Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Amma (1)" | Dravidian / Tamil | Local tutelary god. Known from southern India.... |
Goddess name "Ankalamman" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil | Guardian goddess. Known particularly in southern India where she wards off demons. Alternatively she is an aspect of KALI.... |
God name "Ardhanari(svara) (the lord being half woman)" | Hindu / Puranic | God. The god SI IVA combined with his SAKTI as a single being. His attendant animal is the bull. In iconography the left side of the image is female and the right male. A tutelary deity of eunuchs in India. Attributes: (right side) blue lotus, cup, hatchet, lute, moon disc, pestle, skin, sword and trident; (left side) ax, mirror, noose, pitcher, rosary, sacred rope and trident. May appear as three-headed. Also Ammaiappan (Tamil); Naranari.... |
Goddess name "Bala-Sakti" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Goddess. Youthful deity who presides over six CAKRAS or prayer wheels. Often accompanied by a geometric magical diagram or yantra. Attributes: Book, hook, noose and rosary.... |
God name "Cankilikkaruppan (the black man of the chain)" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil | Local god. Worshiped in southern India.... |
Goddess name "Cenaaianiyammai (lady of the red paddyfield)" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil | Local goddess. Guardian of paddyfields in southern India.... |
God name "Ceyon" | Tamil | God of hills. Tamil |
Goddess name "Ellaman" | Dravidian | Goddess of påśśage, an astral deity Hindu / Dravidian / Tamil |
Goddess name "Ellaman (lady of the boundary)" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Goddess of påśśage. A goddess guarding boundaries of villages and fields. One of the NAVASAKTI or astral deities. Also Ellaiyamman.... |
God name "Gajavahana" | Dravidian | God, a form of the god Skanda Hindu / Dravidian / Tamil |
God name "Gajavahana" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil | God. A form of SKANDA who has an elephant as a vehicle. Mainly from southern India. Attributes: çõçkerel and spear.... |
God name "Gal Bapsi" | Hindu / Davidian / Tamil | A local god that can expiate sins, but it is rough |
God name "Gal Bapsi (hook' god)" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil / southern India | Local god. Worshiped particularly by the Bhils. To expiate sins, the penitent thrusts a hook into his back and is suspended from it on the day when the Sun enters Aries.... |
God name "Kadavul" | India | An ancient Tamil word for God meaning, "He who is both immanent and transcendent." India |
Goddess name "Kamaksi" | Dravidian | Goddess Dravidian / Tamil |
Goddess name "Kamaksi (of amorous appearance)" | Dravidian / Tamil / southern India / Sri Lanka | Goddess. A SAKTI of SI IVA recognized locally at Kanchipuram, but also in her own right at several places in southern India. Also Kamatchi (Tamil).... |
Deities name "Kataragama" | Tamil / Sri Lanka | Tutelary god. One of four great national deities and equating to the Hindu god SKANDA. Also Ceyon.... |
God name "Katargama" | Sri Lanka | Tutelary gody Tamil / Sri Lanka |