| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Aksobhya" | Buddhist | 'immovable' or 'imperturbable' - is the name given to a Buddha who is said to reside in the eastern Paradise of Abhirati. Buddhist |
"Al Raqim" | Quran | The dog of the Seven Sleepers, now in Paradise and in charge of letters and other correspondence. Quran |
| Goddess name "Alkonost" | Greek | The bird of Paradise in Slavic mythology. It has the body of a bird with the face of a woman. The name Alkonost came from the name of Greek demi-goddess Alcyone transformed by gods into a kingfisher. |
"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 |
"Balam the ox" | Koran | And the fish Nun, are the food of Mahomet's Paradise; the mere lobes of the livers of these animals will suffice for 70,000 saints. Koran |
| God name "Barastar" | Caucasus | God who judges souls, sending them to Paradise or oblivion. Caucasus |
| God name "Barastar" | Ossetian / Caucasus region | Chthonic underworld god. The judge of souls, directing them either to Paradise or to oblivion.... |
| God name "Barastar Ossetian" | Caucus | this god at judged and in souls sending them to Paradise or oblivion |
| Angel name "Blue Men" | Scotland | The fallen angels were driven out of Paradise in three divisions, one became the Fairies of the land, one the Blue Men in the sea and one the Nimble Men . . . or Merry Dancers of the sky. Campbell. Superstitions of Scotland. |
"Borak" | Arab | Borak or Al Borak (the lightning). The animal brought by Gabriel to carry Mahomet to the seventh heaven. It had the face of a man, but the cheeks of a horse; its eyes were like jacinths, but brilliant as the stars; it had the wings of an eagle, spoke with the voice of a man, and glittered all over with radiant light. This creature was received into Paradise. |
| Angel name "Dorothea" | Greek | Represented with a rose-branch in her hand, a wreath of roses on her head, and roses with fruit by her side; sometimes with an angel carrying a basket with three apples and three roses. The legend is that Theophilus, the judge's secretary, scoffingly said to her, as she was going to execution, "Send me some fruit and roses, Dorothea, when you get to Paradise." Immediately after her execution, while Theophilus was at dinner with a party of companions, a young angel brought to him a basket of apples and roses, saying, "From Dorothea, in Paradise," and vanished. |
"Eirek" | Scandinavian | Whilst ourneying toward Paradise he came to a stone bridge guarded by a dragon and, on entering its mouth, found that he had arrived in a world of bliss. Scandinavian |
"Elysium" | Greek | Elysian Fields. The Paradise or Happy Land of the Greek poets. |
"Fahfah" | Islam | One of the rivers of Paradise. Islam |
"Folkvang" | Norse | [Paradise, a field]. The folk-field. Freyja's dwelling. Norse |
| Goddess name "Hara Ke" | Songhai / Niger, West Africa | Goddess of sweet water. Considered to live beneath the waters in tributaries of the river Niger, attended by two dragons, Godi and Goru. The spirits of the dead are believed to live in a Paradise city in the depths of the Niger.... |
| Nymph name "Houri" | Koran | The large blackeyed damsels of Paradise, possessed of perpetual youth and beauty, whose virginity is renewable at pleasure. Every believer will have seventy-two of these houris in Paradise, and his intercourse with them will be fruitful or otherwise, according to his wish. If an offspring is desired, it will grow to full estate in an hour. (Persian, huri; Arabic, huriya, nymphs of Paradise. Koran |
| Goddess name "Hsi Wang Mu" | China | Mother goddess of the Western Paradise and female energy. China |
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