Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Cakulha" | Mayan | A lightning god, an underling of Yaluk. His brother was Coyopa. Mayan |
Goddess name "Diang" | Sudan | cow goddess and the wife of the first human, Omara, sent by the creator god. Her son is Okwa, who married the crocodile goddess Nyakaya. Shilluk, Sudan |
Goddess name "Diang" | Shilluk / Sudan | cow goddess. Living along the west bank of the Nile, the Shilluk perceive Diang as the consort of the first human, Omara, sent by the creator god. Her son is Okwa, who married the crocodile goddess NYAKAYA. Thus the three main elements of Shilluk life are contained in their religious beginningsmen (sky), cows (earth) and crocodiles (water).... |
Goddess name "Diang Shilluk" | Sudan | A cow goddess |
God name "Igaluk" | Inuit | God of the moon Inuit |
God name "Jok" | African | Creator god. A generic term employed by a large number of tribes. Generally the jok is represented by a totem and also has an animal name. The Acholi in Uganda perceive jok to live in caves to which they deliver food and drink offerings. For the Shilluk in Sudan, Jwok created mankind from river clay.... |
God name "Lugeilan/ Luk" | Caroline Is | He is a god of knowledge, strange but knowledge |
God name "Muluku" | Congo | The creator god of the Benue-Congo-speaking Makua and Banayi people of Mozambique. Muluku created men and women, and gave them the art of using tools, but the humans were disobedient. So Muluku called up monkey and she monkey. He gave them tools, and the monkeys used them well. So Muluku cut off the tails of the monkeys and fastened them to the man and the woman, saying to the monkeys, "Be men," and to the humans, "Be monkeys." Macoua |
Supreme god name "Nana Buluku Fon" | Africa | Supreme god Africa |
Goddess name "Nayakaya Shilluk" | Sudan | the crocodile goddess that reside in the Nile, Shillukscontinue to sacrifice to her |
Goddess name "Nyakaya" | Shilluk / Sudan | Crocodile goddess. A deity resid ing in the Nile, she is the consort of Okwa and the mother of the first Shilluk king. Shilluks continue to sacrifice to Nyakaya.... |
Goddess name "Poluknalai" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Goddess of animals. Locally revered, with the goddess DISANI, among Askun villages in the southwest of Kafiristan.... |
God name "Yaluk" | Mayan | The chief lightning god, and ruled over the lesser ones, such as Cakulha. Mayan |