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| God name "Adro" | Lugbara | earthly god of gråśś fires Lugbara |
| God name "Adro" | Lugbara / Lake Albert, East Africa | Tutelary god. The personification of gråśś fires and whirlwinds who, in antiquity, created mankind. Thought to live in the vicinity of rivers with many wives and children.... |
| God name "Adroa" | Africa | A god of the Lugbara people of central Africa. Adroa has two aspects: one good and one evil. He is the creator of heaven and earth, and he appears to those about to die. Adroa is depicted as a tall, white man with only half a body one eye, one arm, one leg, one ear. Africa |
| Goddess name "Ammavaru" | Hindu - Dravidian | Primordial mother goddess. Known locally from east central India and worshiped by the Dravidian tribe of Telugu. She is said to have generated the cosmic egg in the sea of milk from which the major gods BRAHMA, VIS'NU and SIVA were born.... |
| God name "At" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the fourth of the five world ages each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestrial years. Assigned to water and presided over by CHALCHIUHTLICUE. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a deluge during which all the human population were turned into fish. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also 4(Atl), Atonatiuh and Chalchiutonatiuh.... |
| God name "Buluga Andaman" | Islands | A god |
| Goddess name "CHALCHIUHTLICUE (her skirt is of jade)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | water goddess. Featuring strongly in creation mythology, Chalchiuhtlicue presided over the fourth of the world ages which terminated in a great deluge. She is the tutelary deity of the fourth of the thirteen heavens identified at the time of the Spanish conquest, Ilhuicatl Citlalicue (the heaven of the star-skirted goddess). She takes the role of a vegetation goddess responsible for the flowering and fruiting of the green world, particularly maize; she also takes responsibility for such natural phenomena as whirlpools. Attributes include a rattle on a baton, and her dress is adorned with waterlilies.... |
| God name "Haiyococab" | Aztec | The Aztec "Water Over earth," from which "the earth-upholding gods escaped when the world was destroyed by a deluge. |
| God name "Hu The Mighty" | Wales | Aka Hu Gadarn, Hugh Guairy. Father God of the Welsh who came to Wales and became part of the Welsh deluge myths. |
| Deities name "Kurma(vatara)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Incarnation of the god VIS'NU. The second avatara of Vis'nu, Kurma appears in the form of a tortoise which acts as a pivot for the mountainous churning rod the gods employ to make ambrosia from the primal sea of milk after the flood. Kurma is depicted with a human torso surmounting a tortoise shell. Vis'nu is said to have appeared in this form in order to recover some of the possessions lost during the deluge. Attributes: club, conch, lotus and prayer wheel. Also the name for a vehicle of various deities.... |
| God name "Liew Liaw Gyffes" | Celtic / Welsh | God. The counterpart of the Irish god LUG. The son of ARIANRHOD, he was raised by GWYDION. The heroic figure of Lancelot may be derived from him.... |
| God name "Lug" | Ireland | God of commerce, magic and war. Ireland |
| God name "Lugal-Irra" | Akkadia | Chthonic underworld god Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia / Sumeria |
| God name "Lugal-Irra" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Chthonic underworld god. Probably a minor variation of ERRA, the Babylonian plague god. The prefix Lugal means lord. Often coupled with MES LAM TAEA, god of war.... |
| God name "Lugeilan" | Caroline Is | God of knowledge, strange but knowledge Caroline Is. |
| God name "Lugeilan/ Luk" | Caroline Is | He is a god of knowledge, strange but knowledge |
| God name "Lugh" | Pan-Celtic | The Shining One, "Sun God", "Many Skilled", "Fair-Haired One", "White or Shining". A hero and god of war. Pan-Celtic |
| God name "Mes Lam Taea" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian / Babylonian - Akkadian | God of war. An aggressive aspect of the chthonic underworld god NERGAL. Often linked with the god LUGAL-IRRA.... |
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