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Lots And Lots Of Gods
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- U Blei Nong-thaw. The Supreme god of the Khasis. To the
Khasi, life is God’s greatest gift and he therefore has to
account for it in the hereafter. Assam
- Ua-Ildak, Goddess responsible for pastures and grassland.
Poplar trees are sacred to her. Mesopotamia
- Uadjet, Wadjit, Wedjet, originally a local city goddess she
eventually became the patron goddess of the whole of Lower Egypt
associated with the land.
- Uairebhuidhe, Bird goddess and possibly a goddess of death.
Ireland
- Ualare The name for ancestors, ualare is that by which all
sacred objects are designated. Certain animals are ualare, and as
these were never injured or eaten. The Elema, Papuan Gulf, New
Guinea
- Uanari. Supreme god and creator who is constantly vying with
the malevolent Kahu. Venezuela
- Uarahiulu A stone being who was the wife of Darukavaitere and
the mother of the sun and moon. Brazil
- Uathach, Goddess who trained warriors. One of the mistresses
of Cuchulain. Ireland/Scotland
- Ubasi The creator god of the Yako. Nigeria
- Ubastet. Originally viewed as the protector goddess of Lower
Egypt, and consequently depicted as a fierce lion. Egypt
- Ubertas, Minor god of agriculture associated with
fruitfulness, fertility and prosperity. Roman
- Ubelluris, a mountain god who carried the western edge of the
sky on his shoulders. Hittite
- Ucchusma, purifier of the defiled and who speaks with divine
power. Buddhist
- Uchoreus. A river god and the father of Memphis. Greek
- Uchtsiti. Your father, Uchtsiti made you, and it is he who
has made the world, the sun which you have seen, the sky, and
many other things which you will see. But Uchtsiti says the world
is not yet completed, not yet satisfactory, as he wants it. This
is the reason he has made you. Uchtsiti first made the world. He
threw a clot of his own blood into space and by his power it grew
and grew until it became the earth. Then Uchtsiti planted you in
this and by it you were nourished as you developed. Acoma
- Ucuetis, a Celtic god who, along with his consort Bergusia,
was venerated at Alesia in Burgundy. The divine couple are named
on inscriptions of the Romano-Celtic period, and an image of a
divine couple has been found on the same site, the male figure
bearing a hammer, the female appearing as a goddess of
prosperity.
- Udadhikumara, Generic name of one of the group of deities
called Bhavanvasi-nikaya. The Bhavanvasi-nikaya consists of the
types: Asurakumara, Nagakumara, Vidyutkumara, Suparnakumara,
Agnikumara, Vatakumara, Stanitakumara, Udadhikumara, Dvipakumara
and Dikkumara. Jain
- Udens Mate, mother of water, presided over small bodies of
water such as wells and ponds. Latvia
- Ueuecoyotl, "old coyote", a renowned trickster fond
of promiscuity, wild parties and jolly bonking. Aztec
- Ugar. A messenger of Baal and an agriculture god. Syria
- Ugatame. The omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent creator. New
Guinea
- Ugatara, death goddess with a strange taste in hats. She is
very fond of golden idols and buffalo sacrifices. Puranic
- Ugayafukiaezu, a Japanese deity (kami) and the father of
Japan's mythical first emperor, Emperor Jimmu.
- Uhubaput, the sun-god of the Sumus, their supreme deity.
Honduras
- Uitzilopchtli, God of the incarnating of the sun at Midday.
Aztec
- Ukat, Goddess of good luck and whoever recites the 700 slokas
of markand purana and asks for a specific boon, the goddess will
grant it instantaneously. India
- Uke Mochi, Goddess of food, she prepared a feast by facing
the ocean and spitting out a fish, then she faced the forest and
bountiful game spewed out of her mouth, finally turning to a rice
paddy she coughed up a bowl of rice. Japan
- Ukko, God of rain storms, thunder, weather and the sky.
Finnish
- Uks Akka, Goddess of midwives who looks after newborn babies.
Swedish
- Ukupanipo, a shark god who controls the amount of fish close
enough for the fisherman to catch. He occasionally adopted a
human child who gains the power to transform into a shark.
Hawaii
- Ukur, underworld spirit of earth and water. Babylon
- Ulfrun. One of Heimdal's nine giant mothers. Norse
- Uli, a forest goddess who also dabbles in sorcery.
Polynesia
- Uliliyassis. Minor Hittite god who was invoked, before the
invention of Viagra, to remove impotence.
- Ulixes, Ulysses, Ulyxes. The Roman
name for Odysseus, one of the
principal Greek heroes in the Trojan war.
- Uller. The god of archery and the chase. No one could
outstrip him in his snow—shoes. Scandinavian
- Uller. God whose name meant "the brilliant one".
Symbolizes oaths, pacts, duels, hunting, winter, and glory.
Norse
- Ullikummi, a giant stone monster, son of Kumarbi and the sea
god's daughter. Hurrian
- Ultor. The avenger, a surname of Mars,
to whom Augustus built a temple at Rome in the forum.
- Ulu Toyo'n "Thou Beautiful Power, thou Beautiful
Rudder of the Northern Heaven, Power of Heaven, Opener of the
Disk, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern Heaven" From the
Egyptian
Book of the Dead
- Ullr, a son of Sif and a stepson of Thor who appears to have
been a major god in prehistoric times. Norse
- Ulupi, one of Arjuna's wives who abducted him and carried
him to the underworld. Hindu
- Ulu'tuyar. "Thou Beautiful Power, thou Beautiful
Rudder of the Northern Heaven, Power of Heaven, Opener of the
Disk, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern Heaven" From the
Egyptian
Book of the Dead
- Ulutuyer Ulu Toyon, Ulu-Toyon. The chief of the
'dark' spirits is Ulutuyer-Ulu-Toyon, 'Onmipotent
Lord'. He is always described as living in the western sky,
and, in contrast to the inactive Art-Toyon-Aga, he is the
personification of action and of the passions. Ulu-Toyon is not
always harmful to men, for he gives to them one of his souls,
sür, and defends them from the attacks of abassylar. The
Yakut, Siberia
- Uma, consort of Siva, famous for her defeat of the army of
Chanda and Munda, two demons. She is represented as holding the
head of Chanda in one of her four hands, and trampling on Munda.
The heads of the army., strung into a necklace, adorn her body,
and a girdle of the same surrounds her waist. Hindu
- Umaj, goddess of midwives, fertility, and birth. Yakut
- Umaj, proto-Bulgarian goddess of fertility.
- Umlimo The creator deity of the Amantebele (Zulu). South
Africa
- Umlungu The invisible supreme being of the Lake Nyasi region.
East Africa
- Umubumbi The aspect of God as the creator, ”the
potter.” The Gisu, Uganda
- Umusemyi A creator god of the Barundi. Burundi
- Umvelatanqi, Ukqamata. The supreme being of the Amakxosa.
South Africa
- Umvelinqangi, the Sky God who has a voice like thunder and is
known to send down lightning bolts. He descended from heaven to
marry Uthlanga and created the primeval reeds from which
Unkulunkulu emerged. Zulu
- Una. Truth, so called because truth is one. She starts with
St. George on his adventure, and being driven by a storm into
“Wandering Wood,” retires for the night to
Hypocrisy's cell. St. George quits the cell, leaving Una
behind. In her search for him she is caressed by a lion, who
afterwards attends her. She next sleeps in the hut of
Superstition, and next morning meets Hypocrisy dressed as St.
George. As they journey together Sansloy meets them, exposes
Hypocrisy, kills the lion, and carries off Una on his steed to a
wild forest. Una fills the air with her shrieks, and is rescued
by the fauns and satyrs, who attempt to worship her, but, being
restrained, pay adoration to her ass. She is delivered from the
satyrs and fauns by Sir Satyrane, and is told by Archimago that
St. George is dead, but subsequently hears that he is the captive
of Orgoglio. She goes to King Arthur for aid, and the king both
slays Orgoglio and rescues the knight. Una, now takes St. George
to the house of Holiness, where he is carefully nursed, and then
leads him to Eden, where their union is consummated. Spenser:
Faërie Queene
- Undine. The water—nymph, who was created without a
soul, like all others of her species. By marrying a mortal she
obtained a soul, and with it all the pains and penalties of the
human race. Greek
- Unelanuhi, Goddess of the sun who invented hours and minutes.
Cherokee
- Unicorn. According to the legends of the Middle Ages, the
unicorn could be caught only by placing a virgin in his haunts;
upon seeing the virgin, the creature would lose its fierceness
and lie quiet at her feet.
- Unicorn. According to a belief once popular, the unicorn by
dipping its horn into a liquid could detect whether or not it
contained poison. In the designs for gold and silver plate made
for the Emperor Rudolph II. by Ottavio Strada is a cup on which a
unicorn stands as if to essay the liquid.
- Ungamilia. Goddess of the evening star. Australia
- Ungud, a snake god who is sometimes male and sometimes
female. He is associated with rainbows and the fertility and
erections of the tribe's shamans. Australia
- Uni, the supreme goddess and the patron goddess of Perugia.
Etruscan
- Unk, a female being of magical beauty full of passion but
having, in part, an evil nature. Oglala.
- Unkulunkulu, the creator god and great ancestral spirit of
the Zulu people. Unkulunkulu is believed to have grown on a reed
in the mythical swamp of Uhlanga. Zulu
- Untombinde, "Tall-Maiden". A beautiful maiden who
became the goddess of the sea. Africa
- Unumbotte. Creator god. Bassari, Togo
- Unvelingange. The uncreated creator god, father of mankind.
The Kaffir, South Africa
- Unwabu, a chameleon who was sent to humanity to grant them
immortality. Unwabu was too slow, leading to the current
mortality of humanity. The chameleon's color changes from
green to brown because it is mourning Unwabu's sloth.
Zulu
- Unxia, minor goddess of marriage, concerned with anointing
the bridgegroom's door. Roman
- Upakesini, Minor goddess of cultivation accomplished through
the merits of generosity. Buddhist
- Upelluri. The Hurrian "dreaming god". The gods
placed the stone giant Ullikummi on Upelluri's shoulders to
form the world. In his slumber, Upelluri was unaware of his
burden.
- Upes Mate, mother of rivers, presided over rivers.
Latvia
- Upius. A king of Bithynia whose son,
Bormus, a youth of extraordinary beauty,
was abducted by nymphs. Greek
- Upulero, the god of heaven, who fertilizes Upunusa, the
earth. Indonesia
- Upulvan, 'the water-lily colored' One of a group of
"four great gods", and each of these four gods was the
patron of a certain part of the Island. Sri Lanka
- Upunusa Grandmother Earth, the female principle who was
fertilized by Upulero. Indonesia
- Urania,
one of the Muses, a daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne.
(Theogony of Hesiod 78.
Fasti
by Ovid) The ancient bard Linus is called her son by Apollo and Hymenaeus
also is said to have been a son of Urania. Greek
- Uranides. Along with the four
Iapetionides the twelve Uranides were the most important of the
Titan gods.
- Uranus,
also known as Ouranos, the Latin Caelus, a son of Gaea (Theogony of Hesiod 126), but is also called the
husband of Gaea, and by her the father of Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion,
Lapetus, Theia, Rheia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, Cronos, of
the Cyclopes, Brontes, Steropes, Arges, and of the Hecatoncheires Cottus, Briareus and
Gyes. (Theogony 133)
Greek
- Uras, Urash, a goddess of earth, and one of the consorts of
the sky god An. She is the mother of the goddess Nininsinna.
Sumeria
- Urd [The Past ]. Guardian of the sacred fount called Urda,
where the gods sit in judgment. Scandinavian
- Urda or Urdan Fount. The sacred fount of light and heat,
situated over the Rainbow Bridge, Bifrost. Scandinavian
- Urda, Verdandi, and Skulda. The three Nornir (Past, Present,
and Future) who dwell in a beautiful hall below the
ash—tree Yggdrasil'. Their employment is to engrave on
a shield the destiny of man. Scandinavian
- Urgan. A mortal born and christened, but stolen by the king
of the fairies and brought up in elf—land. He was sent to
Lord Richard, the husband of Alice Brand, to lay on him the
“curse of the sleepless eye" for killing his
wife's brother Ethert. When Lord Richard saw the hideous
dwarf he crossed himself, but the elf said, “I fear not
sign made with a bloody hand.” Then forward stepped Alice
and made the sign, and the dwarf said if any woman would sign his
brow thrice with a cross he should recover his mortal form. Alice
signed him thrice, and the elf became “the fairest knight
in all Scotland, in whom she recognised her brother
Ethert.” Scotland
- Urgel, Satan's son who became lord of the Pleiades.
Slavic
- Uriel, “Regent of the Sun,” and
“sharpest—sighted spirit of all in heaven.”
Milton: Paradise
Lost.
- Urjani, Goddess of physical prowess and strength Hindu
- Ursa Major. Calisto, daughter of
Lycaon, was violated by Jupiter, and Juno changed her into a
bear. Jupiter placed her among the stars that she might be more
under his protection. Roman
- Ursule, Goddess of love Haiti/Vodun
- Uru'n Ajy Toyo'n, "Thou Beautiful Power, thou
Beautiful Rudder of the Northern Heaven, Power of Heaven, Opener
of the Disk, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern Heaven"
Egyptian Book of the Dead
- Ururupuin, Goddess of flirting, happiness and playfulness.
Micronesia
- Uruzimu, one of the fiends who seek to cast down the Seven
Gates of the Stars. Urartan
- Usas, a beneficient goddess who produces daylight and urges
men to their works. Hindu
- Ushas, Sanskrit for "dawn", is a Vedic deity. She
is the chief goddess, sometimes imagined as several goddesses,
Dawns, exalted in the Rig Veda. She is portrayed as a beautifully
adorned, sexually attractive young woman riding in a chariot. She
is the daughter of Dyaus "Heaven".
- Usins, originally the god of light, bringer of the sun and
the spring. Usins is also a personification of the spring
solstice. Latvia
- Uslo. Spirit of the mountains, one of the guardians of the
natural world Yakut, Siberia
- Usnisa, the deity who can eliminate all evil karmic
hindrances and eradicate the suffering of all evil paths."
Buddhist
- Usnisavijaya, a goddess of longevity in Buddhism. She wears
an image of the Budda Vairocana in her headdress. She is the most
popular Budda goddess in Nepal, Tibet, and Mongolia.
- Uso Dori, Goddess of singing. Japan
- Utgard. [The out-yard]. The abode of the giant Utgard-Loke.
Norse
- Utgard-Loke. The giant of Utgard visited by Thor. He calls
himself Skrymer. Norse
- Uthlanga. The supreme father and creator god; the source of
all beings. The Zulu, South Africa
- Uthlanga, the primeval land of birth. The Basutos identify
Uthlanga the human birthplace with a cavern in the earth that was
surrounded by a morass of reeds.
- Utixo, a benevolent deity who lived in the sky, sending rain
for the crops, and speaking with thunder. Khoi
- Utlunta, Goddess of physical prowess. Her body has the
density of stone and the ground shudders with her awesome weight.
Cherokee
- Utnapishtim "the faraway", the wise king of the
Sumerian city state of Shuruppak who, along with his wife,
survived a great flood sent by Enlil to drown every living thing
on Earth. Utnapishtim was secretly warned by the water god Ea of
Enlil's plan and constructed a great boat or ark to save
himself, his family and representatives of each species of
animal.
- Uttara Bhadrapada, a goddess of the hunt and one of
Shiva's servants. Hindu
- Uttara Palguni, Minor goddess of healing and disease.
Hindu
- Uttarasadha, Minor goddess of fortune revered by seers and
poets, by gods and then by men. Hindu
- Uttu, the goddess of weaving and clothing. Sumeria
- Utu, God of the sun and justice who rules the fate of the
dead. Sumeria
- Uwolowu, creator god who first made a woman on the earth and
bore with her the first child, the first human being. Akposso,
Togo
- Uzume, The Great Persuader, and The Heavenly Alarming Female.
The goddess who lured out the sun deity, Amaterasu, by dancing
naked in a bath. Japan
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