Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Bhutamata (mother of goblins)" | Hindu | Terrible goddess. A frightful form of PARVATI. Accompanied by a lion. Attribute: phallus (on the head), shield and sword.... |
Goddess name "Bhuvanesvari" | Hindu | Mistress of the world and the fourth of the ten mahavidya goddesses and an aspect of Devi. Hindu |
Goddess name "Bhuvanesvari (lady of the spheres)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. One of a group of ten MAHAVIDYAS personifying the SAKTI of SIVA. Also an epithet applied to several goddesses. Aspects include Siddharatri. Attributes: hook and noose.... |
God name "Bidhata Purusha" | Hindu | A god of fate and the Hindu equivalent of the Fates and the Norns. He writes the child's future life on its forehead, on the sixth day after its birth. |
Goddess name "Bombat KaMayann" | Hindu | Local deceased goddess. Hindu |
Goddess name "Bombat Kamayan" | Hindu | A local deceased goddess |
Goddess name "Bombay Kamayan" | Hindu / northern India | Local disease goddess. Particularly worshiped at Gaya.... |
Goddess name "Brahani" | Hindu | Mother goddess Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
Supreme god name "Brahma" | Hindu | Supreme god and creator of the cosmos. Hindu |
God name "Brahma" | Hindu | Creator god, part of the main hindu trinity, the other two being Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the unmoved, uncaused first cause, and he created everything. Hindu |
Ghost name "Brahmadaityas" | Hindu | Benign ghosts of Brahmin priests with four faces and four hands. They guard their master against Shiva the destroyer. |
Goddess name "Brahmahii" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Mother goddess. A SAKTI who in later Hinduism became one of the group of eight ASTAMATARAS or mothers. In another grouping one of nine NAVASAKTIS or mothers. She is attended by a goose and wears a yellow robe. Attributes: Book, label, rosary, trident and water jar. Also Brahmi.... |
God name "Brahman" | Hindu | The one and only (formless) supreme aspect of God. The Universe in Potential Static Energy. Hindu |
Deity name "Brahmins" | Hindu | Their "tri-murti" is a three-headed deity, representing Brahma (as creator), Vishnu (as preserver), and Siva (as destroyer). |
God name "Brhaspati" | Hindu | Astral god personifying Jupiter Hindu / Puranic / Epic |
Goddess name "Brhaspati (lord of prayer)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Astral god. The personification of the planet Jupiter. In Vedic texts he appears as a priest. The son of Angiras and the guru of the later Hindu pantheon. Considered to be almost identical with BRAHMA. His consort is the goddess TARA and his son is Kaca. He rides in a chariot drawn by eight horses. Color: golden yellow. Attributes: arrow, ax (golden), Book, bow, rosary, staff and water jar.... |
Goddess name "Buddhi (perception)" | Hindu / Puranic | (1) Minor goddess. Sometimes identified as consort of the MAHA-GANAPATI form of the elephant god GANESA, depicted seated on his knee.(2) Minor goddess. Jain.... |
God name "Budha" | Hindu / Vedic / Epic / Puranic / Buddhist | An astral god |