Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Luggie" | s | The warlock who, when storms prevented him from going to sea, used to sit on "Luggie's Knoll." and fish up dressed food. |
"Luggnagg" | s | An island mentioned in Gulliver's Travels, where people live for ever. Swift shows the evil of such a destiny, unless accompanied with eternal youth. |
God name "Lugh" | Pan-Celtic | The Shining One, "Sun God", "Many Skilled", "Fair-Haired One", "White or Shining". A hero and god of war. Pan-Celtic |
Deity name "Lulal" | Sumeria | The younger son of Inanna. He was the patron deity of Bad-tibira while his older brother, Shara was located at neighboring Umma. Sumeria |
God name "Lulal" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of uncertain status. Mentioned as living in BadtIbira in the Sumerian text Descent of Inana. Also linked with a god Latarak.... |
Goddess name "Lulong" | Borneo | Goddess of love Borneo |
Supreme god name "Lumauwig" | Philippines | Lumawig The supreme god and creator of all things. Philippines |
God name "Luna" | Greek | The moon. The Sun and the moon were worshipped both by Greeks and Romans, and among the latter the worship of Luna is said to have been introduced by the Sabine T. Tatius, in the time of Romulus. But, however this may be, it is certain, notwithstanding the åśśertion of Varro, that Sol and Luna were reckoned among the great gods, that their worship never occupied any prominent place in the religion of the Romans, for the two divinities had between them only a small chapel in the Via Sacra. Greek |
Goddess name "Luna" | Roman | moon goddess. She derives from the Greek model of SELENE, but is also comparable with HEKATE. She enjoyed a major temple on the Aventine Hill in Rome.... |
Goddess name "Lunang" | Kafir / Afghanistan | The patron goddess of the Prasun river |
Goddess name "Lunang" | Kafir / AfghanistanHindukush | River goddess. The patron goddess of the Prasun river, Lunang is perceived as a young and capricious girl, reflecting the turbulent moods of the river. She rules over the watermills.... |
Goddess name "Lunang Kafir" | Afghanistan | Patron goddess of the Prasun river Afghanistan |
God name "Lung Yen" | China | God of the liver China |
Spirit name "Luonnotar" | Finland | spirit of nature, feminine creator. |
Goddess name "Luonnotar" | Finnish | Goddess of the ocean Finnish |
Goddess name "Luot Hozjit" | Saami | Goddess of summer Saami / Lappland |
"Luperca" | Roman | Or Lupa, an ancient Italian divinity, the wife of Lupercus, who, in the shape of a she-wolf, performed the office of nurse to Romulus and Remus. Roman |
God name "Lupercal" | Roman | The place where Romulus and Remus were suckled by the wolf (lupus). A yearly festival was held on this spot on Feb. 15, in honour of Lupercus, the god of fertility. On one of these festivals Antony thrice offered to Julius C?sar a kingly crown, but seeing the people were only half-hearted, C?sar put it aside, saying, "Jupiter alone is king of Rome." Roman |