| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Deity name "Amida" | Buddhist / Japan | A primordial deity |
| Deity name "Amida" | Buddhist / Japanese | Primordial deity. The Japanese equivalent of AMITABHA recognized from the eleventh and twelfth centuries AD.... |
"Amida-Nyorai" | Buddhist / Japan | Presides over the Pure Land of the Western Paradise, the Japanese people turned to him at their moment of death. Buddhist / Japan |
| God name "Amihan" | Philippines | God of the North wind. Philippines |
| Deities name "Amimiti" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of lakes and fish hunters. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MIXCOATLCAMAXTLI complex.... |
| God name "Amimitl" | Aztec | A god of lakes and fishermen. Aztec |
"Amitabha" | Buddhist / India | A celestial buddha described in the scriptures of the Mahayana school of Buddhism. According to these scriptures, Amitabha possesses infinite merits resulting from good deeds over countless past lives as a bodhisattva named Dharmakara. Buddhist / India |
| God name "Amithba" | Buddhist / India | The boddhisattva of 'infinite light'. Amithba represents the primordial, self-existent Buddha. This god was born from a lotus and ceaselessly stretches out aid to the weak and faltering. Amithba became a popular way of salvation for many Buddhists because he was the archetype of compåśśion, gentle and easygoing. |
| Spirit name "Amitolane" | Zuni | Rainbow spirit. Zuni |
| God name "Amm" | Arabian | moon god worshipped in ancient Qataban. The inhabitants of that South Arabian kingdom referred to themselves as the Banu Amm, or the "Children of Amm". |
| God name "Amm" | Pre - Islamic southern Arabian | moon god. The tutelary deity of the Qataban tribe. Also revered as a weather god. Attributes include lightning bolts.... |
| Goddess name "Amma" | Africa | Creator god. He first created the Sun from a clay pot and coils of copper and the moon using a clay pot and bråśś. Black people were created from Sunlight and white from moonlight. He then proceeded to cirçúɱsise the earth goddess, whose çlïtořïś was an anthill and their first offspring was a jackal. She then got pregnant by Rain and produced plants. He then became the father of mankind. Dogon Mali, West Africa |
| Supreme god name "Amma" | Dogon | The supreme god |
| God name "Amma" | Dogon / Mali | The creator god with a novel story |
| God name "Amma (1)" | Dravidian / Tamil | Local tutelary god. Known from southern India.... |
| Goddess name "Amma (2)" | Dogon / Mali, West Africa | Creator god. He first created the Sun by baking a clay pot until it was white hot and coiling a band of copper around it eight times. He created the moon in similar fashion but used bråśś. Black people were created from Sunlight and white from moonlight. Later, having cirçúɱcised the earth goddess, whose çlïtořïś was an anthill, he impregnated her and produced the first creature, a jackal. Next he fertilized her with Rain to engender plant life and finally became the father of mankind.... |
| Goddess name "Ammavaru" | Hindu / India / Dravidian | Primordial mother goddess who laid an egg that hatched into the Divine trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Hindu / India / Dravidian |
| Goddess name "Ammavaru" | Hindu - Dravidian | Primordial mother goddess. Known locally from east central India and worshiped by the Dravidian tribe of Telugu. She is said to have generated the cosmic egg in the sea of milk from which the major gods BRAHMA, VIS'NU and SIVA were born.... |
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