Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Kumari (virgin)" | Hindu | Goddess. Generally recognized to be an epithet of DURGA. Worshiped at a famous temple on the southernmost tip of India at Cape Comorin. Also known in Nepal, where a small girl provides an earthly incarnation of the goddess.... |
Goddess name "Laghusyamala (lightly dark colored)" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor goddess. Attributes: lute and wine glåśś.... |
Goddess name "Lasghusyamala" | Hindu | Minor goddess Hindu / Puranic |
Goddess name "Lasya (dancing girl)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. One of the group of ASTAMATARAS (mothers). She is generally depicted dancing the lasya dance. Color: white. Attribute: a mirror. Also the generic name of a group of four goddesses, including GITA, MALA, NRTYA and headed by LASYA.... |
Goddess name "Lha Mo" | Lamaism | Afemale demon who converted to a goddess of Lamaism. |
Goddess name "Liluri" | Western Semitic / Syrian | mountain goddess. The consort of the weather god Manuzi, her sacred animal is the bull.... |
Goddess name "MORRIGAN (queen of demons)" | Celtic / Irish | war, fertility and vegetation goddess. A complex goddess displaying various characteristics which are both generative and destructive (see also ANAT, INANA, IS'TAR, ATHENE). At the festival of Samain, she mates with the DAGDA to ensure the future prosperity of the land and as queen Maeve (Medb) of Connaught she was ritually wedded to the mortal king whose antecedent was Ailill. As Nemain (panic) and Badb Catha (raven of battle), she takes on a more warlike and destructive aspect. Rather than engaging directly in conflict, she uses her supernatural powers to spread fear and disarray. The Irish hero Cu Chulainn was thus visited on the battle field by BADB driving a chariot and dressed in a red cloak and with red eyebrows presenting an intimidating appearance. She is capable of changing her shape into various animal forms and in the guise of a raven or a crow is able to foretell the outcome of battle.... |
Goddess name "Maha-Ganapati" | Hindu / Puranic | Elephant god. This form of the god GANESA possesses ten arms instead of the more normal four and may have a goddess, BUDDHI or SIDDHI, seated on the knee.... |
Goddess name "Mahamayuri (great daughter of the peaçõçk)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. An extremely popular deity and an emanation of AMOGHASIDDHI. A female BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate. Also one of a group of five MAHARAKSAS (protectresses) who are thought to be personifications of amulets or mantras. Color: green, red or yellow. Attributes: alms bowl, arrow, banner, bow, fly whisk, image of Amoghasiddhi on crown, jewel, mendicant, peaçõçk feather, prayer wheel, sword and water jar. Three-eyed and may occasionally appear three or four-headed.... |
Goddess name "Maharatri" | Hindu | Goddess åśśociated with Kali and Kamala Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
Goddess name "Maharatri (the great night)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. Associated with KALI and KAMALA.... |
Goddess name "Mahavidya" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Collective name of a group of goddesses. Ten personifications of SAKTI as the femaleness of SIVA, åśśociated with the possession of knowledge.... |
Goddess name "Mahisa (buffalo)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | demonic god. Depicted most frequently in the form of a buffalo, but he also confounds the gods by changing himself into many other animal guises. He is eventually slain by the goddess DEVI in the form of MAHISASURAMARDINI.... |
Goddess name "Mal" | Irish | She was the goddess who ruled the hag's headland |
Goddess name "Mala" | Buddhist | Mother goddess Buddhist / Tibet |
Goddess name "Mala" | Celtic | Not actually a specific Goddess, more of a generalized concept of a Crone goddess. Celtic |
Goddess name "Mala (garland)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Mother goddess. One of a group of ASTAMATARA deities. Color: red or yellow. Attributes: garland of Forest flowers, or of jewels.... |
Goddess name "Malhal Mata" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. One of seven SAKTIS who in later Hinduism became regarded as SAPTAMATARAS (mothers) of evil intent. Particularly known in Bengal as a bringer of disease.... |