Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Aveta" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Goddess of birth and midwifery. Known mainly from clay figurines found at Toulon-sur-Allier, France. The models show the goddess with infants at the breast and apparently she is concerned especially with nursing mothers. The figure is often accompanied by a small lapdog.... |
Goddess name "Avfruvva" | Finland | Mermaid goddess of Finland |
God name "Avrikiti" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | God of fishermen. Statues of this deity, in a sitting position, were placed on the beaches and fishermen and local elders sacrificed to them annually to ensure a good season of catches.... |
Goddess name "Avrikiti Fon" | Benin | Goddess of fisherman Benin |
Supreme god name "Awonawilona" | Pueblo / Zuni | The One Who Contains Everything. The Supreme God, the Creator of All. Before the creation there was only Awonawilona; all else was darkness and emptiness. Both male and female, Awonawilona created everything from himself and taking form became the maker of light, the Sun. Pueblo / Zuni |
God name "Awonawilona" | Pueblo Indian / Zuni / Mesoamerica | Creator god. The androgynous creator of heaven and earth and of all life, which he engendered by tossing pieces of his skin into the primeval ocean.... |
Goddess name "Axiocersa" | Phrygian | Goddess of the earth Phrygian |
Goddess name "Axo Mama" | Peru | Goddess of the potato crops Peru |
Goddess name "Axo-Mama" | South American Indian / Peru | Goddess of potato crops. A model of this minor deity was made out of parts of the plant as a harvest fetish and kept for a year before being burned in a ritual to ensure a good potato harvest.... |
Goddess name "Aya" | Mesopotamia | Goddess of dawn and war Mesopotamia |
Goddess name "Aya" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian Akkadian | Mother goddess. Derived from the Sumerian model of S ERIDA. Consort of the Sun god S AMAS whose marriage was celebrated at New Year in Babylon.... |
Goddess name "Ayaba" | Dahomean | Goddess of the hearth Dahomean |
Goddess name "Ayaba" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | Hearth goddess. The sister of LOKO, god of the trees, whose wood is burned in the home to cook food.... |
Goddess name "Ayauhteot" | Chile | A moon goddess |
Goddess name "Ayauhteotl" | Chile | Goddess of the moon, haze and mist and is is åśśociated with vanity and fame. Chile |
Goddess name "Ayida" | Haiti | Goddess of Rainbows, especially in Benin and Haiti, Ayida-Weddo aka Aida-Wedo, Aido Quedo, a loa of fertility, Rainbows and snakes, and a companion or wife to Damballah-Wedo. Also Ayida-Weddo is known as the Rainbow serpent. Haiti |
God name "Ayiyanayaka" | Ceylon | God of fields and woodland who protects against plague. Northern part of the island of Ceylon. |
God name "Ayiyanayaka" | Singhalese / Sri Lanka | Plague god. A deity of fields and woodlands who is still revered as a guardian of crops and a protector against plague.... |