Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Visvamitra" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor god. According to legend, the father of the god NARADA.... |
God name "Visvarupa" | Hindu | Lesser known incarnation of the god VISNU. In Vedic literature he is identified as the son of TVASTAR. Visnu took the avatara at the request of ARJUNA. His animal is GARUDA. Attributes: many. Also Viratapurusa.... |
Deities name "Visvosnisa" | Buddhist | God. An USNISA apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the southerly direction. Color: green.... |
God name "Vitthali" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | God. A lesser known incarnation of the god VISNU (or KRSNA). The cult of Vitthali is centered mainly on Panharpur, near Bombay, where he is the object of devotion by the Varkari sect. Generally depicted standing on a brick, wearing a fez-like hat and with hands on hips. Also Vithoba; Panduranga.... |
Deity name "Vitzilipuztli" | Aztec / Mesoamerican | Aspect of HUITZILPOCHTLI. Invoked twice a year, in May and December, during an agrarian festival. Virginal female worshipers created an image of the deity from dough consisting of maize flour, beet seed and honey. The image was given eyes and teeth using pieces of colored glåśś and whole maize seeds and was paraded, before being broken into pieces and eaten as a form of sacrament.... |
Goddess name "Vivasvan (shining)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | Sun god. The original Vedic list of six descendants of the goddess ADITI or ADITYAS, all of whom take the role of Sun gods was, in later times, enlarged to twelve, including Vivasvan. One of his titles is the embodiment of ancestral law. His consort is SARANYU and he is identified as the father of YAMA and YAMI, as well as MANU and the ASVINS. His color is golden and his attributes a Forest garland, two lotuses and a trident. Also Vivasvat.... |
Deity name "Vivasvat" | India | Visvakarma or Vivasvan, a solar deity and another name for Surya. India |
King name "Vivien" | Britain | Lady of the lake. Vivien, mistress of Merlin, the enchanter, who lived in the midst of an imaginary lake, surrounded by knights and damsels. Tennyson, in the Idylls of the king, tells the story of Vivien and Merlin. Britain |
Goddess name "Vodni Panny" | Slavic | A goddesses of rivers |
God name "Vodu" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | Collective name for gods. The origin of the term voodoo in the Caribbean region.... |
Nymph name "Vodui Panny" | Slavic | Slavic water nymphs. |
Spirit name "Vodyanoy" | Slavic | A malevolent water spirit who likes to drown humans. Slavic |
God name "Volos" | Slavic | God of cattle. wealth and commerce. Slavic |
Supreme god name "Voltumna" | Etruscan | Tutelary god. Originally a vegetation deity who was elevated to the position of supreme god in the Etruscan pantheon and known in Roman culture as VERTUMNUS.... |
God name "Volturnus" | Sabine | A river god of the waters, probably derived from a local Sabine regional cult. |
Goddess name "Volumna" | Roman | Nursery goddess. The guardian deity of the nursery and of infants.... |
"Volupia" | Roman | The personification of sensual pleasure among the Romans. She is also called Voluptas. |
Goddess name "Voluptas" | Roman | A goddess of sensual pleasure |