Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Baiame / Baayami / Baayama" | Australia | Baiame aka Baayami or Baayama, the ancestor and patron god of the Kamilaroi. He is a sky god and a deity of death and life, and a god of Rain and the shamans. Australia |
God name "gSari Sgrub" | Bon / Lamaist / Tibet | God. Originally a Bon deity who became syncretized as a variety of the god YAMA in Lamaism. His animal is the bull and he may appear bull-headed. Color: red. Attributes: cup, knife and prayer wheel.... |
God name "Nan-Sgrub" | Buddhist | God, a form of Yama Buddhist / Tibet |
God name "Phyi-Sgrub" | Buddhist | Form of the god Yama Buddhist / Tibet |
Goddess name "Syamatara" | Buddhist | Goddess, believed to be incarnated as the Nepali princess. Buddhist |
God name "Rakta-Yamari (red Yamari)" | Buddhist | God. An emanation of AKSOBHYA and a variety of YAMARI. Color: red.... |
God name "Phyi-Sgrub (the external one)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | God. A form of the god YAMA who rides a buffalo or a bull. Color: blue, yellow or white. Attributes: noose, prayer wheel and staff surmounted by a skeleton.... |
Goddess name "Syamatara (tbe black Tara)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Goddess. A gracious form of the goddess TARA. Also an emanation of AMOGHASIDDHI and a form of AVALOKITESVARA. Color: black, possibly green. Attribute: blue lotus.... |
Goddess name "Yamaduti" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Messenger goddess. An attendant of YAMA. Her vehicle is a buffalo. Color: blue. Attributes: cup, fly whisk, knife and lotus.... |
God name "Nan-Sgrub (the black one)" | Buddhist / Tibet | God. Possibly a counterpart of the Hindu god KALA. In Lamaism he is a form of YAMA. He stands upon a man. Color: dark blue. Attributes: cup and knife.... |
Deities name "Yamari (enemy of Yama)" | Buddhist / Vajrayana | God. Probably influenced by the Hindu deities SIVA and YAMA. His vehicle is a buffalo, his color red and his attributes a club, a cup, a noose and a staff.... |
Goddess name "Lasghusyamala" | Hindu | Minor goddess Hindu / Puranic |
God name "Sraddha-deva" | Hindu | An epithet of Yama, the god of death and king of the underworld. Hindu |
Goddess name "Sanjna (conscience)" | Hindu | Goddess. The daughter of TVASTAR, a consort of SURYA and, in some texts, the mother of YAMA.... |
Goddess name "Yamuna" | Hindu | Minor river goddess. A daughter of SURYA and SANJNA and the sister of YAMA. She is described in Puranic texts and åśśociated with the river Yamuna on which lies the city of Mathura. Color: blue.... |
Goddess name "Dhumorna (smoke)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. The consort of YAMA. Attribute: a pomegranate.... |
Goddess name "Laghusyamala (lightly dark colored)" | Hindu / Puranic | Minor goddess. Attributes: lute and wine glåśś.... |
Goddess name "Aditi (the free one)" | Hindu / Vedic | Archaic mother goddess. According to the Rg Veda Aditi is said to be the wife of KASYAPA or of BRAHMA and mother of the ADITYAS, a group of minor gods including MITRA, ARYAMAN, BHAGA, VARUNA, DAKSA and Anisa. No other consort is mentioned in the literature. She is also accounted as the mother of HARI. Other legends account her as the mother of the Rain god INDRA. No human physical features are drawn, though she is sometimes identified in the guise of a cow. Aditi is also perceived as a guardian goddess who brings prosperity and who can free her devotees from problems and clear away obstacles. She disappears largely from later Hindu traditions.... |