| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Puspatara (flower-Tara)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Minor goddess. Color: white. Attribute: a Forest garland.... |
| Goddess name "Pusya" | Hindu | Goddess of fortune. After performing Sraddha one should påśś the night, with effort, in celibacy. When the full-moon night of the Pausa be åśśociated with Pusya, then a person, smeared with the powder of white mustards, should anoint his body with purified butter. Hindu |
| God name "Pwyll" | Celtic / Welsh | Chthonic god. The so-called Lord of Dyfed who, according to tradition, brought the pig to Wales having received it as a gift from ARAWN, the underworld god. He earned the reward by substituting for Arawn and fighting his enemy Hafgan, in payment for an unintended slight to Arawn, whom he met one day while out hunting. His consort is RHIANNON and his son is PRYDERI.... |
| Supreme god name "Qa'wadiliquala" | Dza'wadeenox Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Supreme god. The guardian of the tribe but also a river deity responsible for bringing the salmon each year. Said to live in the river Gwae. His eldest son is TEWI'XILAK, the god of goat hunters. His attributes include a headband of red cedar bark.... |
| God name "Quetzalcoatl/ Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli" | Aztec | A manifestation of Sun the god, he is a savior of his people as well & there is not enough room here to tell his story |
| God name "Quirinus" | Roman | God of war. One of a triad of warrior gods including JUPITER and MARS. He originated as the tutelary god of the Sabines, living on the Quirinal, one of the seven hills of Rome. His warrior status is primarily one of defense and he is depicted bearded and in a compromise of military and clerical clothing. The myrtle is sacred to him.... |
| God name "Ragnarok" | Norse | Sentence, judgment, from rekja, is the whole development from creation to dissolution, and would, in this word, denote the dissolution, doomsday, of the gods; or it may be from rokr, reykkr, smoke, twilight, and then the word means the twilight of the gods. The last day; the dissolution of the gods and the world. Norse |
| God name "Rahu" | Blavatsky | The seizer supposed to seize the Sun and moon and thus cause eclipses. "A giant, a Demi-god, the lower part of whose body ended in a dragon or serpent's tail. During the churning of the Ocean, when the gods produced amrita -- the water of Immortality -- he stole some of it, and drinking, became immortal. The Sun and moon, who had detected him in his theft, denounced him to Vishnu, who placed him in the stellar spheres, the upper portion of his body representing the dragon's head and the lower the dragon's tail; the two being the ascending and descending nodes. Since then, Rahu wreaks his vengeance on the Sun and moon by occasionally swallowing them. The secret Doctrine, by H. P. Blavatsky |
| God name "Raja Guru" | Batak | Who, with his hounds Sordaudau and Auto Portburu, catches souls for the other gods. Batak |
| Goddess name "Raka (trouble) (2)" | Polynesian / Hervey Islands | God of winds. The fifth child of VARI-MA-TE-TAKERE, the primordial mother. His home is Moana-Irakau (deep ocean). He received as a gift from his mother a great basket containing the winds, which became his children, each allotted a hole in the edge of the horizon through which to blow. The mother goddess also gave him knowledge of many useful things which he påśśes on to mankind.... |
| God name "Rakta-Yamari (red Yamari)" | Buddhist | God. An emanation of AKSOBHYA and a variety of YAMARI. Color: red.... |
| God name "Raktalokesvara" | Buddhist | God. A variety of the BODHISATTVA AVALOKITESVARA. he is generally depicted sitting beneath an asoka tree with red blossoms and is popularly known as the Red Lord. His attributes include a hook, bow, red lotus flower, arrow and noose.... |
| Demon name "Rama (pleasing)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Incarnation of the god VIS NU. The seventh avatara (sun aspect) of Vis nu. Rama began as a comparatively minor incarnation who became one of the great heroes of the Ramayana epic, as well as featuring in the Mahabharata. The son of Dasaratha and Kausalya, he was a king of Ayodhya who, in the Ramayana, slew the demon Ravana that had captured his consort SITA and was upheld as a deity par excellence in respect of manhood and honor, though his subsequent treatment of his wife might be regarded as cavalier (see Sita). The Ramayana epic was composed by the poet and sage Valmeeki during the reign of Ramachandra and it gave form to a story that had been in existence for many centuries as an oral tradition. Valmeeki portrayed Rama not as an incarnate deity but as a great mortal hero. The saga is strongly political and serves to unite a vast and fragmented people in a common focus, irrespective of caste and language. It defines the historical schism between the Hindu culture of India and the largely Buddhist tradition of Sri Lanka. Rama rides in a chariot and is depicted in human form with two arms, typically holding a sugar cane bow and with a quiver at his shoulder. Also Ramacandra.... |
| Goddess name "Randeng" | China | Goddess sent by heaven to bring dread calamity down on to king Zhou because of his blasphemies and evil ways, China |
| God name "Rang" | Nuer / Sudan | God of hunting. The rays of the Sun are his flaming spears. Also Garang.... |
| Goddess name "Rati" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess of sexual desire. A daughter of DAKSA (in some texts SIVA) and the consort of the god KAMADEVA. One of twelve SAKTIS åśśociated with the god VISINU in his various incarnations. Attribute: a sword.... |
| God name "Ratnapani (with a jewel in the hand)" | Buddhist | God. A form of RATNASAMBHAVA and also a dhyanibodhisattva or meditation BUDDHA. Color: yellow or green. Attributes: a jewel and the moon disc.... |
| Goddess name "Ratnolka (jewel meteor)" | Buddhist | Goddess of light and deification of literature. One of a group of DHARANIS. Color: yellow. Attribute: jeweled staff.... |
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