| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Dou Mou" | China | A goddess North Star, health & diseases & justice |
| Goddess name "Doushen" | China | Goddess of justice. China |
| God name "Dumuzi" | Summerian | Summerian form of Tammuz, a god of vegetation, fertility and the underworld. Possibly the husband of Inanna. |
| Goddess name "Dzivaguru" | Korekore / Shona / northern Zimbabwe, southern Africa | Chthonic mother goddess. Originally said to have ruled both heaven and earth and lived in a palace by a sacred lake near Dande. She is depicted wearing goatskins and bearing a cornucopia holding magical substances. Her sacred creatures are mythical golden Sunbirds, probably modeled on swallows, a pair of which were actually discovered in Zimbabwe.... |
| Goddess name "Ebech" | Canaan | Old mountain god who was overcome by Inanna, the goddess of war, love and the planet Venus. Canaan |
| Goddess name "Egungun oya" | Africa | Another form of the Yoruba goddess of divination |
| God name "Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial god. A syncretization of EHECATL and QUETZALCOATL, one of four gods who support the lowest heaven at each cardinal point. He is perceived as residing in the west (codices Borgia and Vaticåñuś B). He is the deity who rules over the ninth of the thirteen heavens, Itztapal Nanatzcayan (where the stone slabs crash together). In a separate tradition, EhecatlQuetzalcoatl executed the monstrous god XOLOTL when he declined to offer his blood in self-sacrifice for the creation of mankind.... |
| Goddess name "Eir" | Scandinavia | A goddess of mercy & teaching |
| God name "Eistibus" | Hebrew | A minor god of divination. Hebrew |
| God name "El'eb" | Western Semitic / Canaanite | Primordial god. In some texts the god EL (IL) is not the original being but is preceded by a father figure. EL-EB translates as god the father.See also YALDABAOTH.... |
| God name "Elagabal (lord of the mountain)" | Syrian | Local tutelary god. Probably originating as a mountain deity with strong solar links. His sacred animal is the eagle. His cult was based on the town of Emesa [Homs], where he was worshiped in the form of a dome-shaped, black stone obelisk. His name became Hellenized as Heliogabalos.... |
| God name "Enki aka Ea" | Mesopotamia / Sumeria | A deity later known as Ea in Babylonian mythology, originally chief God of the city of Eridu. Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
| Demon name "Erh Lang" | China | God, with a magic dog, who fights the mountain demons. China |
| God name "Esus" | Celtic / Continental / European | God of war. Mentioned by the Roman writer Lucan but otherwise virtually unknown. He may have originated as a tree god. One carving [Trier] identifies Esus felling a tree with birds in the branches (see also INANA). Elsewhere he is åśśociated with three cranes and a bull.... |
| God name "Fan K'uei" | China | God of butchers. China |
| Goddess name "Faun" | Roman | Place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus. However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and a goddess Fauna, who, like the fauns, were goat-people. Roman |
| God name "Fei Lien" | China | A demigod, one of the Counts of the winds. China |
| God name "Fei Lien/ Fewi Lian/ Feng Bo" | China | A god of the wind |
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