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Aditi ( Sanskrit: अदिति, lit. 'boundless' or 'limitless' [ a] or 'innocence' [ 2]) is an important Vedic goddess in Hinduism. She is the personification of the sprawling, infinite and vast cosmos. She is the goddess of motherhood, consciousness, unconsciousness, the past, the future, and fertility. [ 4] She is the mother of the ...
The Hindu pantheon is composed of deities that have developed their identities through both the scriptures of Hinduism as well as regional traditions that drew their legends from the faith. Some of the most popular deities of the Hindu pantheon include: Statue of Ganesha. Ganesha, also called Vinayaka and Ganapati, is a son of Shiva and Parvati ...
Archon (Gnosticism) Arunasura (Hindu mythology) Asag (Sumerian demonology) Asakku (Babylonian mythology) Asb'el (Jewish mythology) Asmodai/Asmodeus (Jewish folklore, Christian mythology, Islamic folklore) Aswang (Philippine folklore) Astaroth (Christian demonology) Asura (Hindu mythology, Buddhism, Shinto)
Apsaras on Hindu Temple at Banares, 1913. The origin of 'apsara' is the Sanskrit अप्सरस्, apsaras (in the stem form, which is the dictionary form). Note that he stem form ends in 's' as distinct from, e.g. the nominative singular Ramas/Ramaḥ (the deity Ram in Hindi), whose stem form is Rama.
Devi. Devī ( / ˈdeɪvi /; [ 1] Sanskrit: देवी) is the Sanskrit word for ' goddess '; the masculine form is deva. Devi and deva mean 'heavenly, divine, anything of excellence', and are also gender-specific terms for a deity in Hinduism . The concept and reverence for goddesses appears in the Vedas, which were composed around the 2nd ...
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Mahabharata, Puranas. In various Asian religious traditions, the Nagas ( Sanskrit: नाग, romanized : Nāga) [ 1] are a divine, or semi-divine, race of half-human, half- serpent beings that reside in the netherworld ( Patala ), and can occasionally take human or part-human form, or are so depicted in art. A female naga is called a Nagi, or ...
Parvati ( Sanskrit: पार्वती, IAST: Pārvatī ), also known as Uma ( Sanskrit: उमा, IAST: Umā) and Gauri ( Sanskrit: गौरी, IAST: Gaurī ), is the Hindu goddess of power, energy, nourishment, harmony, love, beauty, devotion, and motherhood. She is one of the central deities of the goddess-oriented sect called Shaktism ...