Guide to the Gods 1.0
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Wachabe
Osage bear deity.
Wadd
Minaean moon god.
Wahieroa
Polynesian hero-god.
Waka
Benign rain god of the Galla of Ethiopia.
Wakahiru-me
Japanese goddess of the rising sun.
Wakan
Dakota name for their gods.
Wakan Tanka
See Wakan.
Wakataka
Sioux creator god.
Wakonda
Omaha divine creator.
Walaganda
See Wondjina.
Walutahanga
Melanesian spirit who was born to a mortal woman as a female snake.
Wang
Chinese guardian of Jade Emperor's palace door.
Wang-Mu-Niang-Niang
Chinese goddess, keeper of the peaches of immortality.
Waralden Olmai
Lapp world god.
Warohunugamwanehaora
Melanesian hero figure.
Wata-tsu-mi
Japanese god of the sea.
Watauinewa
Supreme being of Yamana.
Waukheon
Thunderbird of the North American Dakota.
Wawalug
A pair of fertility goddesses of North Australia.
Wayland
(Volund, Weland, Wieland)
Germanic hero, sometimes regarded as a smith god.
We
Supreme god of the Kasena of Upper Volta.
Wele
Supreme deity of Bantu Kavirondo (Vugusu).
Wen Ch'ang
(Wen-Chang-Ta-Ti)
Chinese god of literature.
Wen-Shu Yen-K'ung
Chinese name of Manjushri.
Wen Ti
Chinese deity.
Wepwawet
(Upuaut; Greek Ophois)
"Opener of the Ways". Egyptian jackal god. Wepwawet had a dual role as a god of war and of the funerary cult, and could be said to "open the way" both for the armies of the pharaoh and for the spirits of the dead. He originated as a god of Upper Egypt, but his cult had spread throughout Egypt by the time of the Old Kingdom. Depicted as a jackal or in human form with the head of a jackal, often holding the 'shedshed', a standard which led the pharaoh to victory in war and on which the pharaoh was said to ascend into the sky after death. Despite his origin in Upper Egypt, one inscription said that he was born in the sanctuary of the goddess Wadjet at Buto in the Nile delta. Another inscription identified him with Horus and thus by extension with the pharaoh. Wepwawet also symbolized the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. In his capacity as a funerary deity he used his adze to break open the mouth of the deceased in the "opening of the mouth' ceremony which ensured that the person would have the enjoyment of all his faculties in the afterlife. At Abydos the 'procession of Wepwawet' initiated the mysteries of Osiris as a god of the dead.
Wer
Semitic weather-god of Mesopotamia.
Werewolf
Germanic wolf-like demon.
We-to
Chinese Buddhist divine general.
Where-Ao
Primeval Polynesian god.
Whiro
Maori god of darkness, evil and death.
Whope
Sioux daughter of sun-god.
Wi
Sioux sun-god.
Winds
Greco/Roman spirits/gods.
Wisagatcak
(Wisakedjak, Whiskey Jack)
Creator and trickster god of the Eastern Cree of North America.
Woden
(Wodan, Wotan)
Anglo-Saxon and German names for Odin.
Wollunqua
Warramunga name for the Great Rainbow Snake of Australia.
Wonajo
(Wanajo)
Snake culture-hero of Louisiade Archipelago in the Pacific.
Wondjina
Primal beings of the Australian Dreamtime.
Wosyet
Egyptian protector goddess of the young.
Wulbari
Supreme god of the Krachi of West Africa.
Wunekau
Sun-god of New Guinea.
Wuni
Supreme god of the Dagamba people of Ghana.
Wuraka
Australian god and companion of the mother creatress Imberombera.
Wurukatte
(Wurunkatte)
Proto-Hattic god of war.
Wurusemu
(Wurunsemu)
Hattic sun goddess.
Wu Ti
5 Rulers of Chinese myth.
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