Ka Tyeleo

Creator god. Senufo [Ivory Coast, West Africa].

Significantly in such an environment, according to tradition, he fashioned the fruit-bearing trees on the seventh day of creation.

Isten

Creator god. Pre-Christian Hungarian. According to tradition, his sacred animal, the eagle, guided the Hungarian people to their homeland.

Hunapu

Creator god. Mayan (Yucatec and Quiche, classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]. According to the sacred text Popol Vuh, the son of HUN HUNAPU and the twin brother of Ix Balan Ku. Tradition has it that, like his father, he was decapitated in a historic struggle with the underworld gods and subsequently became the sun god, while his sibling is the apotheosis of the moon.

Hahana Ku (much rains house god)

Messenger god. Mayan (classical Mesoamerica) [Mexico]. According to tradition, when the god HACHACYUM decides to send rain he directs Hahana Ku to visit the black powder maker MENZABAC. Hahana Ku buys only a small quantity, against the wishes of the vendor.

Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl

Primordial god. Aztec (classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]. A syncretization of EHECATL and QUETZALCOATL, one of four gods who support the lowest heaven at each cardinal point. He is perceived as residing in the west (codices Borgia and Vaticanus B). He is the deity who rules over the ninth of the thirteen heavens, Itztapal Nanatzcayan (where the stone slabs crash together). In a separate tradition, Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl executed the monstrous god XOLOTL when he declined to offer his blood in self-sacrifice for the creation of mankind.

Estsanatlehi (woman that changes)

Fertility goddess. Navaho [USA]. Probably regarded as the most powerful deity in the Navaho pantheon, she has powers of endless self-rejuvenation. According to tradition, she was created from a small turquoise image into which life was infused through a ritual of the great gods and she is the sister of the goddess YOLKAI ESTAN. She is also the consort of the sun god TSOHANOAI and the mother of the war god NAYENEZGANI. She is said to live in the west and is benevolent in nature, sending the gentle rains of summer and the warm thawing winds of spring.

AYIZAN

Themes: Pleasure; Playfulness; Divination

Symbol: Palm Leaf

 About Ayizan: Ayizan is the first priestess of voodoo tradition, governing the public places where people gather to celebrate the goddess. As such, she oversees the Mardi Gras exuberant revelry, offering psychic insight and protective energy to keep us out of trouble.

Atl

Creator god. Aztec (classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]. The sun deity representing the fourth of the five world ages each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestrial years. Assigned to water and presided over by CHALCHIUHTLICUE. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a deluge during which all the human population were turned into fish.

Esaugetuh Emissee

by Dave Ward

 
Esaugetuh Emissee (meaning “Master of Breath”) is the name given to the live-giving god who created human beings according to Muskogean (Creek) tradition. He shaped the first humans from the clay of Nunne Chaha, the first hill which rose from the primeval waters.

THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR

(AN ORAL TEACHING OF THE FAERY TRADITION OF WITCHCRAFT)

 

In  love,  the  Horned God, changing form and changing face, ever seeks the Goddess. In this world, the search and the seeking appear in the Wheel of the Year.