Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Surarnadhadravimalaratnaprabhasa" | Buddhist / Tibet | A physician god |
God name "Abhijnaraja" | Buddhist / Tibet | A physician god. He is accounted among a series of Medicine buddhas and typically depicted with stretched earlobes, and color is red. Buddhist / Tibet |
God name "Haili'la" | Haida / PNW | A plague god åśśociated with small pox. Interesting history. Cool |
Goddess name "Hariti" | Buddhist | A plague goddess åśśociated with smallpox |
Planet name "Candra" | Hindu / Puranic / Epic / Buddhist | A planet god commonly affiliated with the moon |
Angel name "Liris" | Hebrew | A proud but lovely daughter of the race of man, beloved by Rubi, first of the angel host. Her påśśion was the love of knowledge, and she was captivated by all her lover told her of heaven and the works of God. At last she requested Rubi to appear before her in all his glory, and as she fell into his embrace was burnt to ashes by the rays which issued from him. Hebrew |
Goddess name "Kourothropis" | Greek | A really obscure goddess, who wet nursed, this goddess is known only from ritual texts |
God name "Inachus" | Greek | A river god and king of Argos, is described as a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys. By a Melian nymph, a daughter of Oceåñuś, or, according to others, by his sister Argeia, he became the father of Phoroneus and Aegialeus, to whom others add Io, Argos Panoptes, and Phegeus or Pegeus. Greek |
God name "Ucpéñïśus" | Greek | A river god and the father of Memphis. Greek |
God name "Heammawihio" | India | A sky and creator god who taught his people to make arrow points, knives, bows and arrows, how to hunt, and to make fire. Plains Indians |
Goddess name "Govannon" | Welsh | A smith and the son of the goddess Don. He killed his nephew, Dylan Eil Don, not knowing who he was. One of the tasks given to Culhwch if he were to win the hand of Olwen was to get Gofannon to sharpen Amaethon's plough. Welsh |
God name "Khnum/ Kneph/ Khnemu" | Egypt | A smith god who forms humans on his potter's wheel |
God name "Credne aka Creidhne" | Ireland | A son of Brigid and Tuireann and the artificer of the Tuatha De Danann, working in bronze, bråśś and gold. He and his brothers Goibniu and Luchtaine were known as the Tri Dee Dana, the three gods of art, who forged the weapons which the Tuatha De used to battle the Fomorians. Ireland |
God name "Lycurgus" | Greek | A son of Dryas, and king of the Edones in Thrace. He is famous for his persecution of Dionysus and his worship on the sacred mountain of Nyseion in Thrace. The god himself leaped into the sea, where he was kindly received by Thetis. Zeus thereupon blinded the impious king, who died soon after, for he was hated by the immortal gods. Greek |
Goddess name "Keret" | Phonecian | A son of El and soldier of the Goddess Sapas, but not very brave. Fought against the moon God Terah at his father's behest (eventually), but lost. Bought a costly wife: his son, Danel, was a prodigy. Phonecian |
God name "Ullr" | Norse | A son of Sif and a stepson of Thor who appears to have been a major god in prehistoric times. Norse |
God name "Hermes" | Greek | A son of Zeus and Maia, the daughter of Atlas, was born in a cave of Mount Cyllene or in Olympus. In the first hours after his birth, he escaped from his cradle, went to Pieiria, and carried off some of the oxen of Apollo. The herald and messenger of the gods, of his travelling from place to place and the concluder of treaties and the promoter of social intercourse and of commerce among men. Regarded as the maintainer of peace, and as the god of roads, who protected travellers, and punished those who refused to åśśist travellers who had mistaken their way. Greek |
Goddess name "Gilfaethwy" | Celtic | A son of the goddess Don and brother of Gwydion and Arianrhod in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi. His uncle Math ap Mathonwy, king of Gwynedd, must keep his feet in the lap of a young virgin at all times unless he is going to war. Celtic |