Gods, Goddesses, Ghosts, Ghoulies,
Heroes, Villains and Things That Go Bump In The Night
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- A (also Aa, Sirdu, Sirrida): Moon Goddess of Chaldeans. Symbolized by a disk with eight rays, this figure is frequently associated with goddesses of light across many cultures including Babylon, Mesopotamia, Akkadia and Semitic.
- A, among the Egyptians is denoted by the hieroglyphic which represents the ibis. Among the Greeks it was the symbol of a bad augury in the sacrifices.
- A'albiel. An angel that helps the archangel Michael in his heavenly chores. Christian
- Aaan. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aahla. The Field of peace; a portion of Amenti the Egyptian underworld
- Aadt. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aaetpio. A senior of Fire associated with Mars. Enochian
- Aaghu Gugu, Goddess of the of the dawn. Cherokee
- Aah, moon god of the Egyptians.
- Aahmes Nefertari, Protector/punisher of humans elevated to goddesshood Egypt
- Aarvak. aka. Arvaka, [Early awake]. The name of one of the horses of the sun. Norse.
- Aabit, singing Goddess. Rules over music, song, voice, arts. Egypt
- Aa Maakhuer, Lion god of truthful speech: "he whose voice, or speech, is right and true"; Book Of The Dead. Egypt
- Aakuluujjusi, the great creator mother among the Inuit people.
- Aam. A name for the god Tem, a form of the sun god in the city of Annu. The Book of the Dead associates Aam with the sun god Ra. Egyptian
- Aamon. One of three demons in the service of Satanachia, commander of the first legion of Hell.
- Aanaa. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aaodt. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aaoxaif. A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the East. Enochian
- Aaron's serpent. Something so powerful as to swallow up minor powers. — Exodus vii. 10——12
- Aataentsic, Goddess Iroquois
- A'as, God of wisdom Babylon/Hittite/Hurrian
- Aasith, Goddess of the hunt, war, and the desert Egypt/Syria
- Aatxe, a Basque ghost. He is a cave-dwelling divinity who adopts the form of a young red bull, but sometimes in the shape of a man. At night, more so in stormy weather, he arises from the hollow which is his lair, also known as Euskal Herria. He attacks criminals and other mean people. He also protects people by making them stay home when danger is near.
- Aavan. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aavna. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aax. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Abamo. A minor angel. Enochian
- Abaoz. A minor angel. Enochian
- Abaddon, the region of the dead, synonym of She'ol in the Old Testament. Hebrew
- Abaddon, It is the second of the seven names of the underworld in the Babylonian Talmud. Chief of the demons of the 7th hierarchy Hebrew/Christian
- Abariel. A hippy angel into ceremonial magic who appears on the second pentacle of the moon. Christian
- Abas, a son of Metaneira, was changed by Demeter into a lizard
- Abderus. One of Heracles's friends, devoured by the horses of Diomede. Diomede gave him his horses to hold, and they devoured him.
- Abdiel. The faithful seraph who withstood Satan when he urged the angels to revolt. Paradise Lost, Book. v
- Ab Kin Xoc, aka Piz Hui Tec, god of Poetry and War. Mayan
- Abel. Angel assistant to St. Peter. He checks souls as they arrive in Heaven. Christian
- Abel and Cain. Cain was born with a twin sister who was named Aclima, and Abel with a twin sister named Jumella. Adam wished Cain to marry Abel's twin sister, and Abel to marry Cain's. Cain would not consent to this arrangement, and Adam proposed to refer the question to God by means of a sacrifice. God rejected Cain's sacrifice to signify his disapproval of his marriage with Aclima, his twin sister, and Cain slew his brother in a fit of jealousy. Islam
- Abhasvara, a class of 64 devas or demigods created by Brahman. India
- Abhaswaras. A class of deities, sixty-four in number, of whose nature little is known. Hindu
- Abhigit The propitiatory sacrifice made by an Indian rajah who has slain a priest without premeditation.
- Abiala. Wife of Makambi; African deities. She holds a pistol in her hand, and is greatly feared. Her aid is implored in sickness.
- Abida. A god of the Kalmucks, who receives the souls of the dead at the moment of decease, and gives them permission to enter a new body, either human or not, and have another spell of life on earth. If the spirit is spotless it may, if it likes, rise and live in the air.
- Abidharma. The book of metaphysics in the Tripitaka
- Abigor, a warrior demon who commands sixty legions and a Grand Duke of Hell. Can fortell future and give military advice.
- Abmo. A minor angel ruled by Aiaoai. Enochian
- Abomination of Desolation. The Roman standard is so called (Matthew xxiv. 15). As it was set up in the holy temple, it was an abomination; and, as it brought destruction, it was the “abomination of desolation.”
- Abonde. The French Santa Claus, the good fairy who comes at night to bring toys to children while they sleep, especially on New Year's Day.
- Abou—Bekr, called Father of the Virgin, i.e. , Mahomet's favourite wife. He was the first caliph, and was founder of the sect called the Sunnites.
- Abou Jahia The angel of death in Mohammedan mythology. Called Azrael by the Arabs, and Mordad by the Persians.
- Aboulomri. A fabulous bird of the vulture sort which lives 1,000 years. Called by the Persians Kerkes, and by the Turks Ak—Baba. Mohammedan mythology
- Abracadabra, an elaboration of the Gnostic Abrasax or Abraxas, a corruption of a Coptic or Egyptian magic formula meaning "hurt me not" Mystical word used as a charm by the Gnostic school of Basilides.
- Abracadabra. A charm. It is said that Abracadabra was the supreme deity of the Assyrians. Q. Severus Sammonicus recommended the use of the word as a powerful antidote against ague, flux, and toothache. The word was to be written on parchment, and suspended round the neck by a linen thread.
- Abracax, also written Abraxas or Abrasax, in Persian mythology denotes the Supreme Being. In Greek notation it stands for 365. In Persian mythology Abracax presides over 365 impersonated virtues, one of which is supposed to prevail on each day of the year. In the second century the word was employed by the Basilidians for the deity; it was also the principle of the Gnostic hierarchy, and that from which sprang their numerous Æons.
- Abraxas, aka Abraxis, Abrsax, viewed as the supreme deity and the source of divine emanations, the ruler of all the 365 heavens, or circles of creation--one for each day of the year. The number 365 corresponds to the numerical value of the seven Greek letters that form the word abraxas. The name Abraxas was taken from abra-cadabra.
- Aba khatun Baikal, Goddess of the sea. Siberia
- Abaangui, had a huge nose, which he cut off. When he threw it into the sky, it became the moon. Guarani
- Abassi, the creator god of the Nigerian Efik people. On the suggestion of his wife Atai Abassi created the first humans; to prevent them from exceed his wisdom, he ordered the first humans to neither procreate nor labor. This prohibition lasted some time, but eventually the first couple did have children and work, for which crime Abassi slew them and set their children against each other.
- Abaasy, Netherworld beings. Yakut
- Abandinus, an obscure Celtic deity, possibly a river-god. He is currently known only from a single inscription from Godmanchester in Cambridgeshire, England: a bronze votive feather is dedicated to him with the fragmentary text "to the god Abandinus, Vatiaucus gave this from his own resources" inscribed on a plaque.
- Abaris, the Scythian, was a priest of Apollo; and the god gave him a golden arrow on which to ride through the air. This dart rendered him invisible; it also cured diseases, and gave oracles. Abaris gave it to Pythagoras.
- Abarta, aka Abartach, God of the Tuatha De Danann. or Abarta (performer of feats) was one of the Tuatha Dé Danann. He was also known as the Giolla Deacair (the hard servant) and was associated with Fionn mac Cumhaill. Ireland
- Abattur, Judges the dead and weighs souls and their deeds. Mandaean
- Abdals, in Islamic lore, the 'substitutes', 70 mysterious spirits whose identities are known only to God alone, "When one of those entities dies another is secretly appointed in replacement' and it is through the operations and actions of these creatures that the world continues to exist.
- Abdallah, the father of Mahomet, was so beautiful, that when he married Amina, 200 virgins broke their hearts from disappointed love. Islam
- Abdiel. An Arabic demon said to be the lord of slaves and slavery. His name is derived from the Arabic word 'Abd', meaning 'slave'.
- Abduxuel. One of the demonic rulers of the lunar mansions.
- Abeguwo, Rain goddess whose urine turns to moisture. Melanesia/New Guinea
- Abello aka Abelio and Abelionni, was a god of apple trees, worshipped in the Garonne Valley in southwest France.
- Abeona, a goddess who protected children the first time they left their parents' home, safeguarding their first steps alone. She is related to Adeona, a goddess who guided children back to their parents' home. Roman
- Abere, meaning brutal, is a female cannibal in the legends of Melanasia.
- Abgal, Seven wise-men and the attending deities of the god Enki. Sumeria
- Abhijit, name means triumphator. A benevolent astral deity and goddess of fortune Hindu/Puranic
- Abhijnaraja, a physician god. He is accounted among a series of medicine buddhas and typically depicted with stretched earlobes, and color is red. Buddhist/Tibet
- Abhiyoga, Hindu god who watches over lawsuits and litigation.
- Abira, Creator god. Antioquia
- Abominable snowman, a legendary creature, said to resemble a human, with long arms and a thickset body covered with reddish gray hair. Reports of its existence in the Himalayas have been made since 1832.
- Abnoba. Goddess of the hunt, similar to the Roman Diana. Celtic
- Abnona, Goddess who did not give her name to the river Avon. Gaul
- Abonsam. Malevolent spirit driven away by firing guns and shouting loudly, emptying houses of furniture and beating the interiors with sticks. Gold Coast
- Abora, supreme being, a god of the heavens. Canary Islands
- Aboz. A minor angel. Enochian
- Abraham aka Avraham, Ashkenazi, Avrohom, Avruhom, regarded as the founding patriarch of the Israelites and of the Arabic people in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. In that tradition, Abraham is brought by God from his home in the ancient city of Ur into a new land, Canaan, where he enters into a covenant: in exchange for sole recognition of Yahweh as supreme universal authority.
- Abu, Minor plant and vegetation god who sprung from head of Enki Mesopotamia
- Abuk, the first woman and patron goddess of women and gardens. south Sudan
- Absu aka Abziu, Primordial deity of underground water Mesopotamia/Sumeria
- Acala aka Achala, Acala, is the best known of the Five Wisdom Kings of the Womb Realm. Acala means "The Immovable One" in Sanskrit. Acala is also the name of the eighth of the ten stages of the path to buddhahood. Acala is the destroyer of delusion and the protector of Buddhism. Buddhist/India
- Abundantia aka Abundita. Goddess of agriculture, good fortune, prosperity and abundance. Roman
- Acacia. Acacia-wood was held in ancient times to be the “Wood of Life” and sacred to the sun god of Egypt.
- Academus. A hero of Attica. He told Castor and Pollux where Theseus had hidden Helen. He is sometimes identified with Cadmus. Greek
- Acat, God of tattoo artists. Mayan
- Acaviser aka Achvizr, Akhvizr, Akhuviztr, Goddess, one of the Lasas, the Etruscan Fate-Goddesses who include Alpan, Evan and Mean. Etruscan
- Acar. A minor angel ruled by Rzionr Nrzfm. Enochian
- Acca. A minor angel. Enochian
- Acca Laurentia, Or Larentia, a mythical woman who occurs in the stories in early Roman history.
- Accidents in theology. After consecration, say the Catholics, the substance of the bread and wine is changed into that of the body and blood of Christ, but their accidents, flavour, appearance and so on, remain the same as before.
- Acestes, a son of the Sicilian river-god Crimisus and of a Trojan woman of the name of Egesta or Segesta
- Acastus, a son of Pelias, king of lolcus, and of Anaxibia, or as others call her, Philomache.
- Acca Larentia, a mythical woman who occurs in the stories in early Roman history. Associated with Hercules she was a goddess of the earth and goddess of winter Roman/Etruscan
- Accasbel, a Partholan who is credited with making the first tavern in Ireland. Most likely was an early God of wine or meade. Rules over the vine harvest, Beltane's blessing of the meade. Ireland
- Acchupta, one of the sixteen Mahavidyas in the Jaina pantheon. Jain
- Acephali. A fabulous race of people, reported by ancient writers to have had no heads. Libya
- Achaeus, a son of Xuthus and Creusa, and consequently a brother of Ion and grandson of Hellen. Greek
- Achaiah. The angel into serenity, patience, tranquility and the secrets of nature. Christian
- Acheri. 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
- Acheron a son of Helios and Gaea or Demeter, and was changed into the river bearing his name in the lower world, because he had refreshed the Titans with drink during their contest with Zeus.
- Acherontian Books. The most celebrated books of augury in the world. They are the books which the Etruscans received from Tages, grandson of Jupiter.
- Acherusia A cavern on the borders of Pontus, said to lead down to the infernal regions. It was through this cavern that Hercules dragged Cerberus to earth.
- Achiyalatopa, Celestial giant monster with feathers of flint knives. Zuni
- Achle. Legendary hero of the Trojan War, from the Greek Achilles. Etruscan
- Achor. God of flies, worshipped by the Cyreneans, that they might not be annoyed with these tiny tormentors.
- Achtland, Goddess queen who no mortal man could sexually satisfy, so she took a giant from the faery realm as her mate. Celtic
- Aclla, Goddesses of war and virgins comparable to the Roman Vestal Virgins. Inca/Quechua
- Acolmiztli, Minor chthonic underworld god. Aztec
- Achlys, according to some ancient cosmogonies, the eternal night, and the first created being which existed even before Chaos. According to Hesiod, she was the personification of misery and sadness, and as such she was represented on the shield of Heracles: pale, emaciated, and weeping, with chattering teeth, swollen knees, long nails on her fingers, bloody cheeks, and her shoulders thickly covered with dust.
- Acis, according to Ovid (Metamorphoses I) a son of Faunus and Symaethis.
- Acmonian Wood. The trystplace of unlawful love. It was here that Mars had his assignation with Harmonïa, who became the mother of the Amazons.
- Acna, Mother goddess Mayan
- Acrisius, a mythical king of Argos, and a son of Abas and Ocalea (or Aglaea, depending on the author). He quarrelled constantly with his twin brother Proetus, inventing bucklers in the process, and in the end expelled him to Tiryns.
- Achelous, the god of the river Achelous which was the greatest, and according to tradition, the most ancient among the rivers of Greece.
- Achilles, the son of Peleus, king of the Myrmidones in Phthiotis, in Thessaly, and of the Nereid Thetis.
- Achilles' Armour, Hephaestus Makes Armour For Achilles
- Achiroe, according to Apollodorus ii Anchinoe, which is perhaps a mistake for Anchiroe, was a daughter of Nilus, and the wife of Belus, by whom she became the mother of Aegyptus and Danaus.
- Aclahayr. Of the fourth hour of the Nuctemeron, the genius spirit.
- Acmbicu. A senior of Air associated with Mercury. Enochian
- Acps. A minor angel. Enochian
- Acraea, a daughter of the river-god Asterion near Mycenae, who together with her sisters Euboea and Prosymna acted as nurses to Hera.
- Acragas. A son of Zeus and the Oceanid Asterope
- Acrar. A minor angel. Enochian
- Acrasia. Self—indulgence. An enchantress who lived in the “Bower of Bliss,” situate in “Wandering Island” She transformed her lovers into monstrous shapes, and kept them captives. Sir Guyon having crept up softly, threw a net over her, and bound her in chains of adamant; then broke down her bower and burnt it to ashes. Britain.
- Act of God. “Damnum fatale,” such as loss by lightning, shipwreck, fire, etc.; loss arising from fatality, and not from one's own fault, theft, and so on. A Devonshire jury once found a verdict — ” That deceased died by the act of God, brought about by the flooded condition of the river.”
- Actaea. A daughter of Nereus and Doris. Greek
- Actaeon, son of Aristaeus and Autonoe, a daughter of Cadmus. He was trained in the art of hunting by the centaur Cheiron, and was afterwards torn to pieces by his own 50 hounds on mount Cithaeron. The names of these hounds are given by Ovid (Metamorphoses III) and Hyginus.
- Actaeus. A son of Erisichthon, and the earliest king of Attica. He had three daughters, Agraulos, Herse, and Pandrosus, and was succeeded by Cecrops. Greek
- Actiacus. A surname of Apollo, derived from Actium, one of the principal places of his worship. Greek
- Actor, son of Aristaeus and Autonoe, a daughter of Cadmus. He was trained in the art of hunting by the centaur Cheiron, and was afterwards torn to pieces by his own 50 hounds on mount Cithaeron. The names of these hounds are given by Ovid (Metamorphoses III) and Hyginus.
- Acoran , Supreme Being of the Canary Islanders.
- Acuca. A minor angel. Enochian
- Acups. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aczinor. A senior of Earth associated with Jupiter. Enochian
- Ac Yanto, created European immigrants and their products. Mayan
- Adad, Son of Anu and the god of wind, storm, flood and rain. Giver of life in the fields. Mesopotamia/Babylonn
- Adam. The Talmudists say that Adam lived in Paradise only
twelve hours, and account for the time thus: —
The first hour, God collected the dust and animated it.
The second hour, Adam stood on his feet.
The fourth hour, he named the animals.
The sixth hour, he slept and Eve was created.
The seventh hour, he married the woman.
The tenth hour, he fell.
The twelfth hour, he was thrust out of Paradise.
The Mohammedans tell us he fell on Mount Serendib, in Ceylon, where there is a curious impression in the granite resembling a human foot, above 5 feet long and 2.5; feet broad. They tell us it was made by Adam, who stood there on one foot for 200 years to expiate his crime; when Gabriel took him to Mount Arafath, where he found Eve.
Adam was buried , according to Arabian tradition, on Aboucais, a mountain of Arabia. - Adamanthea, a nymph who nursed Zeus Greek
- Adamida, a planet on which reside the unborn spirits of saints, martyrs, and believers. U'riel, the angel of the sun, was ordered at the crucifixion to interpose this planet between the sun and the earth, so as to produce a total eclipse. Early Christian
- Adamisil Wedo aka Si Adaman, Goddess of water Haiti
- Adammas, along with Sophea, the male half of the first couple on the earth. Nassenes
- Adamastor. The spirit of the stormy Cape (Good Hope), described by Camoëns in the Lusiad as a hideous phantom. According to Barreto, he was one of the giants who invaded heaven.
- Adaran, according to the Parsee superstition, is a sacred fire less holy than that called Behram
- Adaro, 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
- Addanc aka adanc, addane, afanc, avanc, abhac, abac, a lake monster that also appears in Celtic and British folklore. It is described alternately as resembling a crocodile, beaver or dwarf, and is sometimes said to be a demon. The lake in which it dwells also varies; it is variously said to live in Llyn Llion, Llyn Barfog, near Brynberian Bridge or in Llyn yr Afanc, a lake in Betws-y-Coed that was named after the creature. Welsh
- Adekagagwaa, Spirit of summer who rests during the winter in the south. He governs all the weather spirits, and each of the spirits of the seasons. Iroquois
- Adeona, Goddess of school children Roman
- Aderyn y Corph. A supernatural bird which appears as a foreteller of death. Welsh
- Adessenarians. A term applied to those who hold the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but do not maintain that the bread and wine lose any of their original properties.
- Adha, (the slit—eared). The swiftest of Mahomet's camels.
- Adhab—al—Cabr. The first purgatory of the Mahometans.
- Adhyatman. The supreme spirit; the soul of the universe. Hindu
- Adi. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Adibuddha, the primeval buddha, is believed to be the primordial cosmic force from which the five dhyanibuddhas arose. This is the embodiment of the concept of emptiness.
- Adidharma, "the primeval law" Buddhist/Lamaist
- Adikia, the goddess of injustice and wrong-doing. She was depicted as an ugly barbarian woman with tattooed skin. Greek
- Adimurti, Avatar of Vishnu Hindu
- Adire. A minor angel. Enochian
- Adi-Shakti, the Female aspect of the Supreme Divine in Kinetic Dynamic Form. Hindu
- Adissechen. The serpent with a thousand heads which sustains the universe. Indian
- Aditi aka Adithi) a goddess of the sky, consciousness, the past, the future and fertility. References to her pre-date history. Hindu
- Adityas, Divine sons of Aditi, Varuna Aditya, Indra, Mitra, Rudra, Tvashtar and Vishnu Hindu
- Adhimukticarya, Minor goddess and deified Bhumis Buddhist/Vajrayana
- Adibuddha, Primeval Buddha Buddhist
- Admetus, a son of Pheres, the founder and king of Pherae in Thessaly, and of Periclymene or Clymene. (Apollodorus i) He took part in the Calydonian chase and the expedition of the Argonauts. (Apollodorus i)
- Adnop. A minor angel. Enochian
- Adnachiel. The angel of the sun sign Sagittarius. Ask him nicely and he'll grant you independence, honesty and chat-up lines. Christian
- Adoeoct. A senior of Fire associated with Jupiter. Enochian
- Adona. a seraph, the tutelar spirit of James, the "first martyr of the twelve." Christian
- Adonai, the mysterious spirit of pure mind, love, and beauty that inspires. Zanoni
- Adop. A minor angel. Enochian
- Adopa. A minor angel. Enochian
- Adoram, a seraph, who had charge of James the son of Alpheus. Christian
- Adota. A minor angel. Enochian
- Adrammelech. God of the people of Sepharvaim, to whom infants were burnt in sacrifice (Kings xvii, 31). Probably the sun.
- Adrammelech, Adramelech, a high chancellor of hell and president of the high council of devils. He can sometimes appear with a mule or a peacock. Middle east
- Adrastus, a son of Talaus, king of Argos, and of Lysimache. (Apollodorus i. 9.) Pausanias calls his mother Lysianassa, and Hygimis Eurynome.
- Adrasteia, a Cretan nymph, daughter of Melisseus, to whom Rhea entrusted the infant Zeus to be reared in the Dictaean grotto.
- Andraste War Goddess who was evoked on the eve of the battle to bring favor, and possibly ritual sacrifices were given to her. Queen Boadicea of the Iceni offered sacrifieces to Andraste in a sacred grove before fighting the Romans on her many compaigns against them.
- Adre. A minor angel. Enochian
- Adta. A minor angel. Enochian
- Adonai aka Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh, El, Elohim, Shaddai, Shalom, Yah, YHWH/YHWH Tzevaot, God. YHWH is often transliterated "Jehovah" or "Yahweh", but only by people outside of Jewish tradition.
- Adonis, a son of Cinyras and Medarme, according to Hesiod a son of Phoenix and Alphesiboea, and according to the cyclic poet Panyasis, a son of Tlieias, king of Assyria, who begot him by his own daughter Smyrna. (Myrrha.)
- Adrastea, an alternative name for Nemesis. British
- Adro, Earthly god of grass fires Lugbara
- Adroa, a god of the Lugbara people of central Africa. Adroa has two aspects: one good and one evil. He is the creator of Heaven and Earth, and he appears to those about to die. Adroa is depicted as a tall, white man with only half a body – one eye, one arm, one leg, one ear. Africa
- Adsullata, a river goddess, associated with the River Savus in the Balkans
- Aea, was the Nymph of a spring, well or fountain of the Black Sea town of Aia who was loved by the local river-god Phasis. Greek
- Aebhel aka Aeval, Goddess who in popular legend is a faery, who held a midnight court to hear the debate on whether the men were keeping their women sexually satisfied. She commanded that the men bow to the women's sexual wishes. Rules over Lust, sex magic, wisdom in making judgements. Ireland
- Aeetes, or Aeeta, a son of Helios and Perseis. (Theogony of Hesiod 957.)
- Aeacus, a son of Zeus and Aegina, a daughter of the river-god Asopus.
- Aegeria or Egeria. One of the Camenae. Roman
- Aegisthus, a son of Thyestes, who unwittingly begot him by his own daughter Pelopia. Immediately after his birth he was exposed, by his mother, but was found and saved by shepherds and suckled by a goat.
- Aed, Underworld god. Son of Lir and Aobh. Celtic/Ireland
- Aedos, the goddess or spirit of modesty, reverence and respect. She was a close companion of the goddess Nemesis. Roman
- Aegeirus. A Hamadryad nymph of the Oak tree. Greek
- Aegicores. A son of Ion, a king of Athens between the reigns of Erechtheus and Cecrops. Greek
- Aegina. A daughter of the river god Asopus.
- Aeolus, in the mythical history of Greece there are three personages of this name, who are spoken of by ancient writers as connected with one another, but this connexion is so confused, that it is impossible to gain a clear view of them.
- Aerial Demons. One of the six classes of demons identified by medieval theologians. They roam through the air but remain close to human beings.
- Aerten, Goddess of fate who presided over the battles of several Celtic clans. She is often equated to the Three Fates of Greco-Roman mythology. Welsh/Cornish
- Aesacus. A son of Priam and Arisbe, the daughter of Merops, from whom Aesacus learned the art of interpreting dreams.
- Aesymnetes. A surname of Dionysus, which signifies the Lord, or Ruler, and under which he was worshipped at Aroe in Achaia. Greek
- Aethalides. A son of Hermes and Eupolemeia, a daughter of Myrmidon. He was the herald of the Argonauts. Greek
- Aeschylus, The Plays
- Aeshma, a small hairy demon able to make men perform cruel acts. One of seven archangels of the Persians. Persian
- Aesir, Pantheon of the gods norse/germanic
- Aesma. An outrageous and assaulting demon, whose name has been thought to be reflected as Asmodaeus in the Book of Tobit. Persian
- Aesma Daeva, 'Fury'. Demon of lust and anger. Gets very angry at cows. Persia
- Aestas, Goddess of summer usually portrayed nude and adorned with garlands of grain. Roman
- Aeson, a son of Cretheus, the founder of lolcus, and of Tyro, the daughter of Salmoneus.
- Aether, Ether or Acmon, a personified idea of the mythical cosmogonies
- Aethra, a daughter of king Pittheus of Troezen. Bellerophon sued for her hand, but was banished from Corinth before the nuptials took place.
- Aethusa, a daughter of Poseidon and Alcyone, who was beloved by Apollo, and bore to him Eleuther. (Apollodorus iii)
- Agischanak, the kindly goddess of the Tlingit people of Alaska. A powerful goddess capable of supporting the pillar on which the earth rests.
- Afekan, Creator goddess. Melanesia/New Guinea
- Afi, God of rain and thunderstorms who does not tolerate women using his name. Abkhaz
- Afrasiab. A serpent identified by the Scythians with archfiend Ahriman.
- Agaliarept. A Grand General of Hell, commander of the second legion and possessed of the power to discover all secrets. He commands Buer, Guseyn, and Botis.
- Agaliarept. Commander of armies. Aussi General of hell. Hebrew
- Agares aka Aguares devil. Wierius' hierarchy states Agares is the demon of courage Grand Duke of the eastern regions of Hell, commander of thirty-one legions. Unk
- Agaman Nibo, Goddess of the dead. Haiti
- Ag'o, Worshipped by hunters. Dahomean
- Agas, Demon of illness, especially the eyes. Iran
- Aega, a daughter of Olenus, who was a descendant of Hephaestus. Aega and her sister Helice nursed the infant Zeus in Crete, and the former was afterwards changed by the god into the constellation called Capella. Greek
- Briareus, also called Aegaeon, a son of Uranus by Gaea. Aegaeon and his brothers Gyges and Cottus are known under the name of the Uranids (Theogony of Hesiod), and are described as huge monsters with a hundred arms and fifty heads. (Apollodorus i. Theogony of Hesiod )
- Aegeus, according to some accounts a son of Pandion II. king of Athens, and of Pylia, while others call him a son of Scyrius or Phemius, and state that he was only an adopted son of Pandion.
- Aegir, The Norse god who presides over the stormy sea. He entertains the gods every harvest, and brews ale for them.
- Aesun, Irish early god whose name means "to be." Most likely part of a lost creation myth. Aesun was also known by the Persians and Umbria and Scandinavia. Ireland
- Aethusa, a daughter of Poseidon and Alcyone, who was beloved by Apollo, and bore to him Eleuther. (Apollodorus iii)
- Aegis, in Homer, is the shield or buckler of Zeus, fashioned for him by Hephaestus, furnished with tassels and bearing the Gorgon's head in the centre. Originally symbolic of the storm-cloud, it is probably derived from aisso, signifying rapid, violent motion.
- Aeneas, the son of Anchises and Aphrodite, and born on mount Ida. On his father's side he was a greatgrandson of Tros, and thus nearly related to the royal house of Troy, as Priam himself was a grandson of Tros. He was educated from his infancy at Dardanus, in the house of Alcathous, the husband of his sister.
- Aequitas aka Aecetia, was the goddess of fair trade and honest merchants. Like Abundantia, she is depicted with a cornucopia, representing wealth from commerce. Roman
- Aericura aka Erecura, Herecura, Eracura, was a goddess worshipped in ancient times, often thought to be Celtic in origin, mostly represented with the attributes of Proserpina and associated with the Roman underworld god Dis Pater. Roman/Celtic
- Agave, daughter of Cadmus, and wife of the Spartan Echion, by whom she became the mother of Pentheus, who succeeded his grandfather Cadmus as king of Thebes. Agave was the sister of Autonoe, Ino, and Semele (Apollodorus iii), and when Semele, during her pregnancy with Dionysus, was destroyed by the sight of the splendour of Zeus, her sisters spread the report that she had only endeavoured to conceal her guilt, by pretending that Zeus was the father of her child, and that her destruction was a just punishment for her falsehood.
- Aegle, 1. The most beautiful of the
Naiads, daughter of Zeus and Neaera by
whom Helios begot the Charites.
2. A sister of Phaeton, and daughter of Helios and Clymene. In her grief at the death of her brother she and her sisters were changed into poplars.
3. One of the Hesperides.
4. A nymph, daughter of Panopeus, who was beloved by Theseus, and for whom he forsook Ariadne.
5. One of the daughters of Aesculapius by Lampetia, the daughter of the Sun, according to Hermippus or by Epione, according to Suidas. She is said to have derived her name Aegle, "Brightness," or Splendour," either from the beauty of the human body when in good health, or from the honour paid to the medical profession. - Aepytus, one of the mythical kings of Arcadia. He was the son of Eilatus and originally ruled over Phaesana on the Alpheius in Arcadia. When Cleitor, the son of Azan, died without leaving any issue, Aepytus succeeded him and became king of the Arcadians, a part of whose country was called after him Aepytis.
- Aetna, a Sicilian nymph, and according to Alcimus, a daughter of Uranus and Gaea, or of Briareus. Simonides said that she had acted as arbitrator between Hephaestus and Demeter respecting the possession of Sicily.
- Aeval aka Aibell Aoibhell, was a goddess or fairy queen of Munster. She determined if husbands were sexually satsifying their wives. Celtic
- Af Bri. An angel who makes it rain. Christian
- Afreet, aka Ifrit, efreet, ifreet, afrit, are a kind of Jinn mentioned in the Qur'an. Arabic
- Afriel. Angel who safeguards children, though not that well. Christian
- Aftiel. The angel of twilight. Christian
- Agamemnon, a son of Pleisthenes and grandson of Atreus, king of Mycenae, in whose house Agamemnon and Menelaus were educated after the death of their father. (Apollodorus. iii. ) Homer and several other writers call him a son of Atreus, grandson of Pelops, and great-grandson of Tantalus.
- Agares, one of the fallen angels, of the order of the virtues who governs thirty-one legions, appears riding a crocodile and carrying a sparrowhawk.
- Agasaya, "The Shrieker," was a Semitic war goddess who was merged into Ishtar in her identity as warrior of the sky.
- Agathos, Good guardian spirit, the personification of good fortune, Greek
- Agb. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Agdistes. The god who kept the porch of the “Bower of Bliss.” He united in his own person the two sexes, and sprang from the stone Agdus, parts of which were taken by Deucalion and Pyrrha to cast over their shoulders, after the flood, for re—peopling the world. Greek
- Age, God of animals. Revered by hunters in the savannah regions. Benin, West Africa
- Agla. A cabalistic name of God, formed from the initial letters of Attâh, Gibbor, Leholâm, Adonâi (Thou art strong for ever, O Lord !).
- Agnar, A son of King Hraudung and foster-son of Frigg. Norse
- Aglm. A minor angel. Enochian
- Agmlm. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aglibol, a lunar deity in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. His name means "Calf of Bel" ("Calf of the Lord"). He is depicted with a Lunar disk decorating his head, and sometimes his shoulders. Roman/Syria/Greek/Palmaryia
- Agloolik, Good spirit that lived under the ice and helped with hunting and fishing. Inuit
- Agni, God of lightning, fire, and the sun and who also mediates between the gods and humans. India
- Agni Hindu, God of fire and guardian of homes. Vedic
- Agnikumara, Youthful appearing gods associated with rain and thunder Jain
- Agnostos Theos, Unknown gods who were always worshipped as a group Greek
- Agdistis, a mythical being connected with the Phrygian worship of Attes or Atys. Pausanias relates the following story about Agdistis. On one occasion Zeus unwittingly begot by the Earth a superhuman being which was at once man and woman, and was called Agdistis. The gods dreaded it and unmanned it, and from its severed genitalia there grew up an almond-tree.
- Agenor, a son of Poseidon and Libya, king of Phoenicia, and twin-brother of Belus. (Apollod. ii. 1. § 4.) He married Telephassa, by whom he became the father of Cadmus, Phoenix, Cylix, Thasus, Phineus, and according to some of Europa also. 2 3 4 5 6
- Agla. An acronymic, representing the Hebrew phrase: "Ateh Gibor le-Olam Adonai", ie. "Thou art mighty forever,O Lord". Often found in magical or Qabalistic texts.
- Aglaia, one of the Charites. 2. The wife of Charopus and mother of Nireus, who led a small band from the island of Syme against Troy. Another Agiaia is mentioned in Apollodorus. (Apollodorus. ii)
- Agrat Bat Mahalat, goddess known for her role as sexual temptress and seductress. According to the Talmud, she is the "spirit of uncleanness". Semitic
- Agraulos, a daughter of Actaeus, the first king of Athens. By her husband, Cecrops, she became the mother of Erysichthon, Agraulos, Herse, and Pandrosos. 2. A daughter of Cecrops and Agraulos, and mother of Alcippe by Ares.
- Agrona, a goddess of strife and war worshipped in Britain. The river Aeron in Wales comes from her name. Welsh
- Agrotera, the huntress, a surname of Artemis. At Agrae on the Ilissus, where she was believed to have first hunted after her arrival from Delos, Artemis Agrotera had a temple with a statue carrying a bow. Greek
- Agu'gux, lives with his community in a land of snow. Like all other humans, Agu’gux is composed of all he knows and all he has ever known. Aleut
- Aguara, Fox god who gave the carob tree to the people Tunpa/Chiriguano
- Agwe, Mother of the sea Benin
- Agwe, Goddess manifestation of Yemanja Haiti/Vodun
- Agwe, God of the ocean Vodun
- Agweta, Haitian sea goddess. Daughter of Agwe.
- Agyieus, a surname of Apollo describing him as the protector of the streets and public places. Greek
- Ahaozpi. A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the East.
- Ahat, Cow goddess Egypt
- Ah Bolom Tzacab. Meaning "the lead-nosed god," he was a god of agriculture, thunder and rain. He was depicted with a leaf in his nose. Mayan
- Ah Bolon Dz'acab, Fertility god associated with rain and thunder Mayan
- Ah Can Cum, Hunter god; protector of the animals Mayan
- Ah Chuy Kak, God of war Mayan
- Ah Ciliz, God of solar eclipses Mayan
- Ah Cun Can, God of war Mayan
- Ah Chun Caan, Deity of the city of Merida Mexico
- Ahenobarbus, "Red-Beard," a plebeian whose black hair and beard turned red after being stroked by the Dioscuri. Greek
- Ahnt Alis Pok', Very small goddess, only two feet tall who lives with her mother. Mexico
- Ahnt kai, Goddess of women and children. Daughter of Koo-mah'mm hahs-ay' tahm (First Woman). She flies at night and lives above the peak of Tiburon. Mexico
- Aholibah. The personification of prostitution. Used by the prophet to signify religious adultery or harlotry. Islam
- Aholibamah. A granddaughter of Cain, loved by the seraph Samiasa. She is a proud, ambitious, queen—like beauty, a female type of Cain. When the flood came, her angel—lover carried her under his wings to some other planet.
- Ahone, Supreme deity of the Powhatan who was indifferent to worship. Virginia
- Ah Hulneb. Associated with the island of Cozumel, he was a god of war. Ah Hulneb means "he the spear thrower." Mayan
- Ah Kin, God of the sun, who brings drought but protects man from the powers of evil associated with darkness Mayan
- Ah Kin Xoc, God of poetry, a singer and musician Mayan
- Ah Kinchil, God of war and the sun Mayan
- Ah Kumix Unicob, Small attendant water gods Mayan
- Ah Mun, God responsible for protecting the green maize Mayan
- Ah Muzecab, Bee gods Mayan
- Ah Patnar Uinicob, Large water gods Mayan
- Ah Peku, Thunder god who lives on the tops of hills Mayan
- Ah Puch, God of death Mayan
- Ahsonnutli, the sky father and chief god for the Navajo. He created heaven, Earth, and the sky.
- Ahuiateteo aka Macuiltonaleque, five gods who personify excess. Aztec
- Ahuic, Ocean-Goddess, invoked by women giving birth. Aztec
- Ahuitzotl, a man-eating water-dwelling dog-monkey with a hand on its tail. Aztec
- Ahulane. A war god, also called the archer. The island Cozumel was the location of Ahulane's shrine.
- Ahura Mazda, an exalted divinity of ancient proto-Indo-Iranian religion that was subsequently declared by Zarathustra (Zoroaster) to be the one uncreated creator of all. Persia
- Ahurani, Goddess of rain and water Persia
- Aha. An angel of the fire used in magical operations. Christian
- Ahadiel. An angelic hitman. Christian
- Ah Tabai, God of hunting Mayan
- Ah Uaynih, Goddess of sleep, specifically males Guatemala
- Ah Unicir Dz'acab, God of healing Mayan
- Ah Uuc Ticab, Minor vegetation and fertility god Mayan
- Ah Wink ir Masa, Nature goddess Guatemala
- Aha, Female river spirit Yakut
- Ahasverus. Better known by the name of the Wandering Jew.
- Ahau Chamahez, One of two gods of medicine Mayan
- Ahau Kin. Meaning "lord of the sun face," he was a sun god and moon god; he had two manifestations. At night, he became a jaguar god and lord of the underworld. Mayan
- Ahmakiq. An agriculture god who protected crops from the wind. Mayan
- Ahemait, Underworld goddess who eats the souls of the unworthy. Egypt
- Aheramenmthoou, God of thunder, night, storms, wind, landslides and tidal waves. Egypt
- Ahi. A serpent aka Vritra, the Vedic demon of drought. Hindu
- Ahlmakoh. A demoniac wood-spirit. His nasal mucus plays an important part in rituals and is valued as an amulet for invulnerability. Vancouver Islands
- Ahnfrau. An ancestress whose spirit appears to give warning of an approaching disaster or death. German
- Ahti aka Ahto, god of streams, lakes and sea. Egypt
- Ahriman, aka Arimanius or Angra Mainya, stood high in the ranks of the enemies who opposed Ahura Mazda (aka Ohrmazd or Oromasdes). Ahriman is thought to be the first personification of "the Devil" the supreme evil spirit and lord of the darkness and death.
- Ahulane. A war god, also called the archer. The island Cozumel was the location of Ahulane's shrine. Mayan/Persian/Zoroastrian
- Aibell, Goddess of Munster whose legends were almost lost until she was 'demoted' to a faery queen. She had in her possession a magickal harp which did her bidding, but which human ears could not hear or else the eavesdropper would soon die. She was associated with stones and leaves. Ireland
- Aibheaeg, Fire goddess who had a magic well that contained mighty healing powers, especially effective against toothache so long as the petitioner left a small white stone at the well to represent the decayed tooth. She is associated with wells and the number 5. Ireland
- Ai Ada, God of the moon. Husband of Kun, Goddess of the sun. Turkey
- Aialila'axa, Goddess of the moon. She holds in her arms a rabbit, a symbol of fertility, whose profile can be seen on the face of the moon. Mexico
- Ai Apec, Supreme god who rules the destinies of the world. Fond of strangling shore demons. Peru
- Aiaru, Goddess who predicts death. One of the Seven Guardians of the World. Polynesia
- Aida Wedo, Goddess of the rainbow and fresh water Benin/Haiti
- Aidin, Goddess of love and sexuality Celtic
- Aido Wedo aka Haida Wedo, Aida Oedo, Haida Oedo, Goddess of fire Haiti
- Aides, another name for Hades. Greek
- Aidoneus, a mythical king of the Molossians, the husband of Persephone, and father of Core. Greek
- Aijo, Goddess of evil Estonia
- Ailsie, "Devoted to God". Goddess of water and pools Cherokee
- Aino, the name Fuji is believed to be derived from "Huchi" or "Fuchi", the words for the Aino Goddess of Fire. Japan
- Aipalovik, Evil god of the sea that liked to chew wooden boats. Inuit
- Airsekui, Great spirit invoked at times of great danger. Huron
- Airyaman, God of social bonds, contracts, and marriage who at the end of time will fish souls of the the temporarily damned called a Hell by using a net Persia
- Ai Tojon, God who created all light. Yakut
- Ai Tupua'i, Goddess of healing and of war. Polynesia
- Aife aka Aoife. Goddess and queen of the Isle of Shadow. She ran a school for warriors, but her school was less successful than her sister, Scathach's, school. Aife was not vulnerable to magic, and commanded a legion of fierce horsewomen. She stole an alphabet of knowledge from the deities to give to humankind. For that infraction, she was transformed into a crane by the elder deities. Ireland/Scotland
- Aige, Goddess of water and bays Ireland
- Aimend. Minor Sun Goddess who is thought to be the daughter of the king of the region known as Corco Loidhe. Ireland/Scotland
- Aine, a faerie goddess, sister to Fennine, daughter to Egogabal who was a king of the Tuatha de Danann. Ireland
- Aine of Knockaine. Moon Goddess who was connected with the Summer Solstice. Goddess of war, fertility, love and Midsummer Lair Derg Ireland
- Aigipan, one of the rustic gods known as Panes, son of Aix and Zeus and a companion of Pan, with whom he is sometimes identified, and Dionysus.
- Aigra. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aira. A minor angel with power over medicine. Aira is ruled by Angpoi Unman. Enochian
- Airavat. An elephant produced at the churning of the ocean and appropriated by the god Indra. Hindu
- Airi. The ghost of someone who killed in hunting. Those who see him face to face are burnt by the flash of his eye, or are torn to pieces by his dogs, or have their livers extracted and eaten by the fairies who accompany him. Indian
- Aim, aka Haborym, Aym, is a fire demon and a duke of hell, who commands 26 legions. He appears holding a torch and riding a viper and he has 3 heads: a serpent, a man, and a cat.
- Aïrapadam. The white elephant, one of the eight which, according to Indian mythology, sustain the earth.
- Aisha aka A'ishah, Ayesha, A'isha, or Aisha, "she who lives", was a wife of Muhammad. In Islamic writings, she is thus often referred to by the title "Mother of the Believers"
- Aisha Qandisha, "loving to be watered" a jinniya (female spirit), recognized by her beautiful face, pendulous breasts and goat legs. She was wanton and free, seducing young men, despite having a jinn-consort named Hammu Qaiyu. Her name strongly suggests a connection to the Qadesha, the sexually free temple women of Canaan who served Astarte. Morocco
- Aitu, ghosts or spirits, often malevolent. Polynesia
- Aitvaras, a household spirit in Lithuanian mythology. An Aitvaras looks like a white or black rooster with a fiery tail. An Aitvaras may hatch from an egg of a 9 – 12 year old rooster. If the Aitvaras dies, he becomes a spark.
- Aius Locutius, Loquens, was a Roman numen associated with the Gallic invasions of the early 4th century. In 390 BC, the Gauls moved in the direction of Rome. According to Roman folklore, a Roman named Caedicius kept hearing a disembodied nocturnal voice at the base of the Palatine hill in the Forum Romanum. The voice warned Caedicius of the oncoming attack and recommended that the walls of Rome be fortified.
- Aix, a nymph and the wife of Pan. She was seduced by Zeus and bore him Aigipan. Aix is also mentioned as the nurse of the infant Zeus and may also identified with the Gorgon Aix.
- Aizen-Myo-o, the god of love and lust. Originally a Hindu deity, Ragaraja, Aizen Myo-o became part of Buddhism, and Kobo Daishi Kukai transmitted the teaching of him to Japan. Japan/Shinto
- Aja, is the son of king Raghu, and thus a scion of the Ikshavaku dynasty, who claimed descent from the sun-God Surya. His paternal grandfather was the pious king Dileepa. King Aja's consort was the heavenly nymph Indumati; they were the parents of King Dasaratha of Ayodhya, who was the father of Rama.
- Aja is an Orisha, patron of the forest, the animals within it and herbal healers, whom she taught their art.
- Among the Yoruba, aja also refer to a "wild wind". It's believed that if someone is carried away by aja, and then returns,he becomes a powerful "jujuman". The journey supposedly will have a duration of between seven days to three months, and the person so carried is thought to have gone to the land of the dead or heaven (0run).
- Ajalamo, God of unborn children. Nigeria, West Africa
- Ajax, a great Greek warrior, son of Telamon, king of Salamis, by Periboea or Eriboea and a grandson of Aeacus.
- Ajax aka the Lesser Ajax, mistreated Cassandra and threatened her with his pet dragon. Greek
- Aje, Goddess of wealth who appears as a fowl scratching the earth and was sent down with Oduduwa, the earth goddess.
- Ajisukitakahikone, a god of thunder. He is the brother of Takemikazuchi and of Kaminari (Raijin). In infancy, his crying and screaming were so loud that he had to be placed in a boat and sailed around the islands of Japan until he was calm. In adulthood, he was the father of Takitsuhiko, a rain god.
- Ajalamo Yoruba, God of fetuses. west Africa()/Nigeria
- Ajatar, Goddess of evil Finnish
- Ajax,
- Ajaya, Minor goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Ajbit, One of the thirteen creator gods who helped construct humanity from maize. Mayan
- Aje, Goddess of wealth in all its forms Yoruba
- Aji-Suki-Taka-Hi-Kone, God of thunder Japan
- Ajok, Chief god Louko
- Ajtzak. One of the thirteen creator gods who helped construct humanity from maize. Mayan
- Ajysyt Yakut, Goddess of healing and birth. she writes every new birth into a golden book. Siberia
- Aka, Mother goddess Turkey
- Akandoji, this monster had stolen a great deal of gold and silver from the villagers. It was said that he was so terrible that no one dared go against him, to try to recover the riches. Shinto
- Akasagarbha, Bodhisattva one of the eight great bodhisattvas. His name can be translated as "boundless space treasury" or "void store" as his wisdom is said to be boundless as space itself. He is sometimes known as the twin brother of the "earth store" bodhisattva Ksitigarbha. In Japan he is known as Kokuzo. Buddhist/India
- Akatriel. The angel who sits close to God and speaks for Him. Christian
- Aken, Underworld god and keeper of the underworld ferryboat. Egypt
- Aker, God of the earth who guards in the entrance to the underworld. He rules rver earth, fields, poisons, anecdotes, weaving. Egypt
- Akerbeltz, Avatar of the god Mari Basque
- Akewa, Sun and war goddess Toba
- Akhushtal, Goddess of childbirth Mayan
- Akhkhazu. “The Seizer.” An evil spirit, who had the power of securing his victim under his control. Babylonian
- Akka, the consort of Ukko. Finland
- Akonadi, Oracle goddess of justice Ghana
- Akratos. The spirit of the unmixed wine. Greek
- Akuj, Chief deity associated with the sky. Turkana Africa
- Akert khentet auset[s], Book of the dead deity. Egypt
- Akeru, Pluralistic earth gods. Egypt
- Akongo, Supreme and creator god. Ngombe
- Aksobhya, 'immovable' or 'imperturbable' - is the name given to a Buddha who is said to reside in the eastern paradise of Abhirati. Buddhist
- Akuan, the giant whom Rustan slew. Persian
- Akuman. The most malevolent of all the Persian gods.
- Aktunowihio, Soul of the earth and a subterranean spirit. Cheyenne
- Akupara. The turtle on which the earth rests. Hindu
- Akusaa, Goddess of war and sunset. Egypt
- Akuti. The daughter of Manu, who was given to Ruchi. Her twins, Yajña and Dakshina, became husband and wife and had twelve sons, the deities called Yamas. Hindu
- Akycha, goddess of war in Alaska, god of the sun. Inuit
- Al Borak. The animal which carried Mahomet to the seventh heaven. Brought by Gabriel, he had a human face, the cheeks of a horse and the wings of an eagle and spoke good Arabic.
- Al Raqim. The dog of the Seven Sleepers, now in Paradise and in charge of letters and other correspondence. Quran
- Al Shua, Goddess of Ursa Major. India
- Al Uzza, Goddess of the dawn. Arabic
- Ala aka Ale, Ana, Ani, Chthonic fertility goddess who is also goddess of the underworld linked with a cult of the dead, which rest in her womb . Ibo Eastern Nigeria, West Africa
- Al-A’war. A son of Iblis, a jinn who encourages debauchery and jolly bonking. Jewish
- Alabandus, a Carian hero, son of Euippus and Calirrhoe, whom the inhabitants of Alabanda worshipped as the founder of their town.
- Alagonia, a daughter of Zeus and Europa, from whom Alagonia, a town in Laconia, derived its name. Greek
- Alalcomeneis, a surname of Athena, derived from the hero Alalcomenes, signifies "powerful defender".
- Alacomenia, one of the daughters of Ogyges, who as well as her two sisters, Thelxionoea and Aulis, were regarded as supernatural beings, who watched over oaths and saw that they were not taken rashly or thoughtlessly. Greek
- Alako, Sent to the earth as a human to reveal the secret laws and a band of lore of the the gypsies, he stayed over in a the moon. Norway/Gypsy
- Alalahe, Goddess of love. Polynesia
- Alalu, the first king of the heavens in Babylonian mythology.
- Alasnam's Mirror. The “touch—stone of virtue,” given to Alasnam by one of the Genii. If he looked in this mirror it informed him whether a damsel would remain to him faithful or not. If the mirror remained unsullied so would the maiden; if it clouded, the maiden would prove faithless. Arabian
- Alatangana, with Sa, one of two creator deities he created land from swamp and placed vegetation on earth. He then eloped with the Sa's daughter and fathered seven boys and seven girls. Kono - Eastern Guinea, West Africa
- Alaisiagae, Early British house and altar god.
- Alalus, First heavenly King who lasted for 9 years. The eldest of all Hittite gods. Alalus was the father of the Hittite pantheon.
- Albadara. A bone which the Arabs say defies destruction, and which; at the resurrection, will be the germ of the new body. The Jews called it Luz and the “Os sacrum” refers probably to the same superstition.
- Albion. Son of a forgotten Sea God who may have been part of a lost creation myth. Was once said to rule the Celtic world. His name became the poetic name for Britain.
- Albion the Giant. Fourth son of Neptune, sixth son of Osiris, and brother of Hercules, his mother being Amphitrita. Albion the Giant was put by his father in possession of the isle of Britain, where he speedily subdued the Samotheans, the first inhabitants. His brother Bergion ruled over Ireland and the Orkneys. Another of his brothers was Lestrigo, who subjected Italy.
- Albunea, a prophetic nymph or Sibyl, to whom in the neighbourhood of Tibur a grove was consecrated, with a well and a temple. Near it was the oracle of Faunus Fatidicus. (The Aeneid by Virgil vii)
- Alcestis by Euripides
- Alcinous, a son of Nausithous, and grandson of Poseidon. His name is celebrated in the story of the Argonauts, and still more in that of the wanderings of Odysseus.
- Alastor, a tormenting spirit or a Nemesis.
- Alcidameia. A wife of Hermes and mother to Bunus.
- Alcippe, daughter of Ares and Agraulos, the daughter of Cecrops. Halirrhothius, the son of Poseidon, intended to violate her, but was surprised by Ares, and killed, for which Poseidon bore a grudge against Ares. (Apollodorus iii.)
- Alcmaeon, a son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and brother of Amphilochus, Eurydice, and Demonassa. (Apollodorus iii) His mother was induced by the necklace of Harmonia, which she received from Polyneices, to persuade her husband Amphiaraus to take part in the expedition against Thebes.
- Alcmene, a daughter of Electryon, king of Messene, by Anaxo, the daughter of Alcaeus. According to other accounts her mother was called Lysidice or Eurydice.
- Aldebaran. The sun in Arabian mythology. In astronomy, the star called the Bull's eye in the constellation Taurus.
- Alecto. One of the Furies, whose head was covered with snakes. Greek
- Alectorian Stone. A stone said to be of talismanic power, found in the stomach of cocks. Those who possess it are strong, brave, and wealthy. Milo of Crotona owed his strength to this talisman. As a philtre it has the power of preventing thirst or of assuaging it. Greek
- Aleria. One of the Amazons, and the best beloved of the ten wives of Guido the Savage. Orlando Furioso
- Aleyin, Major God of springs and rainy-season vegetation. 'He who rides the clouds' often has with him seven companions and eight wild boars. Phonecian
- Alichino, wing—drooped. A devil, in The Inferno of Dante.
- Alicon. The seventh heaven, to which Azrael conveys the spirits of the just. Islam
- Alfr, An elf, fairy; a class of beings like the dwarfs, between gods and men. They were of two kinds: elves of light (Ljosalfar) and elves of darkness (Dokkalfar). The abode of the elves is Alfheimr, fairy-land, and their king is the god Frey. Norse
- Alfodr or Alfadir [Father of all]. The name of Odin as the supreme god. Norse
- Alifanfaron the giant. Don Quixote attacked a flock of sheep, which he declared to be the army of the giant Alifanfaron. Similarly Ajax, in a fit of madness, fell upon a flock of sheep, which he mistook for Grecian princes.
- Alisanos, a personification of “alder-tree forestation. Celtic/France
- Alloces, commands thirty-six legions. He dresses as a knight and rides a horse. His face is characteristic of a lion, with an inflamed complexion and fervent eyes. He is said to teach astronomy and liberal arts.
- All Saints or All Hallows. In 610 the Pope of Rome ordered that the heathen Pantheon should be incorporated into the Christian church, and the principle members changed to Chritian martyrs. The festival of All Saints was first held on May 1st, but in the year 834 it was changed to November 1st. “Hallows” is from the Anglo—Saxon hálig(holy).
- Almha, Goddess of the Tuatha De Danann and a hill in southern Ireland was named for her. Ireland
- Almoshi. Goddess of animals. Siberia
- Aloeidae, Aloiadae, Aloadae, are patronymic forms from Aloeus, but are used to designate the two sons of his wife Iphimedeia by Poseidon: viz. Otus and Ephialtes.
- Alope, a daughter of Cercyon, who was beloved by Poseidon on account of her great beauty, and became by him the mother of a son, whom she exposed immediately after his birth.
- Aloeus, 1. A son of Poseidon and Canace. He married Iphimedeia, the daughter of Triops, who was in love with Poseidon, and used to walk by the sea-side, take her hands full of its water, and sprinkle her bosom with it. The two sons whom she had by Poseidon were called Aloeidae. 2. A son of Helios by Circe or Antiope, who received from his father the sovereignty over the district of Asopia.
- Alohura. The lightning goddess of the beTrobi people. Mentioned in The Colour of Magic.
- Alpheus, Alpheus as man. Hunting in the forests of Greece, Alpheus saw Artemis and desired her. Alpheus as a river (present Alfeios River) and river-god, thus like most river-gods a son of Oceanus and Tethys.
- Alpleich or Elfenreigen, the weird spirit—song, the music which some hear before death.
- Allat, a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess who was one of the three chief goddesses of Mecca and one of three goddesses that the pre-Islamic Meccans referred to as "The Daughters of God". Arabic
- Alfs, male ancestral spirits. Norse
- Alignak, a lunar deity and god of weather, water, tides, eclipses and earthquakes. Inuit
- Alii Menehune, Chief of the Little People. His favorite food is the mai'a (banana) Hawaii
- Alimon. Angel of body armour who protects from gunshot wounds and pointed sticks. He's helped by Reivtip and Tafthi. Christian
- Alkuntam of the Bella Coola, might be Thunder related. Coola
- Alkonost, 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.
- Allah, God Middle east
- Alaghom Naom aka Alaghom Naom Tzentel and the Mother of Mind. A goddess of wisdom, consciousness, education and the intellect. Mayan
- Allatum, Underworld goddess Iranian
- Alphito, "the White Goddess," originally the Danaan Barley-goddess of Argos. Greek
- Alrinach. The demon who causes shipwrecks and presides over storms and earthquakes. Appears in the form and dress of a woman. Eastern mythology
- Altan Telgey, Goddess of the earth Mongol
- Alte. “The Old One" A field-spirit in human form. German
- Alwantin. The spirit of a pregnant woman who died in childbirth. Deccan
- Altria, Ancient goddess of the earth. Etruscan
- Alu. “The strong one”. A Babylonian demon.
- Aluelp. An Indian nymph, who was passionately loved by Dionysus, but could not be induced to yield to his wishes, until the god changed himself into a tiger, and thus compelled her by fear to allow him to carry her across the river Sollax, which from this circumstance received the name of Tigris. Greek
- Aluluei, God of knowledge. Caroline Islands
- Almaqah aka Ilmuqah, the moon god of the South Arabian kingdom of Saba and the Ethiopian kingdoms of D'mt and Aksum. The ruling dynasty of Saba regarded themselves as his children. Arabic
- Alom, sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity. Mayan
- Alpanu aka Alpan, goddess of love and one of the Lasas, and a ruler of the underworld. Possibly equated with the Greek goddess Persephone. In art, she was usually depicted as a nude or semi-nude winged maiden. Etruscan
- Ala, Goddess of fertility, morality and of justice. Nigeria
- Ala Ibo, Goddess of the earth in its dual aspect of fertility and death. Nigeria
- Ala Muki, Goddess of rivers who takes the form of a dragon. Polynesia
- Alaghom Naom goddess of wisdom, consciousness, education and the intellect. Also known as Alaghom Naom Tzentel and the Mother of Mind. Mayan
- Alatangana Kono, One of the two creator deities, this god created land from swamp Africa(west)/Guinea
- Alaunus, a personification of ‘Brilliance’. Celtic
- Alauwaimis, Demon who drives away evil and sickness Hittite
- Albasta, Goddess of evil. She has a big head and massive breasts. Slavic
- Albina, Dawn goddess and protector of ill fated lovers. Etruscan
- Alephus, Minor river god. Greek
- Alfhild, Goddess of wrestling norse
- Alraune. A Kobold who brings gold through the chimneys. East Friesland
- Alruna—wife. The Alrunes were the lares or penates of the ancient Romans. An Alruna—wife was the household goddess of a German family. An Alruna—maiden is a household maiden goddess.
- Althaea, a daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius and Eurythemis, and sister of Lecla, Hypermnestra, Iphiclus, Euippus, etc. She was married to Oeneus, king of Calydon, by whom she became the mother of Troxeus, Thyreus, Clymenus, and Meleager, and of two daughters, Gorge and Deianeira. (Apollodorus i) Apollodorus states, that according to some, Meleager was regarded as the fruit of her intercourse with Ares, and that she was mother of Deianeira by Dionysus.
- Amanikable, God of the sea. Philippines
- Amano-Iwato, means "The cave of the sun god" of "heavenly rock cave". In Japanese mythology, Susanoo, the Japanese god of the seas, was the one who drove Amaterasu into Ame-no-Iwato. This caused the sun to hide for a long period of time.
- Amata. The wife of king Latinus and mother of Lavinia.
- Amathes. A son of Heracles, from whom the town of Amathus in Cyprus was believed to have derived its name.
- Amathusia. A surname of Aphrodite, which is derived from the town of Amathus in Cyprus.
- Amatongo. A generic name for ghosts. Zulu
- Amatsu-Mikaboshi, "August Star of Heaven"; also called Ama-no-kagaseo "Brilliant Male" is the god of evil and of the stars, specifically the pole star. Japan/Shinto
- Ama-no-Koyane-no-mikoto, is a kami, a male deity of the Japanese religion of Shinto. He is one of the deities of Kasuga Shrine, Nara, Japan and is considered to be an ancestor of the Fujiwara family. Japan/Shinto
- Ama No Uzume, the goddess of dawn and revelry in the Shinto. She famously relates to the tale of the missing sun deity, Amaterasu. Japan
- Ama-arhus, Babylonian and Akkadian fertility goddess
- Amaethon aka Amathaon ‘great ploughman’, was a son of Don and an agricultural deity. Celtic
- Amaimon. One of the chief devils whose dominion is on the north side of the infernal gulf. He might be bound or restrained from doing hurt from the third hour till noon, and from the ninth hour till evening. Hebrew
- Amalivaca. A Native American spirit, who had seven daughters. He broke their legs to prevent their running away, and left them to people the forests.
- Amatiel. The angel of spring. Christian
- Amagandar, Protective female spirits who protect innocent souls from the curse that belongs anothers. Siberia
- Amarum. One of the most formidable demons, he father of witchcraft and appears in the form of a huge water-boa. Quichas, Equador
- Amasagnul, Goddess of fertility Babylon/Akkadia
- Amaterasu, the sun goddess, grandmother of Jimmu Tenno, the first ruler of Japan.
- Amat-Asherat. Minor Goddess of alchemy and conjuration. Banished by El to the desert, where she raised shinx-like creatures with a lion and a human head to fight Baal. Phonecian
- Amayicoyondi, Goddess of the sky and the wife of Niparaja, the omnipotent supreme god and creator of heaven and earth. Peru
- Amba, Goddess of the earth, one of the deities of Pre-Aryan race, which Aryans absorbed in their pantheon. India
- Anbay and Haukim. God of justice and an oracular source Arabic
- Amberella, became the Princess of the Seas after being drawn into a whirlpool by the Prince of the Seas. They lived in a fabulous undersea palace of amber. Baltic
- Ambika. A feminine personification of Parvati in Hindu mythology who could transform herself into the fearsome Kali and kill demons with a supersonic hum. Hindu
- Ambriel. The angel of ungarbled messages. Christian
- Ame no Uzume no Mikoto, heavenly deity of divine movement, meditation, marriage and joy. Japan/Shinto
- America Kokudo Kunitama-no-O-Kami, Shinto deity of America.
- Amaterasu, Sun Goddess, to unite the gods, she is given the highest respect The Great Ise Shrine in the east coast of Japan is dedicated to her. called Amaterasusume Omikami. Japan/Shinto
- Amchi-malghen. The guardian-nymph of the Chilians.
- Amelenwa, goddess of rivers, and justice. Because she is merciless and unforgiving, her followers try to avoid offending her. Ghana
- Amimitl, a god of lakes and fishermen. Aztec
- Amitolane, Rainbow spirit. Zuni
- Ama, goddess of the dark and of the underworld. Siberia
- Amagandar, female spirits of protection. Tungus
- Amm, moon god worshipped in ancient Qataban. The inhabitants of that South Arabian kingdom referred to themselves as the Banu Amm, or the "Children of Amm".
- Amma, Creator god. He first created the sun from a clay pot and coils of copper and the moon using a clay pot and brass. Black people were created from sunlight and white from moonlight. He then proceeded to circumsise the earth goddess, whose clitoris was an anthill and their first offspring was a jackal. She then got pregnant by rain and produced plants. He then became the father of mankind. Dogon Mali, West Africa
- Ame-No-Kagase-Wo, Astral sky god. Japan/Shinto
- Ame-No-Mi-Kumari-No-Kami, Goddess of water, lakes, rain and rivers. Japan/Shinto
- Ame-No-Minaka-Nushi-No-Kami, (Exalted Musubi Deity), who is later related to the gods of the heaven; Kami-musubi no Kami (Sacred Musubi Deity), related to the gods of the earth; and Ame no Minaka-nushi no Kami (Heavenly Centre-Ruling Deity). Some Shinto scholars hold that all Shinto deities are manifestations of Ame no Minaka-nushi no Kami.
- Ame-No-Tanabata-Hime-No-Mikoto, star god identified with the Pole-star, is believed to guard the land and to prevent disasters, and more particularly to cure eye-diseases. Japan/Shinto
- Ame-No-Toko-Tachi-No-Kami, heavenly deity, the fifth deity formed, who is interpreted as ”Eternal Law, which is formless, but acts upon existing matter.” Japan/Shinto
- Antiewo, The Great Serpent who comes out after the rain. The rainbow is his reflection. West Africa
- Amaunet, Goddess of fertility. Egypt
- Ambrosia, in ancient mythology, Ambrosia is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods. The word has generally been derived from Greek a- ("not") and mbrotos ("mortal"); hence the food or drink of the immortals. Thetis anointed the infant Achilles with ambrosia and passed the child through the fire to make him immortal - a familiar Phoenician custom - but Peleus, appalled, stopped her.
- Ambisagrus aka Bussumarus. Originally from Gaul, where his Celtic identity was lost during the Roman takeover where he took all the characteristics of the Roman God Jupiter. Weather deity who controlled the rain, wind, hail and fog. Britain
- Amdusias, aka Amduscias, governs twenty-nine legions. His true form is as a unicorn, but appears as human form when summoned.
- Am-Heh, Underworld god and minor deity who lives in a lake of fire. Egypt
- Amen aka Amoun, Amun, Amon, Ammon. "Hidden God"; "Great Father." Phallic deity sometimes pictured with the head of a ram and other times pictured as a man with a crown with two tall straight plumes. He rules over reproduction, fertility, generation, wind, air, prophecy, agriculture. Egypt
- Ament, aka Amenti, "The Westerner," "hidden goddess." Goddess of the Underworld and consort of Amen. She greeted all dead people to the land of the dead with bread and water. If they ate and drank, they could not return to the land of the living. Egypt/Libya
- Amesha, the seven divine beings who belong to the retinue of Ahura Mazda. Spentas/Yazatas
- Ame-Waka-Hiko, "Heaven prince young", the disloyal son of Ame no Kuni-dama who shot a pheasant with a heavenly deer-bow and heavenly feathered arrows. Taka-mi-musubi no Mikoto took up the arrow and flung it back down to earth. This arrow hit Ame-waka-hiko on the top of his breast and killed him. Japan/Shinto
- Amida-Nyorai, presides over the Pure Land of the Western Paradise, the Japanese people turned to him at their moment of death. Buddhist/Japan
- Ami, God of fire Egypt
- Amihan, god of the North Wind. Philippines
- Ami Neter Description: A singing god who rules over winds and song. Egypt
- Ami Pi Description: A lion god. Egypt
- Anitan, Guardian of lightning. Philippines
- Anitun Tabu, Goddess of wind and rain. Philippines
- Ammavaru, Primordial mother goddess who laid an egg that hatched into the divine trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Hindu/India/Dravidian
- Ammit, Goddess who ate the hearts of unworthy souls. Egypt
- Amoghasiddhi, Fifth meditation Buddha. He is one of five mystic spiritual counterparts of the human buddha in Vajrayana Buddhism; a product of Adibuddha who represents the branch of the cosmos concerned with consciousness. Buddhist
- Amoghapasa, brings believers hope and tranquility. Amoghapasa has four pairs of arms. One pair is held with palms together in a prayerful attitude. Some are raised, others are held slightly away from the body. The hands may be in symbolic positions called mudra or may hold symbolic articles like a lotus blossom, symbol of compassion; a monk's staff; a whisk representing the brushing away of earthly cares; and the lasso. Buddhist
- Ammon, God of air, wind, sun, reincarnation, war. Egypt
- Amn, Goddess of justice. Egypt
- Amon, God of agriculture, fertility and long life. Egypt
- Amotken, creator god of the Salish, a kind, elderly man who lives alone in heaven. He created five women from five hairs from his head and asked them what they wanted to be. Each gave him a different answer: wickedness and cruelty, goodness, mother of the Earth, fire, water. Amotken did as they asked and declared that wickedness would rule Earth for a time, but goodness would win in the end.
- Apheidas. A son of Arcas by Leaneira, or according to others, by Meganeira, Chrysopeleia, or Erato.
- Amphidamas, a son of Lycurgus and Cleophile, and father of Antimache, who married Eurystheus. (Apollodorus iii) According to Pausanias and Apollonius Rhodius (Argonautica) he was a son of Aleus, and consequently a brother of Lycurgus, Cepheus, and Auge, and took part in the expedition of the Argonauts.
- Amphilochus, a son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle, and brother of Alcmaeon. (Apollodorus iii) When his father went against Thebes, Amphiloehus was, according to Pausanias, yet an infant, although ten years afterwards he is mentioned as one of the Epigoni, and according to some traditions assisted his brother in the murder of his mother.
- Amphitrite, according to Hesiod (Theogony) and Apollodorus a Nereid, though in other places Apollodorus calls her an Oceanid. She is represented as the wife of Poseidon and the goddess of the sea (the Mediterranean), and she is therefore a kind of female Poseidon.
- Amaltheia, the nurse of the infant Zeus after his birth in Crete. The ancients themselves appear to have been as uncertain about the etymology of the name as about the real nature of Amaltheia. Hesychius derives it from the verb to nourish or to enrich, others from firm or hard; and others again from to signify the divine goat, or the tender goddess. The common derivation is from to milk or suck.
- Amitabha, a celestial buddha described in the scriptures of the Mahayana school of Buddhism. According to these scriptures, Amitabha possesses infinite merits resulting from good deeds over countless past lives as a bodhisattva named Dharmakara. Buddhist/India
- Amithba. The boddhisattva of 'infinite light'. Amithba represents the primordial, self-existent Buddha. This god was born from a lotus and ceaselessly stretches out aid to the weak and faltering. Amithba became a popular way of salvation for many Buddhists because he was the archetype of compassion, gentle and easygoing.
- Ammon. Originally an Aethiopian or Libyan divinity, whose worship subsequently spread all over Egypt, parts of Africa, and many parts of Greece. The real Egyptian name was Amun or Ammun.
- Amnisiades, the nymphs of the river Amnistis in Crete, who are mentioned in connexion with the worship of Artemis there. (Argonautica.)
- Amon, commands forty legions, can appear in the form of a wolf with a serpent's tail and vomiting flames. In human form, he has the head of an owl and his beak shows canine teeth. He was the supreme diety of the Egyptians, who had blue skin in human form. Amon can tell of the past and the future, and reconcile the differences between friends.
- Amphiaraus, a son of Oicles and Hypermnestra, the daughter of Thestius. On his father's side he was descended from the famous seer Melampus.
- Amphictyon, a son of Deucalion and Pyrrha or according to others an autochthon, who after having married Cranae, the daughter of Cranaus, king of Attica, expelled his father-in-law from his kingdom and usurped his throne. He ruled for twelve years, and was then in turn expelled by Erichthomus.
- Amphion, a son of Zeus and Antiope, the daughter of Nycteus of Thebes, and twin-brother of Zethus.
- Amphistratus. With his brother Rhecas were the charioteers of the Dioscuri. Greek
- Amponyinamoa, creator goddess of Ghana. She carries a head and a brass pan.
- Ampulus. A Hamadryad nymph of the Vine tree.
- Amrita. The elixir of immortality, made by churning the milk—sea. Hindu
- Amsox. A minor angel. Enochian
- Amurru, or Martu are also names given in Akkadian and Sumerian texts to the god of the Amorite/Amurru people, often forming part of personal names. He is sometimes called Ilu Amurru. Sometimes described as a 'shepherd', and as a son of the sky-god Anu.
- Amsu, God of fertility. Egypt
- Amu, Dawn God. Egypt
- Amun. An Egyptian deity who combined with the sun god to become Amun-Re, Amun was paramount in the Egyptian pantheon during the height of the pharaonic empire.
- Amunet, Goddess of mystery. Egypt
- Amunos. Lesser God of village life. Brother of Magos. Phonecian
- Amutnen, Goddess of Milk Cows. Egypt
- Amymone, one of the daughters of Danaus and Elephantis. When Danaus arrived in Argos, the country, according to the wish of Poseidon, who was indignant at Inachus, was suffering from a drought, and Danaus sent out Amymone to fetch water.
- Amycus, a son of Poseidon by Bithynis, or by the Bithyaiian nymph Melia. He was ruler of the country of the Bebryces, and when the Argonauts landed on the coast of his dominions, he challenged the bravest of them to a boxing match.
- Amyclas, a son of Lacedaemon and Sparta, and father of Hyacinthus by Diomede, the daughter of Lapithus. He was king of Laconia, and was regarded as the founder of the town of Amyclae.
- Amythaon, a son of Cretheus and Tyro and brother of Aeson and Pheres. He dwelt at Pylos in Messenia, and by Idomene became the father of Bias, Melampus, and Aeolia.
- Amphitryon, or Amphitruo a son of Alcaeus, king of Troezen, by Hipponome, the daughter of Menoeceus. Pausanias calls his mother Laonome.
- An, The god of Heaven at the E'anna temple. Pan-Mesopotamian
- An, God of the Underworld and chief deity Sumeria
- Anael, aka Hanael or Aniel, an angel in Jewish lore and angelology, and is often included in lists as being one of the seven archangels. Haniel is generally associated with the planet Venus. Babylon
- Anael. The prince of the Archangels and one of the seven angels of creation. He is in charge of Fridays, Venus, the moon and human sexuality. Christian
- Anahita, "Queen of Heaven", name means "unstained" or "immaculate", was an ancient Persian deity.
- Anaitis, Goddess of fertility Persia
- Anakadundubhi. “Drums”, the father of Lord Krishna, a name of Vasudeva called thus because the drums of heaven resounded at his birth. Hindu
- Anala, is one of the Vasus, gods of the material world. He is equated with Agni, and the name usually used for Agni when listed among the Vasus. Hindu/Puranic
- Anahita, Goddess of water and war. Babylon/Egypt
- Ananga. “The bodyless”; it is a name of Kama, god of love. Hindu
- Ananke, the Protogenos of inevitability, compulsion and necessity and the personification of destiny, unalterable necessity and fate. She was also the mother of Adrasteia and of the Moirae. She was rarely worshipped until the creation of the Orphic mystery religion. In Roman mythology, she was called Necessitas ("necessity"). From Herodotus, The History Book Eight
- Ananta, the world serpent in Hindu mythology. During the night of Brahma, Vishnu sleeps on coils of prodigious snake, Sesha, also known as Ananta, 'the endless' whose thousand heads rise above the deity like a canopy. This scene and everything in it, the deities’ serpentine couch, the water on which the snake lies, are all manifestations of the primeval essence. Hindu/Puranic
- Ananse, Creator of the sun, stars, day, moon and night who often intercedes between gods and mortals Ashanti
- Anapel, "Little Grandmother" Goddess who presides over birth and reincarnation Koryak
- Anasuya, that is, the charity, was wife of an ancient Indian rishi (sage) named Atri. In the Ramayana, she appears living with her husband in a small hermitage in the southern periphery of the forest of Chitrakuta. She was very pious, and always practiced austerities and devotion. Hindu
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- Anat, a violent war-goddess and the sister of the great Ba‘al known as Hadad. Warrior virgin, slayer of snakes, goddess of fertility. Ugarit
- Anat. Major Goddess of battle, bloodshed, and hunting, renowned for her hot temper and excitability. She killed the God Mot (temporarily) for her brother's sake. Daughter of Baal, sister of Aleyin. She appears as a maiden who rides a lion and carries shield, spear, and axe. Phonecian
- Anat in Egypt, Anat first appears in Egypt in the 16th dynasty (the Hyksos period) along with other northwest Semitic deities. She was especially worshipped in her aspect of a war goddess, often paired with the goddess ‘Ashtart. In the Contest Between Horus and Set, these two goddesses appear as daughters of Re and are given in marriage to the god Set, who had been identified with the Semitic god Hadad.
- Anat in Mesopotamia. In Akkadian the form one would expect ‘Anat to take would be Antu earlier Antum. This would also be the normal femanine form that would be taken by Anu, the Akkadian form of An 'Sky', the Sumerian god of heaven. Antu appears in Akkadian texts mostly as a rather colorless consort of Anu, the mother of Ishtar in the Gilgamesh story, but is also identified with the northwest Semitic goddess ‘Anat of essentially the same name. It is unknown whether this is an equation of two originally separate goddesses whose names happened to fall together or whether ‘Anat's cult spread to Mesopotamia where she came to be worshippped as Anu's spouse because the Mesopotamia form of her name suggested she was a counterpart to Anu.
- Anat in Israel. The goddess ‘Anat is never mentioned in Hebrew scriptures as a goddess, though her name is apparently preserved in the city names Beth Anath and Anathoth. Anathoth seems to be a plural form of the name, perhaps a shortening of bêt ‘anatôt 'House of the ‘Anats', either a reference to many shrines of the goddess or a plural of intensification. The ancient hero Shamgar son of ‘Anat is mentioned in Judges 3.31;5:6 which raises the idea that this hero may have been imagined as a demi-god, a mortal son of the goddess.
- Anat and Athene In a Cyprian inscription the Greek goddess Athêna Sôteira Nikê is equated with ‘Anat. Anat is also presumably the goddess whom Sanchuniathon calls Athene, a daughter of El, mother unnamed, who with Hermes (that is Anubis) councelled El on the making of a sickle and a spear of iron, presumably to use against his father Uranus. However, in the Baal cycle, that rôle is assigned to Asherah / Elat and Anat is there called the "Virgin."
- Ananta. The coiled serpent of infinite time. Shesha
- Anantesa, Minor deity and one of the eight Lords of of knowledge Hindu/Puranic
- Anatu, Goddess of the sky and ruler of the earth. Consort of the sky god Anu. Mesopotamia
- Anaxithea. One of the daughters of Danaus and the mother of Olenus by Jupiter.
- Anaulikutsaix, Goddess of rivers of ancestral knowledge, spiritual warriors, wisdom, instinct, determination and persistence. Very fond of salmon. Pacific.
- Andescociuoucus, Early British equivilent to the Roman Mercury.
- Anatis, Goddess of the moon. Egypt
- Andate ('Victory'), the grave of Andate was where the members of the Boudican Revolt conducted various sacrificial acts. Early Roman Britain.
- Andromache. A daughter of Eetion, king of the Cilician Thebae, and one of the noblest and most amiable female characters in the Iliad. Her father and her seven brothers were slain by Achilles at the taking of Thebae, and her mother, who had purchased her freedom by a large ransom, was killed by Artemis. Greek
- Ancasta. A Goddess who survives only in her name through an inscription on a stone in Hampshire. It is a possibility she is related to Andraste. Britain
- Ancasta, Warrior Goddess, may be taken to be a local goddess, associated with the River Itchen. British
- Andhaka. Son of Kasyapa and Diti, a demon with a thousand arms and heads, two thousand eyes and feet. Though he walked like a blind man he could see very well. Hindu
- Andjety, Underworld god of the ninth nome. Egypt
- Andriambahomanana - In Madagascan mythology the first man. He dies to become a banana, which soon puts forth shoots anew.
- Andvari, Andvare, The name of a pike-shaped dwarf; the owner of the fatal ring called Andvaranautr. Norse
- Andvare-Force. The force or waterfall in which the dwarf Andvare kept himself in the form of a pike fish. Norse
- Andvarenaut. The fatal ring given Andvare (the wary spirit). Norse
- Anfial. One of the game wardens of the celestial safari park. Christian
- Angatch, an evil spirit. Madagascar
- Angels, Messengers between the heaven and earth, with nine orders at present. Christian/Jewish/Islam
- Angel of Darkness, often said to be Satan or the fallen Lucifer. Christian
- Angel of Death, the appointed servant of God, with the task of bringing an end, at the appointed time, to the lives of humans. Pan-cultural. Pan-religions
- Angels of the Mansions of the Moon. There are twenty-eight angels, who rule in the twenty-eight mansions of the moon; Geniel, Enediel, Anixiel, Azariel, Gabriel, Dirachiel, Scheliel, Amnediel, Barbiel, Ardefiel, Neciel, Abdizuel, Jazeriel, Ergediel, Atliel, Azeruel, Adriel, Egibiel, Amutiel, Kyriel, Bethnael, Geliel, Requiel, Abrinael, Agiel, Tagriel, Atheniel, Amnixiel.
- Angels of Vengeance, twelve angels among the first formed at Creation, although according to official Catholic doctrine, all angels were formed simultaneously. Only five are mentioned by name: Saten'el, Michael, Uriel, Rappheal and Nathan'el.
- Angels Of Prayer. Seven angels who convey the prayers of the saints to God. Akatriel, Gabriel, Metatron, Raphael, Sandalphon, Sizouse and Michael. Christian
- Angels of the Rain. Matriel, Matarel, Matariel, Ridya and Zalbesal.
- Angels of the Wind. Moriel, Ruhiel, Ben Nez and Rujiel
- Angel-year, according to Cornelius Agrippa and other occult philosophers, the year of an angel is 365 mortal years.
- Angelus. A surname of Artemis, according to some accounts the original name of Hecate.
- Angelus. A son of Poseidon, whom, together with Melas, he begot by a nymph in Chios.
- Angerecton. The angel in charge of fumigation.
- Angerona, Goddess of anguish, secrecy, silence and the winter solstice. According to one class of passages she is the goddess of anguish and fear, that is, the goddess who not only produces this state of mind, but also relieves men from it. Roman
- Angiaks, a child of the living dead in Eskimo lore. These are created during harsh times when an unwanted baby is taken out into the snow by a tribe's elders to die of exposure.
- Angitia, taught the people remedies against the poison of serpents, and had derived her name from being able to kill serpents by her incantations. Greek
- Angoulaffre of the Broken Teeth, a giant “12 cubits in height.” His face measured 3 feet across; his nose was 9 inches long; his arms and legs were each 6 feet; his fingers 6 inches and 2 lines; his enormous mouth was armed with sharp pointed yellow tusks. He was descended from Goliath, and assumed the title of “Governor of Jerusalem.” Angoulaffre had the strength of 30 men, and his mace was the trunk of an oak—tree 300 years old. Some say the Tower of Pisa lost its perpendicularity by the weight of this giant, who one day leaned against it to rest himself. He was slain by Roland, the paladin; in single combat at the Fronsac. France
- Angurvadel. Frithiof's sword, inscribed with Runic letters, which blazed in time of war, but gleamed with a dim light in time of peace. Norse
- Angus. A Gaelic god of amorous dalliance. A son of Dugda, his harp was so sweet that whoever heard must follow; his kisses became invisible love-whispering birds.
- Angpetu Wi, the sun spirit. Dakota
- Angpoi Unnax, the Divine name ruling life, the universe and everything else. Enochian
- Angus Mac Og, aka Angus of the Brugh, Oengus of the Bruig, Angus Mac Oc, Aengus MacOg.One of the Tuatha De Danaan who had a golden harp that could create incredibly sweet music. He had a brugh (fairy palace) on the banks of the Boyne.
- Angwusnasomtaka, a kachina, a spirit represented by a masked doll (also called a kachina). She is a wuya, one of the chief kachinas and is considered the mother of all the hú and all the kachinas. She led the initiation rites for new children, whipping them with yucca whips. Hopi
- Ancient Fragments by I. P. CoryThe Theology Of The Phœnicians.
- Andriaahoabu, High Lady who descends to earth on a silver chain Madagascar
- Aniger, a minor goddess of squashed animals. Witnessed by thinking "Oh God, what was that I hit?". Mentioned in Hogfather.
- Anigrides, the nymphs of the river Anigrus in Elis.
- Anima Mundi [the soul of the world ], with the oldest of the ancient philosophers, meant “the source of life”; with Plato, it meant “the animating principle of matter,” inferior to pure spirit: with the Stoics, it meant “the whole vital force of the universe.”
- Aningan, The moon, brother to the sun whom Moon chases across the sky. Aningan has a great igloo in the sky where he rests. Irdlirvirissong, his demon cousin, lives there as well. The moon is a great hunter, and his sledge is always piled high with seal skins and meat. Inuit
- Anguta, Gatherer of the dead. Anguta carries the dead down to the underworld, where they must sleep with him for a year. Inuit
- Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Ge, a mighty giant and wrestler in Libya, whose strength was invincible so long as he remained in contact with his mother earth.
- Ancaeus, 1. A son of the Arjadian Lycurgus and Creophile or Eurynome, and father of Agapenor. He was one of the Argonauts and partook in the Calydonian hunt in which he was killed by the boar. (Apollodorus i. 9.) 2. A son of Poseidon and Astypalaea or Alta, king of the Leleges in Samos, and husband of Samia, the daughter of the river-god Maeander, by whom he became the father of Perilaus, Enodos, Samos, Alitherses, and Parthenope.
- Anceta, aka Angizia, Anagtia, Anagtia, Anguitia, Anguitina, Angitia. A healing and snake Goddess who was especially revered by the Marsi, a warlike tribe of people who lived to the east of Rome. Roman
- Anchises, a son of Capys and Themis, the daughter of Ilus. His descent is traced by Aeneas, his son, from Zeus himself. (Apollodorus iii) Hyginus makes him a son of Assaracus and grandson of Capys.
- Ancro. A minor angel. Enochian
- Andhrimner. The cook in Valhalla. Norse
- Andras, a Great Marquis of Hell who commands thirty legions, has the body of an angel and the head of an owl. He rides a black wolf and carries a saber. He can give advice on how to kill, and he can escalate quarrels and discord.
- Andraemon, the husband of Gorge, the daughter of the Calydonian king Oeneus, and father of Thoas. When Diomedes delivered Oeneus, who had been imprisoned by the sons of Agrius, he gave the kingdom to Andraemon, since Oeneus was already too old.
- Androgeus, a son of Minos and Pasiphae, or Crete, who is said to have conquered all his opponents in the games of the Panathenaea at Athens. Greek
- Andromeda, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia. Mother thought she and daughter were more beautiful than any of Poseidon's many nymphs, and she taunted the God of the Seas until he just couldn't take it any longer. Poseidon punished the vain mother by chaining her daughter naked to a rock, to be sacrificed to a dreadful sea monster. Greek
- Andarta, a warrior goddess worshipped in southern Gaul. Inscriptions to her have been found in Bern, Switzerland as well as in southern France. Like the similar goddess Artio, she was associated with the bear. Celtic/Gaelic
- Anieros, early earth goddess, who with her daughter Axiocersa, personified the earth in spring and in autumn Roman/Phrygian
- Anila, one of the Vasus, gods of the elements of the cosmos. He is equated with the wind god Vayu, Anila being understood as the name normally used for Vayu when numbered among the Vasus. Hindu/Puranic
- Anilas. The forty-nine deities connected with Anila, the wind. Hindu
- Animisha. “One who does not wink”, a general epithet of all Indian gods.
- Anito. The souls of the ancestors worshiped as household deities. Irayas, Catalangans. Luzon
- Anitor, by the virtue of these most holy Angelic Names do I clothe myself, O Lord, in my Sabbath garments, that so I may fulfil, even unto their term, all things which I desire to effect through Thee, Most Holy ADONAY, Whose kingdom and rule endure for ever and ever. Amen. From the Key of Solomon
- Anjea, Fertility spirit. People's souls reside within her in between their incarnations. Australia
- Ankalamman, Guardian goddess who wards off demons. Sister of Draupadi. Hindu/Dravidian
- Andriam, primeval goddess springing from, or living in, a rock Indonesian
- Angerboda.[Anguish-creating]. A giantess; mother of the Fenris-wolf by Loke. Norse.
- Anextiomarus, a Celtic epithet of the sun-god Apollo recorded in a Romano-British inscription from South Shields, England. The form is a variant of Anextlomarus 'Great protector', a divine style or name attested in a fragmentary Gallo-Roman dedication from Le Mans, France. Anextlomarus is also attested as a Gaulish man's father's name at Langres, and a feminine divine form, Anextlomara, appears in two other Gallo-Roman dedications from Avenches, Switzerland. Roman/British
- Angeyja. One of Heimdal's nine mothers. The Elder Edda says in the Lay of Hyndla : Nine giant maids gave birth to the gracious god, at the world's margin. These are: Gjalp, Greip, Eistla, Angeyja, Ulfrun, Eyrgjafa, Imd, Atla, and Jarnsaxa. Norse.
- Anhouri, Minor god. Egypt
- Anhur, aka Anher, Anhert. Official God of the nome Abt and its capital. Rules over War, Sun and the sky. Egypt.
- Angru Mainya aka Angra Mainya, another name for Ahriman the chief antagonist of Ahura Mazdah. Persia
- Aniel. An angelic guard who tries to stop the West wind escaping through the gates.
- Anna Kuari, Local vegetation goddess who can give good crops and make a man rich, but to induce her to do so it is necessary to offer human sacrifices. India/Oraon
- Annalia, Goddess of rivers, also the goddess of prostitutes. Africa
- Annallja Tu Bari, Goddess of sexual desire. Sudan
- Annapatni, Goddess of food Hindu
- Annapurna, A Hindu avatar of Durga who ruled over food production. India
- Annar or Onarr, Husband of night and father of Jord (the earth). Norse
- Annis aka Black Anna, Black Anny, Black Agnes, Cat Anna, Leicester witch with very sharp nails who wore a skirt made from the skins of her human prey. Britain/Celtic
- Annwn. The British Hades, represented as a sea-girdled, revolving fortress. Celtic
- Anpao, the god of death. Son of Mider and Fuamnach. Celtic
- Aondo, creator god who lives in the sky and sends the sun each morning. Central Nigeria, West Africa
- Ani-lbo, Goddess of Birth, Death, Happiness and Love Africa
- Anog Ite. Double-Face Woman. Caught while attempting to replace Hanwi by seducing Wi, She is condemned to bear two faces, one beuatiful and the other hideous. Lakota
- Anoia. The minor goddess of Things That Stick in Drawers. She eats corkscrews and is responsible for Things Down The Backs of Sofas. Appears in Wintersmith
- Anp. Spirit of light, especially the reddish sunlight of dawn. Lakota
- Anqa. A fabulous bird of enormous size which inhabits the Caucasus range. Turkish
- Ansa, a solar deity and one of the Adityas.Hindu/Puranic
- Ansar, an Islamic term that literally means "helper" and denotes the Medinan citizens that helped Muhammad and the Muhajirun on the arival to the city after the Migration to Medina
- Anshur aka Ashur, or Asshur, a sky god and the husband of his sister Kishar ("earth axle"); they are the children of the serpents Lahmu and Lahamu, and the parents of Anu and Ea. He is sometimes depicted as having Ninlil as a consort. As Anshar, he is progenitor of the Akkadian pantheon; as Ashur, he is the head of the Assyrian pantheon
- Aqhat. Mortal and hero, handsome and favoured of the gods, who gave him a divine bow. Anat coveted it and had her henchman Yatpan kill him for it, but the bow was destroyed in the act. Phonecian
- Anqet, aka Anuket, Anukis, "The Clasper." Water Goddess of the Nile Cataracts. Her symbal was the cowrie shell. Pictured as a woman donning a tall plumed crown. Also has been depicted as having four arms. Rules Over: Producer and giver of life, water. Egypt/Libya
- Antaboga, Underworld serpent deity. At the beginning of time, only Antaboga existed. Antaboga meditated and created the world turtle Bedwang from which all other creations sprang. Indonesia
- Antai, the goddess of mercy, healing and whooping cough. India
- Antassus, Antasus or Antassos. The father of Melas. (maybe). Greek
- Anteros, (Anterôs) was the son of Ares and Aphrodite, given to his brother Eros, who was lonely, as a playmate. He is the personification of unrequited love and punisher of those who scorn love, and is depicted as similar to Eros in every way, but with long hair and butterfly wings. The term was also used for the love which arises in the beloved boy in a pederastic relationship.
- Anti, Guardian deity of the eastern sky. Egypt
- Anti—Christ or the Man of Sin, expected by some to precede the second coming of Christ. St. John so calls every one who denies the incarnation of the eternal Son of God. Christian
- Antiope, a daughter of Nycteus and Polyxo or of the river god Asopus in Boeotia. She became by Zeus the mother of Amphion and Zethus, Dionysus threw her into a state of madness on account of the vengeance which her sons had taken on Dirce. In this condition she wandered about through Greece, until Phocus, the grandson of Sisyphus, cured and married her. She was buried with Phocus in one common tomb.
- Antimachus, a Trojan, who, when Menelaus and Odysseus came to Troy to ask for the surrender of Helen, advised his countrymen to put the ambassadors to death. It was Antimachus who principally insisted upon Helen not being restored to the Greeks. He had three sons, and when two of them, Peisander and Hippolochus, fell into the hands of Menelaus, they were both put to death.
- Anaxibia, 1. A daughter of Bias and wife of Pelias, by whom she became the mother of Acastus, Peisidice, Pelopia, Hippothoe, and Alcestis. (Apollodorus) 2. A daughter of Cratieus, and second wife of Nestor. (Apollodorus) 3. A daughter of Pleisthenes, and sister of Agamemnon, married Strophius and became the mother of Pylades.
- Anthriel. The angel of balance, and moderation.
- Antu aka Antum, a goddess, the first consort of Anu. They were the parents of the Anunnaki and the Utukki. Antu was replaced as consort by Ishtar or Inanna, who may also be a daughter of Anu and Antu. She is similar to Anat. Babylon/Akkadia
- Anuanaitu. Soul of the ocean, member of a sea monster family. Goddess of the ocean and whirlpools Caribbean, S. America
- Anuradha, a goddess of good luck. Like her sister, Bharani, she is a daughter of Daksha and a wife of Chandra. Hindu/Puranic
- Anteros, the son of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology, given to his brother Eros, who was lonely, as a playmate. He is the personification of unrequited love and punisher of those who scorn love, and is depicted as similar to Eros in every way, but with long hair and butterfly wings. Greek/Etruscan
- Antevorta, Goddess of childbirth, invoked by pregnant women, to avert the dangers of child-birth. Roman
- Antheia, the blooming, or the friend of flowers, a surname of Hera, under which she had a temple at Argos. Before this temple was the mound under which the women were buried who had come with Dionysus from the Aegean islands, and had fallen in a contest with the Argives and Perseus. Antheia was used at Gnossus as a surname of Aphrodite. Greek
- Anu aka Anann, Dana, Dana-Ana, Catana. Mother Earth, Great Goddess, Greatest of all Goddesses. Another aspect of the Morrigu. The fertility Goddess, sometimes she formed a trinity with Badb and Macha. Her priestesses comforted and taught the dying. Fires were lit for her on Midsummer. Guardian of cattle and health. Ireland
- Anubis, aka Anpu, Sekhem Em Pet. Messenger from the gods to humans. Pictured with the head of a jackal or dog, or as a dark colored jackal. He, with Maat, weighed human souls for truth and he rules over Wisdom, intelligence, death, embalming, endings, truth, justice, surgery, hospital stays, finding lost things, anesthetics, medicine, journeys, protection, boats, diplomacy, astral travel, cemeteries. Egypt
- Anuket, Goddess of water and of rivers. Egypt
- Anukis, Birth goddess and of the cataracts of the lower Nile. Egypt
- Anulap, a god of magic and knowledge in the mythology of Micronesia, who teaches these things to humanity. He is the husband of the creator goddess Ligobubfanu, and may be a creator deity himself.
- Anumati, a lunar deity and goddess of wealth, intellect, children, spirituality and prosperity. Also Anumati is a type of full moon day in which the moon remains slightly cut and not fully full moon called as Chaturdashi bhiddha purnima Sanskrit
- Anunit aka Anunitu, the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess Astarte. Anunit, Astarte and Atarsamain are alternative names for Ishtar. Chaldea
- Anunnaki aka Anunnaku, Ananaki, a group of Sumerian and Akkadian deities related to, and in some cases overlapping with, the Annuna (the 'Fifty Great Gods') and the Igigi (minor gods). Babylon
- Anyigba, an aspect of Trowo. Ewe god-created beings.
- Aondo, sky-dwelling Supreme Being. Nigeria
- Anzety, God and King of Busiris. Egypt
- Aon, a son of Poseidon, and an ancient Boeotian hero, from whom the Boeotian Aonians and the country of Boeotia (for Boeotia was anciently called Aonia) were believed to have derived their names.
- Aeolos, Custodian of the four winds. Greek
- An Zu, Goddess of chaos Assyria
- Aonian. Poetical, pertaining to the Muses. The Muses, according to Grecian mythology, dwelt in Aonia, that part of Boetia which contains Mount Helicon and the Muses' Fountain. Greek
- Apa. One of the eight Vasus who serve the god Indra Hindu/Puranic
- Apa. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Apacita, Guardian spirit. Represented by a pile of stones by the side of mountain passes and trails. He was invoked by travellers to safeguard their journeys. Inca
- Apahr. A minor angel. Enochian
- Apanchomene, the strangled goddess, a surname of Artemis.
- Apate, a daughter of Nyx, the personification of deceit. She was one of the evil spirits in Pandora's box. Her Roman equivalent was Fraus. Greek
- Apdoce. A senior of Fire associated with Mercury. Enochian
- Aphr. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aplst. A minor angel. Enochian
- Apm. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Apst. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aphaea, aka Britomartis, appears to have originally been a Cretan divinity of hunters and fishermen. Her name is usually derived from sweet or blessing, and a maiden, so that the name would mean, the sweet or blessing maiden. Greek
- Apam Napat. Child of the Waters. One of the Ahuras in Old Iranian religion, a beneficent god who is the giver of water to man. Hindu/Persia/Vedic
- Apaosa. Drought personified. Persian
- Apap Teso, Creator god who as a benevolent sky god brings rain Uganda
- Aparajita, Minor god/goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
- Aparajita, Form of Durga Terrible in appearance and likes to trample Ganesha under foot. Hindu/Puranic
- Aparajita, God, one of eleven ekadasarudras, a form of Rudra Hindu/Puranic
- Apas aka Apah. The Cosmic Waters. Aban
- Apaturia, that is, the deceitful. A surname of Athena, whic was given to her by Aethra. Greek
- Aphrodite, One of the great Olympian divinities, according to the popular and poetical notions of the Greeks, the goddess of love and beauty. Some traditions stated that she had sprung from the foam of the sea, which had gathered around the mutilated parts of Uranus, that had been thrown into the sea by Cronus after he had unmanned his father. (Theogony of Hesiod)
- Aphareus, a son of the Messenian king Perieres and Gorgophone, the daughter of Perseus. (Apollodorus i) His wife is called by Apollodorus (Apollodorus iii) Arene, and by others Polydora or Laocoossa. (Argonautica) Aphareus had three sons, Lynceus, Idas, and Peisus.
- Apep, aka Apepi, Apophis. Demon enemy of the Sun this huge serpent caused storms and eclipses and ate the sun at evening. Rules over: Darkness, storm, night, the Underworld, death, eclipses. Egypt
- Apedemak, God of war. Depicted with a lion's head and a human body. The elephant and cattle were sacred to him. Sudan
- Apesh, Tortoise god of night, evil, and the powers of darkness. Egypt
- Apet, Goddess who protects pregnant women, children, nursing mothers and justice. Egypt
- Aphr. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aphrodisias, Goddess of fertility Turkey. The Greeks equated her with Aphrodite. (Carian)
- Apiu, Weather god Etruscan
- Apis. A son of Phoroneus by the nymph Laodice, and brother of Niobe. He was king of Argos, established a tyrannical government and called Peloponnesus after his own name but he was killed in a conspiracy headed by Thelxion and Telchin. Greek
- Apis the Bull of Memphis, is called the greatest of gods, and the god of all nations, while others regard him more in the light of a symbol of some great divinity. Egyptian
- Apit, Mother Goddess, nursing mother. Egypt
- Aplst. A minor angel. Enochian
- Apm. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Apo, mountain god. Inca
- Apocatquil, 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
- Apolake, God of war, guardian of the sun. Philippines
- Apollo, one of the great divinities of the Greeks, was, according to Homer, the son of Zeus and Leto. Hesiod (Theogony of Hesiod 918) states the same, and adds, that Apollo's sister was Artemis. Neither of the two poets suggests anything in regard to the birth-place of the god, unless we take "born in Lycia," which, however, according to others, would only mean "born of or in light." Apollo is one of the few Greek gods who did not sleep with Aphrodite
- Apst. A minor angel. Enochian
- Apuat, aka Upuat. Pictured as Anubis is except he is white or gray instead of black. He guides souls to their place of rest after their hearts are weighed against the feather. Egypt
- Apo, God of mountains. Inca
- Apolonia, Goddess of healing and dentists Brazil
- Apollyon. King of the bottomless pit. Greek
- Appiades. Five divinities whose temple stood near the fountains of Appius, in Rome. Their names are Venus, Pallas, Concord, Peace, and Vesta. They were represented on horse—back, like Amazons. Roman
- Aponibolinayen, Goddess of the sky and moon. Philippines
- Apsaras. The thirty-five million nymphs of Indra’s heaven. The daughters of pleasure are fairy-like beings, beautiful and voluptuous, who lure heroes and sages from their devotions. Hindu/Vedic
- Apsu, aka abzu or engur, the name for the mythological underground freshwater ocean in Sumerian and Akkadian mythology.
- Aput, Messenger God. Egypt
- Apollodorus the Theogony, Book 2, Book 3, Book 3 Continued, Epitome The Library
- Appias, a nymph of the Appian well, which was situated not far from the temple of Venus Genitrix in the forum of Julius Caesar. It was surrounded by statues of nymphs, who were called Appiades. Roman
- Appiades. Five Roman gods occupying a temple by the Appian aqueduct: Concordia, Minerva, Pax, Venus and Vesta.
- Apulu Later Aplu. Sun god, often depicted in art with a staff and laurel branches. He was clearly derived from the Greek god Apollo. Etruscan
- Apu-Ko-Hai. Fish god of the Kanei who inhabit the Polynesian island of Mangaia.
- Aquariel. God of magic mushrooms who opens the doors of perception and grants transcendent and cosmic understanding and spiritually evolvion. Mexico.
- Aquilo, 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
- Ara, Primeval creator god, in the form of a bird, who created the heavens , and with Irik, created mankind from clay. The Sea Dyaks of Sarawak, Borneo
- Aralo, Agriculture "the beautiful one", god Georgia/Armenia/Crimea
- Aramazd, the father of all gods and goddesses, the creator of heaven and earth. Armenia
- Aranyani, Minor goddess of woodlands. Hindu/Vedic
- Aranzahas, Tigris river deified. Hittite
- Arapacana, God. Buddhist
- Ararat, Creator goddess. Anatolia
- Arazu, God of construction. Babylon
- Arbatel. An angelic flasher. Perv
- Archer. A governing spirit of Aquarius. Gnostic/Christian
- Archons, Primordial creator gods. They include Uriel, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Shauil and Cassiel. Christian/Gnostic
- Arawa. Moon goddess and the daughter of the creator god Tororut and his consort Seta. Kenya and Uganda
- Arabati. Creator god worshipped by a pigmy tribe living along the banks of the river Ituri. Congo, West Africa
- Aradvi Sura Anahita, another minor goddess. Persia
- Arariel, an angel who, according to the rabbis of the Talmud, takes charge of the waters of the earth. Fishermen invoke him so that they may take large fish. Arariel has also traditionally been invoked as a cure for stupidity. Jewish
- Ard Greimme, means "high power" or "High sun". He is the father of the warrioress sisters Aife and Scathach Ireland/Scotland
- Ardat lili. “Maids of the night.” Evil spirits who plied their trade at night. Babylonian
- Arcas. A son of Zeus by Callisto, a companion of Artemis.
- Ardhanari aka Ardhanarishvara, is an androgynous deity composed of Shiva and his consort Shakti, representing the synthesis of masculine and feminine energies. Ammaiappan/Naranari
- Ardouisur aka Ardousius. A female cherub in charge of easy childbirth and breast milk. Persia
- Ardra, Minor goddess of misfortune Hindu/Puranic
- Arduinna, goddess of the Ardennes forest. Her cult thus originated in the Ardennes, which derived its name from her. She was assimilated to the Roman Diana. Roman/Celtic
- Ard Greimme Father of the famed warrioress sister Aife and Scathach. Once a Sun God. Ireland, Scotland
- Ardwinna aka Dea Arduinna. Woodland and animal Goddess who haunted the forests of Ardennes riding a wild boar. She commanded a fine for any animal killed on her land, yet asked for animal sacrifices on her feast day. Britain
- Areskoui. Areskoui The Great Spirit as Patron of the hunt and of war. Haudenosaunee
- Arestor. The father of Argus Panoptes, the guardian of Io, who is therefore called Arestorides. Greek
- Arianrhod. Keeper of the circling Silver Wheel of Stars, a symbol of time and karma. Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess. Honoured at the Full Moon. Wales
- Arnamentia Goddess of spring waters who was once a minor solar deity. Healing and purification. Wales
- Artaius. God of sheep and cattle herders from Celtic Gaul. Later, the Romans identified him with Mercury.
- Artio. 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 associated with the bear, claws and teeth, geode stones.
- Arethusa, one of the Nereid, and the nymph of the famous well, thus in the island of Ortygia near Syracuse. Alpheius reckons her among the Sicilian nymphs, and as the divinity who inspired pastoral poetry.
- Araethyrea, a daughter of Aras, an autochthon who was believed to have built Arantea, the most ancient town in Phliasia. She had a brother called Aoris, and is said to have been fond of the chase and warlike pursuits. When she died, her brother called the country of Phliasia after her Araethyrea.
- Ardalus, a son of Hephaestus who was said to have invented the flute, and to have built a sanctuary of the Muses at Troeze who derived from him the surname Ardalides Ardaliotides
- Ardwinna, Celtic Goddess of the wildwood. Ardwinna demands a fine of money for every animal killed in her wood British
- Arebati, sky and moon god of the pygmies. Bambuti/Congo
- Argades. A son of Ion, a king of Athens between the reigns of Erechtheus and Cecrops
- Argante, "Silver One" goddess queen of Avalon who is known for her healing powers. British
- Areithous, king of Arne in Ioeotia, and husband of Philomedusa, is called in the Iliad vii the club, because he fought with no other weapon but a club. He fell by the hand of the Arcadian Lycurgus, who drove him into a narrow defile, where he could not make use of his club.
- Argalus, the eldest son of Amyclas, and his successor in the throne of Sparta.
- Ariadne, a daughter of Minos and Pasiphae or Greta. (Apollodorus iii). When Theseus was sent by his father to convey the tribute of the Athenians to Minotaurus, Ariadne fell in love with him, and gave him the string by means of which he found his way out of the Labyrinth, and which she herself had received from Hephaestus.
- Arianrhod, Arianrod, Welsh Moon Goddess and one of several children of the mother Goddess Don. Her home was in the constellation Corona Borealis.
- Arishta. A Daitya, and a son of Bali, who attacked Krishna in the form of a savage bull and was slain by him. Hindu
- Aristaeus, an ancient divinity worshipped in various parts of Greece, as in Thessaly, Ceos, and Boeotia, but especially in the islands of the Aegean, Ionian, and Adriatic seas, which had once been inhabited by Pelasgians. He is described either as a son of Uranus and Ge, or according to a more general tradition, as the son of Apollo by Cyrene, the grand-daughter of Peneius.
- Ares, the god of war and one of the great Olympian gods of the Greeks. He is represented as the son of Zeus and Hera. A later tradition, according to which Hera conceived Ares by touching a certain flower, appears to be an imitation of the legend about the birth of Hephaestus, and is related by Ovid.
- Ares Lusitani, the God of horses. Lusitanian
- Arete, the wife of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians. In the Odyssey she appears as a noble and active superintendent of the household of her husband, and when Odysseus arrived in the island, he first applied to queen Arete to obtain hospitable reception and protection. Respecting her connexion with the story of Jason and Medeia, see Alcinous. Greek
- Araua, mother to the stars and the moon. Brazil
- Arawn aka Arawyn, Arrawn, Arawen. King of Hell, God of Annwn. Ruled the underground kingdom of the dead. Rules over revenge, terror, war, spirit contact, picking names, strengthening friendships, reincarnation. Wales
- Archangels, carry Divine Decrees from God to humanity and are constantly in battle with the Son of Darkness.
- Arge, one of the chieftains who came with Hercules to Rome. Greek
- Argeia, A surname of Hera derived from Argos, the principal seat of her worship.
- Aricia, a niece of Aegeus. She was the last of the Pallantides and may have married Virbius, the name by which Hippolytus was known after he was brought back to life on the request of Artemis.
- Aricina, a surname of Artemis, derived from the town of Aricia in Latium, where she was worshipped. A tradition of that place related that Hippolytus, after being restored to life by Asclepius, came to Italy, ruled over Aricia, and dedicated a grove to Artemis. Greek
- Arete, the wife of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians. In the Odyssey she appears as a noble and active superintendent of the household of her husband, and when Odysseus arrived in the island, he first applied to queen Arete to obtain hospitable reception and protection. Respecting her connexion with the story of Jason and Medeia.
- Arimanius aka Ahriman, Angra Mainya, the carrier of nine hundred and ninety-nine diseases to plague the earth. Persian
- Arinna, the "sun goddess of Arinna". As well as the Weather God later associated with the Hurrian "Teshup", Arinna, the sun goddess and their children are all deriviations from the former Hatti Pantheon. Hittite
- Arito, a random winged goddess character made up probably early 2005.
- Arjuna, one of the heroes of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. His name means 'bright', 'shining', or 'silver'. Hindu/Vedic
- Arma, God of the moon Hittite/Hurrian
- Armazd, creator of the universe and the god of wisdom. Georgia
- Arne, 1. A daughter of Aeolus, from whom the Boeotian town Arne, afterwards called Chaeroneia, as well as the Thessalian Arne, were believed to have derived their name. 2. A woman who betrayed her native country for gold, and was therefore metamorphosed into a jackdaw. (Metamorphoses)
- Arion, a fabulous horse, which Poseidon begot by Demeter; for in order to escape from the pursuit of Poseidon, the goddess had metamorphosed herself into a mare, and Poseidon deceived her by assuming the figure of a horse. Demeter afterwards gave birth to the horse Arion, and a daughter, Despoena.
- Argonautae, the heroes and demigods who, according to the traditions of the Greeks, undertook the first bold maritime expedition to Colchis, a far distant country on the coast of the Euxine, for the purpose of fetching the golden fleeces. They derived their name from the ship Argo, in which the voyage was made, and which was constructed by Argus at the command of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.
- Agreus. Lesser God of hunting. Brother of Halieus. Phonecian
- The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius
- Agros. Lesser God of fields, courtyards, viticulture, and wine cellars. Brother of
- Agrotes. Lesser God of the earth, horses, hunting, and wanderers. Appears as a charioteer, sometimes accompanied by packs of dogs. Phonecian
- Aion and Protogonos, the first mortal men. Phonecian
- Argus, a beast and son of Arestor with a hundred eyes of which he could only close two at a time. He was placed by Juno to guard Io, whom Jupiter had changed into a heifer. But Mercury, who was sent to carry her off, managed to surprise and kill Argus whereupon Juno transfered his eyes to the tail of a peacock, her favourite bird. In Greek mythology, Argus was the name of the builder of the Argo, the ship that carried the hero Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece.
- Arnamentia, Goddess of spring waters. British
- Arsinoe, a daughter of Phegeus, and wife of Alcmaeon. As she disapproved of the murder of Alcmaeon, the sons of Phegeus put her into a chest and carried her to Tegea, where they accused her of having killed Alcmaeon herself.
- Arsay, Minor Goddess of moonlight, moist aerth and marshes. The third daughter of Baal. Canaan
- Ar·stat, Persian goddess of Justice and Order.
- Arsu, The Palmyran god of the evening star and usually portrayed as riding a camel with his twin brother Azizos. Arabic
- Artaius, the bear god in Gaul. Identified with Mercury.
- Arthapratisamvit, Goddess of logical analysis. Buddhist
- Aruna, mountain god of morning and warriors. Hindu
- Arundhati, goddess of the sky, stars and night time. Hindu/Puranic
- Arya-Tara, "The Noble Liberator" Goddess Buddhist
- Aryaman, one of the early Vedic deities (devas). His name literally means a bosom friend, but is often confused as "the protector of the Aryans" Hindu/Vedic
- Aryong Jong, Goddess of water and rainfall Korea
- Artemis, one of the great divinities of the Greeks. Her name is usually derived from uninjured, healthy, vigorous; according to which she would be the goddess who is herself inviolate and vigorous, and also grants strength and health to others. According to the Homeric account and Hesiod (Theogony 918) she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto. She was the sister of Apollo, and born with him at the same time in the island of Delos.
- Arvaka. aka. Aarvak, [Early awake]. The name of one of the horses of the sun. Norse.
- Aryskoui. An ancient war-god. Native American
- As, Asa or Ass; plural ÆSIR. The asas, gods. The word appears in such English names as Osborn, Oswald, etc. With an n it is found in the Germ. Ansgar (Anglo-Sax. Oscar). The term aesir is used to distinguish Odin, Thor, etc., from the vanir (vans). Norse.
- Asase Yaa aka Asase Efua. Chthonic fertility goddess. As the womb of the earth, she represents and is also goddess of truth. Ghana, West Africa
- Asbolus. A centaur, whom Hesiod ( Shield Of Heracles) calls a diviner, probably from his skill in observing or prophesying from the flight of birds. Greek
- Aschtoreth aka Ascherah, Aschirat, Goddess of fertility, as well as sun and ocean. Canaanitian
- Asclepius, or Aesculapius, the god of the medical art. In the Homeric poems Aesculapius does not appear to be considered as a divinity, but merely as a human being. No allusion is made to his descent, and he is merely mentioned as the the father of Machaon and Podaleirius.
- Asherat-of-the-sea. Great Goddess of wisdom and the sea. Mother of the Gods and mistress of the Gods in wisdom. El's wife and counsellor, said to have 70 children, including Baal. Phonecian
- Asherat. Major Goddess of marriage, fidelity, and home life. Phonecian
- Ashiakle. Goddess of wealth. The daughter of Nai, god of the sea, she was born in the ocean and came to land in a canoe. Ghana, West Africa
- Asia, 1. A surname of Athena in Colchis. Her worship was believed to have been brought from thence by Castor and Polydeuces to Laconia, where a temple was built to her at Las. 2. A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, who became by Japetus the mother of Atlas, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. (Theogony of Hesiod 359.) According to some traditions the continent of Asia derived its name from her.
- Ask. The name of the first man created by Odin, Hœner and Loder. Norse.
- Asis, God of the sun. The younger brother of the supreme god of heaven Tororut. In Nandi Asis becomes the supreme creator god. Kenya/Uganda
- Asphodel Meadows, is a section of the Ancient Greek underworld where indifferent and ordinary souls were sent to live after death. Hades, the Greek name for the underworld, also the name of the god Hades, is divided into two main sections: Erebus and Tartarus.
- As, Local fertility god. Egypt
- Asalluha, Minor god who acts as a messenger and reporter to Enki. Babylon/Akkadia/Sumeria
- Asar, a horse-god revered in ancient Palmyra, possibly of Arabian origin.
- Asase Ya, the earth goddess of fertility in the mythology of the Ashanti people of Ghana. She is the wife of Nyame the sky god. In Ashanti mythology she gave birth to two sons, Bia and Tano. Ghana
- Asbamaeus. A surname of Zeus, the protector of the sanctity of oaths. Greek
- Asertu aka Ashera, Asherah, Goddess of fertility. Generally taken as identical with the Ugaritic goddess Athirat Hittite/Canaan
- Asgaya Gigagei, The Red Man or Woman evoked in spells to cure the ill. Asgaya Gigagei is either male or female, depending on the sex of the patient. Cherokee
- Asherali, Moon and goddess of fertility Canaan
- Ashriel. The angel that seperates the soul from the body at the time of death.
- Ashi, Goddess of wisdom India
- Asa-Loke, Asa-Loki. Loke, so called to distinguish him from Utgard-Loke, who is a giant. Norse.
- Asa-Thor(r). A common name for Thor. Norse.
- Asbit, Goddess of fire. Egypt
- Aseb, Fire God. Egypt
- Ashima, Goddess of the moon. Semitic
- Ashimbabbar, Goddess of the moon. Semitic
- Ashirat, Goddess of the Evening star. Akkadia
- Ashis, Goddess of happiness. India
- Asi, Goddess of wisdom. Persia
- Asiaq, Goddess of weather. Inuit
- Asima Si, Goddess of water and fish. Brazil
- Ashkit, Goddess of the winds. Egypt
- Ashnan, Goddess of drunkenness, wine and grains Sumeria
- Ashvins, Sons of the sun. Hindu
- A·si, "treasure-laden", goddess of treasure hunters. Persia
- Asintmah. Earth Mother. She wove a fireweed and willow blanket to cover earth. Canada
- Asira, Pre-Islamic north Arabian local god.
- Aspalis, Goddess of hunting. West Semitic
- Asrael, aka Ezra'il or Ezra'eil one of the names of the angel of death, and is an English form of the Arabic name traditionally attributed to the angel of death in Islam,
- Asratum, Goddess of fertility Canaan
- Assur, aka Ashur, Assur, Assyr, 1, grandson of Noah in the
Hebrew Scriptures.
2 National deity of Assyria.
3. In Akkadian and Sumerian mythology, Anshar means "sky pivot" or "sky axle", and is a sky god. He is the husband of his sister Kishar ("earth axle"); they are the children of the serpents Lahmu and Lahamu, and the parents of Anu and Ea. He is sometimes depicted as having Ninlil as a consort. As Anshar, he is progenitor of the Akkadian pantheon; as Ashur, he is the head of the Assyrian pantheon. - Assaracus, a son of Tros and Calirrhoe, the daughter of Scamander. He was king of Troy, and husband of Hieromneme, by whom he became the father of Capys, the father of Anchises.
- Assasiel. Angel of Thursday, who delegates to Sachiel and Cassiel. He's also in charge of the planet Jupiter. Hebrew
- Astabis, Warrior god. Hurrian/Akkadia
- Astraeus, a Titan and son of Crius and Eurybia. By Eos he became the father of the winds Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus, Eosphorus (the morning star), and all the stars of heaven. (Theogony 376) Ovid ( Metamorphoses xiv) calls the winds fratres Astraei, which does not mean that they were brothers of Astraeus, but brothers through Astraeus, their common father.
- Asterion, or Asterius, 1. A son of Teutamus, and king of the Cretans, who married Europa after she had been carried to Crete by Zeus. He also brought up the three sons, Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys whom she had by the father of the gods. (Apollodorus i) 2. A son of Cometes, Pyremus, or Priscus, by Antigone, the daughter of Pheres. He is mentioned as one of the Argonauts. (Argonautica) There are two more mythical personages of this name, one a river-god [Acraea], and the second a son of Minos, who was slain by Theseus.
- Asopus, the god of the river Asopus, was a son of Oceanus and Tethys, or according to others, of Poseidon and Pero, of Zeus and Eurynome, or lastly of Poseidon and Cegluse.
- Asakku. Plague spreading demons. Babylonian
- Askefruer. “Ash-nymphs.” Danish forest-spirits with bodies covered with hair, with wrinkled faces, hanging breasts and dishevelled hair and are usually dressed in moss. They are endowed with powers to cure disease. Denmark
- Ases. Gods of benevolence. Scandinavian
- Assayyahun. The angels who frequent the gatherings where the name of Allah is being repeated. Mohammedan
- Asterope. A Pleiad, a lover of Mars. Greek.
- Asterope. An Oceanid, the daughter of Cebren who married Aesacus. Greek.
- Asteropeia. Two mythical personages, one a daughter of Pelias, who in conjunction with her sisters murdered her father and the second a daughter of Deion and Diomede. Greek
- Asteria, a daughter of the Titan Coeus and Phoebe. She was the sister of Leto, and, according to Hesiod (Theogony 409), the wife of Perses, by whom she became the mother of Hecate.
- Astfgl, a Demon Lord, King of Hell, and his modern, go-ahead attitude is driving the other demons to distraction. Discworld
- Astovidatu. A spirit who divided the bones at death. Persian
- Astypalaea, a daughter of Phoenix and Perimede, the daughter of Oeneus. She was a sister of Europa, and became by Poseidon the mother of the Argonaut Ancaeus and of Eurypylus, king of the island of Cos. The island Astypalaea among the Cyclades derived its name from her.
- Atabyrius, a surname of Zeus derived from mount Atabyris or Atabyrion in the island of Rhodes, where the Cretan Althaemenes was said to have built a temple to him.
- Atahensic, Goddess of the sky who fell to the earth at the beginning of creation. The Earth was created from her corpse after she died giving birth to the twins Hahgwehdiyu and Hahgwehdaetgah. Iroquois
- Asterodeia, 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
- Arachne, a Lydian maiden who challenged Athena to a weaving contest. Arachne produced a piece of cloth as and Athena could find no fault with it, she tore the work to pieces, and Arachne in despair hung herself. The goddess loosened the rope and saved her life, but the rope was changed into a cobweb and Arachne herself into a spider, the animal most odious to Athena. Greek
- Areimanios, the Hellenistic form of Ahriman, a god of the Zarathushtrian faith, being a sacred, unspeakable name within Roman Mithraism and this name's etymological correspondence to the Zoroastrian Ahriman.
- Ares, God of storms and war. Greek
- Aretus, two mythical personages of this name are mentioned in Homer's Iliad, Book XVII and The Odyssey, Book iii. 413.) and Apollodorus Library Book 3
- Arizl. A minor angel. Enochian
- Aruru. A goddess to whom is ascribed the creation of Gilgamesh and Eabani. Babylon
- Arzl. A minor angel. Enochian
- Ascanius. A son of Aeneas by Creusa or by Lavinia. Greek
- Aso, Goddess of justice and the queen of Ethiopia.
- Asokottamasri, Physician god Buddhist/Tibet
- Astar, sky god who forms a triad with Beher and Medr. Ethiopia
- Astaroth aka Ashtaroth, Astarot, a Grand Duke of Hell; his main assistants are four demons called Aamon, Pruslas, Barbatos and Rashaverak. Semitic
- Astart. Major Goddess of fertility, love, and pleasure. Patron of harlots and hedonists. Phonecian
- 1. Astarte, Goddess of hunting. Astarte, or Ashtoret in
Hebrew, was the principal goddess of the Phoenicians,
representing the productive power of nature. She was a lunar
goddess and was adopted by the Egyptians as a daughter of Ra or
Ptah. Canaan
2. Astarte, Goddess of war. Ashtart first appears in Ancient Egypt beginning with the reign of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt along with other deities who were worshipped by northwest Semitic people. She was especially worshipped in her aspect of a war goddess, often paired with the goddess Anat. Egypt
3. Astarte, Goddess of the moon, Syria
4. Astarte, Goddess of fertility, sacred love, sexuality and of sex and the moon.
The most important of all Mesopotamian goddesses, and a multi-faceted personality, occurring in cuneiform texts of all periods. The Sumerian name probably means "Lady of Heaven", and the Akkadian name Ishtar is related to the Syrian Astarte and the biblical Ashtaroth is usually considered as a daughter of Anzu, with her cult located in Uruk, but there are other traditions as to her ancestry, and it is probable that these reflect originally different goddesses that were identified with her. Ishtar is the subiect of a cycle of texts describing her love affair and ultimately fatal relationship with Tammuz.
She is also generally the goddess of love and sex, and textual evidence exists to indicate her general connection with cult prostitution. She is also important as a goddess of war, who accompanies kings in battle, ablaze with excitement. Ishtar is also known to be the planet Venus. Her early symbol is a reed bundle. Babylon/Phoenicia/Canaan/Assyria/Egypt/Syria - Astraea, Goddess of justice, truth, of purity, innocence and modesty. Roman/Greek
- Asuha-No-Kami, an offspring of Okuninushi and a protector of land and gardens. Japan/Shinto
- Asthertet, Goddess of horses, war and the moon Syria
- Astlik, goddess of love and fertility. Crimea
- Astoreth, Goddess of fertility Palestine/Israel/Lebanon
- Astoria The Ephebian Goddess of Love, held in extremely low regard by the god Om and sister to the goddess Patina. Mentioned in Small Gods and Discworld Noir.
- Astrik aka Anastasius, Astericus, Ascrick, Astricus, lesser goddess of deception and illusion. Slavic
- Asuras, a group of power-seeking deities, sometimes referred to as demons. They were opposed to the devas. Hindu/Vedic
- Asurkumara along with Parmagati Amb and Ambrish, youthful gods associated with rain and thunder. Bhavanpati
- Asvayujau, Minor goddess of good luck, joy and happiness Hindu/Puranic
- Asvins, divine twin horsemen in the Rigveda, sons of Saranya, a goddess of the clouds and wife of either Surya in his form as Vivasvat. Hindu/Vedic
- Asynje. plural Asynjur. A goddess; feminine of Ass. Norse.
- Asynjur. The goddesses of Asgard associates of the Aesir and distinguished from the Vanir goddesses. Norse
- Ataa Naa Nyongmo Gan, Creator god who controls the sun and the rain, causes disasters, epidemics and earthquakes. Ghana
- Ataad. A minor angel. Enochian
- Atabei, "First-in-Existence" Goddess of the earth Cuba
- Ataguchu. A Peruvian god who helped Apocatequil.
- Atdim. A minor angel. Enochian
- Ataentsic aka Atseatsine. "Woman-Who-Fell-To-Earth". First woman. Haudenosaunee
- Atai, Goddess who encouraged the creation of humans, choosing earth for us to inhabit. Africa
- Atalacamani, Goddess of ocean storms, an aspect of Chalchiuhtlicue. Aztec
- Atanea, a goddess of the dawn in Polynesian mythology. She created the seas after having a miscarriage and filling the oceans with her amniotic fluid.
- Ataokoloinona, (What-A-Strange-Thing} son of Ndriananahary, the creator god, who was sent to Earth to look in to everything and to advise on the possibility of creating living beings. He never appeared again. Madagascar
- Ataphiel. An angel who supports heaven with three fingers. Christian
- Atargatis. "Ocean Mermaid" a Goddess of Creation and Fertility. She was usually depicted with a fish tail; hence her modern identification as the Mermaid Goddess Known to the Romans as Dea Syria. She was worshipped by men performing auto-castration. Asia Minor
- Athamas, a son of Aeolus and Enarete, the daughter of Deimachus. He was thus a brother of Cretheus, Sisyphus, Salmoneus, etc. (Apollodorus i)
- Atli. In the Volsunga Saga Atli is a king corresponding to Etzel in the Nibelungenlied; he marries Gudrun and invites her brothers to court, where they are treacherously slain. Gudrun avenges them by killing her own and Atli’s two sons, and later, Atli himself.
- Ato. A cacodemon. Enochian
- Atseatsan. First man and a solar divinity, He and his wife raise the sun up into the heavens on long poles, since it is too hot to take hold of directly. Haudenosaunee
- Atsze. A fox in human form. Chinese
- Atum, the first god, having arisen by his own force himself, sitting on a mound (benben), from the primordial waters (Nu). Early myths state that Atum created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut from his semen by masturbation in the city of Annu. Egypt
- Atlas, according to Hesiod (Theogony 507), a son of Japetus and Clymene, and a brother of Menoetius, Prometheus, and Epimetheus. According to Apollodorus his mother's name was Asia and, according to Hyginus, he was a son of Aether and Gaia.
- Athena, one of the great divinities of the Greeks. Homer calls her a daughter of Zeus, without any allusion to her mother or to the manner in which she was called into existence, while most of the later traditions agree in stating that she was born from the head of Zeus. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, Metis, the first wife of Zeus, was the mother of Athena, but when Metis was pregnant with her, Zeus, on the advice of Gaea and Uranus, swallowed Metis up, and afterwards gave birth himself to Athena, who sprang from his head.
- Atar, the Zoroastrian concept for "burning and unburning fire" and "visible and invisible fire"
- Atargatis, Goddess of lakes, fertility and nature. She wears a mural crown, is the ancestor the royal house, the founder of social and religious life, the goddess of generation and fertility. Syria
- Ate, according to Hesiod (Theogony), a daughter of Eris, and, according to Homer, of Zeus, was an ancient Greek divinity, who led both gods and men to rash and inconsiderate actions and to suffering.
- Atea, the giver of light. Marquesas Is.
- Atel. An angel of the air ruling who only works on Sundays. Christian
- Aten, the creator of the universe in ancient Egyptian mythology, usually regarded as a sun god represented by the sun's disk. Egypt
- Atete, goddess of fertility in Ethiopia and was assimilated into the Christian as the Virgin Mary, Atete was invoked by Pagans during ancient fertility rituals known as the Astar yo Mariam.
- Ategina, the Goddess of rebirth,Spring, fertility, nature, and healing in the Lusitanian mythology. She is also seen as the Lusitanian goddess of the moon.
- Athanatos. The god of treasure hunting and the spirit of the planet Mercury. Greek
- Athirat, Goddess of the ocean and official wife of El Canaan
- Athor, Goddess of light Egypt
- Athtart, Goddess of fertility and sex Canaan
- Atida, Goddess of hunting and rain Uganda
- Atira, Sacred Mother of every living creature. Goddess of the earth. Pawnee
- Atl, God of water. Aztec
- Atla. One of Heimdal's nine mothers. Norse.
- Atlacoya, Goddess of drought. Aztec
- Atlahua, Minor god of lakes and fishermen. Aztec
- Atlaonin, One of the names of the mother goddess. Aztec
- Atma aka Atman a philosophical term used within Hinduism and Vedanta to identify the soul. It is one's true self beyond identification with the phenomenal reality of worldly existence. India
- Atoja, Mountain goddess who sends the rains. Peru
- Attabeira aka Atabei, Momona, Guacarapita, Iella, Guimazoa , Primary Being of the pre-Hispanic people of the Antilles
- Attar, a masculine semític deity who evolved into Ishtar, masculine God of the morning star and the feminine the star of afternoon. Canaan
- Attarib. One of the four angels of winter. Christian
- Atthis, or Attis, a daughter of Cranaus, from whom Attica, which was before called Actaea, was believed to have derived its name. The two birds into which Philomele and her sister Procne were metamorphosed, were likewise called Attis.
- Attica: Description of Greece by Pausanias
- Auchimalgen, Moon goddess, wife of the sun. Only Auchimalgen cares anything for the human race, all the rest of the gods being utterly malevolent. Auchimalgen wards off evil spirits and turns red when some important person is about to die. Chile
- Audhumbla. also written Audhumbla. The cow formed from the frozen vapors resolved into drops. She nourished the giant Ymer. Norse.
- Auditors of Reality, supernatural entities and celestial bureaucrats. They make sure that gravity works, file the appropriate paperwork for each chemical reaction, and so forth. Discworld
- Atua Fafine, Creator being Tikopia/Polynesia
- Atua I Kafika , Supreme sky god. Tikopia/Polynesia
- Atua I Raropuka, Creator deity Tikopia/Polynesia
- Atuesuel. A super hero angel who fights the monsters of hell. Christian
- Atugan, Mongolian shamanistic earth-goddess and the source of all life.
- Atunis aka Atuns. The Etruscan incarnation of the popular life-death-rebirth deity. He is a consort for Turan. Originally non-Etruscan, directly from Greek Adonis. Etruscan
- Au, God of the sun and sky lord Gilbert Island.
- Aua, God of Gifts. Egypt.
- Au Co, an immortal fairy who married a dragon, their hundred children being the ancestors of the Vietnam people. Vietnam
- Auf, aka Euf Ra. An aspect of the Sun god Ra. Shown as a ram-headed man wearing the solar disk. Rules over Peace, rest, sleep, courage. Eygpt.
- Aufaniae, a collective name for a group of Celtic mother goddesses worshipped throughout Celtic Europe. They are known only from symbolical inscriptions and they appear to have been found mainly in the German Rhineland. Celtic
- Auge, Princess of Arkadia and a priestess of Athena, who birthed her illegitimate son within the sacred precincts of the goddess. As punishment for the sacriligeous act, Athena made the land barren until the king had the girl exiled and sold into slavery. Greek
- Augeas, a son of Phorbas and Hermione, and king of the Epeians in Elis. According to some accounts he was a son of Eleios or Helios or Poseidon.
- Auilix, God of dawn. Mayan
- Ausaitis, God of health. Lithuania
- Auseklis, Goddess linked to fertility, involved in the heavenly bathhouse. Latvia
- Auset, Goddess of Sirius. Egypt
- Austeja, Bee goddess. Lithuania
- Austre. A dwarf presiding over the east region. Norse.
- Austrine, Goddess of the dawn. Lithuania/Baltic
- Autyeb, Goddess of happiness and joy. Egypt
- Aukaneck, God that lived in the sea, whose movements created the waves. Inuit
- Aumanil, God that lived on land and controlled the movements of the whales. Inuit
- Aurboda. Gymer's wife and Gerd's mother. Norse.
- Aurgelmer. A giant; grandfather of Bergelmer; called also Ymer. Norse.
- Ausautas, god of health and medicine. Lithuanian
- Auseklis, a Latvian god, and the personification of Venus. He is third most popular deity in Latvian mythology after Saule and Me-ness.
- Aura, a daughter of Lelas and Periboea, was one of the swift-footed companions of Artemis. She was beloved by Dionysus, but fled from him, until Aphrodite, at the request of Dionysus, inspired her with love for the god.
- Auriel, the archangel of alchemy and vision, the tallest of the archangels with eyes that can see across eternity and the ability to let you into the fairy kingdoms. Christian
- Autolycus, a son of Hermes or Daedalion by Chione, Philonis, or Telauge. He was the husband of Neaera, or according to Homer, of Amphithea, by whom he became the father of Anticleia, the mother of Odysseus and Aesimus.
- Autonoe, a daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, was the wife of Aristaeus, by whom she became the mother of Polydorus. (Theogony of Hesiod) According to Apollodorus (Apollodorus iii), Polydorus was a brother of Autonoe, and Actaeon was her son.
- Auxesia, the goddess who grants growth and prosperity to the fields, a surname of Persephone. Greek
- Auxo 1. One of the Horae. 2. An ancient Attic divinity, who was worshipped, according to Pausanias, together with Hegemone, under the name of Charites
- Avatar, avatar, avatara or avataram, most commonly refers to the incarnation of a higher being, or the Supreme Being onto Earth. Hindu
- Avalokitesvara, the Buddhist epitome of mercy and compassion. When Avalokitesvara attained to supreme consciousness, he chose not to pass into nirvana, but vowed to stay behind as the succor of the afflicted. He was filled with compassion, karuna, for the sufferings of the living, which he sought to bring to enlightenment. He was represented as a handsome young man holding a lotus flower in his hand who wore a picture of Amithaba in his hair. His female consort was Tara, also known as Pandaravasini, 'clad in white'.
- Averruncus, the god of aversion. He is said to help in avoiding calamity, while also bringing forth good fortune. In other references, Averruncus is known as the god of childbirth. Roman
- Aveta, a goddess of female-fertility, childbirth and midwives, also associated with all fresh water. Celtic
- Avfruvva, Mermaid goddess of Finland
- Avrikiti Fon, Goddess of fisherman Benin
- Avtotar. A sub-angelic Watchtower leader in the East. Enochian
- Awitelin Tsita, the ‘Fourfold Containing Mother-earth,' Zuni
- Awaeh Yegendji. Mother Swan. She is a aged wisewoman living alone in the forest with Her three daughters. Haudenosaunee
- Awataerohi A disease spirit, caused when it takes up residence within a victim's body. Haudenosaunee
- Awonawilona, "The One Who Contains Everything." The Supreme God, the Creator of All. Before the creation there was only Awonawilona; all else was darkness and emptiness. Both male and female, Awonawilona created everything from himself and taking form became the maker of light, the Sun. Pueblo/Zuni
- Axiocersa, Goddess of the earth Phrygian
- Axo Mama, Goddess of the potato crops Peru
- Aya, Goddess of dawn and war Mesopotamia
- Ayaba, Goddess of the hearth Dahomean
- Ayas, Keeper of the old tablets with the words of fate Hittite
- Ayauhteotl, Goddess of the moon, haze and mist and is is associated with vanity and fame. Chile
- Ayida, Goddess of rainbows, especially in Benin and Haiti, Ayida-Weddo aka Aida-Wedo, Aido Quedo, a loa of fertility, rainbows and snakes, and a companion or wife to Damballah-Wedo. Also Ayida-Weddo is known as the Rainbow Serpent. Haiti
- Ayiyanayaka, God of fields and woodland who protects against plague. Northern part of the island of Ceylon.
- Ayi' Uru'n Toyo'n, Yakut creator spirit.
- Aylekete, God of the sea and a member of the Vodun gods Fon
- Ayt'ar, God of procreation Slavic
- Ayurvasita, Minor goddess, one of twelve vasitas. Buddhist
- Ayyapan, The Celibate God of Kerala. Hindu
- Ayizan, aka Grande Ai-Zan, Aizan, or Ayizan Velekete. Goddess who protects the market place and commerce. She is a root loa, associated with Vodoun rites of initiation (called kanzo). She is syncretised with the Catholic Saint Clare, her symbol is the palm frond, she drinks no alcohol, and is the wife of Loko Atisou. Haiti
- Aymelek. God of the moon. Turkish
- Ayya Vaikundar, according to Akilattirattu Ammanai, a scripture of the Ayyavazhi, was an avatar of Narayana. As per the Ayyavazhi mythology the body in which Ayya Vaikundar incarnated is that of Mudisoodum Perumal. Tamil
- Ayyteem, god of cash machines. Pan National
- Azan, a son of Ares and the nymph Erato, was the brother of Apheidas and Elatus, and father of Cleitor. The part of Arcadia which he received from his father was called, after him, Azania. After his death, funeral games, which were believed to have been the first in Greece, were celebrated in his honour.
- Azi, Red headed earth spirits who like human company, they appreciate eloquence, musical talent, tobacco, tea, and of all and reward models who please them. Those who irritate them forfeit their souls Buryat
- Azacca, God of Farming and agriculture. Haiti
- Azcatl, red ant that found the source of food energy. Aztec
- Azele Yaba, Goddess of justice. Wife of Nyamele, a sky god Africa
- Azer. Angel who starts fires. Christian
- Azer Ava, ancient Russian goddess, the name Azer-Ava translates into “forest mother” or “the friendly tree goddess”. Azer-Ava lives in trees and welcomes those who venture out to pick berries and mushrooms. She is known as a goddess of fruitfulness who brings rain and corn, and oaths are taken in her name.
- Azesi, a surname of Demeter and Persephone, which is derived either from "to dry fruits", or from "to seek". Greek
- Azeus, a son of Clymenus of Orchomenos, father of Actor and grandfather of Astyoche. He went with his brothers against Thebes, to take vengeance for the murder of his father, who had been slain by the Thebans at a festival of the Onchestian Poseidon. Greek
- Azi. Greed personified. Persian
- Azidahaka, a serpent with three heads, six eyes and three pairs of fangs. He was the adversary of Yima. Persia
- Aziri, a deity of salty waters, candies and confectionary. Africa
- Azizos, Azizos or Aziz, the Palmyran god of the morning star. He is usually portrayed as riding a camel with his twin brother Arsu. Levant
- Azrael. The Angel of Death who writes your name in his big book when you're born then erases it when you die. Christian
- Azrael, also known as the Great Attractor and the Death of Universes, is apparently not a worshipped god on the Discworld, but he exists nonetheless, and is an entity of enormously unthinkable scope and size.
- Azrail. The angel of death who sends souls to the angels of compassion or to the angels of punishment. Mahometan
- Azumi-no-isora, is a shinto deity of the seashore. He is considered to be an ancestor of the Azumi family. He is worshiped at Mekari Shrine of Kitakyushu, Shiga Shrine of Tsushima. Japan/Shinto