| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Jara" | Hindu | Goddess of the household, domestic health, happiness and prosperity. The night-eater of corpses. Hindu |
| God name "Jasy Jaterei" | Guarani | God of the siesta. Guarani |
| God name "Jayanta (victorious)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | God. One of the sons of INDRA, and one of the eleven EKADASARUDRAS or forms of the god RUDRA. Attributes: arrow, ax, bow, club, cup, drum, hammer, hook, prayer wheel, rosary, spear, trident and waterjar.... |
| God name "Jehovah" | Israel | Creator god of Israel. A mix of of letters from Jhwh / Yhwh and Adonai - created so that people wouldn't utter the actual name. When Christians, unaware of the Jewish tradition, started to read the Hebrew Bible, they read it with the Masoretic vowels together with the consonants as written, and obtained Iehovah. Today this transcription is generally recognized as mistaken. Many religious groups continue to use the form Jehovah, because it is familiar and because the correct pronunciation is unknown. |
| Goddess name "Jnanadakini" | Buddhist / Mayhayana | A goddess åśśociated with, or whose name means, knowledge |
| God name "Jok" | African | Creator god. A generic term employed by a large number of tribes. Generally the jok is represented by a totem and also has an animal name. The Acholi in Uganda perceive jok to live in caves to which they deliver food and drink offerings. For the Shilluk in Sudan, Jwok created mankind from river clay.... |
| God name "Juggernaut or Jaggernaut" | Crow | The Hindu god Jagganath. The word is a corruption of the Sanscrit jagannatha (lord of the world). The temple of this god is in a town of the same name in Orissa. king Ayeen Akbery sent a learned Brahman to look out a site for a temple. The Brahman wandered about for many days, and then saw a crow dive into the water, and having washed, made obeisance to the element. This was selected as the site of the temple. While the temple was a-building the rajah had a prophetic dream, telling him that the true form of Vishnu should be revealed to him in the morning. When the rajah went to see the temple he beheld a log of wood in the water, and this log he accepted as the realisation of his dream, enshrined it in the temple, and called it Jagannath. |
| Goddess name "Julunggul" | Australia | A Rainbow snake goddess, who oversaw the maturing and initiation of boys into manhood. She was a fertility goddess, åśśociated with rebirth and the weather. Australia |
| Spirit name "Juma" | Finnish / Mari / Ugart | God of the sky, whose name is also åśśociated with spirits of earth, water, wind, and the home. Finnish / Mari / Ugart |
| Supreme god name "Jumala" | Finland | A generic name for a major deity. Originally the name given by the Finns to the sky, the sky-god, and the supreme god. Later taivas and Ukko were used as the names for the sky and the sky-god. The word means god and was later used for the Christian God. The origin of the word is unknown some possible explanations are derivation from Jomali, the supreme deity of the Permians and origination from the Estonian word jume. |
| Planet name "Jupiter" | Roman | Jupiter is, properly speaking, a derivation of Jove and pater (Latin for father) The name of the god was also adopted as the name of the planet Jupiter, and was the original namesake of the weekday that would come to be known in English as Thursday (the etymological root can be seen in French jeudi, from Jovis Dies). The Indo-European deity who also evolved into the Germanic Tiwaz (after whom Tuesday was named), the Greek Zeus, and Dyaus Pita of the Vedic religion. Jove is a vocative form of the name, evolved from Dyeus. Roman |
| Goddess name "Juras Mate/ Jurasmat" | Latvia | A goddess of the sea |
| Goddess name "Jurate" | Baltic | A goddess of the ocean |
| Goddess name "Jurate and Kastytis" | Lithuanian | Heroes of a Lithuanian legend. The queen of the amber palace Jurate may be considered a manifestation of the goddess of Sea. |
| God name "Jurupari" | Brazil | A god limited to worship by men, generally limited to isolated tribes in Brazil |
| God name "Jvaraharisvara (lord of fever)" | Hindu | Plague god. Associated with malaria, particularly in Bengal.... |
| God name "Jvartaharisvara" | Hindu | A plague god åśśociated with malaria |
| Goddess name "Jw" | Buddhist | Ja'u, Jawi. Possibly a part of the syncretistic Agami Jawi. Many Hindu-Buddhist gods, called dewata with Sanskrit names, are incorporated in Agami Jawi. Dewi Sri comes from Sri, the consort of Vishnu, and in Java is the goddess of fertility and rice. |
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