| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Amida-Nyorai" | Buddhist / Japan | Presides over the Pure Land of the Western Paradise, the Japanese people turned to him at their moment of death. Buddhist / Japan |
| God name "Emma O" | Buddhist / Japan | God of death and lord of hell. Buddhist / Japan |
| Goddess name "Gaomei" | China | Ancient goddess and first mother was called Kao Mi in the Ching Dynasty and was changed into a male divinity during the Japanese occupation. China |
| Goddess name "Ikebana" | Discworld | The Goddess of Topiary, worshipped by the Militant Servitors of Ikebana. She is named after the Japanese art of formal flower arranging. Discworld |
"Mundane Egg" | Egyptian | In the Phoenician, Egyptian, Hindu, and Japanese systems, it is represented that the world was hatched from an egg. In some mythologies a bird is represented as laying the mundane egg on the primordial waters. |
| God name "Ajisukitakahikone" | Islands | A god of thunder. He is the brother of Takemikazuchi and of Kaminari (Raijin). In infancy, his crying and screaming were so loud that he had to be placed in a boat and sailed around the islands of Japan until he was calm. In adulthood, he was the father of Takitsuhiko, a Rain god. |
| Goddess name "Aino" | Japan | The name Fuji is believed to be derived from "Huchi" or "Fuchi", the words for the Aino Goddess of Fire. Japan |
| God name "Aizen-Myoo" | Japan | The god of tavern keepers, musicians, singers, prostitutes & love |
| God name "Aji Suki Taka Hi Kone" | Japan | A god of thunder |
| God name "Aji-Suki-Taka-Hi-Kone" | Japan | God of thunder Japan |
| Goddess name "Ama No Uzume" | Japan | The goddess of dawn and revelry in the Shinto. She famously relates to the tale of the missing Sun deity, Amaterasu. Japan |
| Goddess name "Ama Terasu" | Japan | The Sun goddess queen of the universe |
| Goddess name "Amaterasu" | Japan | The Sun goddess, grandmother of Jimmu Tenno, the first ruler of Japan. |
| God name "Amatsu Mikaboshi" | Japan | A god of evil |
| Deity name "Ame-No-Toko-Tachi-No-Kami" | Japan | heavenly deity, the fifth deity formed, who is interpreted as "Eternal Law, which is formless, but acts upon existing matter." Japan / Shinto |
| Deity name "Basosenin" | Japan | A stellar deity, one of the Nijuhachibushu. Japan |
| Goddess name "Benzi-Ten/ Benten/ Benzai-Tenno" | Japan | The goddess of eloquence, language, arts, fortune, water, & knowledge |
| King name "Binzuru-Sonja" | Japan | One of the pupils of Buddha, the first of the sixteen Rakan. Rakan with grey hair and long eyebrows. Originally he was a retainer of the king, Uuten. He became a priest and attained miracle power by performing Arakan's vow. It is said that he was praised by Shaka for he used the miracle power for the world and that he didn't enter Nirvana and made efforts cultivating ordinary people. He was worshipped on the above in Theravada Buddhism, however, many are worshipped in restaurants in China. He is enshrined in front of a temple in Japan. It is believed that stroking him eliminates distresses. Japan |
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