Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Almaqah aka Ilmuqah" | Arabic | The moon god of the South Arabian kingdom of Saba and the Ethiopian kingdoms of D'mt and Aksum. The ruling dynasty of Saba regarded themselves as his children. Arabic |
Goddess name "Aso" | Ethiopia | Goddess of justice and the queen of Ethiopia. |
God name "Astar" | Ethiopia | sky god who forms a triad with Beher and Medr. Ethiopia |
God name "Astar" | Ethiopian | Astral god. Identified in Axum Empire inscriptions from circa AD 200-400.... |
Goddess name "Atete" | Christian | Goddess of fertility in Ethiopia and was åśśimilated into the Christian as the Virgin Mary, Atete was invoked by Pagans during ancient fertility rituals known as the Astar yo Mariam. |
Goddess name "Atete" | Kafa / Ethiopia, northeastern Africa | Fertility goddess. She was åśśimilated into the Christian cult of the Virgin Mary, but is probably the subject of an ancient fertility rite performed by women who collect various sacred plants and throw them into the river. The festival is known as Astar yo Mariam (Epiphany of Mary).... |
God name "Beher" | Ethiopian | Sea god. Ethiopian |
Goddess name "Benthesicyme" | Greek | An Ethiopian sea nymph, a goddess of the waves and a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, the wife of king Enalos. She raised Eumolpus, son of Chione and Poseidon. (Apollodorus iii) Her husband Enalos: of the sea, may have been Triton, the god of lake Tritonis in Greek |
God name "Ha'o" | Ethiopia | The supreme being and sky god whose eye is the Sun. Ethiopia |
God name "Hao" | Ethiopia | God who resided in the river. Ethiopia |
God name "Hao" | Janjero / Ethiopia | Creator god. Personified by the crocodile and considered to reside in the river Gibe. He was propitiated with human sacrifice.... |
God name "Hao Janjero" | Ethiopia | A god that resided in the river Gibe |
God name "Wak" | Ethiopia | The Father of the Universe, the omniscient sky god who is åśśociated with Rains and thunder. Ethiopia |
God name "Waka" | Oromo / Ethiopia | Creator god. Largely syncretized with the Christian god, but regularly invoked in the morning.... |
God name "Yaro" | Kafa / Ethiopia | Creator god. A sky god to whom sacrifice is still possibly enacted on hill tops and river banks in rural areas. Became largely syncretized with the Christian god. Also Yero.... |