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Njörðr. Roman equivalent. Neptune. Varuna (/ ˈvɜːrʊnə, ˈvɑːrə -/; [5] Sanskrit: वरुण, IAST: Varuṇa) is a Hindu god, associated with the sky, [6] oceans, and water. In the Vedic scriptures, he is paired with the god Mitra and is the lord of Ṛta (justice) and Satya (truth). [7][8] Varuna is also mentioned as an Aditya, the ...
The Norse night goddess Nótt riding her horse, in a 19th-century painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo. A night deity is a goddess or god in mythology associated with night, or the night sky. They commonly feature in polytheistic religions. The following is a list of night deities in various mythologies.
Salacia, goddess of seawater, wife of Neptune. Salus, goddess of the public welfare of the Roman people; came to be equated with the Greek Hygieia. Sancus, god of loyalty, honesty, and oaths. Saturn, a titan, god of harvest and agriculture, the father of Jupiter, Neptune, Juno, and Pluto.
Boreas (Βορέας, Boréas; also Βορρᾶς, Borrhás) was the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. His name meant "North Wind" or "Devouring One". His name gives rise to the adjective "boreal". Khione (from χιών – chiōn, "snow") is the daughter of Boreas and Greek goddess of snow. Ded Moroz (literally ...
Night sky goddesses (3 C) Q. Queens of Heaven (antiquity) (6 C, 10 P) T. Thunder goddesses (11 P) Pages in category "Sky and weather goddesses"
The head deity of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon was the god *Dyḗws Ph₂tḗr, [111] whose name literally means "Sky Father". [111] [112] [113] Regarded as the Sky or Day conceived as a divine entity, and thus the dwelling of the gods, the Heaven, [114] Dyēws is, by far, the most well-attested of all the Proto-Indo-European deities.
Five Suns. The Aztec sun stone. In creation myths, the term " Five Suns " refers to the belief of certain Nahua cultures and Aztec peoples that the world has gone through five distinct cycles of creation and destruction, with the current era being the fifth. It is primarily derived from a combination of myths, cosmologies, and eschatological ...
In Greek mythology, Aeolus (Ancient Greek: Αἴολος, Aiolos), [1] the son of Hippotes, was the ruler of the winds encountered by Odysseus in Homer 's Odyssey. Aeolus was the king of the island of Aeolia, where he lived with his wife and six sons and six daughters. To ensure safe passage home for Odysseus and his men, Aeolus gave Odysseus a ...