| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "ADAD (wind)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | weather god. His father is the supreme sky god ANU. He is described as a benevolent giver of life in the fields but is also a more violent storm god. His name in Akkadian cuneiform means wind. His animal is the bull. In human form he is depicted wearing horned headdress and tiered skirt or robe decorated with astral symbolism. He may carry a scimitar embellished with a single panther head and his symbol is the lightning fork often fixed upon a pair of pincers.... |
| God name "Agni" | India | A god of lightning, fire, & the Sun & who also mediates between the gods & humans |
| God name "Agni" | India | God of lightning, fire, and the Sun and who also mediates between the gods and humans. India |
| God name "Almaqah" | Pre - Islamic southern Arabian | Tutelary astral god. Worshiped by the Saba tribe, his sacred animal is the bull. Attributes include lightning bolts and a sinuate weapon.... |
| Goddess name "Alohura" | Polynesia | The lightning goddess of the beTrobi people. Mentioned in The Colour of Magic. |
| God name "Amm" | Pre - Islamic southern Arabian | moon god. The tutelary deity of the Qataban tribe. Also revered as a weather god. Attributes include lightning bolts.... |
"Anitan" | Philippines | Guardian of lightning. Philippines |
| God name "Apocatquil" | Inca / Peru | God of lightning. He recalled his mother to life and made an aperture in the earth with a golden spade, through which the race of the Peruvians emerged and took possession of the land. Inca / Peru |
| Monster name "Babullius" | Greek | A monster of the primitive world, is described sometimes as a destructive hurricane, and sometimes as a fire-breathing giant concealed in the country of the Arimi in the earth, which was lashed by Zeus with flashes of lightning. Greek |
| God name "Bahyra" | Brazil | The creator god of the heavens and the earth who "expressed his wrath by thunder and lightning." The Apiaca, Brazil |
| Angel name "Baraquiel" | Hebrew | One of the "great, beautiful, wonderful, and honored princes" listed in the Third Book of Enoch. The angel of lightning. |
| Nymph name "Begoe" | Etruscan | An Etruscan nymph, who was believed to have written the Ars fulguritarum, the art of purifying places which had been struck by lightning. This religious Book was kept at Rome in the temple of Apollo together with the Sibylline Books and the Carmina of the Marcii. |
| God name "Bel" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Generic title meaning lord. The Babylonian god MARDUK was often addressed as Bel, and the name occurs in the Vetus Testamentum. The New Year festival of akitu in Babylon included a ceremony of leading Bel by the hand. The name also appears at Palmyra as the tutelary creator god whose attributes include lightning and an eagle.... |
"Bilskirnir aka Bilskirner" | Norse | The heavenly abode of Thor, from the flashing of light in the lightning. Norse |
"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. |
| God name "Bussumarus" | Celtic | God of storm and mist and fog and lightning and thunder. Celtic |
| God name "Cakulha" | Mayan | A lightning god, an underling of Yaluk. His brother was Coyopa. Mayan |
| God name "Catequil" | Inca | God of lightning and thunder. Inca |
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