Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Ah Muuzencab" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Bee gods. The patron deities of apiarists still invoked in parts of the Yucatan. They are thought to be represented iconographically on the tops and bottoms of stone columns at the site of Chichen Itza as aged men with long beards and upraised arms. They wear loin cloths with distinctive cross hatching.... |
God name "Ah Peku" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Thunder god. He lives on the tops of hills and climbs into the clouds before it Rains.... |
Deities name "Ah Tabai" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hunting god. One of a number of deities in Mayan religion identified with the hunt and the protec tion of animals.... |
God name "Ah Uincir Dz'acab" | Mayan / Chorti, Meso american / eastern Guatemala | God of healing. The patron of herbalists and concerned with the preparation of remedies, he is depicted as having male and female identities, each concerned with the healing of their respective sexes. Also Ah Uincir Kopot.... |
God name "Ah Uuc Ticab" | Mayan | Minor vegetation and fertility god Mayan |
God name "Ah Uuc Ticab" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic god. Minor fertility and vegetation deity.... |
God name "Ahau Kin" | Mayan | Meaning "lord of the Sun face," he was a Sun god and moon god; he had two manifestations. At night, he became a jaguar god and lord of the underworld. Mayan |
God name "Aheramenmthoou" | Egypt | God of thunder, night, storms, wind, landslides and tidal waves. Egypt |
Goddess name "Ahnt kai" | Mexico | Goddess of women and children. Daughter of Koo-mah'mm hahs-ay' tahm (First Woman). She flies at night and lives above the peak of Tiburon. Mexico |
God name "Ahriman" | Zoroastrian / Farsi Per sian | Chthonic god of darkness. The antagonist of AHURA MAZDA, god of light, and his attendant, MITHRA. The name is a modern derivation of the original Avestan title ANGRU MAINYU. Ahriman is said to have tried to persuade his attendant animals, including the scor pion, ant and snake, to drink the blood of the bull slain by Mithra in the primeval legend of dualistic conflict (see Mithra); if he had succeeded he would have prevented life from forming on earth. In another legend he tried to thwart Ahura Mazda by sending a flood to destroy the world. Also recog nized in Roman Mithraism. Rituals included ani mal sacrifice. Also ARIMANIUS (Roman).... |
God name "Ahsonnutli" | America | The sky father and chief god for the Navajo. He created heaven, earth, and the sky. |
God name "Ahti (or Ahto)" | Finland | God of the depths, giver of fish. |
God name "Ahti aka Ahto" | Egypt | God of streams, lakes and sea. Egypt |
God name "Ahulane" | Caribbean | A war god, also called the archer. The island Cozumel was the location of Ahulane's shrine. |
God name "Ahulane" | Mayan / Persian / Zoroastrian | A war god, also called the archer. The island Cozumel was the location of Ahulane's shrine. Mayan / Persian / Zoroastrian |
Goddess name "Ahurani" | Persia | Goddess of Rain and water Persia |
Goddess name "Ahurani (mistress of Abura)" | Zoroastrian / Persian | Fertility goddess. Invoked by ordinary people to bring prosperity and children. water libations were a key part of the ritual.... |
Goddess name "Ai Ada" | Turkey | God of the moon. Husband of Kun, Goddess of the Sun. Turkey |