Gods

Guide to the Gods 1.0

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Fa

God of destiny in Benin (Dahomey).

Fabulinus

Roman god of infants. According to Varro, it was Fabulinus who taught children to speak their first word.

Fagus

Pyrenean tree-god.

Fakahotu

Alias for Papa, Polynesian earth goddess.

Fama

Roman personification of popular rumour. Also a goddess of fame. Her Greek counterpart was Pheme. She was largely a literary conceit rather than a true goddess of Roman religion.

Famien

God of fertility of Guinea.

Fand

Wife of the Irish sea god Manannan.

Fan-K'uei

Chinese god of butchers.

Faravai

Son of the Micronesian sea god.

Faro

Sky and water god of Bambara of West Africa.

Fates

(Latin Fata or Parcae; Greek Moirae)

Hesiod gives the Greek Moirae as Atropos, Clotho and Lachesis. Their Roman counterparts were Decima, Nona (goddesses of birth) and Morta (goddess of death).

Fati

(Fadu)

Society Island personification of the moon. Son of Roua and Taonoui.

Fatit

Albanian female deities of destiny.

Fauna

(Fatua, Bona Dea, Bona Mater)

Roman goddess of nature and fertility. Her husband was Faunus. Her festival was on December 4.

Faunus

Roman god of crops, herds and fertility. An oracular deity as well as a woodland deity. He was the son of Picus and the husband of Fauna. The Romans regarded him as a counterpart of the Greek Pan.

Favonus

The Roman god of the west wind. Equivalent to the Greek Zephyros.

Febris

Roman goddess of fever.

Februus

Etruscan underworld god and more generally an Italian god of purification. He gave his name to February, which was his sacred month.

Fecunditas

Roman personification of fertility.

Fe'e

See Aitu.

Fei Lien

(Fei Lian)

Chinese god of the wind. In human form he is known as Feng Po.

Felicitas

Roman goddess of good luck and happiness.

Fene

Hungarian demon.

Feng Po

Chinese "Earl of the Wind". The human form of Fei Lien, the Chinese god of the wind.

Feng P'o-p'o

(Feng-Po-Po)

Chinese "Madame Wind", goddess of the winds.

Feng-Tu

China: chief town of the land of the dead.

Fenja and Menja

Norse giantesses.

Feronia (1)

Etruscan fire and fertility goddess.

Feronia (2)

Roman goddess of orchards and woodland.

Fides

Roman goddess of good faith, honesty and oaths. Her festival day was October 1.

Fidi Mukullu

Creator god of Bena Lulua in Zaire.

Finuweigh

Philippine creator god.

Firbolgs

(Fir Bolg)

Early gods of Ireland.

Fjorgyn

North Germanic goddess, mother of Thor.

Fjorgynn

Nordic father of Frigg.

Flora

Roman goddess of fruitfulness and flowers. Her husband was Favonus (Zephyrus), the god of the west wind. Her festival was the Floralia, noted for its sexual license, observed from April 28 to May 1.

Fo

Chinese name for Buddha (q.v.).

Fodla

Irish goddess who was part of a trinity of goddesses said to have ruled Ireland at the coming of the first Gaels to the island.

Fomore

(Fomorii, Fomorians)

An Irish race of gods, adversaries of the Tuatha de Danann. The fourth dynasty of Ireland, they succeeded the Firbolgs and were in turn overthrown by the Tuatha De Danann. The Tuatha finally defeated them at the Battle of Magh Tuiredh (Moytura).

Fontus

Roman god of springs. Son of Janus and Juturna. His festival was observed on October 13.

Fornax

Roman goddess of bread-making. Her festival was observed on February 17.

Fornjotr

(Fornjot)

Norse primeval giant, father of the elements.

Forseti

Nordic god of justice. Son of Balder and Nanna.

Fortuna

(Fors Fortuna)

Roman goddess of fate and chance, earlier of prosperity. She was an equivalent of the Greek goddess Tyche. Her symbol was the wheel of fortune. Other attributes include a globe, rudder and a cornucopia. Her festival was observed on June 24.

Fotla

Irish goddess.

Fraus

Roman goddess; the personification of treachery.

Fravashis

(Fravasi)

Ancient Persian guardian angels. In Zoroastrianism they became the guardian ancestor spirits of the believers.

Freyja

Norse goddess of love (sex) and fertility. Wife of Odin (later replaced by Frigg) and mother of Hnossa. In early Germanic religion she appears to have been a moon goddess.

Freyr

Norse fertility god. Son of Njord and Skadi, brother of Freyja. He owned the ship Skidbladnir and a chariot drawn by two supernatural boars, Gullinbursti and Slidrugtanni.

Frigg

(Frija, Frea)

Norse goddess of fertility, wife of Odin (apparently usurping the place of Freyja). She was the mother of Balder.

Frimla

Norse virgin goddess.

Frost-Giants

Norse primordial beings.

Fuchi

Fire goddess of the Ainu people of Japan. Fuji-Yama, the famous Japanese volcano, takes its name from Fuchi.

Fudo

Japanese Buddhist god of wisdom.

Fufluns

Etruscan god of gaiety and vitality.

Fu Hsi

Chinese Heavenly Emperor. A serpent deity who taught humans the arts of fishing, animal husbandry and the raising of silkworms.

Fu Hsing

Chinese god of Happiness.

Fujin

Japanese Shinto god of the wind.

Fukurokuju

(Fukuro kuju)

Japanese god of wisdom and longevity. One of the seven Gods of Luck (Shichi Fukujin).

Fulgora

Roman goddess of lightning.

Fulla

Norse goddess, sister of Frigg, and servant of Freyja.

Furies

(Latin Furiae or Poenae)

Roman goddesses of vengeance, equivalent to the Greek Erinyes.

Furina

Roman goddess of thieves.

Fu Shen

Chinese god of happiness.

Fu-Shou-Lu

Chinese collective designation for Fu Hsing, Shou Hsing and Lu Hsing.

Futsunushi

Japanese god of fire and lightning.

Fu-xi

1st of 3 Chinese cultural heroes.

Fylgir

(Fylgjur, Fylgja)

Norse protective spirits.




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