| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "ATUM" | Egypt | Sun god and creator god. Atum is generally represented in human form and often wears a crown which combines those of Upper and Lower Egypt. He is represented as various animals including the bull, lion, snake and lizard. Atum was regarded as the progenitor of the Egyptian pharaohs. Both Atum and Re are represented by a Divine black bull, Mnevis or Mer-wer, wearing the Sun disc and uraeus or snake between its horns. It acts as an intercessor between the Sun god and his priests in Heliopolis.... |
| God name "Age" | Africa | God of animals. Revered by hunters in the savannah regions. Benin, West Africa |
| God name "Age" | Fon / Benin, West Africa | God of animals. Revered by hunters in the savannah regions.... |
| God name "Age Fon" | Benin / W Africa | Revered by hunters he is the god of animals |
| God name "Ah Can Čú𝔪" | Mayan | Hunter god; protector of the animals Mayan |
| God name "Ah Can Čú𝔪/ Acaum" | Maya | A hunter & protector of the animals god |
| Deities name "Ah Cancun" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hunting god. One of a number of deities in Mayan religion identified with the hunt and the protection of animals. Also Acanum.... |
| Deities name "Ah Tabai" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hunting god. One of a number of deities in Mayan religion identified with the hunt and the protec tion of animals.... |
| God name "Ahriman" | Zoroastrian / Farsi Per sian | Chthonic god of darkness. The antagonist of AHURA MAZDA, god of light, and his attendant, MITHRA. The name is a modern derivation of the original Avestan title ANGRU MAINYU. Ahriman is said to have tried to persuade his attendant animals, including the scor pion, ant and snake, to drink the blood of the bull slain by Mithra in the primeval legend of dualistic conflict (see Mithra); if he had succeeded he would have prevented life from forming on earth. In another legend he tried to thwart Ahura Mazda by sending a flood to destroy the world. Also recog nized in Roman Mithraism. Rituals included ani mal sacrifice. Also ARIMANIUS (Roman).... |
"Aja" | African | Aja is an Orisha, patron of the Forest, the animals within it and herbal healers, whom she taught their art. |
| Goddess name "Aniger" | Greek | A minor goddess of squashed animals. Witnessed by thinking "Oh God, what was that I hit?". Mentioned in Hogfather. |
| God name "Apedemak" | Sudanese / Meroe | war god. An Egyptianized deity, his main sanctuary was contained in a vast religious complex and center of pilgrimage at Musawwarat-es-Sufra, north of the sixth Nile cataract. Sacred animals include cattle and the African elephant. Depicted with the head of a lion and a human body, holding a scepter embellished with a seated lion at the tip.... |
| Goddess name "Aranyani" | Hindu / Vedic | Minor goddess of woodlands. Possibly having evolved from a primitive animistic guardian spirit of animals, Aranyani is an elusive, rarely seen, deity who is recognized in the sounds of the trees, particularly at dusk. She is a benign figure, sweet-scented and unwilling to destroy unless severely provoked.... |
| Goddess name "Artio" | Switzerland | Bear Goddess whose shrine once stood in what is now Berne, Switzerland. She is usually depicted as being surrounded by full baskets and animals. Goddess of fertility and wildlife. She is åśśociated with the bear, claws and teeth, geode stones. |
| Deities name "Balam (jaguar)" | Mayan / Yucatec, Mesoamerican / Mexico | Guardian deities. Poorly defined spirits who protect individuals in daily life. Four balam stand at the cardinal points around a village to guard against dangerous animals. They also protect the four sides of a milpa (smallholding) against thieves.... |
"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 |
| King name "Barbatos" | Greek | A great count and duke, who appears when the Sun is in Sagittarius with four noble kings and three companies of troops; he gives instructions in all the sciences, reveals treasures concealed by enchantment, knows the past and future, reconciles friends and those in power, and is of the Order of the Virtues. He also understands the songs of birds and the language of other animals. Unk |
| 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.... |
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