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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