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An Earth god or Earth goddess is a deification of the Earth associated with a figure with chthonic or terrestrial attributes. There are many different Earth goddesses and gods in many different cultures mythology. However, Earth is usually portrayed as a goddess. Earth goddesses are often associated with the chthonic deities of the underworld. [1]
The Hindu wind god, Vayu. A wind god is a god who controls the wind(s). Air deities may also be considered here as wind is nothing more than moving air. Many polytheistic religions have one or more wind gods. They may also have a separate air god or a wind god may double as an air god. Many wind gods are also linked with one of the four seasons.
Enji, Zjarri, fire god: releaser of light and heat with the power to ward off darkness and evil, affect cosmic phenomena, and give strength to the Sun, and sustainer of the continuity between life and afterlife and between the generations; I Verbti, "the blind one", adjectival noun also used for the fire and wind god
Fire is often used as symbol or sign of God's presence in Christianity and, since it is held to be a creation along with water and other elements. In the New Testament, Jesus is depicted as the person who will bring fire to the earth. [40] The Holy Spirit is sometimes called the "tongues of flame". [41]
Agni is originally conceptualized as the ultimate source of the "creator-preserver-destroyer" triad, then one of the trinities, as the one who ruled the earth. His twin brother Indra ruled the atmosphere as the god of storm, rain and war, while his other brother Sūrya ruled the sky and heavens were the other two gods in that trinity.
Huracán [1] (/ ˈ h ʊ r ə k ə n, ˈ h ʊ r ə k ɑː n /; Spanish: Huracán; Mayan languages: Hunraqan, "one legged"), often referred to as U Kʼux Kaj, the "Heart of Sky", [2] is a Kʼicheʼ Maya god of wind, storm, fire and one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating humanity. [3]
Neopagans have tried to make claims that religion started in ways that correspond to earth religion. In one of their published works, The Urantia Book, another reason for this worship of nature came from a fear of the world around primitive man. [4] His mind lacked the complex function of processing and sifting through complex ideas.
Kon, Inca god of wind and rain. Kon is also a creator god. Pachakamaq, Inca god of earthquakes, fire, the clouds and sky. Commonly described as a reissue of Wiracocha. He was one of the most important Inca gods, as well as he is considered the creator god of the universe and controller of the balance of the world. Paryaqaqa, Pre-Incan god of ...