Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Purvaphalguni" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | A minor goddess of fortune |
Goddess name "Purvasadha" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess of fortune. A moderately disposed NAKSATRA; daughter of DAKSA and wife of CANDRA (SOMA).... |
Goddess name "Purvashadha" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic | A minor goddess of fortune |
Goddess name "Puspatara" | Buddhist / Mayhayana | A minor goddess |
Goddess name "Puspatara (flower-Tara)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. Color: white. Attribute: a Forest garland.... |
Goddess name "Pusya" | Hindu | Goddess of fortune. After performing Sraddha one should påśś the night, with effort, in celibacy. When the full-moon night of the Pausa be åśśociated with Pusya, then a person, smeared with the powder of white mustards, should anoint his body with purified butter. Hindu |
Goddess name "Pusya" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess of fortune. A benevolent NAKSATRA; daughter of DAKSA and wife of CANDRA (SOMA).... |
Goddess name "Quades (the holy one)" | Western Semitic | Fertility goddess. probably originating in Syria. She epitomizes female sexuality and eroticism in the mold of ASTARTE. She was adopted by Egypt with the fertility gods MIN and RESEP and became partly åśśociated with the goddess HATHOR. She is usually depicted nude standing on the back of a lion (see also INANA and NINHURSAG A) between Min to whom she offers a lotus blossom, and Resep for whom she bears snakes. Her cult followed the typically ancient Near Eastern pattern of a sacred marriage carried out by her votary priestesses and their priests or kings.... |
Goddess name "Quinoa-Mama" | Peru | Minor goddess in charge of rabbits. Peru |
Goddess name "Quinoa-Mama" | PreColumbian Indian / Peru | Minor goddess of the quinoa crop. Models of the deity were made from the leaves of the plant and kept for a year before being burned in a ritual to ensure a good quinine harvest.... |
Goddess name "Raka" | Hindu | Minor goddess of prosperity. Hindu |
Goddess name "Raka" | Hindu / Vedic | A minor goddess of prosperity |
Goddess name "Raka (1)" | Hindu / Vedic | Minor goddess of prosperity. ). Associated with the acquisition of wealth.... |
Demon name "Rama (pleasing)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Incarnation of the god VIS NU. The seventh avatara (sun aspect) of Vis nu. Rama began as a comparatively minor incarnation who became one of the great heroes of the Ramayana epic, as well as featuring in the Mahabharata. The son of Dasaratha and Kausalya, he was a king of Ayodhya who, in the Ramayana, slew the demon Ravana that had captured his consort SITA and was upheld as a deity par excellence in respect of manhood and honor, though his subsequent treatment of his wife might be regarded as cavalier (see Sita). The Ramayana epic was composed by the poet and sage Valmeeki during the reign of Ramachandra and it gave form to a story that had been in existence for many centuries as an oral tradition. Valmeeki portrayed Rama not as an incarnate deity but as a great mortal hero. The saga is strongly political and serves to unite a vast and fragmented people in a common focus, irrespective of caste and language. It defines the historical schism between the Hindu culture of India and the largely Buddhist tradition of Sri Lanka. Rama rides in a chariot and is depicted in human form with two arms, typically holding a sugar cane bow and with a quiver at his shoulder. Also Ramacandra.... |
God name "Rang" | Nuer / Sudan | God of hunting. The rays of the Sun are his flaming spears. Also Garang.... |
Goddess name "Rapithwin" | Iran | The goddess of the warmth of the earth. She dominates the evil frost and encourages regrowth. Iran |
God name "Redarator" | Roman | Minor god of Agriculture. Associated with second ploughing and invoked by sacrifice, generally with TELLUS and CERES.... |
God name "Redeemer" | Jewish | Often applied by Christians to Jesus Christ as the Son of God who sacrificed himself as a propitiation of the sin his Father invented. Prometheus, Dionysus and others can also be called redeemers. The serpent Agathodaimon is another name for the cosmic redeemer; Lucifer the Light-bringer and illuminator, could be clåśśed as our inner redeemer, as was the mystic serpent who withstood the Jewish God in Eden. |