Lots And Lots Of Gods

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1. Vaasa. A minor angel. Enochian
2. Vairgit. Benevolent supernatural beings. Chukchee
3. Vairgin. The sun, moon, stars, and constellations are also known as vairgit; but the sun is a special vairgin, represented as a man clad in a bright garment, driving dogs or reindeer. He descends every evening to his wife, the 'Walking-around-Woman'. The moon is also represented as a man. He is not a vairgin, however, but the son of a kele of the lower worlds. He has a lasso, with which he catches people who look too fixedly at him. Shamans invoke the moon in incantations and spells. Chukchee
4. Vac, the personification of the sacred river, the Sarasvati. Hindu
5. Vac, the goddess of language, writing and writing-systems. She is the matron of mental endeavours and the source of voice. Hindu
6. Vacuna, a Sabine divinity identical with Victoria, the personification of victory.
7. Vafthrudner. A giant visited by Odin. They try each other in questions and answers. The giant is defeated and forfeits his life. Norse
8. Vaga. "Sabra, goddess of the Severn, being a prudent, well-conducted maiden, rose with the first streak of morning dawn, and, descending the eastern side of the hill, made choice of the most fertile valleys, whilst as yet her sisters slept. Vaga, goddess of the Wye, rose next, and, making all haste to perform her task, took a shorter course, by which means she joined her sister ere she reached the sea. The goddess Rhea, old Plinlimmon’s pet, woke not till roused by her father’s chiding; but by bounding down the side of the mountain, and selecting the shortest course of all, she managed to reach her destination first. Thus the Cymric proverb, "There is no impossibility to the maiden who hath a fortune to lose or a husband to win."" Welsh
9. Vagisvara, Lord of Speech; a form of Manjusri who often received a vision of Tara who solved any problems of understanding he had. Buddhist
10. Vagitanus, the deity that brings forth a baby's first sound after birth. Roman
11. Vahagn, Armenia's national god. Some time in his existence, he formed a "triad" with Aramazd and Anahit. Vahagn fought and conquered dragons, hence his title Vishabakagh, "dragon reaper". He was invoked as a god of courage, later identified with Heracles. He was also a sun-god, rival of Baal-shamin and Mihr.
12. Vahguru or Waheguru. "The Wonderful Lord", the infinite creator. Sikh, India
13. Vainamoinen, the central character in the Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala. He was described as an old and wise man, and he possessed a potent, magical voice.
14. Vaimanika deities, the lunar mansions, and the Daityas the first and lowest rank of the existences caused by Goodness. Jain
15. Vairacocha, the creator god worshipped by the Huari, the Inca, and the Chavin as a distant relative of their sky god, was portrayed as a fair skinned man with a white beard who wore sandals and a long robe, and carried a staff.
16. Vairocana, a Buddha who is the embodiment of Dharmakaya and the universal aspect of the historical Gautama Buddha. In the conception of the Five Wisdom Buddhas, Vairocana is at the center. Buddhist
17. Vairotya, one of the sixteen Mahavidyas who were accorded the most favoured position after the Jinas in Western India. Jain
18. Vaisnavi, one of seven mother-goddesses, each of whom is the sakti, or female counterpart, of a god. Hindu
19. Vaizgantas, a god of flax. Lithuanian
20. Vajardaka, a fierce and wrathful deity invoked for purifying negative actions. Buddhist
21. Vajracarcika, goddess in charge of wells and springs. Buddhist
22. Vajradhara, the ultimate Primordial Buddha. Buddhist
23. Vajradhatvisvari. The musicality of being lies in the flowing and streaming of all manifest consciousness. It greases friction, it smoothes communication, it lingers that all may gently wave around it. Buddhist
24. Vajravarahi. "Strength-of-the-Sow" is the goddess of wisdom through experience who drives away evil spirits such as depression. India
25. Vakarine, the evening Venus, who makes the bed for the Sun. Lithuanian
26. Valaskjalf. One of Odin's dwellings. Norse
27. Vale. Is a brother of Balder, who slays Hoder when only one night old. He rules with Vidar after Ragnarok. Vale. Norse
28. Valetudo. Goddess of good health. Italy
29. Valfather [Father of the slain]. A name of Odin. Norse
30. Valgrind. A gate of Valhal. Norse
31. Valholl, Valhal, Valhalla [The hall of the slain]. The hall to which Odin invited those slain in battle. Norse
32. Vali. A son of Loke who will survive Ragnarok. Norse
33. Veliuona, a goddess of death. Lithuanian
34. Valkyrie [The chooser of the slain]. A troop of goddesses, handmaidens of Odin. They serve in Valhal, and are sent on Odin's errands. Norse
35. Valli, the name of prominent Hindu god Murugan's consort, according to Tamil traditions. She is depicted as a the daughter of a tribal chief.
36. Valtam. A fictitious name of Odin's father. Norse
37. Vamana, a personality described in the Puranic texts of Hinduism as the Fifth Avatara of Vishnu, and the first incarnation of the Second Age, or Treta yuga. Also he is the first Avatar of Vishnu which appears with a completely human form, though it was that of a dwarf brahmin. He is also sometimes known as Upendra.
38. Vampire. An extortioner. The vampire is a dead man who returns in body and soul from the other world, and wanders about the earth doing mischief to the living. He sucks the blood of persons asleep, and these persons become vampires in turn. Middle Europe
39. Van plural Vanir. Those deities whose abode was in Vanaheim, in contradistinction to the asas, who dwell in Asgard: Njord, Frey and Freyja. The vans waged war with the asas, but were afterwards, by virtue of a treaty, combined and made one with them. The vans were deities of the sea. Norse
40. Vanaheim. The abode of the vans. Norse
41. Vanapagan. Old Nick, "Old Heathen", the devil depicted as dumb giant farmer. Estonian
42. Vanatuhi. "Old Empty One", the devil. Estonian
43. Vanemuine, the god of songs. Estonian
44. Var, Goddess of marriage vows. Norse
45. Varaha, the third avatar of Vishnu, in the form of a boar, who appeared in order to defeat Hiranyaksha, a demon who had taken the Earth and carried it to the bottom of the cosmic ocean. Hindu
46. Varahi, the new-moon and the illumination aspects of the mother-goddess. Hindu
47. Varahmira: "If the earth were not round, it would not be girded with the latitude of the different places on earth, day and night would not be different in winter and summer, and the conditions of the planets and their rotations would be quite different from what they are." Gigo
48. Varalden-olmai. Queen and mother of the gods, a goddess of virgins and wedding rituals. Lapland
49. Varali. Minor moon goddess. Mahayana
50. Vari. A self created being of the beginning times. Polynesia
51. Vari-Ma-Te-Takere, the primal generator, the female spirit who dwells in darkness at the base of the dark underworld of Avaiki. Polynesian
52. Varuna, a thousand-eyed god who sees all that happens in the world. Hindu
53. Varuni, originally the waters of origin, she became the goddess of golden liquor, wine and intoxication. Hindu
54. Vasa. A minor angel. Enochian
55. Vasanta, goddess of spring, learning, music, poetry and disco. North India
56. Vasio, God of the Vocontii. Gaelic
57. Vasudeva, interpreted as 'descendant of Vasudeva', another name for Krishna. Hindu
58. Vasudhara, the Buddhist bodhisattva of abundance and fertility. She is considered to be the consort of Kuvera, the god of wealth.
59. Vasudhara, popular in Nepal, where she is a common household deity. She is one of the Vasus mentioned in the Rig Veda.
60. Vasusri, Minor goddess Buddhist/Mahayana
61. Vasus, attendant deities of Indra, and later Vishnu. They are eight elemental gods representing aspects of nature, representing cosmic natural phenomenon. The name Vasu means 'Dweller' or 'Dwelling'. Hindu
62. Vasya-Tara, the presiding deity of Candi Kalasan. Java
63. Vata, God of the wind and a deity with a violent personality. Hindu/Persian
64. Vayu, personification of the wind. Vedic
65. Ve. Brother of Odin and Vili. He was one of the three deities who took part in the creation of the world. Norse
66. Ved Ava, a personification of the water. Russia
67. Vedasor Vedams. The generic name of the four sacred books of the Hindus. It comprises (1) the Rig or Rish Veda, (2) Yajar or Yajush Veda, (3) the Sama or Saman Veda; and (4) the Atharvana or Ezour Veda.
68. Veden Emo, Goddess of water. Finnish
69. Vedma, goddess on a broomstick who causes storms, keeps the water of life and death, and knows all about herbs. She can appear either young and beautiful or old and ugly. Slavic
70. Veehaldjas, spirit of the water, the weaver of a spring. Estonian
71. Veen, the Water Mother, a spirit believed to rule the waters and their bounty. Finnish
72. Vegtam. A name assumed by Odin. Norse
73. Veiovis, Vedius, "little Jupiter" or "the destructive Jupiter," and identified with Pluto. But Veiovis seems to designate an Etruscan divinity of a destructive nature, whose fearful lightnings produced deafness in those who were to be struck by them, even before they were actually hurled. He was represented as a youthful god armed with arrows, and his festival fell before the nones of March.
74. Veive, another name for the Etruscan god Veiovis.
75. Veja Mate, Goddess of the wind was also responsible for birds and the woodlands. Latvia
76. Vejopatis, the spirit of wind. He is the father of the winds, usually described as a wrathful, inexorable, evil spirit with a beard, wings and two faces. Lithuanian and Prussian
77. Vajradhara, the ultimate Primordial Buddha, or Adi Buddha, according to the cosmology of Tibetan Buddhism.
78. Vari-ma-te-takere. The primeval mother who lived in Avaiki, the coconut shell at the begining of the universe. Mangaia, Polynesia
79. Vele, spirits of dead human beings. Lithuanian
80. Veles, a major Slavic god of earth, waters and the underworld, associated with dragons, cattle, magic, musicians, wealth and trickery. He is also the opponent of thunder-god Perun, and the battle between two of them constitutes one of the most important myths of Slavic mythology.
81. Valevalenoa, god of space and the son of tangaloa-the-explorer-of-lands and the queen of earth. Samoa, Polynesia
82. Vellamo. Goddess the goddess of the sea, the wife of Ahti, the god of the sea and of fishing. Finnish
83. Velnias, the devil or evil personified. Lithuanian
84. Velu Mate, Chthonic underworld goddess and the queen of the dead Latvia
85. Venda, Creator god, an ancient vegetation deity Dravidian/Tamil
86. Vedenemo, "mother of waters", Karelian goddess of water. Finnish
87. Venilia, a Roman divinity connected with the winds (venti) and the sea. Virgil and Ovid describe her as a nymph, a sister of Amata, and the wife of Faunus, by whom she became the mother of Turnus, Jutuma, and Canens. Aeneid x. Metamorphoses by Ovid xiv.)
88. Venkata, Form of the god of Visnu Hindu/Puranic/Epic
89. Venti, the winds. They appear personified even in the Homeric poems, but at the same time they are conceived as ordinary phenomena of nature. The master and ruler of all the winds is Aeolus, but the other gods also, especially Zeus, exercise a power over them. Greek
90. Venus, the goddess of love among the Romans, and more especially of sensual love. Previously to her identification with the Greek Aphrodite, she was one of the least important divinities in the religion of the Romans, and it is observed by the ancients themselves, that her name was not mentioned in any of the documents relating to the kingly period of Roman history.
91. Venus Genetrix. Worshipped at Rome, especially on April day, as the mother of AEneas, and patroness of the Julian race.
92. Venus Victrix. Venus, as goddess of victory, represented on numerous Roman coins.
93. Veor [Defender]. A name of Thor. Norse
94. Verbeia, Goddess of the Wharfe and Avon Rivers. British
95. Verbti, God of fire His name means "blind one". In Albanian folklore he has perfect hearing and an aversion to obscene language and corruption. With Christianization he was reviled as a demon and associated with hell. Albania
96. Verdandi, one of the three norns, along with Urd and Skuld. Her name literally is the present tense of be or "to be" and is commonly translated as "in the making" or "that which is happening/becoming". She is the present moment. Norse
97. Vere-pas. The supreme god, ‘the god who is above’. The Ezra, Russia
98. Verethragna, the Zoroastrian concept of "victory over resistance" and one of the principal figures in the Zoroastrian pantheon of yazatas.
99. Veritas, the goddess of truth and a daughter of Saturn. Roman
100. Veronica. It is said that a maiden handed her handkerchief to Jesus on His way to Calvary. He wiped the sweat from his brow, returned the handkerchief to the owner, and went on. The handkerchief was found to bear a perfect likeness of the Saviour, and was called Vera—Iconica (true likeness), and the maiden was ever after called St. Veronica. One of these handkerchiefs is preserved at St. Peter's church in Rome, and another in Milan cathedral. Christian
101. Verplaca, Goddess of family harmony. Roman
102. Verticordia. "Changer of the Heart", an attribute of Venus, the goddess who turns the hearts of men. Roman
103. Vertumnus, is said to have been an Etruscan divinity whose worship was introduced at Rome by an ancient Vulsinian colony. The name signifies "the god who changes or metamorphoses himself." For this reason the Romans connected Vertumnus with all occurrences to which the verb verto applies, such as the change of seasons, purchase and sale, the return of rivers to their proper beds,etc. But in reality the god was connected only with the transformation of plants, and their progress from being in blossom to that of bearing fruit. Roman
104. Vesna, Goddess of the spring. Slavic
105. Vesta, was the goddess of the hearth, and therefore inseparably connected with the Penates, for Aeneas was believed to have brought the eternal fire of Vesta from Troy, along with the images of the Penates. The praetors, consuls, and dictators, before entering upon their official functions, sacrificed not only to the Penates, but also to Vesta at Lavinium. (The Aeneid by Virgil. Book II)
106. Vestal Virgin. A nun, a religieuse, properly a maiden dedicated to the service of the goddess Vesta. The duty of these virgins was to keep the fire of the temple always burning, both day and night. They were required to be of spotless chastity. Greek
107. Vestre. The dwarf presiding over the west region. Norse
108. Veteema, the Water Mother, a spirit believed to rule the waters and their bounty. Estonian
109. Vetali, Goddess of terrifying appearance and the destroyer of Mara. Buddhist
110. Vetustas. The Roman personification of antiquity, long duration, great age ancient times, antiquity.
111. Vica Pota, "the Victor and Conqueror" (quae vincit et potitur), was a Roman divinity of victory.
112. Victoria, the personification of victory among the Romans.
113. Victrix, another name for Venus. Roman
114. Vidar. Son of Odin and the giantess Grid. He dwells in Landvide. He slays the Fenris-wolf in Ragnarok. Rules with Vale after Ragnarok. Norse
115. Vidyaraja, King of Knowledge. Buddhist
116. Vidyesvara, the eight aspects of Siva. These beings are included in the category of pure creation. This category is created by God himself. Hindu
117. Vierge Ouvrante, the Opening Virgin with the whole world in her womb. Christian
118. Vigrid [A battle]. The field of battle where the gods and the sons of Surt meet in Ragnarok. Norse
119. Vila, Willi or Veela, are the Slavic versions of nymphs, who have power over storms, which they delight in sending down on lonely travelers. They are known to live in meadows, ponds, oceans, trees, and clouds.
120. Vile, Vili. Brother of Odin and Ve. These three sons of Bor and Bestla construct the world out of Ymer's body. Vile. Norse
121. Villenangi, the 'First Appearer'. The supreme spirit, and ancestor god. The Zulu, South Africa
122. Vimer. A river that Thor crosses. Norse
123. Vindsval. The father of winter. Norse
124. Vindheim, Windhome. The place that the sons of Balder and Hoder are to inhabit after Ragnarok. Norse
125. Vingolf [The mansion of bliss] The palace of the asynjes. Norse
126. Vingthor. A name of Thor. Norse
127. Virbius. an ancient mythical king of Aricia and a favourite of Diana, who, when he had died, called him to life and intrusted him to the care of the nymph Aegeria. The fact of his being a favourite of Diana, the Taurian goddess, seems to have led the Romans to identify him with Hippolytus who, according to some traditions, had established the worship of Diana. Roman
128. Viracocha, God of storms and war, the chief deity. Inca
129. Viradechthis aka Harimella. Goddess of protection. Scotland
130. Virbius. An ancient mythical king of Aricia and a favourite of Diana (dea Nemorensis), who, when he had died, called him to life and intrusted him to the care of the nymph Aegeria.
131. Virginalis. A title of the goddess Juno. In this aspect she protected virginity.
132. Virginia, yes Virginia, there really is a Santa Clause.
133. Viriplaca, "the goddess who soothes the anger of man," was a surname of Juno, describing her as the restorer of peace between married people. Roman
134. Virilis. An aspect of the goddess Fortuna who attended a man's career. Roman
135. Virmalised, the personification of the Polar Lights. Estonian
136. Virtus, the Roman personification of manly valour. She was represented with a short tunic, her right breast uncovered, a helmet on her head, a spear in her left hand, a sword in the right, and standing with her right foot on a helmet. There was a golden statue of her at Rome, which Alaricus, king of the Goths, melted down. Roman
137. Vis. The Roman personification of strength, force, vigor, power, energy. Similar to the Greek Bia in regards to hostile strength, force and violence personified.
138. Vishnu, the All-Pervading essence of all beings, the master of and beyond the past, present and future, the creator and destroyer of all existences, one who supports, sustains and governs the Universe and originates and develops all elements within. Hindu
139. Vivasvat, Visvakarma or Vivasvan, a solar deity and another name for Surya. India
140. Vodui Panny, Slavic water nymphs.
141. Vodyanoy, a malevolent water spirit who likes to drown humans. Slavic
142. Volos, God of cattle. wealth and commerce. Slavic
143. Volupia, the personification of sensual pleasure among the Romans. She is also called Voluptas.
144. Volturnus. A river god of the waters, probably derived from a local Sabine regional cult.
145. Voluspa, Prophecy of the Seeress, is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda. It tells the story of the creation of the world and its coming end related by a völva or seeress addressing Odin. Norse
146. Volxdo Sioda. The Divine name ruling sub-element Earth of Fire. Enochian
147. Vor. The goddess of betrothals and marriages. Norse
148. Vritra, the snake of darkness. Enemy of Indra.
149. Vulcan. The Roman smith god, identified with the Greek god Hephaestus. He was traditionally introduced to Rome by either Romulus or Titus Tatius. There were no specific legends concerning Vulcan but he played an important part in the success of various heroes by providing invincible armour for them. In Virgil's Aeneid, Vulcan made a superb suit of armour for Aeneas at Venus' request. He made a shield (called the Aegis) and thunderbolts for Jupiter and in return received Venus as his wife.
150. Vulcanus. The Roman god of fire, whose name seems to be connected with fulgere, fulgur, and fulmen.
151. Vulturus. God of the East Wind. Roman