Gods

Guide to the Gods 1.0

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Yabune

House god of early Japanese religion.

Yacatecuhtli

Mexican god of merchants.

Yahweh

Judaic God of all the earth.

Yaksha and Yakshi

Hinduism: fiendish attendants of Kuvera, the Hindu god of wealth.

Yakshas

(Yaksas)

Indian chthonic semi-divine beings.

Yakushi Nyorai

Japanese Buddha of healing.

Yalungur

(Warana)

"Eaglehawk"; a totem ancestor of Australia.

Yama (1)

Hindu god of the dead.

Yama (2)

Buddhist deity.

Yama (3)

Chinese king of the Seventh Hell.

Yamantaka

Buddhist Krodhadevatas.

Yamm

Canaanite sea god.

Yan-lo

(Yan Wang)

Chinese prince of the underworld.

Yao

Chinese mythical primeval emperor. He is said to have conquered the winds together with Shen Yi.

Yao-shi-fo

Chinese 'physician Buddha'.

Yaotl

Mexican Lord of Darkness.

Yao Wang

Chinese god of medicine.

Yarhibol

Palmyrene solar deity.

Yarikh

(Yarih)

Ugaritic moon god. His spouse was Nikkal.

Yarilo

Slavonic god of love.

Yazata

Old Iranian designation for 'god'. In Zoroastrianism they were the guardians of the celestial bodies.

Yehl

(Yetl)

Tlingit creator-god.

Ye'loje

(Pugu)

Sun deity Siberian Yukagir people.

Yemaja

Yoruba river and lake goddess, or goddess of fresh water. Particularly connected with the river Ogun in southwest Nigeria. She was the daughter of the earth goddess Odudua. Her brother and husband was the god Aganju, by whom she was mother of the god of the midday sun, Orunjan. Yemaja is primarily worshipped by Yoruba women and water from the river Ogun is considered a remedy for infertility.

Yeng-Wang-Yeh

Chinese: foremost of the ten Yama kings or Lords of Death.

Yen Lo

See Yen Wang.

Yen Wang

(Yen Lo)

Chinese judge of hell. He was equivalent to the Hindu Yama.

Yerah and Nikkal

Canaanite moon-god and goddess.

Yiacatecuhtli

Aztec god of travelling merchants.

Yima

Iranian primeval man and primeval king.

Ying and Yang

Chinese male and female principles.

Ymir

Norse primeval giant from whose body Odin, Vili and Ve created the world. He was the father of the Frost Giants.

Yo

Impersonal world-spirit of the West African Bambara. Yo created two male elements, air and fire, and two female elements, earth and water.

Yo Fei

An historical Chinese figure; officially proclaimed a Chinese god of war in 1914.

Yonne

(Icaunis)

Celtic river deity.

Yoskeha

Iroquois creator of everything good.

Yu-Chiang

Chinese god of ocean winds.

Yu-di

(Yu Huang)

Chinese supreme lord of heaven.

Yueh Fei

Chinese war god.

Yu Huang

(Yu-Huang-Shang-Ti)

"Jade Emperor". Chinese high god of the Sung dynasty.

Yum Caax

(Yum Kaax)

Mayan god of maize and of agriculture in general.

Yun T'ung

Chinese "Cloud Youth", god of the clouds.

Yu-qiang

Chinese god of the sea.

Yu Shih

Chinese rain-god.

Yu-tzu

Chinese "Rain Master", god of rain.


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