Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Abiala" | Africa | wife of Makambi; African deities. She holds a pistol in her hand, and is greatly feared. Her aid is implored in sickness. |
Spirit name "Abonsam" | Africa / Ghana | Malevolent spirit driven away by firing guns and shouting loudly, emptying houses of furniture and beating the interiors with sticks. Gold Coast |
Spirit name "Abonsam" | West African | Malevolent spirit. Recognized by tribes in the Gold Coast, etc. Traditionally driven away in an annual expulsion ritual by firing guns and shouting loudly, emptying houses of furniture and beating the interiors with sticks. The abonsam was finally driven into the sea. The ritual was preceded by four weeks of total silence in the area.... |
God name "Adro" | Lugbara / Lake Albert, East Africa | Tutelary god. The personification of gråśś fires and whirlwinds who, in antiquity, created mankind. Thought to live in the vicinity of rivers with many wives and children.... |
God name "Adroa" | Africa | A god of the Lugbara people of central Africa. Adroa has two aspects: one good and one evil. He is the creator of heaven and earth, and he appears to those about to die. Adroa is depicted as a tall, white man with only half a body one eye, one arm, one leg, one ear. Africa |
God name "Age" | Africa | God of animals. Revered by hunters in the savannah regions. Benin, West Africa |
God name "Age" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | God of animals. Revered by hunters in the savannah regions.... |
God name "Age Fon" | Benin / W Africa | Revered by hunters he is the god of animals |
"Agwe" | Benin / Africa | She is the mother of the sea |
"Aja" | African | Aja is an Orisha, patron of the Forest, the animals within it and herbal healers, whom she taught their art. |
God name "Ajalamo" | Africa | God of unborn children. Nigeria, West Africa |
Spirit name "Ajalamo" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | God of unborn children. According to legend, in some vague mythological realm there exist rows of shelves with spirits of the unborn. These are the responsibility of Ajalamo.... |
God name "Ajalamo Yoruba" | Africa | God of fetuses. west Africa() / Nigeria |
Goddess name "Aje" | Africa | Goddess of wealth who appears as a fowl scratching the earth and was sent down with Oduduwa, the earth goddess. |
Goddess name "Aje" | Yoruba / Nigeria, West Africa | Goddess of wealth. She is thought to appear as a fowl scratching the earth and, in creation mythology, was sent down with ODUDUWA, the earth goddess.... |
Goddess name "Akonadi" | Ghanaian / West Africa | Oracular goddess. Known in the region around Accra where she has had a celebrated oracular shrine. She is regarded as a goddess of justice and a guardian deity of women.... |
God name "Akongo" | Ngombe / Democratic Republic of Congo, central Africa | Creator god. The supreme deity considered to have given the world, and all that is in it, form and substance.... |
Deity name "Akuj" | Africa | Chief deity åśśociated with the sky. Turkana Africa |