Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Negafok" | Inuit | Cold weather spirit who lowers the temperature in Winter. Inuit |
Deities name "Elim" | Judaic | Collective term for god's the lower order of the gods from the great deities, the Elohim Judaic |
Deities name "Elim" | Judaic | Collective term for gods. Found in the Vetus Testamentum and distinguishing the lower order of gods from the great deities, ELOHIM.... |
God name "Yamandaga" | Kalmuck | One of the senior gods. Depicted with six hands, holding a scepter, a pair of ropes, two drinking vessels and an animal skin. Coloured blue with red palms and soles, he has snakes coiled around ankles and wrists and another forming a necklace; another necklace is made up of human heads. His crown is made of flowers and skulls. Kalmuck |
Spirit name "Kupole" | Lithuanian | The spirit of springtime vegetation and flowers. The Festival of Kupole was åśśociated with Feast of St. John the Baptist. In this festival, women picked sacral herbs, danced and sang songs. Kupolines is also known as Rasos. Lithuanian |
God name "Ek Chuah" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of merchants. Also the deity responsible for the cacao crop. (The cacao bean was traditionally the standard currency throughout Mesoamerica.) Probably of Putun origin, he is typically depicted painted black, except for a red area around the lips and chin. He has a distinctive downwardly projecting lower lip, horseshoe shapes around each eye and a highly elongated nose. He may also bear a scorpion's tail. Other attributes include a carrying strap in his headdress and sometimes a pack on his back. Also God M.... |
God name "Cizin (stench)" | Mayan / Yucatec / other tribes, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. The most important death god in the Mayan cultural area. Said to live in Metnal, the Yucatec place of death, and to burn the souls of the dead. He first burns the mouth and åñuś and, when the soul complains, douses it with water. When the soul complains of this treatment, he burns it again until there is nothing left. It then goes to the god Sicunyum who spits on his hands and cleanses it, after which it is free to go where it chooses. Attributes of Cizin include a fleshless nose and lower jaw, or the entire head may be depicted as a skull. Spine and ribs are often showing. He wears a collar with death eyes between lines of hair and a long bone hangs from one earlobe. His body is painted with black and particularly yellow spots (the Mayan color of death).... |
"Adaro" | Melanesia / Polynesia | A creature which is half human, half fish, having the upper body of a human and the lower part of its body is like a fish. They live in the Sun, and travel to earth on Rainbows. Melanesia / Polynesia |
"Hraesvelger [Corpse-swallower]" | Norse | A giant in an eagle's plumage, who produces the wind. Norse |
"Maanegarm or Moongarm" | Norse | Maanegarm or moongarm [Moon-swallower]. A wolf of Loke's offspring. He devours the moon. Norse |
"Roskva" | Norse | The name of the maiden follower of Thor. She symbolizes the ripe fields of harvest. Norse |
God name "Men" | Phrygian / Turkey | moon god. Ruler of both upper and lower worlds. Probably also a god of healing, he was subsequently adopted by the Greeks and Romans. The cult was popular during the imperial period, but its inscriptions were written in Greek.... |
God name "Consus" | Roman | Some call him the god of secret deliberations, and others the hidden or mysterious god, that is, a god of the lower regions. Roman |
"Dis" | Roman | Contracted from Dives, a name sometimes given to Pluto, and hence also to the lower world. Roman |
Goddess name "Faun" | Roman | Place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus. However, fauns and satyrs were originally quite different creatures. Both have horns and both resemble goats below the waist, humans above; but originally satyrs had human feet, fauns goatlike hooves. The Romans also had a god named Faunus and a goddess Fauna, who, like the fauns, were goat-people. Roman |
Goddess name "Feronia" | Roman | Goddess of orchards and protects freed men. Roman Also regarded as a goddess of the earth or the lower world because she is said to have given to her son three souls, so that Evander had to kill him thrice before he was dead. Roman |
Goddess name "Flora" | Roman | Goddess of gardens, plants, flowers, love, prostitution,spring and youth. Her festival was celebrated from the 28th of April till the first of May, with extravagant merriment and lasciviousness. The resemblance between the names Flora and Chloris led the later Romans to identify the two divinities. Roman |
Goddess name "May-day" | Roman | Polydore Virgil says that the Roman youths used to go into the fields and spend the calends of May in dancing and singing in honour of Flora, goddess of fruits and flowers. The early English consecrated May-day to Robin Hood and the Maid Marian, because the favourite outlaw died on that day. Stow says the villagers used to set up May-poles, and spend the day in archery, morris-dancing, and other amu√åǧïñåts. |