Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Barsamin" | Pre Christian Armenian | weather or sky god. Probably derived from the Semitic god BAAL S AMIN.... |
Angel name "Batqol" | Christian | A female angel whose name means "heavenly voice." and her voice was heard by Cain asking "Where is thy brother, Abel?" after Cain murdered his brother. |
Angel name "Bethnael" | Christians | angels of the Mansions of the moon. |
Goddess name "Boldogåśśzony" | Pre - Christian Hungarian | Tutelary goddess. The guardian deity of women and children, she became syncretized with the Virgin Mary after Christianization.... |
Goddess name "Carravogue" | British / Ireland | Local Crone Goddess from County Meath who was transformed into a huge snake for eating forbidden berries. Her original purpose is basically lost in modern times because her stories became so absorbed by Christian legends which attempt to make her a Celtic Eve. British / Ireland |
God name "Chamer" | Mayan / Chorti, Mesoamerican / eastern Guatemala | God of death. Appears as a skeleton dressed in white. His consort is Xtabai. Attributes include a scythe with a bone blade, probably copied from the traditions of Christian immigrants.... |
God name "Chors" | Balkans | Pre-Christian Sun god Balkans |
God name "Chors" | Pre - Christian Slav / Balkans | Sun god. Identified from the Nestor Chronicle. Attributes include horns and a canine head.... |
"Christmas Decorations" | Christian | The great feast of Saturn was held in December, when the people decorated the temples with such green things as they could find. The Christian custom is the same but transferred Jesus. The holly or holy-tree is called Christ's-thorn in Germany and Scandinavia, from its use in church decorations and its putting forth its berries about Christmas time. The early Christians gave an emblematic turn to the custom, referring to the "righteous branch," and justifying the custom from Isaiah lx. 13- "The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee; the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary." |
God name "Chul Tatic Chites Vaaneg (holy father, creator of man)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. Thought to be the Mayan name of the Christian god.... |
God name "Chul Tatic Chites Vaneg" | Maya | A creator god thought by some to be the name of the Christian God |
God name "Dabog" | Balkans / S Russia | Before Christians he was a Sun god, alas, now he's reduced to a diabolic personality |
God name "Dabog" | Slav / Balkans / southern Russia | Sun god. References found in inscriptions from Kiev. After Christianization he was reduced to a diabolic personality.... |
God name "Daramulum" | Australian aboriginal | Creator god. Otherwise known as Gayandi he is the son of BAIAME and BIRRAHGNOOLOO and is worshiped principally by the Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi groups of aborigines in the southeast of Australia, who regard him as an intermediary between his father, the supreme being, and the human race. To an extent this role may have developed through Christian missionary influence.... |
"Darkness Angel of" | Christian | Often said to be Satan or the fallen Lucifer. Christian |
Supreme god name "Deive" | Latvia | The supreme god. The same word refers to the Christian deity in modern Latvian. In ancient Latvian mythology, Dievs was not just the father of the gods, he was the essence of them all. Latvia |
"Demiurge" | Platonists | The mysterious agent which made the world and all that it contains. The Logos or Word spoken of by St. John, in the first chapter of his gospel, is the Demiurgus of Platonising Christians. In the Gnostic systems, Jehovah (as an eon or emanation of the Supreme Being) is the Demiurge. Platonists |
Demon name "Demogorgon" | Christian | Often ascribed to Greek mythology, is actually an invention of Christian scholars, imagined as the name of a pagan god or demon, åśśociated with the underworld and envisaged as a powerful primordial being, whose very name had been taboo. |