| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Buddhabodhiprabhavasita (control of the light of the knowledge of the Buddha)" | Buddhist | Minor goddess. One of a group of twelve VASITAS personifying the disciplines of spiritual regeneration. Color: yellow. Attributes: prayer wheel on a jeweled banner.... |
| Goddess name "Buddhalocana (Buddha's eye)" | Buddhist / Shingon | Goddess. A female buddha (see LOCANA).... |
| Goddess name "Buddhi (perception)" | Hindu / Puranic | (1) Minor goddess. Sometimes identified as consort of the MAHA-GANAPATI form of the elephant god GANESA, depicted seated on his knee.(2) Minor goddess. Jain.... |
| Goddess name "Budhi Pallien" | India | A fearsome goddess of Forests and jungles, who roams northern India in the form of a tiger. India |
| Goddess name "Budhi Pallien" | Indian | Assamese Forest Goddess, appears as a tiger prowling through the jungle. Indian |
| Goddess name "Buk" | Neur / Sudan | The goddess of rivers & streams |
| Goddess name "Buk" | Nuer / Sudan | River goddess. A guardian against attack by crocodiles, she is invoked by the sacrifice of a goat. Known as the daughter of the fireflies.... |
| Goddess name "Buk Neur" | Sudan | Goddess of rivers and streams Sudan |
| Goddess name "Buku" | Africa | God / goddess of the sky Africa(west) |
| Goddess name "Bulaing Karadjeri" | Australia | Goddess Australia |
| Goddess name "Bulan" | Indonesia | Goddess of the moon Indonesia / Malaysia |
| Goddess name "Bumerali" | Australia | Goddess of physical prowess. Australia |
| Goddess name "Bunbulama" | Australia | Goddess of Rain. Australia |
| Goddess name "Bunzi" | Zaire | Rain goddess. Zaire |
| Goddess name "CERES" | Roman | Mother goddess. Mother goddess. Ceres is arguably the most recent model of the great mother whose predecessors include INANA, IS TAR, ARTEMIS, KYBELE and Demeter on whom she is directly modeled. She is the daughter of KRONOS (Cronus) and RHEA and one of the more important consorts of JUPITER. Ceres was worshiped through the festivals of Thesmophoria and Cerealia in sanctuaries throughout the Greco-Roman empires.... |
| Goddess name "CHALCHIUHTLICUE (her skirt is of jade)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | water goddess. Featuring strongly in creation mythology, Chalchiuhtlicue presided over the fourth of the world ages which terminated in a great deluge. She is the tutelary deity of the fourth of the thirteen heavens identified at the time of the Spanish conquest, Ilhuicatl Citlalicue (the heaven of the star-skirted goddess). She takes the role of a vegetation goddess responsible for the flowering and fruiting of the green world, particularly maize; she also takes responsibility for such natural phenomena as whirlpools. Attributes include a rattle on a baton, and her dress is adorned with waterlilies.... |
| Goddess name "CIPACTLI (great earth mother)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial goddess. Not strictly a goddess, but significant enough in Aztec cosmogony to be included here. According to tradition she was created in the form of a huge alligator-like monster by the underworld deities MICTLANTECUHLTI and MICTECACIHUATL. She may equate with TLALTECUHTLI, the toad-like earth monster torn apart to form heaven and earth. According to one tradition she emerged from the primordial waters and engaged in a fierce struggle with the Sun god TEZCATLIPOCA during which he tore off her lower jaw to prevent her sinking back into the depths and she bit off his right foot. The mountains are said to be the scaly ridges of her skin.... |
| Goddess name "COATLICUE (the serpent-skirted goddess)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Mother goddess. The creator goddess of the earth and mankind and the female aspect of OMETEOTL. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex. She has 400 sons, the stars of the southern sky, and is the mother of the goddess COYOLXAUHQUI. Later, as a widow, she was impregnated by a ball of feathers as she was sweeping the serpent mountain of Coatepec near Tula. Her other children decapitated her as punishment for her dishonor, but she gave birth to the Sun god HUITZILOPOCHTLI who subsequently slew Coyolxauhqui and her brothers, thus banishing night for day. According to tradition Coatlicue feeds off human corpses. She is also recognized as the patron deity of florists.... |