| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Moma Uitoto" | SA | A god that originally was the creator of mankind & the apotheosis of the moon |
| Spirit name "Naimuena" | Colombia / Ecuador | A great ancestral spirit worshipped as a supreme being, the creator, and a vegetation god. The Uitoto, Colombia and Ecuador |
| God name "Nainuema" | Uitoto Indian / South America | Creator god. He created the earth from his own imagination and stamped upon it until it was flat. He then engendered the Forests and other living things from his saliva.... |
| God name "O-Kuni-Nushi-No-Mikoto" | Shinto / Japan | Creator god. The great organizer and consolidator of the earth in the creation mythology of Shintoism. He took up his duties after IZANAGI and IZANAMI had created the land. Tradition has it that he first underwent a series of ordeals and then reigned over the world. He has many consorts and innumerable offspring.... |
| Goddess name "Oboto" | Africa | Goddess of placid serenity. Africa |
| God name "Ocelotl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the first of the five world ages, each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fiftytwo terrestrial years. Assigned to the earth and presided over by TEZCATLIPOCA. According to tradition, the age was populated by a race of giants and it ended in a catalclysmic destruction caused by huge and ferocious jaguars which devoured them. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also Ocelotonatiuh; Yoaltonatiuh; Tlalchitonatiuh.... |
| Goddess name "Otontecuhtli aka Xiuhtecuhtli" | Aztec | Goddess of the earth, flowers, plants, games and dance, love. She is also the patroness of artisans, prostitutes, pregnant women and birth. Aztec |
| God name "Ourea" | Greek | The Protogenoi of the mountains, and according to the Theogony of Hesiod, children of Gaia and the Greek personifications of mountains. Each mountain was said to have its own god. Greek |
| God name "Phanes" | Greek | A mystic divinity in the system of the Orphics, is also called Eros, Ericapaeus, Himerus Metis, and Protogonus. He is said to have sprung from the mystic mundane egg, and to have been the father of all gods, and the creator of men. Phanes means "Manifestor" or "Revealer," and is related to the Greek words "light" and "to shine forth." Phanes, or the personification of longing love, is first mentioned by Hesiod (Theogony 201), where he and Eros appear as the companions of Aphrodite. Greek |
| God name "Protogenoi" | Greek | The first group of beings to come into existence at the beginning of the universe were the Protogenoi - First Born or Primeval and they form the very fabric of the universe and are immortal. The Protogenoi are the gods from which all the other gods descend. Greek |
| God name "Psamathe" | Greek | A daughter of Crotopus of Argos. She was loved by the god Apollo and by whom she had a son Linus. Greek |
| Deities name "Shiia-Tsu-Niko" | Shinto / Japan | God of winds. The most senior of his group of wind deities, he disperses the morning mists and brings soft rustling breezes. His consort is Shina-Tsu-Hime and the couple are extensively worshiped by farmers and seafarers. They were allegedly responsible for bringing about a miracle in the thirteenth century AD when they kept at bay, with off-spéñïś winds, the army of Gengis Khan. They are honored in the main IseJingu temple of Shintoism but their chief sanctuary is at Tatta, a small town in Yamamoto. Also Shina-Tobe-No-Mikoto.... |
| God name "Sukuna-Hiikrna" | Shinto / Japan | God of healing. With the god O-KUNI-NUSHI-NO-MIKOTO, he established the various methods of healing diseases and the means for control of, and protection against, wild beasts, snakes, insects, etc. He is also worshiped as a tutelary god of traders, both maritime and on land. He is the KAMI of communications and, during the Japanese Empire period, was often installed by the authorities in the temples and shrines of conquered lands. He is worshiped in Buddhism as Yakushi-Bosatsu-Hyojin.... |
| God name "Sutekh" | Hurrian | The prototype of the Egyptianized Set and an atmospheric or storm god. Hurrian |
| God name "Taijn" | Mexico | Name for a group of Rain gods, still worshipped and presumed to live in ruins of El Tajin(Veracruz) Mexico(Totonac) |
| God name "Taijn/ Tlaloc" | Totonac / Mexico | The name for a group of Rain gods, still worshipped & presumed to live in ruins of El Tajin Veracruz |
| God name "Tajika no mikoto" | Japan | God of strength Japan |
| God name "Tajin" | Totonac / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Generic title for a group of Rain gods. Worshiped by a modern tribe and believed to reside in the ruins of El Tajin, a clåśśic Veracruz site whence they control the thunder clouds.See also TLALOC.... |
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