Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Klippe" | Scotland | The local name for a fairy. Forfarshire. Scotland |
God name "Kloanthes Hellenized/ Roman" | Egypt | A youthful god of Panoplois |
Goddess name "Klotes" | Greek | A goddess of spinning |
Goddess name "Klotho" | Greek | Clotho or Moirae, Goddess of spinning, one of the three fates. Hesiod (Theogony 127) has the personification complete for he calls them, together with the Keres, daughters of night; and distinguishes three, viz. Clotho, or the spinning fate; Lachesis, or the one who åśśigns to man his fate and Atropos, or the fate that cannot be avoided. Greek |
Goddess name "Klotho" | Pre - Homeric Greek | Goddess of spinning. According to Hesiod, one of the daughters of ZEUS and THEMIS. An ancient deity linked with LACHESIS and ATROPOS as one of a trio of MOIRAI or Fates. She is depicted with a spindle.... |
Goddess name "Kn Sgni" | India | Goddess of the Sun. India |
"Knaritja" | Australia | The earth and the sky had always existed and had always been the home of Supernatural Beings. The western Aranda believe that the sky is inhabited by an emu-footed Great Father (Knaritja), who is also the Eternal Youth (altjira nditja). He has dog-footed wives and many sons and daughters. "They lived on fruits and vegetable foods in an eternally green land, unaffected by droughts, through which the milky Way flowed like a broad river...".' They have an Eden-like place where only trees, fruits and flowers flourish. All these sky-dwellers are seen as ageless and beyond death. The Aranda, Australia |
Spirit name "Kneph" | Egypt | Was originally the breath of life, his name meaning soul-breath. Indeed, according to Plutarch and Diodorus, kneph was identical with the Greek pneuma. Kneph in this context was a spirit that breathed life into things, giving them form. Egypt Kneph eventually became considered to be the creator god himself, in Elephantine, although his identity was finally åśśimilated into the more important god Amun. |
God name "Ko Hsien Weng" | China | God of jugglers. China |
"Kobold" | German | A German household goblin, also frequenting mines. |
Goddess name "Kodamata" | India | Goddess of health and healing. India |
Supreme god name "Kohkomhthena" | Shawnee | Supreme goddess and creatress. The Shawnee |
Goddess name "Kokomikeis" | S America | Goddess of the moon mother of the Morning Star Blackfoot |
Goddess name "Kokomikeis Blackfoot" | NA | ? The moon goddess mother of the Morning Star |
Goddess name "Kokopell Mana" | S America | Goddess of fertility. Hopi |
Goddess name "Kokopell' Mana" | Hopi / SW USA | A goddess of fertility |
Deities name "Kokopelli" | S America | A fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player (often with a huge phallus and antenna-like protrusions on his head), who has been venerated by many Native American cultures in the Southwestern United States. Like most fertility deities, Kokopelli presides over both childbirth and Agriculture. He is also a trickster god and represents the spirit of music. |
Goddess name "Kokyan" | S America | Creator goddess; she created humans, plants, and animals Hopi |