Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Koolukoolwani" | Africa | It is agreed among the Zoolus, that their forefathers believed in the existence of an overruling spirit, whom they called Villenangi [Umvelinqangi] (literally the First Appearer), and who soon after created another heavenly being of great power, called Koolukoolwani, [Unkulunkulwana,] who once visited this earth, in order to publish the news (as they express it), as also to separate the sexes and colours among mankind. Duling the period he was below, two messages were sent to him from Villenangi, the first conveyed by a cameleon, announcing that men were not to die; the second, by a lizard, with a contrary decision. The lizard, having outrun the slow-paced cameleon, arrived first, and delivered his message before the latter made his apperance. Amazulu, South Africa |
Goddess name "Korawini" | N American | Mother of All Peoples and the goddess of jolly bonking. Paiute. North America |
Goddess name "Korawini Paiute" | W USA | A goddess of intercourse |
Goddess name "Kore (tbe girl)" | Greek | Youthful goddess of the corn. The more generic name for the goddess PERSEPHONE. Identified as the daughter of DEMETER. She is the spirit of the corn as distinct from her mother who is the giver of the corn. Depicted on coinage as a woman's head adorned with ears of corn. She is integral to the Eleusinian Mysteries in which she is abducted to Hades, resulting in the distress of her mother and the blighting of nature. At Samaria-Sebaste in Syrio-Palestine, Kore was the only deity worshiped, apart from the emperor.... |
"Kore or Core" | Hopi | The maiden, a name by which Persephone is often called. Greek |
Goddess name "Kore/ Core" | Greek | A goddess of springtime |
Goddess name "Kornjunfer" | Germanic | Goddess of grain germanic |
Goddess name "Korobona" | Caribbean | Goddess of lakes Caribbean |
Goddess name "Koros" | Greek | Goddess of extravagant joy and exuberance Greek |
Goddess name "Korravai" | Davidian / Tamil / S India / Sri Lanka | though sweet to the to for (?) A war goddess |
Goddess name "Korravai" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | war goddess. Worshiped in desert regions in southern India, thought to live in trees and equating to DURGA. She has a son, MURUKAN. Also Katukilal; Korrawi.... |
Goddess name "Korraval" | Dravidian | Goddess of war India / Dravidian / Tamil / Sri Lanka |
Goddess name "Korrawi" | India | Goddess of battle and victory India / Tamil / Sri Lanka |
Goddess name "Korrawi Tamil" | India / Sri Lanka | the goddess of battle & victory |
"Korred" | s | The good-natured guardians of Brittany's standing stones. |
Goddess name "Korrigan" | French | Goddess of underground springs French |
Demon name "Korybantes" | Asia Minor | demonic companions of Kybele Asia Minor / |
Goddess name "Koshchei" | Russia | The deathless, a powerful wizard or demigod who kidnapped Marena (Mara, the Russian goddess of death. Koshchie is the son of Vij, lord of the Underground, and travels on a war-horse or as a whirlwind. Russia |