| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Yarikh" | Canaan | God of the moon. Canaan |
| Deities name "Yauhqueme" | Aztec / Mesoamer ican / Mexico | Fertility and Rain god. One of the group of deities clåśśed as the TLALOC complex.... |
| Supreme god name "Yeddariye" | Canada | The creator formally known as Niottsi. The supreme god of the Chipewyan. Canada |
| God name "Yoalli Ehecatli (night wind)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. One of the group clåśśed as the Omeotl complex.... |
| God name "Yoaltecuhtf (lord of night)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. With his consort YACAHUIZTLI he engendered the night in Aztec cosmogony. The ruler of the sixth of the thirteen heavens known at the time of the Spanish conquest, Teotlcozauhcan (the place of the yellow god). One of the group clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
| God name "Yokomatis" | N American | One of the two great creator-gods of the Chungichnish. The other, his brother, is called Tuchaipa |
| God name "Yspaddaden Pencawr" | Celtic / Welsh | God. Possibly the counterpart of the Irish deity Balor and the Icelandic Balder. In the legend of Culhwch and Olwen, Olwen is identified as his daughter. He sets Culhwch several difficult tasks before he can obtain Olwen's hand. Culhwch retaliates by wounding him severely, but he cannot be killed until Olwen marries. This is presumably a distorted fertility legend, the original meaning of which is lost.... |
| God name "Yum Cimil" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. Depicted with a skull head, bare ribs and spiny projections from the vertebrae, or with bloated flesh marked by dark rings of decomposition. He wears bell-like ornaments fastened in the hair. Sacrificial victims were offered to the god by drowning in the sacred pool or cenote. Also God A.... |
| God name "Yum Kaax" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | vegetation god. The deity concerned with the growing and harvesting of maize, but also of husbandry in general. Depicted as a youthful figure with an ear of corn in his headdress. Also God E.... |
| Goddess name "Zapotlantenan" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Healing goddess. deity of medicinal turpentine and ointment-dealers. One of the group clåśśed as the TLALOC complex.... |
| Goddess name "Zara-Mama" | South American Indian / Peru | Maize goddess. A minor deity, models of whom were made from the leaves of the plant and kept for a year before being burned in a ritual to ensure a good maize harvest.... |
| Goddess name "Zhiwud" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Messenger goddess. A deity connected and possibly syncretizing with the goddess DISANI but who, according to legend, carried vital messages to the heroic god MON during a primordial battle between gods and giants. Mon lives by a lake surrounded by fire, and the goddess's wings (a solitary inference that she can appear in the form of a bird) are scorched in the process until Mon heals them. In some variations Mon lives in the form of a bull which breathes fire. Also Zhuwut.... |
| God name "Zipakna" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | earthquake god. Usually coupled with the god KABRAKAN and identified as a creator of mountains which Kabrakan subsequently destroys.... |
| Goddess name "Zipanu" | Etruscan | Goddess of beauty and love, åśśociated with Turan, the love goddess. Etruscan |
| Goddess name "Zirna" | Etruscan | Etruscan moon Goddess, usually depected wearing a half moon around her neck. |
| God name "Zotz" | Mayan / Zotzil Indian, Mesoamerican / Guatemala | Tutelary god. Manifest in the form of a bat.... |
| Goddess name "Zu" | Akkadian | A lesser divinity of Akkadian mythology, and the son of the bird goddess Siris. Both Zu and Siris are seen as måśśive birds who can breathe fire and water, although Zu is alternately seen as a lion-headed eagle |
| Goddess name "Zyanya" | Native American | A goddess who will be here always and forever. |
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