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Ikatere, a fish god and father of all sea creatures. Io Matua Kore, the supreme being; personification of light and the world of the living and the forest. Kahukura, a war god who appears as the upper bow of a double rainbow. Kiwa, one of several divine guardians of the ocean. Makeatutara, the father of Māui and guardian of the underworld.
Nereus (Νηρέας), the old man of the sea, and the god of the sea's rich bounty of fish; Nerites (Νερίτης), a sea spirit who was transformed into a shell-fish by Aphrodite; Oceanides (Ωκεανίδες), sea nymphs, and patronesses of bodies of fresh water Some notable Oceanides include: Asia/Clymene, wife of Iapetus
Izanagi: (伊邪那岐神) was a creation deity; he makes up the seventh generation of the Kamiyonanayo, along with his wife and sister, Izanami. [8]Izanami: (伊邪那美神) was a creation deity; she makes up the seventh generation of the Kamiyonanayo, along with her husband and brother, Izanagi.
Sweyn Forkbeard (died 1014), pagan king of Denmark; Swithhelm, pagan king of Essex but converted to Christianity in 662; Tytila (died c. 616), semi-historical pagan king of East Anglia; Veleda, priestess and prophetess of the Bructeri tribe; Waluburg, Semnonian seeress in the service of the governor of Roman Egypt; Wehha, king of the East Angles
His statue was made of oak wood, had a head with seven faces, seven swords at his belt and an eighth in his hand. According to Saxo, he was a war deity, also associated with the sexual sphere. [37] The interpretation of his name remains a matter of debate. Porevit: Rani: Porevit is a god mentioned by Saxo Grammaticus and in the Knýtlinga saga.
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
A scene from one of the Merseburg Incantations: gods Wodan and Balder stand before the goddesses Sunna, Sinthgunt, Volla, and Friia (Emil Doepler, 1905). In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples who inhabit Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses.
Matsya, the fish; Kurma, the tortoise; Varaha, the boar; Narsimha, the man-lion; Vamana, the dwarf; Parashurama, the Brahmin warrior; Rama, the king, hero of epic Ramayana and the slayer of Ravana; Krishna, a central character in the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita, the slayer of Kamsa; Buddha, the deluder of the asuras