Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Kneph" | Egypt | Was originally the breath of life, his name meaning soul-breath. Indeed, according to Plutarch and Diodorus, kneph was identical with the Greek pneuma. Kneph in this context was a spirit that breathed life into things, giving them form. Egypt Kneph eventually became considered to be the creator god himself, in Elephantine, although his identity was finally åśśimilated into the more important god Amun. |
Goddess name "Kodamata" | India | Goddess of health and healing. India |
Goddess name "Kokomikeis" | S America | Goddess of the moon mother of the Morning Star Blackfoot |
Goddess name "Kokomikeis Blackfoot" | NA | ? The moon goddess mother of the Morning Star |
God name "Kondos" | Pre - Christian Finnish | God of cereal crops. Particularly identified with the sowing of wheat. After Christianization, he was absorbed by the figure of St. Urban.... |
Goddess name "Kongsim" | Korea | Goddess of healing Korea |
Goddess name "Kongsim" | Korean | Goddess of healing. Korean |
Goddess name "Kono Hana Sakuya" | Japan | Goddess of spring Japan |
Goddess name "Korawini" | N American | Mother of All Peoples and the goddess of jolly bonking. Paiute. North America |
Goddess name "Kore (tbe girl)" | Greek | Youthful goddess of the corn. The more generic name for the goddess PERSEPHONE. Identified as the daughter of DEMETER. She is the spirit of the corn as distinct from her mother who is the giver of the corn. Depicted on coinage as a woman's head adorned with ears of corn. She is integral to the Eleusinian Mysteries in which she is abducted to Hades, resulting in the distress of her mother and the blighting of nature. At Samaria-Sebaste in Syrio-Palestine, Kore was the only deity worshiped, apart from the emperor.... |
Goddess name "Kore/ Core" | Greek | A goddess of springtime |
Goddess name "Korravai" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | war goddess. Worshiped in desert regions in southern India, thought to live in trees and equating to DURGA. She has a son, MURUKAN. Also Katukilal; Korrawi.... |
Goddess name "Korrigan" | French | Goddess of underground springs French |
Goddess name "Kostroma" | Russian | Benevolent and malevolent fertility goddess; like the Greeks' Persephone, she is a dying and reborn daughter. Russian |
God name "Kostromo" | Russian | Kostrubonko - A dying-and-ressurecting spring fertility-god. Russian |
God name "Kostrubonko" | Russia | God of spring. "...in Little Russia it used to be the custom at Eastertide to celebrate the funeral of a being called Kostrubonko, the deity of the spring. A circle was formed of singers who moved slowly around a girl who lay on the ground as if dead, and as they went they sang: |
God name "Kotar" | Western Semitic / Syrian | Blacksmith god. Identified in the Ugaritic (Ras Samra) texts as building a palace for the god BAAL and forging his weapons for the conflict against the sea god YAMM. Known also from Phoenician inscriptions. Also Kosar, Chusor, KINYRAS.... |
Goddess name "Kotisri" | Hindu | A goddess of silk cultivation with responsibility of uprooting thorn bushes Sraddha Hindu. |