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Hindu deity

 
 

a deity worshipped by the Hindus

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  • Aditi — a Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease; mother of the Adityas
  • Aditya — one of 7 to 12 sons of Aditi; gods of celestial light
  • Agni — god of fire; one of the 3 chief deities of the Vedas
  • Asura — earlier a god; later a demon; counterpart of Zoroastrian Ahura
  • Ahura — (Zoroastrianism) title for benevolent deities
  • Asvins — twin brothers; gods of the dawn; physicians of heaven and benefactors of mankind
  • Bhaga — god of wealth and love
  • Brahma — the Creator; one of the three major deities in the later Hindu pantheon
  • Brihaspati — personification of the power of ritual devotion
  • Bhumi Devi — earth goddess; one of the two wives of Vishnu
  • Devi — mother goddess; supreme power in the universe; wife or embodiment of the female energy of Siva having both beneficent and malevolent forms or aspects
  • Chandi — malevolent aspect of Devi
  • Dharma — basic principles of the cosmos; also: an ancient sage in Hindu mythology worshipped as a god by some lower castes;
  • Durga — goddess of war; a malevolent aspect of Devi
  • Dyaus, Dyaus-pitar — god of the sky
  • Ganesa, Ganesha, Ganesh, Ganapati — god of wisdom or prophesy; remover of obstacles
  • Garuda — supernatural half-man and half-bird vehicle or bearer of Vishnu
  • Gauri — a benevolent aspect of Devi
  • Hanuman — the monkey god; helper of Rama
  • Indra — chief god of the Rig-Veda; god of rain and thunder
  • Ka — unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma
  • Kali — wife of Siva and malevolent form of Devi
  • Kama — god of love and erotic desire; opposite of Mara
  • Mara — god of death; opposite of Kama
  • Kartikeya, Karttikeya — god of bravery
  • Lakshmi — goddess of fortune
  • Marut — any of a group of storm gods; offspring of Rudra
  • Mitra — god of justice
  • Parjanya — god of rain; sometimes identified with Indra
  • Parvati, Anapurna, Annapurna — wife of Siva and a benevolent aspect of Devi: goddess of plenty
  • Prajapati — god personifying a creative force; equivalent to Brahma
  • Pushan — celestial shepherd god; conductor of souls of the dead
  • Rahu — a demon who swallows the sun causing eclipses
  • Ribhus, Rhibhus — one of three artisans of the gods
  • Rudra — father of the storm gods Marut; controller of nature; sometimes identified with Siva
  • Sarasvati — goddess of learning and arts
  • Savitar — an important god; the sun in its life-giving aspect
  • Shakti, Sakti — the female or generative principle; wife of Siva and a benevolent form of Devi
  • Siva, Shiva — the Destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later Hindu pantheon
  • Skanda — god of war
  • Soma — personification of a sacred intoxicating drink used in Vedic ritual
  • Surya — an important god; sun god or the sun worshipped as a god of light and warmth
  • Uma — a benevolent aspect of Devi; `splendor'
  • Ushas — goddess of dawn; daughter of Sky and sister of Night
  • Vajra — Indras's thunderbolt
  • Varuna — supreme cosmic deity; god of natural and moral law; ancient sky god
  • Vayu — wind god
  • Vishnu — the Sustainer; a Hindu divinity worshipped as the preserver of worlds
  • Yama — god of the Underworld
  • avatar — the manifestation of a Hindu deity (especially Vishnu) in human or superhuman or animal form

 
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  • deity, divinity, god, immortal — any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

 
 

 

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