Minor god of gardens and orchards. Roman.
Of Etruscan origin, he is the consort of the goddess POMONA. Usually represented with garden implements and offered fruit and flowers. He was celebrated annually in the Vertumnalia festival on August 13.
Continue reading “Vertumnus”ORIGIN Hindu (Epic and Puranic) [India]. Goddess of emotional love.
KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 1000 BC and earlier until present day.
SYNONYMS BHUMIDEVI [southern India].
CENTER(S) OF CULT none.
ART REFERENCES virtually none.
LITERARY SOURCES later Puranic literature—the works of Vidyapati (1352-1448), including the Brahma-vaivarta-purana.
Continue reading “RADHA (prosperity)”ORIGIN Taoist (Chinese). Guardian god.
KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa AD 300 until present.
SYNONYMS Li No Cha.
CENTER(S) OF CULT throughout Chinese culture.
ART REFERENCES paintings and sculptures.
LITERARY SOURCES various philosophical and religious texts, mostly inadequately researched and untranslated.
Continue reading “NA CHA (here is a loud cry)”ORIGIN Mesopotamian (Babylonian-Akkadian) [Iraq]. Goddess of fertility and war.
KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 2500 BC until circa AD 200.
SYNONYMS INANA [Sumerian].
ORIGIN Mesopotamian (Sumerian) [Iraq]. Storm god.
KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 3500 BC, and probably earlier, until circa 1750 BC.
SYNONYMS ADAD (Akkadian).
CENTER(S) OF CULT Karkara.
ORIGIN Egyptian. Mother goddess.
KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP Early dynastic period (circa 2700 BC) and probably earlier until the end of Egyptian history (circa AD 400).
SYNONYMS none.
ORIGIN Mesopotamian (Sumerian) [Iraq]. Goddess of fertility and war.
KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 3500 BC to 1750 BC.
SYNONYMS Inninna; IS ˇ TAR [Akkadian]; Nin-mesar-ra (lady of a myriad offices)
CENTER(S) OF CULT Unug [Warka]; also Erbil and Nineveh.
In almost every culture, in almost every place, there are stories of dragons, most of them too old to know it’s origin. Dragons, the gigantic, fast, strong and wise lizards as told in myths. Beasts so fierce that would destroy all near them. Some of them could fly, some with various heads, some could breath fire, all being Dragons.
ORIGIN Canaanite [northern Israel, Lebanon and Syrian coastal regions]. Creator god.
KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa 2000 BC, and probably earlier, until circa 200 BC or later.
SYNONYMS EL (Hebrew); LATIPAN; Tor-’Il.
CENTER(S) OF CULT Ugarit (Ras Sˇamra), but also generally throughout areas of Canaanite influence.
ORIGIN Aztec (classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]. Sun god, patron god of the Aztec nation.
KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa AD 750, but probably much earlier, to circa AD 1500.
SYNONYMS Blue Tezcatlipoca.
Continue reading “HUITZILPOCHTLI (blue hummingbird on left foot)”
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