Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Prthu (broad)" | Hindu / Vedic | Creator god. The head of the solar pantheon who introduced Agriculture to the human race and who, in later Hinduism, is identified as an avatara of VIS'NU.... |
God name "Ptah" | Egypt | Called the world into being, having dreamt creation in his heart, and speaking it, his name meaning opener, in the sense of opener of the mouth. Considered the god of craftsmen, and in particular stone-based crafts. Eventually, due to the connection of these things to tombs the craftsmen regarded him so highly as to say that he controlled their destiny. Egypt |
"Purandhi" | s | Thunder, the lightning's daughter, Aja-Ekapad, heaven's bearer, Sindhu, and the waters of the sea: |
King name "Pururavas and Urvasi" | Indian | An Indian myth similar to that of "Apollo and Daphne." Pururavas is a legendary king who fell in love with Urvasi, a heavenly nymph, who consented to become his wife on certain conditions. These conditions being violated, Urvasi disappeared, and Pururavas, inconsolable, wandered everywhere to find her. Ultimately he succeeded, and they were indissolubly united. |
Spirit name "QUIKINN.A'QU (big raven)" | Koryak / Kamchatka peninsula, southeastern Siberia | A spirit of a primitive culture still heavily influenced by animism. Founder of the world.... |
Supreme god name "Qa'wadiliquala" | Dza'wadeenox Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Supreme god. The guardian of the tribe but also a river deity responsible for bringing the salmon each year. Said to live in the river Gwae. His eldest son is TEWI'XILAK, the god of goat hunters. His attributes include a headband of red cedar bark.... |
Spirit name "Qaitakalnin" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | Guardian spirit. The brother of Big Raven, QUIKINNA'QU, and of the mother spirit Ha'na (A'na).... |
Goddess name "Qamai'ts" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Creator goddess. Said to live in the upper heaven, Atsa'axl, from where she controls the earth. According to tradition the mountains were once malevolent beings who made the world uninhabitable, until she conquered them and reduced them in size. She is never invoked or prayed to. Also Tsi Sisnaaxil (our woman); Ek Yakimtolsil (afraid of nothing).... |
Goddess name "Qamai'ts/ Sisnaaxil/ Ek Yakimtolsil" | Bella Coola / BC Canada | The creator goddess that lives in the upper heavens & controls the earth, she is never prayed to |
God name "Qebui" | Egypt | Four headed, winged, ram headed god of the north wind Egypt |
Spirit name "Qeskina'qu (big light)" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | sky spirit. One of the sons of QUIKINNA'QU, he is the apotheosis of daylight, a precious commodity during the long Winter months.... |
Goddess name "Quabso" | Tanzania | wind-rider, a goddess of the weather, health, fertility and Rain. Tanzania |
"Qudsu" | Western Semitic | Personification of holiness. Known from inscriptions at Tyre where a human figure stands naked on a lion, wearing a spiral headdress and holding lotus blossoms and serpents.... |
"Queen of Heaven" | Egyptian | With the ancient Phoenicians was Astarte; Greeks, Hera; Romans, Juno; Trivia, Hecate, Diana, the Egyptian Isis, etc., were all so called; but with the Roman Catholics it is the Virgin Mary. |
God name "Quiahuitl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the third of the five world ages each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fiftytwo terrestrial years. Assigned to the element fire and presided over by the Rain god TLALOC. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a great fiery Rain. The human population perished and in doing so were transformed into dogs, turkeys and butterflies. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also Quiauhtonatiuh; Tletonatiuh.... |
Goddess name "RaHathor (Het-Hert, Het-Heru, Hwt-Hert, Hethara" | Egipt | meaning "House of Horus [the Elder]", was a goddess of many things, from the celestial to the alcoholic! She was a celestial goddess, The Mistress of heaven. A goddess of love, music and beauty as the Goddess of love, Cheerfulness, Music and Dance. Hathor was known as the Mother of Mothers and the Celestial Nurse who presided over women, fertility, children and childbirth. Yet Hathor was also a goddess of baser things - she was the Vengeful Eye of Ra, the Lady of Drunkenness, and a goddess of the dead as Lady of the West. |
Goddess name "Rachmay" | Canaan | The Maiden Merciful and a goddess of health and nursing. Canaan |
God name "Radegaste" | Slavonic | A tutelary god of the Slavi. The head was that of a cow, the breast was covered with an aegis, the left hand held a spear, and a çõçk surmounted its helmet. Slavonic |