Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Erkilek" | Inuit / North America | Hunting god. A malev olent deity with the head and nose of a dog and the body of a man. He carries a bow, with arrows contained in a quiver, and is an expert archer.... |
Goddess name "Ermutu" | Egypt | Goddess of childbirth and midwives. Egypt |
God name "Eros" | Greek | In Latin, Amor or Cupido, the god of love. In the sense in which he is usually conceived, Eros is the creature of the later Greek poets; and in order to understand the ancients properly we must distinguish three Erotes: viz. the Eros of the ancient cosmogonies, the Eros of the philosophers and mysteries, who bears great resemblance to the first, and the Eros whom we meet with in the epigrammatic and erotic poets, whose witty and playful descriptions of the god, however, can scarcely be considered as a part of the ancient religious belief of the Greeks. Greek |
God name "Erra" | Akkadian | The god of mayhem and pestilence who brought plagues and other calamities. Akkadian |
God name "Erra" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian Akkadian | God of war. Known chiefly from the Erra Epic, circa 1000 BC, he is also the god of raids, riots and scorched earth. Closely identified with the god NERGAL, his cult center is Emeslam in the city of Kutha (lost). In Babylonian times he is identified as a plague god.... |
Goddess name "Errata" | Discworld | The Goddess of Misunderstandings. This little known goddess was the cause of the Tsortean wars; not, as most people believe, Elenor. Understandably not the most liked goddess, Errata wasn't invited to many weddings. Discworld |
Goddess name "Erzulie" | Haiti | Goddess of health, clothes, flowers, jewelry, of fertility, love, virginity, beauty and sex. Haiti |
God name "Es" | Ket / Siberian | Creator god. Described as an old man with a long black beard, he fashioned the first humans from clay. Those tossed from his right hand became men, and those from his left became women.... |
God name "Eschu" | Africa / Yoruba | The god of mischief, is the son of Lusa and Mahu. He supported Legba in giving power of the loa to a mortal as a force of good against the evil unleashed by their brother Sagbata. Africa / Yoruba |
Goddess name "Eshara" | Chaldea | Goddess of productive fields and a war goddess who represented the armed defense of land and property. Chaldea |
God name "Eshmun" | Phonecian | Lesser God of health and healing. Phonecian |
God name "Eshmun" | Semitic | A northwestern Semitic god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon. |
God name "Eshu" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | Itinerant god. An ancient deity regarded as the attendant and messenger of the creator god OLODUMARE. He påśśes among mortal people åśśessing character and meting out punishment. Devotees are identified by necklaces of black or brown beads.... |
God name "Essus" | Gaul | Harvest God worshipped in Brittany and Gaul by the the Essuvi. |
Goddess name "Estar" | Akkadian | queen Of heaven, the goddess of war, love and fertility. Akkadian |
Goddess name "Estsanatlehi" | Navaho | Vegetative, fertility and creator sky goddess. Navaho |
Goddess name "Estsanatlehi (woman that changes)" | Navaho / USA | Fertility goddess. Probably regarded as the most powerful deity in the Navaho pantheon, she has powers of endless self-rejuvenation. According to tradition, she was created from a small turquoise image into which life was infused through a ritual of the great gods and she is the sister of the goddess YOLKAI ESTAN. She is also the consort of the Sun god TSOHANOAI and the mother of the war god NAYENEZGANI. She is said to live in the west and is benevolent in nature, sending the gentle Rains of summer and the warm thawing winds of spring.... |
God name "Esu" | Benin / Yoruba | The dark side of God. He is an independent entity and timeless. Benin / Yoruba |