Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Noctiluca" | Spanish | Goddess of the moon, fertility, life, death and hunting. Spanish |
Goddess name "Nsongo" | Bangala / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | moon goddess. The sister and consort of the supreme Sun god LIBANZA. In the epic legend of Nsongo and Lianja she is the twin sister and consort of a deified folk-hero.... |
Goddess name "Nsongo Bangala" | Zaire | Goddess of the moon Zaire |
Goddess name "Nze" | Ngbandi / Democratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa | moon god. One of the seven children of KETUA, the god of fortune and LOMO, the goddess of peace. He is closely linked with women and fertility. At menstruation he is said to have cut the girl and, during pregnancy, the moon is dark for her.... |
Goddess name "Ochu" | Nigeria | Goddess of the moon who sweeps away the ashes of death. Nigeria |
Goddess name "Pajau Yan" | Cambodian | Goddess of health and healing who was sent to live in the moon, where she provides flowers to the newly dead to ease their transition as they move into the underworld. Cambodian |
Goddess name "Pele" | Polynesian / Hawaii | Volcano goddess. According to tradition she arrived in Hawaii in a canoe, having sailed from Tahiti. She may derive locally from the more familiar Polynesian moon goddess, HINA, since one of her alternative names is Hina-Ai-Malama (Hina who devours the moon).... |
Goddess name "Perimb" | Brazil | Goddess of the moon and supreme being. Brazil |
Goddess name "Poludnitsy" | Slavic | Ukranian moon-goddesses. |
Goddess name "Priyadarsana" | Hindu | moon goddess. Priyadarsana declared, "Matter itself is void. Voidness does not result from the destruction of matter, but the nature of matter is itself voidness. Therefore, to speak of voidness on the one hand, and of matter, or of sensation, or of intellect, or of motivation, or of consciousness on the other - is entirely dualistic. Consciousness itself is voidness. Voidness does not result from the destruction of consciousness, but the nature of consciousness is itself voidness. Such understanding of the five compulsive aggregates and the knowledge of them as such by means of gnosis is the entrance into nonduality." The Dharma-Door of Nonduality |
Goddess name "Pusya" | Hindu | Goddess of fortune. After performing Sraddha one should påśś the night, with effort, in celibacy. When the full-moon night of the Pausa be åśśociated with Pusya, then a person, smeared with the powder of white mustards, should anoint his body with purified butter. Hindu |
Goddess name "Quilla" | Inca | moon goddess married to Inti, the Sun god. Inca |
Goddess name "Rajamatangi" | Hindu | Goddess. She stands upon a lotus. Attributes: blue lotus, lute, moon and parrot.... |
Goddess name "Ri" | Phoenician | Little known Phoenician goddess of the moon. |
Goddess name "Riddhivasita (control of prosperity)" | Buddhist | Minor goddess. One of a group of VASITAS personifying the disciplines of spiritual regeneration. Color: green. Attribute: moon disc.... |
Goddess name "Rongomatane" | Polynesian / including Maori | God of Agriculture. He is the father of cultivated food and the special gardener of the kumara or sweet potato which is a vital crop in Polynesia. In New Zealand the first sweet potatoes are offered to Rongomatane. In the traditions of the Hervey Islands, Rongo is one of the five sons of the moon god, Vatea, and the mother goddess, Papa.... |
Goddess name "Sadarnuna" | Sumeria | Goddess of the new moon. Sumeria |
Goddess name "Saule" | Pre - Christian Latvian | Sun goddess. Also having agricultural links, she is perceived as living on a heavenly farm atop a mythical mountain and invoked to induce fertility and ripening among crops. Her consorts are the sky god DIEVS and the moon god MENESS.... |