Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Michalon" | Canada | God who created humans from animals. Central Canada |
God name "Minabozho Algonquin" | NE US E Canada | this clumsy god fell into the seat and make it over low |
God name "Mirabichi" | Ottawa,Canada | God of water. Ottawa,Canada |
God name "Nanabohozo" | Ojibwa / USA / Canada | A god that influences the success or failure of hunters |
God name "Nanabohozo Ojibwa" | N America | God who influences the success or failure of hunters Canada / USA |
God name "Nanabozho" | Ojibwa / Canada | Heroic god. A god of hunters who directly influences the success or failure which determines whether individuals survive or perish. His brothers are the four winds which exert changes in the seasons and weather. Nanabozho gained control over them to ensure good hunting and fishing for the Ojibwa tribe.... |
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.... |
Supreme god name "Qa'wadliliquala Dza'wadeenox" | BC Canada | Not only the Supreme God, but the guardian of the tribe as well as a river deity that insurers the salmon run |
Goddess name "Qamai'ts" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Creator goddess. Said to live in the upper heaven, Atsa'axl, from where she controls the earth. According to tradition the mountains were once malevolent beings who made the world uninhabitable, until she conquered them and reduced them in size. She is never invoked or prayed to. Also Tsi Sisnaaxil (our woman); Ek Yakimtolsil (afraid of nothing).... |
Goddess name "Qamai'ts/ Sisnaaxil/ Ek Yakimtolsil" | Bella Coola / BC Canada | The creator goddess that lives in the upper heavens & controls the earth, she is never prayed to |
Goddess name "Qamaits" | British | A warrior goddess of the indigenous Nuxalk people. British Columbia, Canada. |
God name "Senx" | BC Canada | God of the Sun who is the ruler of a lower heavens BC Canada |
God name "Senx" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | Sun god. The ruler of the lower heaven, Sonx, in which is situated the home of the gods, Nusmeta (the house of myths). The only deity to whom the Bella Coola pray and make offerings. Hunters throw small pieces of mountain goat or seal flesh into a sacrificial fire. Also Ta'ata (our father); Smai'yakila (sacred one).... |
God name "Senx/ Ta'ata/ Sami'yaila" | Bella Coola / BC Canada | the Sun god that is the ruler of a lower heavens |
God name "Sga'na" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Sea god. Embodied in the killer whale (Orca). The universe is believed to be inhabited by super natural beings called Sga'na Qeda's for whom the land was first created. Also Måśśet San.... |
Supreme god name "Sins Sga'nagwai" | Haida / BC Canada | A supreme god that gives power to all things |
Supreme god name "Sins Sga'nagwai (power of the shining heavens)" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | Supreme god. The god who gives power to all things.... |
Supreme god name "Sins Sga'nagwai Haid" | BC Canada | Supreme god who gives power to all things BC Canada |