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- Ba, one part of the ancient Egyptian concept of the soul
which was imagined as a bird body with a human head.
- Ba, Banebdjed, a ram-god of birth, essentially the soul
Osiris. Egypt
- Ba, or Kneph, a ram-god, of the soul, and thus of birth.
Egypt
- Ba Han, Goddess of drought. China
- Ba-Pef, Malevolent underworld god. Egypt
- Deities called Ba’al and Baalath.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baal is a Northwest Semitic title and honorific meaning
"master" or "lord" that is used for various
gods, spirits and demons particularly of the Levant, cognate to
Assyrian bêlu.
"Baal" can refer to any god and even to human
officials; in some texts it is used as a substitute for Hadad, a
god of the sun, rain, thunder, fertility and agriculture, and the
lord of Heaven. Since only priests were allowed to utter his
divine name Hadad, Baal was used commonly.
Nevertheless, few if any Biblical uses of "Baal" refer
to Hadad, the lord over the assembly of gods on the holy mount of
Heaven, but rather refer to any number of local spirit-deities
worshipped as cult images, each called baal and regarded as an
"idol". Therefore, in any text using the word baal it
is important first to determine precisely which god, spirit or
demon is meant.
- Baal, God of the thunderstorm, war, good harvests, fertility,
nature, winter rain and of storms Phoenicia
Because more than one god bore the title "Ba’al"
and more than one goddess bore the title
"Ba’alat" or "Ba’alah," only the
context of a text can indicate which Ba’al 'Lord'
or Baalath 'Lady' a particular inscription or text is
speaking of.
- Baal, God of fertility. Syria
- Baal, Storm god. Canaan
- Baalberith. Lord of covenant, god of death and demon master
of the infernal alliance. Demon of blasphemy and murder. Demon of
the second order. Chief Secretary and Archivist of Hell, master
of the Infernal Alliance. He was one of the demons who possessed
an Ursuline nun at Aix-en-Provence in 1610. Canaanite
- Baal Brathy, Mountain deity. Phoenicia
- Baal Hammon, Sweety of Tanit. Carthage
- Baal Malage, Local god known from inscription.
Phoenicia/Canaan
- Baal—Peor or Belphegor. The Priapus of the Moabites and Midianites.
- Baal Samin[Lord of Heaven], Head of the pantheon.
Phoenicia/Canaan
- Baal Sapon, Mountain deity. Phoenicia/Canaan
- Baalzephon. Captain of guard and sentinels of Hell.
Canaanite
- Baalat, Queen of the gods, partial to books, libraries and
writers. Phoenicia
- Baalshamin, God of the sky. Semitic
- Baau, Creator goddess. Mother of the first man.
Phoenicia
- Bab, the founder and prophet of Bábism. He was a
merchant from Shíráz, who at the age of twenty-five
claimed to be the promised Qá'im (or Mihdí).
After his declaration he took the title of Bab meaning
"Gate". Six years later he was shot by a firing squad
in Tabríz.
- Babael. A demon known as the Keeper of Graves.
- Baba, Goddess of healing and fertility. Sumeria
- Baba Yaga, the wild old woman; the dark lady; and mistress of
magic. She is also seen as a forest spirit, leading hosts of
spirits. Slavic
- Babes, in Rome, the god who caused infants to utter their
first cry.
- Babo. A mythical woman of Eleusis, whom Hesychius calls the
nurse of Demeter
- Babullius, a monster of the primitive world, is described
sometimes as a destructive hurricane, and sometimes as a
fire-breathing giant concealed in the country of the Arimi in the
earth, which was lashed by Zeus with flashes of lightning.
Greek
- Bacabs, They stand at the four corners of the world
supporting the heavens. Mayan
- Bacax, Cave god known from inscription at Crita.
Roman/Africa
- Bacchae
Of Euripides. Greek
- Bacchanalia,
Dionysius and the Bacchanalia. Greek
- Bacchantes. The female devotees of the god Dionysus
- Bacche. One of the Nysaian nymphs who, along with Macris, Erato, Bromie
and Nysa hid Bacchus in their cave
and nurtured him.
- Bacchis. A sacred bull which changed its colour every hour of
the day. Egyptian
- Bacchus. The youthful, beautiful,
but effeminate god of wine. He is also called both by Greeks and
Romans Dionysus.
- Bachelor. One of the names given to Satan, when he appeared
in the guise of a great he-goat, for the purpose of intercourse
with the witches. Hebrew
- Bachu, goddess who started the human race, turned her and her
mate into dragons. Chibcha
- Ba-Chi, Iju, god of the sky who sends the fertilizing rain.
Nigeria
- Bacis, seems to have been originally only a common noun
derived from to speak, and to have signified any prophet or
speaker. In later times, however, Bacis was regarded as a proper
noun, and the ancients distinguish several seers of this name.
Greek
- Backlum Chaam, God of male sexuality and of sex. Mayan
- Bactrian Sage Zoroaster, a native of Bactria, about 500
BCE.
- Badb, Much feared serpent goddess. Brazil
- Badb, Goddess of war Ireland
- Badhava. Aka Haya-Siras. A flame with the head of a horse.
Hindu
- Badi Mata, Mother goddess Hindu
- Baeldaeg aka Baldag. Teutonic god of the day, of
light—the name used among the Saxons and Westphalians.
- Baetylus, the name of a peculiar kind of conical shaped
stones, which were erected as symbols of gods in remarkable
places, and were from time to time anointed with oil, wine, or
blood. Greek
- Baeus, the helmsman of Odysseus,
who is said to have died during the stay of the latter in Sicily.
Greek
- Bagadjimbiri, two brothers and creator gods. They arose from
the ground as dingos and made water-holes, sex organs from a
mushroom and another fungus for the androgynous first people, and
invented circumcision. Australia
- Bagdabidit, god of sanitation and toilets. Mongoia
- Baguette d'Armide The sorcerer's wand. Armida is a
sorceress in Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. Baguette is a rod
or wand. France
- Bagaios The Phrygian equivalent of Zeus. Asia Minor
- Bagala, one of the mahavidyas and an aspect of Devi.
Hindu
- Bagba, fetish with the power of giving or withholding rain is
ascribed to him, and he is lord of the winds, including the
Harmattan, the dry, hot wind which blows from the interior.
Africa
- Bagishi, God of flood waters and posterity. Afghanistan
- Bag-Mashtu aka Bag-mazda A sky god with whom Khaldi was
identified. Armenia
- Bagos Papaios A Phrygian sky god. Asia Minor
- Bagvarti, Tutelary goddess. Armenia
- Bahu, "the Creating Mother". India
- Bahá'u'lláh "Glory of God")
was the founder and prophet of the Bahá'í
Faith. He claimed to fulfill the Bábí prophecy of
"He whom God shall make manifest", he also claimed to
be the "supreme Manifestation of God".
- Bahkoore-Mahishtsedah A variant name of Akbatekdia, the
supreme being. The Crow, Montana
- Bahr Geist. A banshee or grey—spectre. Scotland
- Bahyra The creator god of the heavens and the earth who
”expressed his wrath by thunder and lightning.” The
Apiaca, Brazil
- Baiamai He is considered by some to be the creator. Others
believe he created his son, Burambin, who then created the world.
Australia
- Baiame The omniscient intangible great spirit is
self-created, lives in the sky, is the creator of all things. He
is important in initiation rites; he ”receives the souls of
the innocent.” His voice is the thunder, his will is
manifest through the wind. The Kamilaroi, Wiradjuri, and
Euahlayi, Australia
- Baira The supreme being of the Amar Kokke. Ethiopia
- Bairo The supreme being of the Banna. Ethiopia
- Baiji. Goddess of the Yangtze. China
- Baile of the Honeyed Speech, God of Blarney. Rules over quick
and clear thinking, speeches, ideas, impressing someone, mental
activity, speaking, protection for lovers, blessing magic wands.
Ireland
- Baj Bajania, Rather joyous forest god.Yakut
- Bajura. Mahomet's standard.
- Baiame aka Baayami or Baayama, the ancestor and patron god of
the Kamilaroi. He is a sky god and a deity of death and life, and
a god of rain and the shamans. Australia
- Bakuli. The supreme being of the Mbula. Nigeria
- Bala, Mother goddess Hindu
- Bala, Messenger goddess Jain
- Balaam, demon preoccupied with avarice and greed. Hebrew
- Balaam’s Ass. An ass which is said to have spoken
Hebrew to Balaam. Christian
- Balam, one of the seventy-two spirits of the brazen vessel,
as enumerated in the Lesser Key of Solomon. Hebrew
- Balâm the ox, and the fish Nun, are the food of
Mahomet's paradise; the mere lobes of the livers of these
animals will suffice for 70,000 saints. Koran
- Balan. A demon said to be high in the monarchy. The demon of
finesse and ruses. Also a prince of hell. Hebrew
- Balan Bravest and strongest of the giant race. Gaul
- Balanos. A Hamadryad nymph of the
Oak tree. Greek
- Balban A demon of delusion. Hebrew
- Balanke. The name of the sun god among the Kekchi. Mayan
- Balarama Hindu god of agriculture and physical strength.
Symbolized by the club and the plow.
- Baltazo. One of the demons supposed to have possessed Nicole
Aubry of Laon, France, in the year 1566. He went to dine with her
husband under the pretext of freeing her from demon possession,
which he did not accomplish. It was observed that at supper he
did not drink, which showed that demons are averse to water.
- Bali. He was a Hindu god of the sky, but Vishnu took his
power from him, casting him to the underworld where he would rule
instead.
- Bali Penyalong The beneficent supreme being who is never
addressed without the slaughter of one or more pigs, and also
that no domestic pig is ever slaughtered without being charged
beforehand with some message or prayer to him, which its spirit
may carry up to him. But the most important function of the pig
is the giving of information as to the future course of events by
means of the markings on its liverHe is also god of war. The
Kenyahs, Borneo
- Bali aka Balli. The supreme being of the Klementans.
Borneo
- B'alam Agab, "night jaguar," he was the second
of the men created from maize after the Great Flood sent by
Hurakan. He married Choimha. Mayan
- B'alam Quitze aka Balam Quitze, Balam Quitzé,
meaning "jaguar with the sweet smile," was the first of
the men created from maize after the Great Flood sent by Hurakan.
The gods created Caha-Paluma specifically for him to marry.
- Bala-Sakti, Goddess Dravidian
- Balakrsna, They are guardian deities. Mayan
- Balaparmita, Philosophical deity. Buddhist
- Balarama, God of agriculture. India
- Balac, War God. Maya
- Balam, Protector God. Maya
- Balberith, ex-prince of the Order of Cherubim, now in Hell,
Grand Pontiff and Master of Ceremonies, usually the one to
countersign or notarize the signatures on any pact entered into
between mortals and the Devil, and so referred to a 'Scriptor
of Hell.' Christian
- Bali, Demonic god. Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Balisarda or Balisardo. Rogero's sword, made by a
sorceress, and capable of cutting through enchanted
substances.
- Balius and Xanthus, the immortal
horses of Achilles. They were sons of
Zephyrus and the Harpy Podarge.
- Ballaton. An angel whose name is used by sorcerers when
drawing the potent pentagram of Solomon. Hebrew
- Ball Hermon, Mountain deity. Phoenicia
- Balli Lutong The supreme being of the Punans. Borneo
- Balmung or Gram. The sword of Siegfried, forged by Wieland,
the Vulcan of the Scandinavians. Wieland, in a trial of merit,
clove Amilias, a brother smith, through steel helmet and armour,
down to the waist; but the cut was so fine that Amilias was not
even aware that he was wounded till he attempted to move, when he
fell into two pieces. Scandinavian
- Ba Maguje, Spirit of drunkenness. Hausa
- Bap or Baphomet. An imaginary idol or symbol, which the
Templars were said to employ in their mysterious rites. The word
is a corruption of Mahomet. French
- Baptes. Priests of the goddess Cotytto, whose midnight orgies
were so obscene that they disgusted even Cotytto, the goddess of
obscenity. They received their name from the Greek verb bapto, to
wash, because they bathed themselves in the most effeminate
manner. Greek
- Bamballe aka Waq. The supreme being of the Konso.
Ethiopia
- Bamya. In Zoroastrian tradition, this Goddess guides the sun
god Mithra's vehicle through the sky. Also the Goddess of
twilight.
- Ban. The consort of Ningirsu and one of the most prominent
goddesses in the Babylonian pantheon.
- Bana. "He of a thousand arms". The eldest son of
Bali. Daitya
- Banka Mundi, a goddess of the hunt and fertility. India
- Banga Ngbandi. "The all-powerful warrior who, because of
his endurance and inflexible will to win, goes from conquest to
conquest, leaving fire in his wake." Zaire
- Bangma or Bangmi. A fabulous bird in India, which can talk
and give oracular advice.
- Bannik. A household spirit who lives in the bathroom.
Russian
- Baracata. An angel from the ancient, very arcane rites of
magic of King Solomon.
- Baradiel. One of the princes of the seven heavens mentioned
in the Third Book of Enoch. An angel of hail.
- Barahoot. A well in which the souls of unbelievers reside.
Hadramot
- Baraquiel, one of the "great, beautiful, wonderful, and
honored princes" listed in the Third Book of Enoch. The
angel of lightning.
- Baraqyal. One of the Watchers who descended from heaven to
cohabit with mortal women. Book of Enoch.
- Barastar, God who judges souls, sending them to paradise or
oblivion. Caucasus
- Barattiel. One of the great angelic princes listed in the
Third Book of Enoch.
- Barbata, the bearded, a surname of Venus among the Romans.
- Barbeliots. A sect of Gnostics. Their first immortal son they
called Barbeloth, omniscient, eternal, and incorruptible. He
engendered light by the instrumentality of Christ, author of
Wisdom. From Wisdom sprang Autogenês, and from
Autogenês, Adam (male and female), and from Adam, matter.
The first angel created was the Holy Ghost, from whom sprang the
first prince, named Protarchontês, who married Arrogance,
whose offspring was Sin. Burnt by the Christians
- Bargasus, a son of Heracles and Barge, from whom the town of
Bargasa in Caria derived its name. Greek
- Bargylus, a friend of Bellerophon, who was killed by Pegasus. Greek
- Bardaichila, Assamese Storm Goddess.
- Bar-Lgura. A gargoyle type demon said to sit on the roofs of
houses and leap on the inhabitants. People so afflicted were
called d'baregara. Semitic
- Barbas. The was the demon of mechanics. Unk
- Barbatos. A great count and duke, who appears when the sun is
in Sagittarius with four noble kings and three companies of
troops; he gives instructions in all the sciences, reveals
treasures concealed by enchantment, knows the past and future,
reconciles friends and those in power, and is of the Order of the
Virtues. He also understands the songs of birds and the language
of other animals. Unk
- Barqu. Demon in whose keeping was the secret of the
Philosopher's Stone. Unk
- Barzabel. Associated with Machidael and Barchiel.
Semitic
- Ba She, a snake reputed to swallow elephants. China
- Ba Xian, the eight immortals. China/Taoist
- Balder aka Baldr, Baldaer. God of the summer-sunlight. He was
son of Odin and Frigg; slain by Hoder, at the instigation of
Loke. He returns after Ragnarok. His dwelling is Breidablik.
Norse
- Balor, God of war, death, inspiration, conquest, martial
arts, sky, and fate. Ireland
- Baltis, goddess revered in the ancient Levant.
- Bamapana, is a trickster hero who causes discord. He is
obscene and profane and once committed incest, thus breaking a
strict taboo. Australia
- Banaitja is a creator god. Australia
- Banshee, Grey Lady of Death who haunts certain Irish
families. A female spirit in Gaelic folklore believed to presage,
by wailing, a death in a family. Ireland
- Banba, Part of a triad with Fotia and Eriu and as well as an
goddess of the earth Ireland
- Banbha. Goddess of Sovereignty, war and fertility.
Celtic
- Banebdjedet, "Ba of the Lord of Mendes" a fertility
god and originally a ram with horns shaped like cork-screws,
later he was often thought of as a he-goat. According to Herodotus
his followers did not sacrifice goats. Egypt
- Ban Chuideachaidh Moire. Old Goddess who appears in modern
Irish legends as the midwife who assisted the Christian Virgin
Mary with her birth, and was also a title applied to St. Bridget.
A once forgotten goddess of childbirth. Ireland
- Ban Naomha, Goddess of war Ireland
- Bannik. The spirit of the bath house who flits amongst the
dense steam of the sauna bath.
- Barrey/Barey. A pleasant grove in which Gerd agreed with
Skirner to meet Frey. Norse
- Baron Samedi aka Baron Saturday, Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi,
Bawon Sanmdi, a loa of the dead, along with Baron's other
incarnations Baron Cimetière, and Baron La Croix. Baron
Samedi is usually depicted with a top hat, black tuxedo, dark
glasses, and cotton plugs in the nostrils, as if to resemble a
corpse dressed and prepared for burial in Haitian style.
Haiti/Vodun
- Barong, the name of the king of the spirits, leader of the
hosts of good, and enemy of Rangda. Bali
- Barsamin, Weather and sky god. Armenia
- Bartsing, one of the creators of the sun, moon, and stars.
the other was Dgagha. The Amia, Formosa
- Basamum, the god of healing in pre-Islamic South Arabia. His
name may be derived from the proto-Arabic basam, or balsam, a
plant that was used in ancient medicines.
- Basosenin. A stellar deity, one of the Nijuhachibushu.
Japan
- Bast, Cat goddess, healing, life and war, protector of the
pharaoh, Egypt
- Batara Guru, has full authority from Sang Hyang Wenang, the
power holder of all gods, to direct other gods to perform their
duties, as well as to govern all kinds of life in the universe
included life and fate of human beings. Indonesia
- Bastet aka Pasht, Goddess of fertility, love, sex,of joy. A
divine mother, and more especially as protectress, for Lower
Egypt
- Bassareus,
a surname of Dionysus which, according to the explanations of the
Greeks, is derived from the long robe which the god himself and
the Maenads used to wear in Thrace,
and whence the Maenads themselves are often called bassarae or
bassarides. Greek
- Bat horin. A demon which brings diseases of the eye to one
who does not wash his hands after meals. Jewish folklore
- Bateia,
a daughter of Teucer or of Tros, the wife of Dardanus, and mother of Ilus and Erichthonius. Greek
- Bathym aka Bathim, Bathin, Marthin. One of the three demons
in the service of Fleuretty. Duke of the Infernal Regions he has
the appearance of a robust man but his body ends in a
serpent's tail. He is well versed in the virtues of herbs and
precious stones according to Wierius. He is able to transport men
from one place to another with wondrous speed. He commands thirty
legions. One of the 72 spirits of Solomon.
- Baton, the charioteer of Amphiaratis; both were swallowed up
by the earth after the battle of Thebes. Baton was afterwards
worshipped as a hero. Greek
- Batqol, a female angel whose name means "heavenly
voice." and her voice was heard by Cain asking "Where
is thy brother, Abel?" after Cain murdered his brother.
- Battus,
a shepherd of Neleus, who saw Hermes driving away the cattle he had stolen
from Apollo. The god promised to reward
him if he would not betray what he had seen. Battus promised on
oath to keep the secret but as Hermes mistrusted him
nevertheless, he assumed a different appearance, returned to
Battus, and promised him a handsome present, if he would tell him
who had stolen the cattle of Apollo. Greek
- Bau, the giver of life, goddess of the dawn and the sky.
Phoenicia
- Bau, Goddess of fertility, depicted with the head of a dog,
and her name means 'bark', 'woof'. Bau was known
as the patron deity of Lagash. Sumeria
- Baubo, an old woman who jested with
Demeter when she was mourning the loss
of her daughter Demeter. Greek
- Baugi aka Bauge. A brother of Suttung, for whom Odin worked
one summer in order to get his help in obtaining Suttung's
mead of poetry. Norse
- Bayard. A horse of incredible swiftness, belonging to the
four sons of Aymon. If only one of the sons mounted, the horse
was of the ordinary size; but if all four mounted, his body
became elongated to the requisite length. The name is used for
any valuable or wonderful horse, and means a
“high—bay”. France
- Bayemon, a reigning monarch of the western parts of the
Infernal Regions.
- Bazalicek. A spirit born out of the egg of a black cock, with
a look is so poisonous that no one can look at it and live.
Bohemian
- Bean Sidhe, a Banshee an goddess of Death.Celtic
- Bean Woman. Sister of Corn Woman and Squash Woman, she gave
the Patroness and the bean vine to humanity. Iroquoi
- Bearded Demon. The demon who teaches the secret of the
Philosopher's Stone. Hebrew
- Bebhionn, a goddess of the underworld and of pleasure.
Ireland
- Bebhinn, a goddess of the underworld and daughter of its
ruler and a breathtakingly beautiful giantess with long golden
hair. Britain
- Bechard aka Bechaud. A demon having power over the winds and
the tempests. He makes hail, thunder and rain. Unk
- Bechoil, Goddess of Melancholia. She was noted for her low
levels of enthusiasm and low levels of eagerness for any
activity. Ireland
- Becuma, Goddess of Banishment. Ireland
- Beda, goddess who, along with the Alaisiagae sisters and
Fimmilena and Mars Thingsus was popular among the Tubantes.
- Beder. A valley famous for the victory gained by Mahomet, in
which he was assisted by 3,000 angels, led by Gabriel, mounted on
his horse Haïzum. Koran
- Beelsamin, Lord of Heaven. Phoenician equivalent to Zeus
- Beelzebub, a deity worshipped in the Philistine city of
Ekron. In ancient contexts, there appears to have been little, if
any, meaningful distinction between Beelzebub and the
polytheistic Semitic god named Ba‘al.
- Befana. The good fairy of Italian children, who is supposed
to fill their stockings with toys when they go to bed on Twelfth
Night. Some one enters the children's bedroom for the
purpose, and the wakeful youngsters cry out, “Ecco la
Befana.” According to legend, Befana was too busy with
house affairs to look after the Magi when they went to offer
their gifts, and said she would wait to see them on their return;
but they went another way, and Befana, every Twelfth Night,
watches to see them. The name is a corruption of Epiphania.
- Begoe, an Etruscan nymph, who was
believed to have written the Ars fulguritarum, the art of
purifying places which had been struck by lightning. This
religious book was kept at Rome in the temple of Apollo together with the Sibylline books and
the Carmina of the Marcii.
- Beg-Tse, God of war Buddhist/Tibet
- Behanzin Fish god who was invoked by fishermen to ensure a
bountiful catch. Benin
- Beher, sea god. Ethiopian
- Beiwe, Goddess of the Summer solstice and war
Saami/Lappland
- Behemoth. when God created the earth, he realized that it was
not secure. To stabilize it, he placed under it first an angel,
then a huge rock made of ruby, then a bull with four thousand
eyes, ears, nostrils, mouths, tongues, and feet. But even the
bull did not stand firm. So below it God placed Behemoth, who
rested on water which was surrounded by darkness. Islam
- Behemoth. Another name for Satan. Hebrew
- Beherit. Another name for Satan. Syriac
- Beju aka Bejuni, a shaman who accepts gifts of gold ornaments
to act as a link between the living and dead and god and
goddesses. Dongria
- Bel,
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
signifying "lord" or "master", is a title
rather than a genuine name, applied to various gods in Babylonian
religion. The feminine form is Belit 'Lady, Mistress'.
Bel is represented in Greek and Latin by Belos and Belus
respectively. Linguistically Bel is an East Semitic form cognate
with Northwest Semitic Ba‘al with the same meaning.
Early translators of Akkadian believed that the ideogram for the
god called in Sumerian Enlil was to be read as Bel in Akkadian.
This is now known to be incorrect; but one finds Bel used in
referring to Enlil in older translations and discussions.
Bel became especially used of the Babylonian god Marduk and when
found in Assyrian and neo-Babylonian personal names or mentioned
in inscriptions in Mesoptamian context it can usually be taken as
referring to Marduk and no other god. Similarly Belit without
some disambiguation mostly refers to Bel Marduk's spouse
Sarpanit. However Marduk's mother, the Sumerian goddess
called Ninhursag, Ningal and Ninmah and other names in Sumerian,
was often known as Belit-ili 'Lady of the Gods' in
Akkadian.
Of course other gods called "Lord" could be and
sometimes were identified totally or in part with Bel Marduk. The
god Malak-bel of Palmyra is an example, though in the later
period from which most of our information comes he seems to have
become very much a sun god which Marduk was not.
- Belas, Indonesian tree spirits who should be asked to move
before chopping a tree down
- Belata-Cardu, God of the destruction of your enemies.
Gaul
- Belatu-Cadros aka Belatucadros, Belatucadrus, "fair
shining one" or "fair slayer", a deity worshipped
in northern Britain, particularly in Cumberland and Westmorland.
He may be related to Belenus and Cernunnos, equated with Mars.
- Bele, God of fear, mischief and trickery who gave fire and
water to mankind. Sudan/Africa
- Bele Alua, Tree goddess. Ghana
- Belenus, God charged with the welfare of sheep and cattle, he
also was God of the sun and healer in some regions and associated
with Beltane Pan-Celtic
- Belesis or Belesys, the noblest of the Chaidaean priests at
Babylon, who, according to the account of Ctesias, is said, in
conjunction with Arbaces, the Mede, to have overthrown the old
Assyrian empire. Beiesis afterwards received the satrapy of
Babylon from Arbaces.
- Beleth A great king and terrible, he commands eighty-five
legions and is very furious when first summoned so must be
commanded into a triangle or circle with the hazel wand of the
Magician pointed to the South-East. Hebrew
- Belet-Seri, Goddess of the underworld, who kept track of the
dead coming through Babylon/Akkadia
- Beli aka Bele. A giant, brother of Gerd, who was slain by
Frey. Norse
- Belili, Goddess of the moon Mesopotamia
- Belisama, Goddess connected with lakes and rivers, fire,
crafts and light. Identified with Minerva/Athena and
has been compared with Brigid. Gaul
- Belit Ilani, Mistress of the gods. Evening Star of Desire.
Babylon
- Belit Seri, Goddess of justice and fairness. She kept the
records of human activities. Babylon
- Belit-Ili, Mother goddess, the mother of Enlil.
Babylon/Akkadia
- Bellona, Goddess of war and mother
goddess Roman the goddess of war among the Romans. It is very
probable that originally Bellona was a Sabine divinity whose
worship was carried to Rome by the Sabine settlers. She is
frequently mentioned by the Roman poets as the companion of
Mars, or even as his sister or his wife.
Virgil describes her as armed with a bloody scourge. (The
Aeneid Book VIII)
- Belobog, god of light, sun, happiness, luck, and order.
Belun/Slavic
- Belogob, God of the living. A wise old man with a long beard
dressed in white, Belobog appears only during the day.
Slavic
- Belomancy. Divination by arrows. Labels being attached to a
given number of arrows, the archers let them fly, and the advice
on the label of the arrow which flies farthest is accepted and
acted on. This practice is common with the Arabs. Greek
- Belphegor aka Belphegore, Baalphegor. Demon of discovery,
invention, and riches. Moabite
- Beltiya, sublime and elevated, incomparable among the
goddesses. Babylon/Akkadia
- Belus,
a son of Poseidon by Libya or Eurynome.
He was a twin-brother of Agenor, and
father of Aegyptus and Danaus. He was believed to be the ancestral
hero and national divinity of several eastern nations, from
whence the legends about him were transplanted to Greece and
became mixed up with Greek myths. Greek
-
Bellerophones, or Bellerophon, properly called Hipponous, was
a son of the Corinthian king Glaucus and Eurymede, and a grandson
of Sisyphus. According to Hyginus, he was a son of Poseidon and
Eurymede. Greek
- Bellona,
the goddess of war among the Romans. It is very probable that
originally Bellona was a Sabine divinity whose worship was
carried to Rome by the Sabine settlers. Greek
- Bendis, a Thracian divinity in whom
the moon was worshipped. Hesychius says "that the poet
Cratinus called this goddess Two Spears, either because she had
to discharge two duties, one towards heaven and the other towards
the earth, or because she bore two lances, or lastly, because she
had two lights, the one her own and the other derived from the
sun. In Greece she was sometimes identified with Persephone, but more commonly with Artemis.
- Bendith y Mamau, Carmarthenshire name for fairies, means
"Mother's Blessing". Phrase is used as a prayer to
protect from evil. Wales
- Bene Elohim, angels who belong to the choir of thrones having
the duty of forever singing the ineffable praise of God.
Hebrew
- Bennefilim. The demon of epilepsy. Jewish folklore
- Bensozia, "chief deviless" of a certain Sabbatic
meeting held in France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The Diana of the Ancient Gauls, and was also called Nocticula,
Herodias, and "The Moon."
- Bentakumari, Goddess of water. The first fish of the season
was given to her. India
- Benten aka Benzi-Ten, goddess of everything that flows:
words, knowledge, speech, eloquence, and music. Japan/Shinto
- Benu, God of the sun in a bird like form Egypt
- Benthesicyme,
an Ethiopian sea nymph, a goddess of the waves and a daughter of
Poseidon and Amphitrite, the wife of king Enalos. She raised
Eumolpus, son of Chione and Poseidon. (Apollodorus iii) Her
husband Enalos: of the sea, may have been Triton, the god of lake
Tritonis in Greek
- Bera Pennu, Earth and vegetation goddess. India
- Berecyntia, Goddess of the earth. Gaul
- Bereginy, Goddesses and spirits of nature. Slavic
- Bereguni, River nymphs accused of stealing newborn children.
Probably a variation of the Hebrew Lilith myth. Driven by an
insatiable hunger of envy, Lilith stalks the world by night
raping men in their sleep and sucking their blood, or stealing
their newborn children from their cots and eating them.
Slavic
- Berenice, Goddess of Coma Berenices. Eratosthenes referred to
it as both "Ariadne's Hair" and
"Berenice's Hair. Egypt
- Bergelmir aka Bergelmer. A frost—giant, father of the
Jötuns, or second dynasty of giants, son of Thrudgelmer and
grandson of Aurgelmer. Scandinavian
- Bërlic. A mischievous nature spirit. Swiss
- Beroe. A Trojan woman, married to Doryclus, one of the companions of Aeneas. Iris assumed
the appearance of Beroë when she persuaded the women to set
fire to the ships of Aeneas on the coast of Sicily.
- Berstuk, evil god of the forest. Slavic
- Bertha, Goddess the spinning-wheel principally, and of the
household as dependent on it, in behalf of which and its
economical management she is often harsh to idle spinners; at her
festival thrift is the rule. South German
- Bes, dwarfed semigod of childbirth, food, love, marriage,
luck, recreation, relaxation and sleep. Egypt
- Bestla. Wife of Bur and mother of Odin. Norse
- Best Things, according to Scandinavian
mythology:—
(1) The ash Yggdrasil is the best of trees;
(2) Skidbladnir, of ships;
(3) Odin, of the Æsir';
(4) Sleipnir, of steeds;
(5) Bifrost, of bridges;
(6) Bragi, of bards;
(7) Habrok, of hawks
(8) Garm, of hounds.
- Bethel, an ancient Canaanite deity which can be found in
Jeremiah
- Bethor. One of the seven angelic beings ruling the 196
divisions of heaven. His authority also extends to to the planet
Jupiter. Hebrew
- Black Angels, a name used for the fallen angels and are
generally considered demons. Islamic
- Beyla. Frey's attendant; wife of Bygver. Norse
- Beyreva. Indian demon, master of souls that roam through
space after being changed into airy demons. It is said to have
crooked nails with which it lopped off one of Brahma's
heads.
- Bhadra, a goddess of the hunt and one of Shiva's
servants. Hindu/Puranic
- Bhaga, one of the Adityas, a god of wealth and marriage in
Hinduism.
- Bhagavan, the Supreme Being or Absolute Truth. India
- Bhairavi, a fierce and terrifying aspect of the Goddess
virtually indistinguishable from Kali, except for her particular
identification as the consort of the Wrathful Shiva. Hindu
- Bhaisajyaguru, Medicine Buddha Buddhist/Tibet
- Bharani, Minor goddess of misfortune Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Bharat Mata, Mother goddess who is the mother of India
Hindu
- Bharati, is the first of the three great goddesses of
Hinduism, the other two being Lakshmi and Durga. Saraswati is the
consort of Lord Brahma, the Creator. Hindu/Vedic/Epic
- Bhavanavasi, the last of the four categories of gods in the
Jainistic Work of Salvation.
- Bhavani, a ferocious aspect of Hindu goddess Shakti or Devi.
Bhavani means "giver of life", the power of nature or
the source of creative energy. In addition to her ferocious
aspect, she is also known as Karunaswaroopini, "filled with
mercy". India
- Bheem or Bhima. One of the five Pandoos, or brotherhoods of
Indian demi—gods, famous for his strength. He slew the
giant Kinchick, and dragged his body from the hills, thereby
making the Kinchick ravine.
- Bhima, a heroic warrior, son of Kunti by Vayu, but the
acknowledged son of Pandu and the second eldest of the Pandava
brothers Buddhist
- Bhrkuti-Tara, the Nepalese queen of Tibet's first great
religious king, Songtsen Gambo and credited with the introduction
of Buddhism to Tibet and China. In the Lamaeist Tradition,
Bhrkuti-Tara is incarnate in all good women. Buddhist/Tibet
- Bhumi, Collective name for a group of deities
Buddhist/Vajrayana
- Bhumi, the ten stages a Bodhisattva advances through in the
path to become a Buddha. India
- Bhumidevi, goddess of the earth. Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Bhumiya, a fertility god who was eventually identified as a
form of Vishnu. Hindu/Puranic/Vedic
- Bhut, a type of evil spirit. It is especially the evil ghost
of a man who has died due to execution, accident, or suicide.
People protect themselves by lying on the ground, because the
bhutas never rest on earth. In the Bhagvad Gita, Krishna the
Avatar declares that the humans who worship bhutas become bhutas
themselves. India
- Bhutadamara, "Turmoil of the Spirits" four-armed
God. Buddhist/Mahayana
- Bhutamata, a terrible and malevolent goddess, a form of Devi.
Hindu
- Bhuvanesvari, Mistress of the World and the fourth of the ten
mahavidya goddesses and an aspect of Devi. Hindu
- Bia, the eldest son of Nyame and Asase Ya. Ashanti
- Bia, the personification of mighty force, is described as the
daughter of the Titan Pallas and Styx, and as
a sister of Zelos, Cratos, and Nice. Greek
- Biame, The "Great One," or creator. Australia
- Bias,
son of Amythaon, and brother of the
seer Melampus. He married Pero,
daughter of Neleus, whom her father had
refused to give to any one unless he brought him the oxen of
Iphiclus. Greek
- Biasd na Srogaig. A mythical animal that had one horn on its
forehead and dwelt in lochs. Celtic. Isle of Skye
- Bibi the Child-Strangler, sometimes affectionately known as
"Aunty Bibi," is a Romany witch-goddess. Bibi is an old
crone who either wears torn black garments or is entirely naked.
Like the Romanian goddess Dschuma, Bibi is disease incarnate,
particularly cholera. She is referred to as "the
child-strangler" because it is believed that disease often
effects children, who are young and weak.
- Bibliomancy Forecasting future events by the Bible. The plan
was to open the sacred volume at random, and lay your finger on a
passage without looking at it. The text thus pointed out was
supposed to be applicable to the person who pointed it out.
Another process was to weigh a person suspected of magic against
a Bible. If the Bible bore down the other scale, the accused was
acquitted.
- Biddy Mannion, Goddess of midwives. Ireland
- Bidhata Purusha. A god of fate and the Hindu equivalent of
the Fates and the Norns. He writes the child’s future life
on its forehead, on the sixth day after its birth.
- Bidhgoe, Female of Illusion, Goddess of love and of sexuality
Celtic
- Biblys, fell in love with her brother and when he refused her
love, she turned into a constantly. flowing fountain. Greek
- Biersel. A Kobold who lives in the cellar, drinks beer and
cleans the jugs and bottles. German Torgau District
- Biffant A little-known demon, chief of a legion who was said
to have entered the body of Denise de la Caille and who was
obliged to sign with his claws the proces verbal of exorcisms.
France
- Bifrons, demon of astronomy, geometry, and other such
sciences, planetary influences. He often takes the form of a man.
He is acquainted with the virtues of herbs, precious stones and
plants. He can transport corpses from one place to another. It is
he who lights the strange corpse lights above the tombs of the
dead. Unk
- Bikeh Hozho, The personification of speech. Navaho
- Bila, cannibal sun goddess. She provided light for the world
by cooking her victims over a giant flame. Australia
- Bile, god of Hell. Celtic
- Bileth. One of the 72 Spirits of Solomon. Hebrew
- Biliku, Goddess of weavery, storytelling, arts and crafts
Native American
- Bilwis. A maleficent spirit who was active on Walpurgis Night
and wrought havoc to the crops. Teutonic
- Bifrost. [To tremble; the trembling way]. The rainbow.
Norse
- Bilskirnir aka Bilskirner. The heavenly abode of Thor, from
the flashing of light in the lightning. Norse
- Binky, the horse ridden by Death. Discworld
- Binzuru-Sonja. One of the pupils of Buddha, the first of the
Sixteen Rakan. Rakan with grey hair and long eyebrows. Originally
he was a retainer of the king, Uuten. He became a priest and
attained miracle power by performing Arakan’s vow. It is
said that he was praised by Shaka for he used the miracle power
for the world and that he didn't enter Nirvana and made
efforts cultivating ordinary people. He was worshipped on the
above in Theravada Buddhism, however, many are worshipped in
restaurants in China. He is enshrined in front of a temple in
Japan. It is believed that stroking him eliminates distresses.
Japan
- Bir. A very malignant village demon. India
- Birdu, Minor underworld god. Babylon/Akkadia
- Bisal Mariamna, Shakti of Sunlight in Mysore. Symbolized by a
brass pot full of water called the Kunna-Kannadi or 'eye
mirror'. India
- Bisam, Goddess of health and diseases. India
- Bishamon, One of the seven gods of luck and the Buddhist
patron of warriors. Japan
- Bishamon, a suit of samurai armour that comes to life in the
fighting video game Darkstalkers.
- Biston,
a son of Ares. Bistonians The Thracians; so called from Biston,
son of Mars, who built Bistonia on the Lake Bistonis. Greek
- Bodn. One of the three vessels in which the poetical mead was
kept. Hence poetry is called the wave of the bodn. Norse
- Bitol. A sky god and one of the creator deities who
participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity.
Mayan
- Bitru aka Sytry. Great Prince of Hell who appears in the form
of a leopard with the wings of a griffon.
- Bladud, God of the sun Welsh
- Blathnat, Maiden form of the triple goddess
Ireland/Welsh
- Bleidablik [vast splendour]. The abode of Baldur, the
Scandinavian Apollo.
- Blemmyae. A race of people described by Pliny, they are
headless and have their eyes and mouths in their breasts.
- Blid, Goddess of happiness. Norse
- Blemys, along with Orontes, and
Oruandes, was a chief of the Deriades who fought against Dionysus in the Indian War.
- Blinded Angel. The devil Satan. According to Pope John Paul
II the devil exists in perpetual darkness because he has blinded
himself to the light and beauty of God. Catholic
- Blisargon, the Grand Enticer of Thieves, he eventually leads
all of his followers to destruction. Unk
- Blud. A Will-o’-the-wisp and is the soul of an
unbaptized child. Wendish
- Blue Goblin. A malevolent demon in Carnarvonshire.
- Blue Men. “The fallen angels were driven out of
Paradise in three divisions, one became the Fairies of the land,
one the Blue Men in the sea and one the Nimble Men . . . or Merry
Dancers of the sky.” Campbell. Superstitions of
Scotland.
- Blue Men of the Minch, fallen angels who dwell in the strait
between Long Island and the Shiant Islands and responsible for
sudden thunderstorms and shipwrecks.
- Bmola, bird spirit. Abenaki
- Bo, God of the Ewe people in Benin. He was a protector of
warriors.
- Boamiel, an angel with authority over the four divisions of
heaven. Jewish
- Bodachs, malicious house spirits of the Scottish Highlands in
the form of a shriveled old man who lives up the chimney in the
daytime and comes out at night to punish naughty children.
Scotland
- Boaliri. The younger of the two sister goddesses that created
life. The other was Waimariwi. Australia
- Boann, Goddess of fertility and the river Boyne. Ireland
- Bod The divinity invoked by Indian women who desire
fecundity. Children born after an invocation to Bod must be
redeemed, or else serve in the temple of the goddess. Indian
- Bo Dhu, Black cow goddess. Ireland
- Boel, the angel with the keys to the Garden of Eden. He's
also in charge of Saturn. Zohar
- Bo Find, White cow goddess. Ireland
- Bogles, a form of Goblin with a very nasty temperament.
- Bogan aka Bauchan. A type of Hobgoblin. Celtic
- Bo Hsian, God. China/Taoist
- Bokwus, fearsome spirit in the great North Western American
forests. Kwakiutl
- Bolay or Boley. The giant which conquered heaven, earth, and
the inferno. Indian
- Bonifarce One of the two demons said to have been
successfully exorcised from Elisabeth Allier in 1639 by Francois
Faconnet. The other demon was Orgeuil.
- Bo Ruadh, Goddess who helped bring fertility to barren.
Ireland
- Bochica, Supreme sun god and a god of law Chibcha
- Bodua, Goddess of war Celtic
- Boibhniu, Blacksmith god Celtic
- Boeotus,
a son of Poseidon or Itonus and Arne (Antiope or Melanippe), and
brother of Aeolus. He was the ancestral hero of the Boeotians,
who derived their name from him. Greek
- Bolbe, An extremely beautiful Lake Goddess, the daughter of
Oceanus and Tethys. Bolbe's offspring was Limnades who are Nymphs living in fresh water lakes. Greek
- Bogeyman, boogyman, or bogyman, is a legendary ghost-like
monster often believed in by children. The bogeyman has no
specific appearance. The term bogeyman is also used
metaphorically to mean a person or thing of which someone else
has an irrational fear.
- Boldogasszony, Virgin goddess who protected mothers and
children. Hungary
- Bolontiku. A group of underworld gods. Maya
- Bolon tza cab, Ruling God of All. Maya
- Bolon Ti Ku, Collective name for the the nine underworld gods
who are not well defined Mayan
- Bolthorn. A giant, father of Bestla, Odin's mother.
Norse
- Bolverkr aka Bolverk. [Working terrible things]. An assumed
name of Odin, when he went to get Suttung's mead. Norse
- Bomazi. Ancestral deity of the Bushongo and other peoples of
the Congo.
- Bombat KaMayann, Local deceased goddess. Hindu
- Bomo Rambi, Goddess of the moon. Zimbabwe
- Bomong, Goddess of war. Minyong
- Bona Dea A Roman divinity, who is
described as the sister, wife, or daughter of Faunus, and was herself called Fauna, Fatua, or Oma, worshipped at Rome from the
earliest times as a chaste and prophetic divinity; and her
worship was so exclusively confined to women.
- Bonchor, God thought to be the creator deity Tunisia
- Bootes. Inventor of the plough. At his death he, his plough,
and the two oxen yoked to it, were taken into the heavens as the
constellation. Greek.
- Borak or Al Borak (the lightning). The animal brought by
Gabriel to carry Mahomet to the seventh heaven. It had the face
of a man, but the cheeks of a horse; its eyes were like jacinths,
but brilliant as the stars; it had the wings of an eagle, spoke
with the voice of a man, and glittered all over with radiant
light. This creature was received into Paradise.
- Boreas,
Bopeas, or Bopas), the North wind, was, according to Hesiod
(Theogony 379), a son
of Astraeus and Eos, and brother of Hesperus, Zephyrus, and Notus. He dwelt in a cave of
mount Haemus in Thrace. Greek
- Boora Pennu Khondi, God of light who created the goddess of
the earth and they made the other great gods India
- Boraspati ni Tano, Earth spirit Batak
- Borghild, Goddess of the moon norse
- Bormanus, God of hot springs Celtic/Briton
- Bormonia, yet another goddess of healing. Roman
- Bormus. A son of Upius, abducted by
nymphs. Greek
- Borr aka Bor [burr, a son; Scotch bairn]. A son of Bure and
father of Odin, Vile and Ve. Norse
- Borysthenes. The Scythian river
god of Borysthenes, now called the Dneiper.
- Bragi aka Brage. The god of poetry. A son of Odin. He is the
best of skalds. Norse
- Botis, a horrid viper, but when commanded, assumes a human
shape, with large teeth and horns. He bears a sharp sword in his
hand, discerns past, present and future, and reconciles friends
and foes. One of the three demons in the service of Agaliarept.
Hebrew
- Borvo, God of hot springs equated with Apollo and has similarities to the goddess
Sirona, who was also a healing deity associated with mineral
springs. British/Gaul
- Bossum. One of the two chief deities of the Gold Coast, the
other being Demonio. Bossum, the principle of good, is said to be
white; and Demonio, the principle of evil, black. African
- Bottomless Pit, the abyss, often referred to as hell. The
angel in charge is called Abaddon or Appolyon. He has a key that
can bind Satan for a thousand years. Hebrew
- Bouders or Boudons. A tribe of giants and evil genii, the
guard of Shiva. Indian
- Bower of Bliss, a Wandering Island, the enchanted residence
of Acrasia, destroyed by Sir Guyon. France
- Bozaloshtsh. A messenger of death who cries like a child
outside a house where someone is about to die. Wendish
- Breath-of-the-Wind. A spirit of the air and child of
Ataensic. Iroquoi
- Breidablik. [Literally to gleam, twinkle]. Balder's
dwelling. Norse
- 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 502), and
are described as huge monsters with a hundred arms and fifty
heads. (Apollodorus i.
Theogony of Hesiod
149) Greek
- Brimo, the angry or the terrifying,
occurs as a surname of several divinities, such as Hecate or Persephone (Argonautica), Demeter, and Cybele. Greek
- Brags. Mischievous Goblins that can take the form of a cow
with a white flag around its neck, an ass, or a naked man
flapping a white sheet, a chanting girl, or a giant, white
singing cat. England
- Brag srin mo, Goddess of fertility and an ancestral goddess
Tibet
- Bragi, God of eloquence and wisdom. Norse
- Brahani, Mother goddess Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Brahma, Supreme god and creator of the cosmos. Hindu
- Brahma, Creator god, part of the main hindu trinity, the
other two being Vishnu and Shiva. Brahma is the unmoved, uncaused
first cause, and he created everything. Hindu
- Brahmadaityas, benign ghosts of Brahmin priests with four
faces and four hands. They guard their master against Shiva the
destroyer.
- Brahman, the one and only (formless) supreme aspect of God.
The Universe in Potential Static Energy. Hindu
- Branab Llyr, God of the dead and can restore them life.
Celtic
- Brangwaine, Goddess of love. Welsh
- Branwen, Venus of the Northern Seas and a goddess of love.
Ireland/Welsh/Manx
- Brap. A minor angel, skilled at locating precious metals.
Enochian
- Brcn. A minor angel. Enochian
- Breasal, a legendary High King of Ireland of the 2nd or 3rd
century BCE. Welsh/Cornwall
- Breksta, a goddess of twilight. Lithuania
- Brekyirihunuade is the highest god in the religion of the
Akan people, "he who knows and sees everything".
- Brenos, God of war. Celtic
- Bres Maclatha, Vegetation god. Ireland
- Brhaspati, Astral god personifying Jupiter
Hindu/Puranic/Epic
- Briant, Goddess of the river which holds her name.
Britain
- Briap. An alternative name for the angel Brap. Enochian
- Brigantia, a goddess in Britain and Europe. She was the
tutelary goddess of the Brigantes in northern Britain (modern
Yorkshire) and of the Brigantes on Lake Constance in Austria.
British
- Brigantia, Goddess of the seasons, doctors smiths, poets, and
women in childbirth Pan-Celtic
- Brigantis, Goddess of the moon Celtic
- Brighid, Goddess of education, healing, sore eyes Celtic
- Brighid, Goddess of metal working Gaelic
- Brigit aka Brigid, Brighit, Bridget ("exalted one")
was the daughter of Dagda and wife of Bres of the Fomorians. She
had two sisters, also named Brighid, and is considered a classic
Celtic Triple Goddess. Ireland
- Brihaspati, God of incantation and ritual India
- Brisaya, Goddess of the dawn and the violet light of morning
Greek
- Brisingamen. Freyja's necklace made by the fairies.
Freyja left her husband Odin in order to obtain this necklace;
and Odin deserted her because her love was changed into vanity.
It is not possible to love Brisingamen and Odin too, for no one
can serve two masters.
- Briseis,
a patronymic from Briseus, and the name of Hippodameia, the
daughter of Briseus of Lyrnessus, who fell into the hands of
Achilles, and about whom the quarrel arose between Achilles and
Agamemnon. Greek
- Britannia, Genia Lor of British British
- 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
- Brizo, a prophetic goddess of the
island of Delos, who sent dreams and revealed their meaning to
man. Her name is connected to falling asleep. Greek
- Brome aka Bromie, one of the nymphs who brought up Dionysus on mount Nysa. Greek
- Brobdingnag The country of gigantic giants, to whom Gulliver
was a pigmy “not half so big as a round little worm plucked
from the lazy finger of a maid.”
- Brollachans. Scottish fairies that help with housework. When
frightened they may bleat like a goat.
- Bronach, Goddess linked to forgotten Samhain rituals
Ireland
- Brono, God of light norse
- Brown Man Of The Muirs, the protector of wild animals.
Scotland
- Brownies, house spirits of Scotland doing the housework,
guiding cows back to the farmyard and ushering their hens back to
their roosts.
- Buadza, God of the wind. Ghana
- Bubák. A Bohemian bogeyman used to frighten
children.
- Bubilas, a household god of bees. Later hypothetical
reconstructions say that people sacrificed honey for Bubilas.
People believed that doing so would make bees swarm better.
Bubilas is the husband of Austeja. Lithuania
- Buddha, Deified after his death India
- Buddhaalocana, Goddess and female Buddha
Buddhist/Shingon
- Buddhabodhiprabhavasita, "Born to be Englightened".
Minor goddess Buddhist
- Budhi Pallien, a fearsome goddess of forests and jungles, who
roams northern India in the form of a tiger. India
- Bubastis,
a daughter of Osiris and Isis, and sister of Horus (Apollo). Her mother, Isis, entrusted Bubastis
and Horns to Buto, to protect them from
Typhon. Egypt
- Bubilas, a household god of bees. Later hypothetical
reconstructions say that people sacrificed honey for Bubilas.
People believed that doing so would make bees swarm better.
Bubilas is the husband of Austeja. Lithuanian
- Bucca. A goblin of the wind, supposed by the ancient
inhabitants of Cornwall to foretell shipwrecks.
- Bucentaur A monster, half—man and half—ox. The
Venetian state—galley employed by the Doge when he went on
Ascension Day to wed the Adriatic was so called
- Bucolion. A son of Laomedon and
the nymph Calybe, who had several sons
by Abarbarea
- Budhi Pallien. Assamese Forest Goddess, appears as a tiger
prowling through the jungle. Indian
- Buer, a demon of the second order and has the form of a star,
though sometimes depicted with the head of a lion and the feet of
a goat. He appears when the Sun is in Sagittarius. Unk
- Buga, the supreme god and represents the entire universe.
Siberia/Tungus
- Bugaboo. A monster, or goblin, introduced into the tales of
the old Italian romancers.
- Bugady Musun, revered by many Siberian peoples. Bugady Musun
was the patron of wildlife and the guardian of animals.
- Bugarik. A lovely river siren with the body and arms of a
woman, but no legs. Her head floats on the current and she will
kill anyone she catches. Assam, Garos
- Bugarit! The spirit found on building sites and invoked as
the cause of minor accidents. British
- Bugid Y Alba, God of war Haiti/Puerto Rico
- Buk Neur, Goddess of rivers and streams Sudan
- Buku, God/goddess of the sky Africa(west)
- Bulaing Karadjeri, Goddess Australia
- Bulan, Goddess of the moon Indonesia/Malaysia
- Bulane, God of water Mozambique
- Bulderbasse. A Poltergeist. Danish
- Bulis metamorphosed into a drake; and his son, Egypios, into
a vulture. Greek
- Bulla. An amulet worn, by Roman children, intended to ward
off ghostly anger.
- Bullkater. A field-spirit resembling a tom-cat. German
- Buluc Chabtan, sometimes referred to as "God F," he
was a war god who received human sacrifices. Mayan
- Bumann. A bogeyman of an undefined nature. German
- Bune, a demon of death and Grand Duke of the infernal
regions. He removes corpses, haunts cemeteries, and marshals the
demons around the places of the dead. He has been depicted as a
three-headed dragon, the heads being respectively those of a dog,
griffin and man. Unk
- Bur. Another name for Adad. Babylon Norse
- Buri, One of two primordial beings, licked out of the stones
by Audhumla. Norse
- Buriyas, God of war Iran/Kassite
- Burl aka Bure. The father of Bor. He was produced by the
cow's licking the stones covered with rime, frost. Norse
- Bumba Bantu, God of fire. Africa
- Bumerali, Goddess of physical prowess. Australia
- Bunbulama, Goddess of rain. Australia
- Bunjil, supreme god, represented as an eagle. The Kulin claim
he is a culture-hero who taught them all the important skills of
life, but the Wurundjeri claims he created mankind. He now lives
in the sky. Binbeal, the rainbow spirit, is his son.
Australia
- Bunus. The son of Hermes and Alcidameia
- Bunzi, Rain goddess. Zaire
- Buphagus Pausanias tells us that
the son of Japhet was called Buphagos (glutton), as Hercules was
called Adephagus, because on one occasion he ate a whole ox.
Greek
- Bura. A daughter of Ion, the ancestral hero of the Ionians, and
Helice, from whom, the Achaean town of
Bura derived its name.
- Buraicus. A surname of Heracles, derived from the Achaean town of
Bura
- Bure. The first woman, and sister of Borr, the father of
Odin. Scandinavian
- Burlond. A giant whose legs Sir Tryamour cut off. France
- Burning Bush. In Jewish tradition, the name of the angel of
the burning bush was Zagzagel. Book of Exodus
- Buschweiber. Forest-spirits aka “Wild-maidens”.
German.
- Bush-asp. A long handed demon who lulls men to sleep then
attacks them. Parsi
- Bushyasta, the yellow demon of lethargy and sloth. He is the
evil genius which causes men to oversleep and to neglect their
religious duties. Zoroastrian
- Bussumarus. God of storm and mist and fog and lightning and
thunder. Celtic
- Buta. An evil demon with hooked teeth. Indonesian
- Butes,
son of Boreas, a Thracian, was hostile towards his step-brother
Lycurgus, and therefore compelled by his father to emigrate. He
accordingly went with a band of colonists to the island of
Strongyle, afterwards called Naxos. But as he and his companions
had no women, they made predatory excursions, and also came to
Thessaly, where they carried off the women who were just
celebrating a festival of Dionysus. Butes himself took Coronis;
but she invoked Dionysus, who struck Butes with madness, so that
he threw himself into a well. Greek
- Buto,
an Egyptian divinity, whom the Greeks identified with their Leto,
and who was worshipped principally in the town of Buto, which
derived its name from her. Festivals were celebrated there in her
honour, and there she had also an oracle which was in high esteem
among the Egyptians. Egypt
- Butsugen aka Butsubo. A manifestation of the eyes of Nyorai.
Eyes originally has infinite virtue to produce wisdom. Japan
- Butze. A household spirit. German
- Buxenus, the god of box trees, worshipped primarily in Gaul
alongside Abellio, Fagus and Robur. Gaul
- Bwca, the Welsh version of the Brownie with slightly nastier
tempers and have tantrums if their work is criticized. They
despise tattletales and people with long noses.
- Byggvir aka Bygver. Frey's attendant; Beyla's
husband. Norse
- Byleiptr aka Byleipt [Flame of the dwelling]. The brother of
Loke. Norse
- Buyasta An ancient Persian demon of laziness who tries to
prevent people from working. He is one of the Daevas.
- Byzas,
a son of Poseidon and Ceroessa, the daughter of Zeus and Io. He
was believed to be the founder of Byzantium. Greek
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