Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Aparajita (unconquered)" | Hindu / Puranic | (1) God. One of the eleven EKADASARUDRAS or forms of RUDRA. Attributes: bell, bowl, club, drum, hook, lance, lotus, prayer wheel, rod, rosary, shield, sword and trident.(2) Minor god. Buddhist (Mahayana). (3) Goddess. Hindu (Puranic). Form of DURGA. Her attendant animal is a lion. Attributes: arrow, shield, snake and sword. 4. Goddess. Buddhist (Mahayana). She stands or treads on the god GANESA. Color: yellow. Attributes: bell, hook, image of RATNASAMBHAVA, noose and staff.... |
Goddess name "Arawa" | Kenya | moon goddess and the daughter of the creator god Tororut and his consort Seta. Kenya and Uganda |
Goddess name "Arawa" | Suk / Pokot / Kenya / Uganda, East Africa | moon goddess. The two tribes share the same pantheon of deities. Arawa is the daughter of the creator god TORORUT and his consort SETA.... |
Goddess name "Argante" | British | Silver One goddess queen of Avalon who is known for her healing powers. British |
Goddess name "Ashiakie" | Gan / district around Accra, Ghana, West Africa | Goddess of wealth. The daughter of NAI, god of the sea, she was born in the ocean and came to land in a canoe. Her colors are red and white.... |
Goddess name "Atete" | Christian | Goddess of fertility in Ethiopia and was åśśimilated into the Christian as the Virgin Mary, Atete was invoked by Pagans during ancient fertility rituals known as the Astar yo Mariam. |
Goddess name "Atida" | Uganda | Goddess of hunting and Rain Uganda |
Goddess name "Atugan" | Mongolia | The goddess of earth & the source of all life whose power is beyond understanding but can be bestowed |
Goddess name "BAAL (lord)" | Western Semitic / Canaanite / northern Israel, Lebanon / later Egypt | vegetation deity and national god. Baal may have originated in pre-agricultural times as god of storms and Rain. He is the son of DAGAN and in turn is the father of seven storm gods, the Baalim of the Vetus Testamentum, and seven midwife goddesses, the SASURATUM. He is considered to have been worshiped from at least the nineteenth century BC. Later he became a vegetation god concerned with fertility of the land. From the mid-sixteenth century BC in the Egyptian New kingdom, Baal enjoyed a significant cult following, but the legend of his demise and restoration was never equated with that of OSIRIS. In the Greco-Roman period, Baal became åśśimilated in the Palestine region with ZEUS and JUPITER, but as a Punic deity [Carthage] he was allied with SATURNUS, the god of seed-sowing.... |
Goddess name "Badb" | Celtic / Irish | war goddess. One of the aspects of the MORRIGAN. Capable of changing shape at will. She confronts the Irish hero Cu Chulainn before a battle and terrifies him by turning into Badb Catha, the crow and harbinger of death.... |
Goddess name "Bariba" | Celtic / Irish | Fertility goddess. One of the aspects of the MORRIGAN. A name of the Sovereignty of Ireland to whom the king was married in symbolic ceremony. Also a goddess of war capable of changing shape from girl to hag, and into birds and animals.See also BADB, ERIU, Fodla, Medb and MAEVE.... |
Goddess name "Bharati" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess of sacrifices. She is invoked to appear on the sacrificial field before a ritual. Usually åśśociated with the goddess SARASVATI. Also regarded as a consort of GANESA.... |
Goddess name "Brigantia" | British | A goddess in Britain and Europe. She was the tutelary goddess of the Brigantes in northern Britain (modern Yorkshire) and of the Brigantes on lake Constance in Austria. British |
Goddess name "Brigantia" | Celtic | Goddess of the seasons, doctors smiths, poets, and women in childbirth Pan-Celtic |
Goddess name "Brigantia" | Roman / Celtic / British | Tutelary goddess. The goddess of the Brigantes in the West Riding of Yorkshire. She became identified with CAELESTIS. At Corbridge, Northumberland, there is an altar inscribed to various deities, including Caelestis Brigantia. In a carved stone relief at Birrens, on the Antonine Wall in Scotland, she is depicted with the attributes of MINERVA. She may also bear links with the goddess BRIGIT. She is frequently åśśociated with water and herding.... |
Goddess name "Brigantia/ Bridget/ Brigit" | Pan-Celtic | The goddess of the seasons, doctors smiths, poets, & women in childbirth |
Goddess name "Brigantis" | Celtic | Goddess of the moon Celtic |
Goddess name "Buddhi (perception)" | Hindu / Puranic | (1) Minor goddess. Sometimes identified as consort of the MAHA-GANAPATI form of the elephant god GANESA, depicted seated on his knee.(2) Minor goddess. Jain.... |