Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Wonekau" | New Guinea | The all-seeing and all-hearing supreme celestial god. New Guinea |
God name "Wong Taisin (the great immortal Wong)" | Chinese | God. Probably an incarnation or avatara of the god HUANG TI (the yellow emperor), he is considered benevolent. Closely åśśociated with a district in Kowloon which is named after him. His cult arrived in Hong Kong in 1915 from Kwangtung in the form of a painting brought by a man and his son. It was installed in a small temple in Wanchai. In 1921 a larger sanctuary was built, from public funds, facing the sea and backed by Lion Rock.... |
"Wonomi" | California | The benevolent supreme being and creator of the world. The Maidu, California |
"Wood Maidens" | European | Northern European Elves. |
Goddess name "Wopeh" | Lakota | Goddess of happiness and pleasure. Lakota |
Goddess name "Wosret" | Egypt | Localized guardian goddess. With a cult center at Thebes, Wosret is, according to some inferences, an early consort of the creator god AMUN and was superseded by MUT. She is identified with the protection of the young god HORUS. Also Wosyet.... |
God name "Wotan" | Germanic | God of inspiration and magic germanic |
God name "Woto" | Oto / Shongo | A god of fire |
Goddess name "Woyengi" | Africa | Creator Goddess who shaped humans from clay dolls. Africa |
Ghost name "Wraith" | Scotland | The ghost of a person shortly about to die or just dead, which appears to survivors, sometimes at a great distance off. Scotland |
Spirit name "Wrath's Hole" | Britain | The legend is that Bolster, a gigantic wrath or evil spirit, paid embarråśśing attention to St. Agnes, who told him she would listen to his suit when he filled with his blood a small hole which she pointed out to him. The wrath joyfully accepted the terms, but the hole opened into the sea, and the wrath, being utterly exhausted, St. Agnes pushed him over the cliff. cornwall, Britain |
God name "Wu" | Ewe / Benin, West Africa | Sea god. His priest, the Wu-no, invokes the god whenever the weather is too severe for the fishing boats to land. He is propitiated with offerings delivered from the spéñïś and in past times was occasionally appeased with human sacrifice taken out to sea and thrown overboard.... |
King name "Wu Guan" | Chinese | king of the fourth hell. Chinese |
Spirit name "Wu'squus" | Chukchee / eastern Siberia | spirit of darkness. The personification of the night and the sibling of NA'CHITNA'IRGIN, the spirit of the left-hand dawn.... |
God name "Wu-tai Yuan-shuai" | China | God of musicians. China |
God name "Wulbari" | Africa | The Creator god who made heaven to close to earth and was uses as a towel and sniffed by dogs. Africa |
"Wulleb" | Micronesia | Was born in an oyster shell from between Loa's legs. When he lifted the top half of the shell, it became the sky, while the bottom became the earth. Micronesia |
God name "Wuluwaid" | Australia | A Rain god. Australian Aboriginal |