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Kubera is the treasurer of the gods, and the overlord of the semi-divine yakshas, the guhyakas, kinnaras and gandharvas, who act as his assistants and protectors of the jewels of the earth, as well as guardians of his city. Kubera is also the guardian of travelers and the giver of wealth to individuals, who please him.
While suggestions that she was conflated with the mongoose deity Ninkilim can be found in modern literature, this theory finds no direct support in primary sources. Her importance declined in the second millennium BCE, but in some locations, such as Ur, she was still worshiped after the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia in the first millennium ...
Jambhala, also known as Dzambhala, Dzambala, Zambala or Jambala, is the Buddhist deity of fortune and wealth and a member of the Jewel Family (see Ratnasambhava). He is sometimes equated with the Hindu deity Kubera. Jambhala is also believed to be an emanation of Avalokitesvara or Chenrezig, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
In art, Mafdet was alternately shown as a feline or mongoose, a woman with such a head, or such an animal with the head of a woman. [3] The type of feline varies but is commonly interpreted as a cheetah or serval. She also was depicted in her animal form running up the side of an executioner's staff of office.
A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae. This family has two subfamilies, the Herpestinae and the Mungotinae . The Herpestinae comprises 23 living species that are native to southern Europe , Africa and Asia , whereas the Mungotinae comprises 11 species native to Africa. [ 2 ]
Ninkilim was a deity who was associated with mongooses, which are common throughout southern Mesopotamia. [469] According to a Babylonian popular saying, when a mouse fled from a mongoose into a serpent's hole, it announced, "I bring you greetings from the snake-charmer!"
The Ruty – A pair of Lion gods who represents the horizon and guard Ra's solar barge [86] The Setheniu-Tep – Four deities wearing white crowns in the eleventh division of Duat [39] The Shebtiu – A group of creator gods worshipped at Edfu [235] The Souls of Pe and Nekhen – A set of gods personifying the predynastic rulers of Upper and ...
They include the deified hero Lugalbanda and his wife Ninsun, [111] Lugal-Marada, the tutelary god of Marad, [65] the mongoose deity Ninkilim, [112] the agricultural god Urash (his court includes Lagamal, in other lists present among underworld deities), [113] Nitaḫ, [109] the war god Zababa (whose section also includes Nergal's sukkal Ugur ...