| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Kankar Mata" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. A SAKTI who in later Hinduism became regarded as a SAPTAMATARA (mother) of evil intent. Known particularly from Bengal as a goddess who spreads disease.... |
| Goddess name "Karta" | Latvia | One of a trinity of fate goddesses that included her sisters Dekla and Laima. All three may have been aspects of Laima. Latvia |
| Goddess name "Karta" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Goddess of destiny. Known only from folk traditions.... |
| Goddess name "Kaumari" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. The SAKTI of SKANDA (Kaumara) who in later Hinduism became regarded as one of a group of seven MATARAS (mothers) of evil intent. Also one of a group of eight ASTAMATARAS. She embodies lack of envy or, alternatively, delusion. Her animal is a peaçõçk. Attributes: arrow, ax, bell, Book, bow, çõçkerel, lotus, spear, staff and waterjar.... |
| Goddess name "Kaumauri" | Hindu | Goddess who later became considered a goddess of evil intent Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
| Goddess name "Keawe" | Hawaiian | Creator god. An androgynous though apparently male principle or monad, he lived once in the dark empty abyss of Po. There, Keawe transformed primordial chaos into an orderly cosmos. He fashioned the sky from the lid of his calabash (a water-carrying gourd) and the Sun from an orange disc formerly kept inside the calabash. Keawe's first son was KANE, the god of light, and his daughter was Na Wahine, both created through his own powers of conception. He subsequently entered into an incestuous relationship with Na Wahine to father the chief pantheon of Hawaiian gods and goddesses, including most notably KU, LONO and Kanaloa, who became known, collectively, as the tripartite god.... |
| Goddess name "Khandsba" | Hindu / late | Form of the god SI IVA. Khandoba is believed to have emerged as a deity with a distinct cultic following no earlier than the thirteenth or fourteenth century, mainly in western India and centered on Jejuri, near Poona. The god is generally regarded as one of several martial forms which SI iva took to combat demons. His consort is the goddess MHALSA, considered to be a form of PARVATI. He is depicted bearing four arms and is usually mounted on a horse, but may also be accompanied by a dog. Attributes: bowl, drum, sword and trident. Also Makhari; Mallari; Martland.... |
| Goddess name "Krttika(s)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess(es) of fortune. Strongly malevolent NAKSATRA(S) con sisting of the six stars in the Pleiades constellation who become nurses of the god SKANDA. (In Hindu mythology there are only six Pleiades, not the seven recognized in modern astronomy.)... |
| Goddess name "Laima" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Goddess of fate. Particularly concerned with guarding women at childbirth, and with the newborn. Regarded as a household goddess of prosperity and good fortune.... |
| Goddess name "Latiaran" | Celtic | Youngest of the three sisters who made up a triune goddess and a goddess of autumn and fire. |
| Goddess name "Latis" | British | lake goddess who later became a goddess of ale and meade British |
| Goddess name "Latmikaik" | Micronesia | Goddess of the sea, with her husband Tpereakla, co-creator and co-ruler of the world Tpereakl lived in the sky, while his wife had her residence under the sea. Pelew Is. |
| Goddess name "Latona" | Greek | The Roman name of the Greek goddess Leto. One of the Titans - the first generation of Greek gods, she was the daughter of the Titan Coeus and Phoebe and mother to the twin gods, Apollo and Artemis, whose father was Zeus. Greek |
| Goddess name "Lauka Mate" | Latvia | Laukamat, Goddess of Agriculture Latvia |
| Goddess name "Lauka Mate" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Goddess of Agriculture. Worshiped in the fields at ploughing time.... |
| Goddess name "Lauka Mate/ Laukamat" | Lativa | A goddess of Agriculture |
| Goddess name "Liber" | Italic | Chthonic fertility god. Originally åśśociated with husbandry and crops but then åśśimilated with DIONYSOS. The consort of CERES and father of the goddess LIBERA. His festival, the Liberalia, was on March 17 when young men celebrated the arrival of manhood.... |
| Goddess name "Lilith" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Goddess of desolation. She is perceived as a demonic figure who, in the epic legend of Gilgames and the Huluppu Tree takes up residence in INANA'S holy tree growing on the banks of the Euphrates in Unug. When the hero Gilgames attacks Lilith she escapes into the desert wastes.... |
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