DUMUZI

ORIGIN Mesopotamian (Sumerian and Babylonian-Akkadian) [Iraq]. Shepherd and vegetation god; underworld god.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 3500 BC or earlier to circa 200 BC.

SYNONYMS Damn; Ama-usum-gal-ana; Tammuz (Hebrew).

Dhruva (immovable)

Astral god. Hindu (Epic and Puranic). The son of Uttanapada, a star in the constellation of Ursa Minor which was the pole star in the last millennium 1 BC. An avatara of VISˇNU. Also one of a group of Vasu deities answering to the god INDRA.

Denwen

Region: Egypt, Africa
Time Period: 300 BC (some say 3000 BC)
References in Literature: None
Sources: Illiana, Circle of the Dragon

Ch’u Yuan and the Boat Races of China

Region: China
Time Period: 4th century BC
References in Literature: Defined in Earliest Chinese Dictionary
Sources: Goldendawn, ChinaVista

Anu

Anu (1)

Creator god. Mesopotamian (Babylonian-Akkadian). Consort of ANTU(m). Derived from the older Sumerian god AN. Anu features strongly in the akitu festival in Babylon, Uruk and other cities until the Hellenic period and possibly as late as 200 BC. Some of his later pre-eminence may be attributable to identification with the Greek god of heaven, ZEUS, and with OURANOS.

Bellona

Mother goddess and goddess of war. Roman. She becomes syncretized with the Cappadocian mother goddess MA. The first known temple dedicated to Ma-Bellona by the Romans is dated to 296 BCE. Bellona was attended by Asiatic priests who performed frenzied dances and gashed themselves with swords, offering the blood on the goddess’s altars. Because of its violent nature, Rome refused officially to recognize the cult until the third century CE.

Babi

Malevolent god. Egyptian. Known from as early as the Old Kingdom (circa 2700 BC). Babi is seen as a violent and hostile deity whose presence can be highly dangerous during the ceremony of the Weighing of the Heart in the Hall of the Two Truths (see also AMMUT). Conversely he can also act in a protective capacity.

ATEN (the sun disc)

ORIGIN Egyptian. Creator sun god.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 2000 BC until late in Egyptian history, but of little influence after 1362 BC.

SYNONYMS Aton.

Apophis / Apop / Apep / Apopis / Apepi / Aapep

Region: Egypt, Africa
Time Period: 6th – 5th century BC
References in Literature: Overthrowing Apep
Sources: Polenth, Drakhen’s Lair, Windseeker, Xdrac, Illiana, Alara, China and Japan pg 53, Tysha Dragon

BAAL (lord)

ORIGIN Western Semitic (Canaanite) [northern Israel, Lebanon and later Egyptian]. Vegetation deity and national god.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 2000 BC or earlier to 200 BC.

SYNONYMS Aliyn Baal; HADAD.