Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Supreme god name "Wonajo" | Melanesia | The supreme god and the leader of the mythological snake people. Rossel Island, Melanesia |
God name "Wonekau" | New Guinea | The all-seeing and all-hearing supreme celestial god. New Guinea |
God name "Wong Taisin (the great immortal Wong)" | Chinese | God. Probably an incarnation or avatara of the god HUANG TI (the yellow emperor), he is considered benevolent. Closely åśśociated with a district in Kowloon which is named after him. His cult arrived in Hong Kong in 1915 from Kwangtung in the form of a painting brought by a man and his son. It was installed in a small temple in Wanchai. In 1921 a larger sanctuary was built, from public funds, facing the sea and backed by Lion Rock.... |
Goddess name "Wopeh" | Lakota | Goddess of happiness and pleasure. Lakota |
Goddess name "Wosret" | Egypt | Localized guardian goddess. With a cult center at Thebes, Wosret is, according to some inferences, an early consort of the creator god AMUN and was superseded by MUT. She is identified with the protection of the young god HORUS. Also Wosyet.... |
God name "Wotan" | Germanic | God of inspiration and magic germanic |
God name "Woto" | Oto / Shongo | A god of fire |
Goddess name "Woyengi" | Africa | Creator Goddess who shaped humans from clay dolls. Africa |
God name "Wu" | Ewe / Benin, West Africa | Sea god. His priest, the Wu-no, invokes the god whenever the weather is too severe for the fishing boats to land. He is propitiated with offerings delivered from the spéñïś and in past times was occasionally appeased with human sacrifice taken out to sea and thrown overboard.... |
God name "Wu-tai Yuan-shuai" | China | God of musicians. China |
God name "Wulbari" | Africa | The Creator god who made heaven to close to earth and was uses as a towel and sniffed by dogs. Africa |
God name "Wuluwaid" | Australia | A Rain god. Australian Aboriginal |
Supreme god name "Wuni" | Africa | Supreme god of the Dagamba, Ghana. Africa |
Goddess name "Wuriupranili" | Australia | Solar goddess who carries a torch that is the Sun. Australian Aboriginal |
Goddess name "Wuriupranili" | Australian aboriginal | Sun goddess. The position of Wuriupranili in the godly hierarchy is unclear, but mythology explains that she carries a burning torch made from tree bark and that she travels from east to west each day before descending to the western sea and using the embers to light her way through the underworld beneath the earth. The colors of the Sunrise and Sunset are said to be a reflection of the red ocher body paints with which she adorns herself.... |
Goddess name "Wuruntemu" | Hatti land | 'Sun Goddess and mistress of the Hatti lands, the queen of heaven and earth. |
Goddess name "Wurusemu" | Hittite | Goddess of the Sun of Arrina. Hittite |
Goddess name "Wurusemu/ Wuruntemu" | Hittite | The Sun goddess of Arrina |