Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Angel name "Barbiel" | Christians | angels of the Mansions of the moon. |
"Bartsing" | Formoza | One of the creators of the Sun, moon, and stars. the other was Dgagha. The Amia, Formosa |
Goddess name "Belili" | Mesopotamia | Goddess of the moon Mesopotamia |
Goddess name "Bendis" | Greece | A Thracian divinity in whom the moon was worshipped. Hesychius says "that the poet Cratinus called this goddess Two Spears, either because she had to discharge two duties, one towards heaven and the other towards the earth, or because she bore two lances, or lastly, because she had two lights, the one her own and the other derived from the Sun. In Greece she was sometimes identified with Persephone, but more commonly with Artemis. |
Hero name "Bensozia" | Greek | chief deviless of a certain Sabbatic meeting held in France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Diana of the Ancient Gauls, and was also called Nocticula, Herodias, and "The moon." |
Angel name "Bethnael" | Christians | angels of the Mansions of the moon. |
Goddess name "Bomo Rambi" | Zimbabwe | Goddess of the moon. Zimbabwe |
Goddess name "Bomo Rambi/ Bomu Rambi" | Zimbabwe | A moon goddess |
Goddess name "Borghild" | Norse | Goddess of the moon norse |
Goddess name "Brigantis" | Celtic | Goddess of the moon Celtic |
Goddess name "Bulan" | Indonesia | Goddess of the moon Indonesia / Malaysia |
God name "Bumba" | Boshongo / Bantu / southern Africa | Creator god. The progenitor of the world out of chaos. When he experienced stomachache he vomited the earth, Sun, moon and, finally, all living things, including mankind.... |
Goddess name "Caelestis" | Carthage | Goddess of the moon. Carthage |
Goddess name "Caelestis" | Carthaginian / North Africa | moon goddess. The Romanized form of the Punic goddess TANIT. Elsewhere she became syncretized into the cult of APHRODITE-VENUS. Annual games were held in her honor. She was brought to Rome in the form of an abstract block of stone (like that of KYBELE from Pessinus) and became popular there during the early part of the third century AD; in this guise she was known as the mighty protectress of the Tarpeian hill.... |
Deity name "Cagn Mantis" | Africa | According to the Hottentots and the Bushman the supreme deity and creator of the world whose loves are pleasing' and it is especially attached to the moon, having made it out of one of its old shoes. Africa |
Planet name "Candra" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic / Buddhist | A planet god commonly affiliated with the moon |
Goddess name "Candra" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | (1) Planet god. Personified by the moon and also seen as a dikpala or guardian of the northern direction. Consorts include KAUMUDI, TARA and the NAKSATRAS or astral goddesses. His son is BUDHA. He drives in a chariot drawn by ten white horses. Color: white. Attributes: club, lotus, sacred rope and prayer wheel. The term candra usually refers to the cup containing the sacrificial yellow beverage SOMA, often a synonym for the deity. Candra is also the apotheosis of the pale yellow moon disc. 2. Planet god. Buddhist. Attended by a goose. Color: white. Attributes: moon disc on a lotus.... |
God name "Candrasekhara (moon crested)" | Hindu / Puranic | Form of the god SIVA. Portrayed standing stiffly upright and wearing snake jewelry with the moon on the left side of his headdress. Attributes: ax and an antelope.... |