Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Bacax" | Roman / Africa | Cave god known from inscription at Crita. Roman / Africa |
God name "Bacax" | Roman - North African | Local god. A rare example of a named deity from this region, thought to have been worshiped as a cave god. Known from inscription at Cirta [Constantine].... |
"Bagba" | Africa | Fetish with the power of giving or withholding Rain is ascribed to him, and he is lord of the winds, including the Harmattan, the dry, hot wind which blows from the interior. Africa |
Spirit name "Bagba" | West African | Animistic spirit. Fetish who allegedly controls the wind and Rain and whose shaman keeps the winds locked in a huge pot.... |
God name "Bariga" | Ngbandi / northern Democratic Republic of Congo / Central African Republic | God of clear waters. One of seven gods invoked at daybreak, the creator deity of white-skinned people.... |
God name "Bearaniin" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | Fish god. Invoked by fishermen to ensure plentiful catches.... |
God name "Bele" | Sudan / Africa | God of fear, mischief and trickery who gave fire and water to mankind. Sudan / Africa |
God name "Bele/ Tule/ Azapane/ Mba" | Sudan / Africa | A god of fear, mischief & trickery who gave fire & water to mankind |
Demon name "Bossum" | African | One of the two chief deities of the Gold Coast, the other being demonio. Bossum, the principle of good, is said to be white; and demonio, the principle of evil, black. African |
God name "Buadza" | Gan / district around Accra, Ghana, West Africa | God of the wind. Also regarded as a storm god. Also Olila.... |
Goddess name "Buku" | Africa | God / goddess of the sky Africa(west) |
God name "Bumba" | Bantu / Africa | A god of fire |
God name "Bumba" | Boshongo / Bantu / southern Africa | Creator god. The progenitor of the world out of chaos. When he experienced stomachache he vomited the earth, Sun, moon and, finally, all living things, including mankind.... |
God name "Bumba Bantu" | Africa | God of fire. Africa |
Goddess name "Caelestis" | Carthaginian / North Africa | moon goddess. The Romanized form of the Punic goddess TANIT. Elsewhere she became syncretized into the cult of APHRODITE-VENUS. Annual games were held in her honor. She was brought to Rome in the form of an abstract block of stone (like that of KYBELE from Pessinus) and became popular there during the early part of the third century AD; in this guise she was known as the mighty protectress of the Tarpeian hill.... |
God name "Cagn" | Kalahari bushmen / southern Africa | Creator god. The progenitor of all life on earth.... |
Deity name "Cagn Mantis" | Africa | According to the Hottentots and the Bushman the supreme deity and creator of the world whose loves are pleasing' and it is especially attached to the moon, having made it out of one of its old shoes. Africa |
"Cagn Mantis/ Kalahari" | Africa | The creator |