Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Anjea" | Australasia | Animistic fertility spirit. Known to tribesmen on the Pennefather River, queensland, Australia and believed to place mud babies in the wombs of pregnant women. The grandmother of a newly born infant buried the afterbirth, which was collected by Anjea and kept in a hollow tree or some such sanctuary until the time came to instill it into another child in the womb.... |
Spirit name "Anjea" | Australia | Fertility spirit. People's souls reside within her in between their incarnations. Australia |
God name "Bagadjimbiri" | Australia | Two brothers and creator gods. They arose from the ground as dingos and made water-holes, sex organs from a mushroom and another fungus for the androgynous first people, and invented cirçúɱcision. Australia |
"Baiamai" | Australia | He is considered by some to be the creator. Others believe he created his son, Burambin, who then created the world. Australia |
Spirit name "Baiame" | Australia | The omniscient intangible great spirit is self-created, lives in the sky, is the creator of all things. He is important in initiation rites; he "receives the souls of the innocent." His voice is the thunder, his will is manifest through the wind. The Kamilaroi, Wiradjuri, and Euahlayi, Australia |
God name "Baiame / Baayami / Baayama" | Australia | Baiame aka Baayami or Baayama, the ancestor and patron god of the Kamilaroi. He is a sky god and a deity of death and life, and a god of Rain and the shamans. Australia |
King name "Bamapana" | Australia | Is a trickster hero who causes discord. He is obscene and profane and once committed incest, thus breaking a strict taboo. Australia |
God name "Banaitja" | Australia | Banaitja is a creator god. Australia |
"Biame" | Australia | The "Great One," or creator. Australia |
Goddess name "Bila" | Australia | Cannibal Sun goddess. She provided light for the world by cooking her victims over a giant flame. Australia |
Goddess name "Boaliri" | Australia | The younger of the two sister goddesses that created life. The other was Waimariwi. Australia |
Goddess name "Bulaing Karadjeri" | Australia | Goddess Australia |
Goddess name "Bumerali" | Australia | Goddess of physical prowess. Australia |
Goddess name "Bunbulama" | Australia | Goddess of Rain. Australia |
Supreme god name "Bunjil" | Australia | Supreme god, represented as an eagle. The Kulin claim he is a culture-hero who taught them all the important skills of life, but the Wurundjeri claims he created mankind. He now lives in the sky. Binbeal, the Rainbow spirit, is his son. Australia |
"Cunnembeille" | Australia | wife of Biame. She lives in the heavens with him and his other wife, Birrahgnooloo. Australia |
"Daramulum" | Australia | Lunar being and mediator between the creator and humans. Australia |
"Djamar" | Australia | The supreme being and creator, the giver of the moral laws and of initiation rites. He was responsible for the first bull-roar. |