Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Kaligii-Rudna (the funerary fire Rudra)" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor god. A violent representation of SIVA who is attendant at cremations and whose warlike attributes include sword, shield, bow and arrow.... |
Goddess name "Kalika" | Buddhist | Goddess common often seen standing upon a corpse Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Kalika (black)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | (1) Goddess. Often depicted standing upon a corpse. Color: dark blue. Attributes: cup and knife.(2) Goddess. Hindu (Puranic). A SAKTI of NIRRTI, and an epithet of DURGA.... |
God name "Kalisia" | Pigmy / Democratic Republic of Congo / Congo, central Africa | Creator god. The guardian of hunters and the jungle Forests. Pigmy hunters invoke the god with special rituals and he delivers dream messages identifying the location of game.... |
God name "Kalisia Pygmy" | Congo | Creator god who is the guardian of hunters and the jungle Forests Congo / Zaire |
God name "Kaliya" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor serpent god. One of the nagas in the endless conflict between good and evil, he poisoned the fresh water with his venom. The young KRSNA revived all the life which had drunk from it and then almost destroyed Kaliya before taking the snake as one of his followers. By tradition he lives in depths of the river Yamuna.... |
Deities name "Kalki(n) (with white horse)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | horse god. Possibly the tenth avatara of VIS'NU. He rewards the good and punishes evil. The counterpart of the Buddhist deity MAITREYA. horses became åśśociated with Divine kingship in ancient India because of their speed of movement. Solar deities were perceived to ride horses across the sky and horse sacrifice became highly significant. Kalki is depicted either anthropomorphically or with the head of a horse and has four arms. He is attended by a white horse. Attributes: arrow, conch, prayer wheel, shield and sword. Also Vis'nuyasas.... |
God name "Kalrnga" | Ndonga / northern Namibia, southern Africa | Creator god. Said to take the form of a giant man who is always partially hidden by clouds and generally seen only by women intermediaries known as nelagos who go to converse with him in sacred places. He is the father of MUSISI. The god is invoked at times of warfare and illness, but also as a fertility deity and before making a journey.... |
Goddess name "Kaltesh" | Ugric / western Siberian | Fertility goddess. A goddess concerned with childbirth and the future destiny of the infant. Consort of the sky god Nun. Her sacred animals include the hare and the goose and she may be symbolized by a birch tree.... |
Goddess name "Kaltesh Ugric" | Siberia | Goddess concerned with the birth and destiny of the child Siberia(west) |
God name "Kama" | Hindu | The Hindu god of love. His wife is Rati (voluptuousness), and he is represented as riding on sparrow, holding in his hand a bow of flowers and five arrows. |
God name "Kama-Gami" | Shinto / Japan | God of potters. Each kiln has a small stone statue of the deity standing upon it to which the potters offer sake and salt before lighting the fire. Also Kamadokami.... |
Goddess name "Kamenae" | Italy | Goddesses unbowed of springs and wells with a shrine in Rome where of the of vestal virgins got their water Italy |
Goddess name "Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Generic name for a deity. The title applied to the gods and goddesses of Shintoism.... |
Deities name "Kamo-Wake-Ikazuchi" | Shinto / Japan | Rain god. One of many Rain KAMIS invoked in Shintoism and included in a generic grouping of RAIJIN, deities of thunder, storm and Rain.... |
Goddess name "Kamrusepa[s]" | Hittite | Goddess of magic and healing Hittite |
Goddess name "Kamrusepa[s]/ Katahziwuri" | Hittite | She is the goddess of magic and healing |
Goddess name "Kamrusepas/ Katahziwuri" | Hittite | She is the goddess of magic and healing |