| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Ogiuwu" | Edo / Benin, West Africa | God of death. Believed to own the blood of all living things which he smears on the walls of his palace in the otherworld. Until recent times human sacrifice was made regularly to this deity in the capital of the Edo region, Benin City.... |
"Ogiuwu Edo" | Benin | The harbinger of death who is supposed to own the blood of all living things. Benin |
| God name "Ogma/ Ogmius/ Ogmios" | Celtic | A god of education, genius, eloquence, language & magic |
"Ogmios" | Gaul | A bald old man with a bow and club leading an apparently happy band of men with chains attached to their ears from his tongue. Gaul |
| Goddess name "Ogmius ( Ogma, Ogmios )" | Celtic / Irish | God of poetry and speech. Very little is known of him, but the Roman writer Lucian mentions a Romano-Celtic god of wisdom, Ogmios, apparently åśśimilated with HERCULES and described as an old man with lion's skin holding a crowd of people chained to his tongue by their ears. NOTE: a goddess Ogma is also mentioned; she may have been a mother goddess in the original Irish pantheon.... |
| God name "Ogo" | Dogon | Trickster God of the Dogon people. |
"Ogoa" | Greek | The Carian name of Zeus at Mysala, in whose temple a sea-wave was seen from time to time. |
| Deity name "Ogoun aka Ogun" | Haiti | Ogum, Ogou, the deity who presides over fire, iron, hunting politics and war. He is the patron of smiths and is usually displayed with his attributes: machete or sabre, rum and tobacco. Haiti Vodun |
| God name "Ogoun/ Ogun" | Haiti / Vodun | A god of war & fire |
| Monster name "Ogres" | Europe | Of nursery mythology are giants of very malignant dispositions, who live on human flesh. It is an Eastern invention, and the word is derived from the Ogurs, a desperately savage horde of Asia, who overran part of Europe in the fifth century. Others derived it from Orcus, the ugly, cruel man-eating monster so familiar to readers of Bojardo and Ariosto. The female is Ogress. |
| God name "Ogun" | Nago / Edo / Yoruba / W Africa | A god of iron, hunting & war |
| God name "Ogun" | Edo / Benin, West Africa | God of war, hunting and metalwork. This rather loosely defined deity was sent by the god OSANOBUA to cut open the land to allow crops to be planted. He is the strength inherent in metals and piles of metal objects are left beside his sanctuaries. As a god of war he defends the tribe and is depicted wearing armor and with red eyes. As a god of hunters and farmers he is generally benevolent.... |
| God name "Ogun Edo" | Benin | A god of war that was sent to cut up the land to allow crops to the planted |
| God name "Ohe" | Nigeria | The omnipresent and supreme sky god. The Egede, Nigeria |
| God name "Ohoromoxtotil" | Maya | this god was the creator the Sun that made the world in habitable by destroying the jaguars that once infesterd it |
| God name "Ohoroxtotil (god almighty)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The creator of the Sun and the deity who made the world inhabitable for mankind by destroying the jaguars which once infested it.... |
| Spirit name "Oi" | Kenya | The spirit of disease, who may be expelled by emptying the sick man's house, after which the priest casts the evil spirit out, since it has nothing left to lurk behind inside. Kenya |
| Spirit name "Oi" | Suk / western Kenya, East Africa | Sickness god. A spirit of personal illness rather than plague. The sick person's house is emptied and the priest exorcizes Oi out of the dwelling.... |
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