Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Arnemetia" | Roman / Celtic / British | water goddess. A deity known only from inscriptions.... |
Goddess name "Aryong Jong" | Korea | Goddess of water and Rainfall Korea |
Goddess name "As ava" | Russia | The goddess of fresh water |
Goddess name "Asima Si" | Brazil | Goddess of water and fish. Brazil |
God name "Asvins" | Hindu / Vedic | Physician gods. Twin gods owning horses, the sons of VIVASVAN and SARANYU. Depicted in a chariot drawn by horses or birds. Attributes: Book, vessel with herbs and water jar.... |
God name "At" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the fourth of the five world ages each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestrial years. Assigned to water and presided over by CHALCHIUHTLICUE. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a deluge during which all the human population were turned into fish. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also 4(Atl), Atonatiuh and Chalchiutonatiuh.... |
God name "Atl" | Aztec | God of water. Aztec |
Goddess name "Atum" | Egypt | The first god, having arisen by his own force himself, sitting on a mound (benben), from the primordial waters (Nu). Early myths state that Atum created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut from his √åǧïñå by masturbation in the city of Annu. Egypt |
Goddess name "Aveta" | Celtic | A goddess of female-fertility, childbirth and midwives, also åśśociated with all fresh water. Celtic |
Deity name "Aziri" | Africa | A deity of salty waters, candies and confectionary. Africa |
God name "Bagadjimbiri" | Australia | Two brothers and creator gods. They arose from the ground as dingos and made water-holes, sex organs from a mushroom and another fungus for the androgynous first people, and invented cirçúɱcision. Australia |
God name "Bagishi" | Afghanistan | God of flood waters and posterity. Afghanistan |
Supreme god name "Bagisht" | Kafir / Afghanistan | God of flood waters and prosperity. The son of the supreme goddess DISANI, conceived when she was raped from behind by an obscure demonic entity in the shape of a ram who violated her while she was milking cows by a lakeside. Bagisht is said to have been born in the current of the Prasun river whereupon the turbulent waters became smooth-flowing and parted to allow the infant to reach the bank. There seem to have been no elaborate sanctuaries but rather an abundance of simple shrines always placed close to water. The god was celebrated at the main festivals of the Kafir agricultural year and received sacrificial portions of meat. Also Opkulu.... |
Demon name "Baltazo" | France | One of the demons supposed to have possessed Nicole Aubry of Laon, France, in the year 1566. He went to dine with her husband under the pretext of freeing her from demon possession, which he did not accomplish. It was observed that at supper he did not drink, which showed that demons are averse to water. |
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.... |
Angel name "Behemoth" | Islam | When God created the earth, he realized that it was not secure. To stabilize it, he placed under it first an angel, then a huge rock made of ruby, then a bull with four thousand eyes, ears, nostrils, mouths, tongues, and feet. But even the bull did not stand firm. So below it God placed Behemoth, who rested on water which was surrounded by darkness. Islam |
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 |