| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Ghost name "Acheri" | Indian | They are the ghosts of little girls, who live on the tops of mountains but descend at night to hold their revels in more convenient places. Indian |
"Adam was buried" | Arabia | According to Arabian tradition, on Aboucais, a mountain of Arabia. |
| Goddess name "Adrastea" | Hellenized Phrygian / northwestern Turkey | mountain goddess. Probably derived from a local... |
| God name "Amurru" | Western Semitic | mountain god. A minor consort of ATHIRAT whose attributes include a shepherd's crook and who was probably worshiped by herders. Known mainly from inscriptions. Also MARTU.... |
| Spirit name "Apacita" | Inca | Guardian spirit. Represented by a pile of stones by the side of mountain påśśes and trails. He was invoked by travellers to safeguard their journeys. Inca |
| God name "Apo" | Inca | mountain god. Inca |
| God name "Apo" | Inca | God of mountains. Inca |
| God name "Apo (lord)" | Inca / pre Columbian South America / Peru, etc | mountain god. The apotheosis of an Andean mountain, all mountains being sacred to the South American Indians.... |
| God name "Aquilo" | Roman | Aka Boreas, a purple-winged god of the north wind, one of the four wind-gods. He was also the god of Winter, who swept down from the cold northern mountains of Thrake, chilling the air with his icy breath. Roman |
| God name "Aruna" | Hindu | mountain god of morning and warriors. Hindu |
| Nymph name "Asterodeia" | Greek | The Naiad nymph of a gold-carrying stream of the Kaukasos mountains. She was loved by Aeetes of Colchis, bearing him a son Apsyrtos. Greek |
| Goddess name "Atoja" | Peru | mountain goddess who sends the Rains. Peru |
| Deities name "Baa! Sapon" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Local tutelary god. Probably of Canaanite origin and closely equating with BAAL SAMIN. According to Ugaritic texts he lives on a mountain in the north of Phoenicia known as Saphan, which may have served as a beacon for mariners. Other local variations of mountain deities include Baal Hermon and Baal Brathy.... |
| Deity name "Baal Brathy" | Phoenicia | mountain deity. Phoenicia |
| Deity name "Baal Sapon" | Phoenicia / Canaan | mountain deity. Phoenicia / Canaan |
| Deity name "Ball Hermon" | Phoenicia | mountain deity. Phoenicia |
| God name "Bar" | Syria | A god of mountains, war, deserts, battle |
| Goddess name "CIPACTLI (great earth mother)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial goddess. Not strictly a goddess, but significant enough in Aztec cosmogony to be included here. According to tradition she was created in the form of a huge alligator-like monster by the underworld deities MICTLANTECUHLTI and MICTECACIHUATL. She may equate with TLALTECUHTLI, the toad-like earth monster torn apart to form heaven and earth. According to one tradition she emerged from the primordial waters and engaged in a fierce struggle with the Sun god TEZCATLIPOCA during which he tore off her lower jaw to prevent her sinking back into the depths and she bit off his right foot. The mountains are said to be the scaly ridges of her skin.... |
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