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White gods is the pseudoscientific belief that ancient cultures around the world were visited by white races in ancient times, and that they were known as "white gods". Some authors have claimed that white missionaries or "gods" visited the Americas before Christopher Columbus. Authors usually quote from mythology and legends which discuss ...
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
The White God: A ravenous plant-god who arrived from Xiclotl to Earth, awed by the Insects from Shaggai. He appears as a white orb hiding an enormous magenta excrescence, like an orchid or a lamprey-like mouth, with emerald tentacles, tipped with hands emerging from within the hideous mass. Eihort The Pale Beast, God of the Labyrinth
This is an index of lists of deities of the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere; List of fictional deities; List of goddesses; List of people who have been considered deities; see also apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred king
Anglo-Saxon deities List of Norse gods and goddesses Greek deities (see also Ancient Greek religion , Twelve Olympians , Greek hero cult , Family tree of the Greek gods , Mycenaean gods , Greek mythological figures , Hellenismos )
Ancient Greek religion was polytheistic, [15] and a multiplicity of gods were venerated by the same groups and individuals. [16] The identity of a deity is demarcated primarily by their name, though this name can also be accompanied by an epithet (or surname), [ 17 ] which may refer to a specific function of the god, to an association with ...
The horn and white horse, dedicated to him, was used for divination. [27] The theocratic rule of his priests limited the rule of knyaz. [29] Triglav: Polabians Pomeranians: Triglav is a god mentioned in the Life of St. Otto and in the chronicle describing the capture of Slavic Brenna. He had a golden statue whose eyes and mouth were covered.
In the cosmological model proposed by Jean Haudry, the Proto-Indo-European sky is composed of three "heavens" (diurnal, nocturnal and liminal) rotating around an axis mundi, each having its own deities, social associations and colors (white, dark and red, respectively). Deities of the diurnal sky could not transgress the domain of the nocturnal ...