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Owuo, Akan God of Death and Destruction, and the Personification of death. Name means death in the Akan language. Asase Yaa, one half of an Akan Goddess of the barren places on Earth, Truth and is Mother of the Dead; Amokye, Psychopomp in Akan religion who fishes the souls of the dead from the river leading to Asamando, the Akan underworld
Archangel Raphael, is known to be the primary angel of healing. His name is derived from Hebrew, רָפָאֵל (Rafa'el), which means "God has healed", "God heals" or simply "it is God who has healed". The name is derived from two Hebrew words: רָפָא (rafa'), meaning "to heal," and אֵל ('el), meaning "God".
Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either "Saint Death" or "Holy Death", although R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of Religious studies, believes that the former is a more accurate translation because it "better reveals" her identity as a folk saint.
Goddesses associated with death. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. E. Egyptian death goddesses (1 C, 7 P) F. Freyja (18 ...
Rare and Unique Baby Girl Names. Raven: This Old English name means "dark-haired or wise." Amber: Of Arabic, English, and Gaelic origin, this name can mean "jewel" or "fierce." Ruby: This name is ...
In the 1500s, Diego de Landa called Ixchel “the Goddess of making children”. [2] He also mentioned her as the goddess of medicine, as shown by the following. In the month of Zip, the feast Ihcil Ixchel was celebrated by the physicians and shamans (hechiceros), and divination stones as well as medicine bundles containing little idols of "the Goddess of medicine whom they called Ixchel" were ...
Morana's name most likely comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *mar-, *mor-, signifying death. [2] The Slovak form of the theonym – Ma(r)muriena – suggests that the goddess may have originally been connected to the Roman god of war Mars (known under a variety of names, including Marmor, Mamers and Mamurius Veturius). [2]
Early accounts gave her a primal origin, said to be the eldest daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). [4] She is thus the sister of the Titans (Oceanus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Coeus, Themis, Rhea, Phoebe, Tethys, Mnemosyne, Cronus, and sometimes of Dione), the Cyclopes, the Hecatoncheires, the Giants, the Meliae, the Erinyes, and is the half-sister of Aphrodite (in some versions ...