| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Demon name "Kankala(murti)" | A violent / heavily armed aspect of SIVA | Minor god. Traditionally accompanied in artworks by a skeleton, Kankala takes his place in mythology as the representation of the deity who slew V ISNU'S bodyguard VISVAKSENA. This was prompted by the refusal of Visvaksena to permit Siva an audience with Vis'nu. These illustrations were designed by Saivites as part of a propaganda exercise to demonstrate the superiority of Siva over Vis'nu.... |
| Deities name "Panao" | Afghanistan | Creator god, also generic title for deities controlling the natural world, they lived in the mountains. Afghanistan |
| Deities name "Alatangana Kono" | Africa | One of the two creator deities, this god created land from swamp Africa(west) / Guinea |
| Deities name "Dii Mauri" | Africa | The God of Moors. Immortal, they act as redeemers, and benevolent indigenous deities. North Africa |
| God name "Ryangombe" | Africa | Tutelary god and ancestral deity. Rwanda, Africa |
| Deities name "Obosom" | Akan | A generic name for the lessor gods, sometimes referred to as the deities. These spirits are embodied in the wind, rivers, oceans, streams, trees, mountains, rocks, animals, and other objects. Akan |
| God name "Nin-Ildu" | Akkadia | God of carpenters who is a minor tutelary deity Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia |
| God name "Samas" | Akkadia | God of the Sun and patron deity of Sippa and Larsa Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia |
| God name "Osande Ovimbundu" | Angola | A benevolent god that is a guardian deity |
| Deities name "Mandah" | Arabic | Collective name of gods, guardian deities who took care of irrigation Arabic |
| Deities name "Mandah/ Mundih" | Arabic | A collective name of gods, guardian deities that took care of irrigation |
| Goddess name "Asase Yaa" | Ashanti / Ghana, West Africa | Chthonic fertility goddess. A major deity revered over a wide area of Akanand Fante-speaking Ghana. She has no temples or priests but days (Thursdays) are set aside in her honor and no ploughing is permitted. By tradition a farmer sacrifices a çõçkerel to her each year to ensure a good harvest, sprinkling the blood on the ground. As the womb of the earth, she represents the goddess of the dead and she is also goddess of truth. Also Asase Efua (Fante).... |
| Goddess name "Ishtar" | Assyrian / Babylon | A mother goddess, fertility goddess, the goddess of spring, a storm goddess, a warrior goddess and goddess of war, a goddess of the hunt, a goddess of love, goddess of marriage and childbirth, and a goddess of fate. She was also an underworld deity, her twin sister being Ereshkigal, the Goddess of death, but her dominant aspects are as the mother goddess of compåśśion and the goddess of love, sex and war. Assyrian / Babylon |
| God name "Tuuemliri" | Australasia | God of påśśage. Local deity of several tribes in New South Wales. Said to oversee the transition from adolescence to manhood. The initiate was taken away by the god, killed, restored to life and endured a tooth being knocked out to signify the arrival of adulthood and full incorporation into the society of the tribe. Also DIaramulun.... |
| God name "Baiame / Baayami / Baayama" | Australia | Baiame aka Baayami or Baayama, the ancestor and patron god of the Kamilaroi. He is a sky god and a deity of death and life, and a god of Rain and the shamans. Australia |
| Deities name "Numbakulla" | Australia | Were two sky gods who created all life on earth, including humans, from the Inapertwa. Afterwards, they became lizards. The Numakulla are sometimes described as a dual-aspect deity rather than two separate deities. Australia |
| Goddess name "Gunabibi" | Australian aboriginal | Creator goddess. Also known as Kunapipi, she is extensively revered by aborigines in northern Australia, including the Yolngu people. Her cult bears some similarity to that of the Greek mother goddess DEMETER and to Tantric cults in India. For this reason the cult is thought to have been introduced from Asia to Arnhem Land and then to other parts of the Australian continent as early as the sixth century. Mythology indicates that Gunabibi has been perceived as a deity who came from the sea or the rivers during the Dreamtime but who reigns now over dry land. Among modern aborigines she is the subject of esoteric rituals which also involve the great serpent Yulunggul with whom Gunabibi has been closely involved.... |
| Goddess name "Taiaai" | Australian aboriginal | Snake god. His consorts include the snake goddesses Mantya, Tuknampa and Uka. He is revered mainly by tribal groups living on the western seaboard of the Cape York peninsula in northern queensland. Taipan has the typical attributes of many other Australian snake gods, including the Rainbow snake. He exercises judgment over life or death and possesses great wisdom, a universal characteristic of serpents. He is able to kill or cure and is the deity who originally fashioned the blood of living things during the Dreamtime. The imagery of the snake god is closely linked with aboriginal shamanism and with the healing rituals of shamans.... |
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