Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Kubai-khotun" | Anatolian | 'Great Mother'; she dwells in the 'tree of life' or under its roots and protects and supports humans and animals. Her milk is the origin of the milky Way. She was the primordial mother-goddess. Anatolian |
Goddess name "Gauri (whitish brilliant)" | Hindu / Vedic / Puranic | (1) Goddess. Consort of the god VARUNA, said to have been created at the churning of the ocean of milk. An epithet of PARVATI as a goddess of the corn. Also a SAKTI of Mahesvara, a minor aspect of S IVA. Her attendant animal is a lion or a wolf. Attributes: fish, Forest garland, image of GANESA, lotus, mirror, rosary, trident and water jar. Three-eyed. Also Varuni.(2) Goddess. Buddhist. One of eight GAURIS of terrible appearance. Attributes: head and noose.(3) Messenger goddess. Jain [India]. A SASANADEVATA. Also one of sixteen VIDYADEVIS or goddesses of learning headed by SARASVATI. Color: white. Attribute: a hook.... |
God name "Angus" | Gaelic | A Gaelic god of amorous dalliance. A son of Dugda, his harp was so sweet that whoever heard must follow; his kisses became invisible love-whispering birds. |
Goddess name "Nicevenn" | Roman | A Scottish Witch Goddess from the Middle Ages who rides through the night with her followers on Samhain. Her name can be translated as "Divine" or "Brilliant." She is equated with the Roman goddess Diana. |
God name "Spercheus" | Greek | A Thessalian rivergod, became the father of Menesthius by Polydora, the daughter of Peleus. (Apollodorus iii. The History of Herodotus VII). Greek |
God name "Pundjel" | Australia | A creator god who invented most of the skills used by Australian Aborigines, including religious rites. He was very much involved in the initiation of boys into manhood. |
God name "Egres/ Akras Karelian" | Finland | A fertility god in charge of the the turnip crop |
God name "Jar'Edo Wens" | Australian | A god of earthly knowledge and physical might, created by Altjira to ensure that people did not get too arrogant or self-conceited. He is åśśociated with victory and intelligence. Australian aboriginal |
God name "Fei Lien/ Fewi Lian/ Feng Bo" | China | A god of the wind |
God name "Hittavainen Karelian" | Finnish | A hunting god & the guardian of hare hunters |
God name "Wuluwaid" | Australia | A Rain god. Australian Aboriginal |
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 "Wollunqua" | Australia | A snake-god of Rain and fertility. Australian Aboriginal |
God name "Acestes" | Roman | A son of the Sicilian river-god Crimisus and of a Trojan woman of the name of Egesta or Segesta |
God name "Peneus" | Greek | Also called Peneius, a Thessalian river god, and a son of Oceåñuś and Tethys. (Theogony of Hesiod 343; Metamorphoses by Ovid i.) By the Naiad Creusa he became the father of Hypseus, Stilbe, and Daphne. Cyrene also is called by some his wife, and by others his daughter, and hence Peneius is called the genitor of Aristaeus. Greek |
God name "Mars" | Roman | An ancient Roman god, who was at an early period identified by the Romans with the Greek Ares, or the god delighting in bloody war, although there are a variety of indications that the Italian Mars was originally a divinity of a very different nature. Roman |
God name "Amatsu-Mikaboshi" | Japan / Shinto | August Star of heaven; also called Ama-no-kagaseo "Brilliant Male" is the god of evil and of the stars, specifically the pole star. Japan / Shinto |
God name "BAIAME" | Australian aboriginal | Creator God. Baiame is a creator god, revered as the supreme being and instrument of good, principally by the Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi groups of aborigines in the southeast of Australia. His chief consort is generally referred to as BIRRAHGNOOLOO. In other aboriginal traditions he is known as Twanyrika.... |