Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Nu Wa" | China | Goddess of those who arrange marriages China |
Goddess name "Nu gua" | China | God / goddess China |
Spirit name "Nu'tenut" | Chukchee / E Siberia | An earth spirit that is the owner of the world |
Spirit name "Nu'tenut" | Chukchee / eastern Siberia | earth spirit. The owner of the world who sits in a large house built of iron. He is surrounded by the spirits of Sun, moon, sky, sea, dawn, darkness and world who are suitors for his daughter (unnamed).... |
Spirit name "Nu'tenut Chukchee" | East | earth spirit who is the owner of the world Siberia(East) |
God name "Nuada" | Irish | Silver Arm a king of the Tuatha De Danann. He is cognate with the Gaulish and British god Nodens. His Welsh equivalent is Nudd or Lludd Llaw Eraint. Irish |
God name "Nuadu" | Ireland | Tribal god of healing and water Ireland |
Spirit name "Nuckelavee" | Scotland | A monster of unmixed malignity, never willingly resting from doing evil to mankind. He was a spirit in flesh. His home was the sea; and whatever his means of transit were in that element, when he moved on land he rode a horse as terrible in aspect as himself. Some thought that rider and horse were really one, and that this was the shape of the monster. Nuckelavee's head was like a man's, only ten times larger, and his mouth projected like that of a pig, and was enormously wide. There was not a hair on the monster's body, for the very good reason that he had no skin. Scotland |
"Nucta" | Egypt | A miraculous drop which falls in Egypt on St. John's day (June), is supposed to have the effect of stopping the plague. |
Hero name "Nudd or Lud Lludd Llaw Eraint" | Welsh | Nudd or Lud Lludd Llaw Eraint, "Lludd of the Silver Hand", son of Beli Mawr, a legendary hero. Welsh |
God name "Nudimmud" | Akkadian | An Akkadian epithet of the Mesopotamian god Ea which meant 'begetter', referring to his fathering of Marduk; he is referred to by this name in the Enuma Elish. |
God name "Nudimmud" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Creator god. Rapidly syncretized with the Akkadian god EA.... |
God name "Nuggan" | Discworld | Nuggan is the locally worshipped monotheistic and omnipotent God of Borogravia, but elsewhere he is known as the God of Paperclips, Correct Things in the Right Place in Small Desk Stationery Sets, and Unnecessary Paperwork. He usually sports a fussy little moustache. Discworld |
Spirit name "Nuli'rahak" | Inuit | Sea spirit, she lives in the ocean depths, owns all sea creatures, and feeds off the bodies of drowned a fisherman Siberia / Inuit |
Spirit name "Nuli'rahak (big woman)" | Siberian Inuit | Sea spirit. A fearsome old woman who lives in the ocean depths and owns all the sea creatures. She feeds off the bodies of drowned fishermen.See also ARNA'KUAGSAK.... |
Spirit name "Nuli'rahak/ Arna'kuagsak" | Inuit / E Siberia | The Sea spirit, she lives in the ocean depths, owns all sea creatures, & feeds off the bodies of drowned a fisherman |
Goddess name "Nuliayoq" | Inuit | The queen of the deep who became a goddess of rivers and inlets. Inuit |
Deities name "Numbakulla" | Australia | Were two sky gods who created all life on earth, including humans, from the Inapertwa. Afterwards, they became lizards. The Numakulla are sometimes described as a dual-aspect deity rather than two separate deities. Australia |