the father of Alcinous and Rhexenor, and king of the Phaeacians, whom he led from Hypereia in Thrinacia to the island of Scheria, in order to escape from the Cyclopes. Greek |
| God name "Navadura[s]" | Hindu | Generic title for the nine forms of the god of Durga Hindu |
| Deities name "Navaduraa(s)" | Hindu | Generic title of a group of deities. The nine forms of the god DURGA. The common vehicle is a chariot shaped like a lotus. Each carries a wide åśśortment of attributes.... |
| Goddess name "Navasakti(s)" | Hindu | Generic title of a group of goddesses. The nine MATARAS or mothers. In southern India they are considered virgin goddesses and are held in higher esteem that the comparable group of SAPTAMATARAS.... |
| Spirit name "Navky" | Slavic | Were the spirits of children who had died unbaptized or at their mother's hands. Most often they appeared in the shapes of infants or young girls, rocking in tree branches and wailing and crying in the night. Slavic |
| Goddess name "Nayakaya Shilluk" | Sudan | the crocodile goddess that reside in the Nile, Shillukscontinue to sacrifice to her |
| God name "Nayenezgani" | Navaho | The most powerful war god |
| God name "Nazambi/ Nyambi/ Nzambe/ Yambe/ Zambi Bakongo" | Zaire | The creator god |