| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Bhumidevi (the earth goddess)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic / southern India | Fertility goddess. The second wife of VIS NU (or KRSNA). Her son is Naraka. Bhumidevi is often depicted standing on the left (occasionally right) hand of the VARAHA avatara of Vis nu. In the north she is known as PUSTI. She is often depicted sitting on a lotus throne with bared breasts. Attributes: blue lotus, lotus, lute, pomegranate, pot with herbs, pot with vegetables and water jar. Also Bhu, Bhudevi, BHUMI, MAHI, PRTHIVI, VASUDHARA and Zami-Mata.... |
| God name "Bhumiya (guardian of fields)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic / northern India | Fertility god. Guardian deity of fields, worshiped as a rough stone icon. In later times a form of VIS NU.... |
| Spirit name "Bhutadamara" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Turmoil of the spirits four-armed God. Buddhist / Mahayana |
| Goddess name "Bhutadamara (tumult of demons)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. May be depicted reclining on the Hindu goddess APARAJITA. Attributes: snakes in the hair, and staff. Three-eyed.... |
| Goddess name "Bhutamata (mother of goblins)" | Hindu | Terrible goddess. A frightful form of PARVATI. Accompanied by a lion. Attribute: phallus (on the head), shield and sword.... |
| Goddess name "Bhuvanesvari" | Hindu | Mistress of the world and the fourth of the ten mahavidya goddesses and an aspect of Devi. Hindu |
| Goddess name "Bhuvanesvari (lady of the spheres)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. One of a group of ten MAHAVIDYAS personifying the SAKTI of SIVA. Also an epithet applied to several goddesses. Aspects include Siddharatri. Attributes: hook and noose.... |
| Goddess name "Bia" | Greek | The goddess of force [& no, it does not stand for the bureau of idiotic affairs] |
| Goddess name "Bia" | Greek | Goddess of force. The daughter of the underworld goddess STYX and the sister of KRATOS, god of strength.... |
| Goddess name "Bibi the Child-Strangler" | Bibi | Sometimes affectionately known as "Aunty Bibi," is a Romany witch-goddess. Bibi is an old crone who either wears torn black garments or is entirely naked. Like the Romanian goddess Dschuma, Bibi is disease incarnate, particularly cholera. She is referred to as "the child-strangler" because it is believed that disease often effects children, who are young and weak. |
| God name "Bidhata Purusha" | Hindu | A god of fate and the Hindu equivalent of the Fates and the Norns. He writes the child's future life on its forehead, on the sixth day after its birth. |
| Goddess name "Bila" | Australia | Cannibal Sun goddess. She provided light for the world by cooking her victims over a giant flame. Australia |
| Goddess name "Birrahgnooloo" | Australian aboriginal | Creator goddess. She is recognized by several aboriginal clans as the chief consort of BAIAME, the creator god. Revered as the all-mother of humankind and creator of living things on earth, her role largely parallels that of Baiame. Traditions suggest that during the Dreamtime she planted vegetation as she moved through the primordial world, fashioning creatures from clay and breathing spirit into human beings. Her eldest son is DARAMULUM or Gayandi, regarded as an intermediary between Baiame and humankind.... |
| God name "Bishamon" | Japan | One of the seven gods of luck and the Buddhist patron of warriors. Japan |
| Deities name "Bishamon" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. One of seven deities concerned with fortune, he appears as a warrior clad in full armor holding a spear in one hand and a toy pagoda, identified as a tower of treasure in the other. He has been linked with the Buddhist god Vaisravana (KUBERA).... |
| Deities name "Bitol" | Mayan | A sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity. Mayan |
| God name "Bladud" | Welsh | God of the Sun Welsh |
| Goddess name "Blathnat" | Welsh | Maiden form of the triple goddess Ireland / Welsh |
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