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General deities were known by the Celts throughout large regions, and are the gods and goddesses called upon for protection, healing, luck, and honour. The local deities from Celtic nature worship were the spirits of a particular feature of the landscape, such as mountains, trees, or rivers, and thus were generally only known by the locals in ...
Bast, cat-headed goddess associated with war, protection of Lower Egypt and the pharaoh, the sun, perfumes, ointments, and embalming; Horus, god of the king, the sky, war, and protection; Maahes, lion-headed god of war; Menhit, goddess of war, "she who massacres" Montu, falcon-headed god of war, valor, and the Sun; Neith, goddess of war ...
Chernoglav is a god mentioned in the Knýtlinga saga. He is described there as a god of victory with a silver mustache. [39] Podaga: Wagri: Podaga is a god who, according to Helmold, had his image in Plön. Meaning of the theonym is explained as "power, might". It was suggested that the name Podaga is identical with Długosz's Pogoda. [34 ...
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.
The gods and goddesses of the pre-Christian Celtic peoples are known from a variety of sources, including ancient places of worship, statues, engravings, cult objects, and place or personal names. The ancient Celts appear to have had a pantheon of deities comparable to others in Indo-European religion , each linked to aspects of life and the ...
Ông Táo, kitchen god in Vietnamese folk religion; Ông Địa, is the god of the earth and patron of the land on which the houses are built in Vietnamese folk religion; Sanamahi, the most predominant god in Meitei mythology and Sanamahism of Manipur; Tu Di Gong (earth deity), in Chinese folk religion
In Greek mythology, Soteria (Greek: Σωτηρία) was the goddess or spirit of safety and salvation, deliverance, and preservation from harm (not to be mistaken for Eleos).
Ukko is the chief deity in Baltic Finnic paganism, he is the god of the sky, weather (mostly thunder, rain and clouds), a god of harvest and fertility. [10] [11] He is also given the epithet Ylijumala ('Supreme God' or 'Highest God' [note 2] [12]) in at least the Finnish, Karelian and Ingrian regional variants of the pagan faith. [13]