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Kaya-no-hime, the goddess of vegetation, grass and fields. Kisshōten , goddess of good fortune; [21] also known as Kichijōten, Kisshoutennyo (吉祥天女), and as Kudokuten (功徳天), Kisshōten is the Shinto adaption, via Buddhism, from the Hindu goddess, Lakshmi. Kōjin (三宝荒神), is the god of fire, the hearth, and the kitchen.
Sculpture of Raijin from Sanjūsangen-dō temple in Kyoto. Kamakura period, 13th century. Raijin (雷神, lit. "Thunder God"), also known as Kaminari-sama (雷様), Raiden-sama (雷電様), Narukami (鳴る神), Raikō (雷公), and Kamowakeikazuchi-no-kami is a god of lightning, thunder, and storms in Japanese mythology and the Shinto religion. [1]
Girra, god of fire in Akkadian and Babylonian records; Gibil, skilled god of fire and smithing in Sumerian records; Ishum, god of fire who was the brother of the sun god Shamash, and an attendant of Erra; Nusku, god of heavenly and earthly fire and light, and patron of the arts; Shamash, ancient Mesopotamian Sun god
In the light novel High School DxD: Slash/Dog series, Kagu-tsuchi is the Shinto God of Fire and also the patron deity of the Himejima Clan whom in turned blessed them with the power of spiritual flames. A descendant of the Himejima, Tobio Ikuse is the wielder of the Ame no Ohabari, the divine sword which killed Kagu-tsuchi.
Apollo, god of light, among many other things; Eos, goddess of the dawn; Hemera, personification of day; Hyperion, Titan of light; sometimes conflated with his son Helios; Lampetia, goddess of light, and one of the Heliades or daughters of Helios , god of the Sun, and of the nymph Neera . Theia, Titaness of sight and the shining light of the ...
Sanbō Kōjin ("fierce god (kōjin) of the Three Jewels"), the Japanese Buddhist god of the hearth. Kōjin, also known as Sambō-Kōjin or Sanbō-Kōjin (三宝荒神), is the Japanese kami (god) of fire, the hearth and the kitchen. He is sometimes called Kamado-gami , literally the god of the stove.
The last child that Izanami produces is a fire god, Kagutsuchi (incarnation of fire), whose flames kill her; and Izanagi murders the child in grief-driven anger. [10] The child's corpse creates even more gods. [10] Izanami was then buried on Mount Hiba, at the border of the old provinces of Izumo and Hoki, near modern-day Yasugi of Shimane ...
It was claimed that dead raijū are essentially real dead animals startled or knocked off from the tree during tempestuous weather of Japan. [2] Recent theories suggest that raijū are essentially a small tree-dwelling creature known as the masked palm civet ( Paguma larvata ), which is actually native to certain countries in southern , eastern ...