Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deity name "Vasudhara" | Nepal | Popular in Nepal, where she is a common household deity. She is one of the Vasus mentioned in the Rig Veda. |
Deity name "Vasya-Tara" | Java | The presiding deity of Candi Kalasan. Java |
God name "Vata" | Hindu / Persian | God of the wind and a deity with a violent personality. Hindu / Persian |
God name "Vata" | Hindu / Vedic / / Persian / Iran | God of wind. The name appears in the Rg Veda as a deity of violent personality. According to Asvestan tradition the god of victory, VERETHRAGNA, appeared to Zarathustra in the guise of Vata.... |
Spirit name "Ve'ai (gråśś woman)" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | vegetation spirit. The personification of the gråśślands and their guardian deity. She is perceived as a shaman / ca and is the consort of EME'MQUT.... |
God name "Veive" | Etruscan | Minor god. A youthful deity whose attributes include arrows. His animal is a goat.... |
God name "Venda" | Dravidian | Creator god, an ancient vegetation deity Dravidian / Tamil |
God name "Venda" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Creator god. An ancient vegetation deity. Worshiped in villages on the plains, thought to live in trees and equated with Indra.... |
God name "Venkata" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Form of the god V ISNU. According to the Aditya Purana, Venkata is a deity of considerable importance in southern India. The name does not occur in the north. He is worshiped extensively by Hindus but particularly in the Tamil shrine of Tirupati where there is argument that the deity depicted is SIVA or KARTTIKEYA. The image appears to carry attributes of Vis'nu on the left and Siva on the right. Also Venkatesa.... |
God name "Viracocha" | Inca | God of storms and war, the chief deity. Inca |
God name "Virbius" | Roman | Minor chthonic god. A malevolent underworld deity who was frequently invoked during the worship of Diana in the Arician woodlands surrounding her sanctuary at Nemi. Virbius was reputed to prowl these woods and to be an emanation of Hippolytus, a mortal who had been trampled to death by his horses and made immortal by Aesculapius. For this reason the Arician woods were barred to horses.... |
Spirit name "Viryaparamita" | Buddhist | Philosophical deity. spiritual offspring of RATNASAMBHAVA. Color: green. Attributes: blue lotus and jeweled banner.... |
Deity name "Vitzilipuztli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican | Aspect of HUITZILPOCHTLI. Invoked twice a year, in May and December, during an agrarian festival. Virginal female worshipers created an image of the deity from dough consisting of maize flour, beet seed and honey. The image was given eyes and teeth using pieces of colored glåśś and whole maize seeds and was paraded, before being broken into pieces and eaten as a form of sacrament.... |
Deity name "Vivasvat" | India | Visvakarma or Vivasvan, a solar deity and another name for Surya. India |
Supreme god name "Voltumna" | Etruscan | Tutelary god. Originally a vegetation deity who was elevated to the position of supreme god in the Etruscan pantheon and known in Roman culture as VERTUMNUS.... |
Goddess name "Volumna" | Roman | Nursery goddess. The guardian deity of the nursery and of infants.... |
God name "Vosegus" | Roman / Celtic | mountain god. A local deity from the Vosges known only from inscriptions.... |
Deity name "Waaq" | Africa | The supreme and universal deity who the universe with opposing but complementary and interdependent forces such as night and day, young and old, in fine balance. Oromo. East Africa |