Radamas (Slavic: Moravian) A god of the deeps of the earth. [3]
Radegast (Slavic: Wendish) Rosvodiz. [3]
Radgrid (Nordic) A Walkyr. [3]
Radha (Hindu) Avatar of Lakshmi, one of the milkmaids that were the companions of Krishna's youth. [3]
Radien Atzie (Lapponian) First of the gods. [3]
Radien Kiëddie (Lapponian) Barara Kyet. [3]
Radomishl (Slavic) Possibly goddess of beautiful thoughts; ja mishlie means "I think." [3]
Radweig (Nordic) One of the nine daughters of Njoerd. She wrote magical runes on a drinking-horn her sister Wigdnalin stole from a burial mound. [3]
Raedian (Lapponian) The god who takes in the souls of the virtuous and pious. [3]
Ragaina (Estonian) Collective name for all spirits and gods of the woods, protectors of hunt, bees and fruit. [3]
Raggenna (Finnish) Small gods who watch over domestic animals. [3]
Rahu (Hindu) The brother and accomplice of Quedu. Also a stellar deity, one of the Devetas. [3]
Raijin (Japanese) God of thunder, depicted as a red-painted figure surrounded by eight shallow drums.
Rakshasas (Hindu) Formerly mortal tyrannical rulers who were turned into evil demons by Vishnu. [3]
Rakumon (Karaibo) One of the first people, brought forth from the navel of Louguo. He was turned first into a snake, then into a star and now influences the weather, giving strong rains and gentle winds. [3]
Rama (Hindu) The seventh Avatar of Vishnu. He embodies fairness and virtue. He has a pact with the general of the apes, Hanuman, whose shrine is always facing the temple of Rama. [3,10]
Rambha (Hindu) A Nymph. With Indra and Kama, she tried to seduce a saintly man and was turned into stone for the duration of 10,000 years. [3]
Ram-Ram (Bisnau) Worshipped with dance and music. [3]
Ramses (Egyptian) Ramses III, Pharao from 1187-1156 BCE, deified after his death as "Imbued with Eternity," an embodiment of Amon-Re.
Ran (Nordic) "Loot;" like her father/husband Aegir, a water goddess; mistress and personification of salt and sea. She catches the drowned in a net to bring them to her realm of the dead. She has nine daughters: Blodughadda, Bylgja, Droebna, Dufa, Heffring, Himinglaefa, Kolga, Raun, and Udur. Mineral springs are sacred to her (see Salacia). [2,3,4]
Rana Neida (Lapponian) "Green Virgin," goddess of beauty and fertility. [3]
Randgrith (Nordic) A Walkyr. [3]
Rangi (Maori) The personified sky, he is the husband of Papa and with her, father of the Atua. Holding each other in a close embrace, Rangi and Papa kept their children in the darkness and were only pried apart with the help their strongest son Tane. The rain and the mist are the tears Rangi and Papa shed over their long separation. [3]
Rapitan (Zoroastrian) The Ized of the early afternoon hours. [3]
Rashaf (Phoenician) [10]
Rashnerast (Zoroastrian) The helper of Ameretat, one of the A Mesha Spentas. He watches over the mountains of the earth. [3]
Rashnu (Zoroastrian) Personification of justice. He is a brother of Mithra[s] and appears at the judgment of the dead. [3,10]
Ras Tafari (Jamaican) Through his coronation (1930 CE), the Ethiopian king Haile Selassie was made god and leader of the slum dwellers of Kingston, Jamaica. He stands for equal rights for blacks and is viewed as a Messias. His sacrament is Marijuana, which is smoked in his honour. [10]
Ratainitza (Slavic: Polish) House god, safekeeper of the horse stables. [3]
Rauguzenapat (Slavic: Polish) The highest house deity. The master of the house sacrifices the first mug of ale or mead from a new barrel to him. [3]
Raun (Nordic) "Rushing (Noise)," one of the nine daughters of Aegir and Ran, who brought forth Heimdall together. [3]
Rauni (Finnish) Goddess of thunderstorms, which she sends to earth when she is angry. Wife of the high god Ukko. [10]
Ravi (Hindu) One of the names of Surya. [3]
Rawana (Hindu) A giant, ruler of (Sri) Lanka, who was defeated by Rama. [3]
Rawskwa (Nordic) A mostly unspecified companion of Odhin. [3]
Razi (Slavic: Polish) The advisory gods, both good and evil. [3]
Razivia (Slavic: Wendish, Silesian, Lusatian) Minor goddess, either of the moon or of love. [3]
Re (Egyptian) Sun god, symbolizing the power of creation. Originally local god of Hermopolis, called "the great cackler." Re is pictured in hieroglyphs as an ascending goose. He is at the top of the pantheon. With the name Amun-Re he is equalled to Amun. The pharaoh is understood to be a son of Re.
Re performed the act of creation out of himself, laying himself as an egg, from which he hatched as sun god. The "Egg of the Great Cackler" was object of the worship of Re.
Depicted as a falcon or as a lion, with a sun disc on its head. The Pharao is Re's representative on Earth. [2,3]
Reasseden (Hindu) A companion of the sun, next to it in February. [3]
Rediculus (Roman) From redire=to turn around; his temple on the Via appia was built on the spot where Hannibal had turned away from Rome during the Punic wars. [3]
Redux (Roman) Byname of Fortuna, as goddess of safe return of the warriors and the success of journeys. Her holy day is October 12. She had many temples built by the emperors. [3]
Regin (Nordic) Common name for the high gods. [3]
Regina (Roman/Egyptian) Byname of Iuno as the queen of the heavens; also byname of Eset. [3]
Reginsleif (Nordic) A Walkyr. [3]
Re-Horachti (Egyptian) Identical to Horus. [3]
Reidityr (Nordic) Byname of Thor. [3]
Reïwas (Zoroastrian) The tree that grew from the fertile forces of the murdered Kajomorts. Its trunk looked like two lovers entwined, and its fruit were ten pairs of humans. [3]
Remus (Roman) The brother of Romulus (Quirinus), who killed him for ridiculing the new Roman city walls. He is commemorated with the Remuria (later Lemuria) beginning on May 9th. [3]
Retti (Hindu) "Tenderness," wife of Kama. Depicted as a young, beautiful woman, often together with her husband riding on a parrot. [3]
Rhadamanthos (Greek) One of the judges of the dead. Son of Europa and Zeus, brother of Minos and Sarpedon. He had to leave Crete because Minos claimed it, and went to found Erythrea with his son Erythros. After his death, he was made a judge in the underworld because of his fairness. [3]
Rhamnosia (Greek) Byname of Nemesis, from her worship in Rhamnos. [3]
Rharias (Greek) Byname of Demeter from the rharios, a field in Attika where the first sowing of corn happened. [3]
Rhea (Greek) Wife of Kronos, mother of Hades, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, Hestia -- all of whom were swallowed by her husband -- and of Zeus, whom she managed to hide. Depicted as a beautiful, fully mature woman sitting on a throne, clad in long, folded robes and wearing a mural crown on her head; also depicted similar to Kybele to whom she was later equalled, riding a lion and holding a tambourin.
Her worship was not continuous; in early times she was worshipped as described above, then her worship stopped for several centuries, to be reinstated in Roman times, where she was seen as mother goddess, mostly identical to Kybele. [3,4,10]
Rhea Silvia (Roman) A Vestal, mother of Romulus and Remus. This indicates that the founders of Rome were born by a virgin. [2]
Rhesos (Greek) River god in Bithynia, son of Okeanos and Tethys. [3]
Rhiannon (Celtic: Cymric) Horse and mother goddess. She is connected to the Otherworld through her three birds. [9]
Rhimthursir (Nordic) The mountain giants, powerful direct descendants of Ymir. Gods of the forests and the game, they are hospitable to tired travellers, but are strictly opposed to the Aesir, who took over their worshippers. They lived before the Thursir and saw the world soaked in the blood of Ymir. One of them, Bergemil, will survive the Ragnaroek.
Legend has it that the Rhimthursir would like to storm Asgard, but Bifroest, the rainbow bridge which is the only accessway leading there, is too weak to bear them. [3]
Rhinokolostes (Greek) "Nose-Offcutter," byname of Herakles. [3]
Rhode (Greek) Daughter of Halia or Amphitrite and Poseidon, beloved of Helios, mother of the Heliades. Helios gave her and her children the island bearing her name, Rhodos. [3]
Rhodope (Greek) A Nayade from Thrake, who was turned into a mountain together with her husband for calling themselves Zeus and Hera. [3]
Rhodos (Greek) Another name of Rhode. [3]
Rhoetos (Greek) A Gigant, killed by Dionysos. [3]
Rhoiai (Greek) Nymphs and inhabitants of pomegranate trees. [2]
Rhythia (Greek) A Nymph, beloved of Apollon. The city Rhythion on Crete was named for her. [3]
Rigr (Nordic) Name of Heimdall, under which he is the ancestor of the four classes, Thralls, Carls, Jarls and Princes. His symbol is a pole-ladder for his vertical social mobility. [3]
Rigani (Celtic: Gallic) The royal mother goddess protects the living and the dead alike and is wife of both a creator and a death god, Taranis and Esus. The interpretatio romana saw her as Iuno at the side of Iupiter. [3,9]
Rigrú (Celtic) Mother goddess, possibly connected to owls. [9]
Rimac (Inca) "The Talking God," who once showed himself to the people in person; he is in that respect the opposite of Pachacamac. [3]
Rinda (Nordic) One of Odhin's wives, mother of Wali. [3]
Risabha (Buddhist) The oldest of the Buddhas that have already appeared. Depicted with a bull's head, or as a bull, or wearing a bull's horns. The bull as a symbol of wisdom is his attribute. [3]
Rishis (Hindu) The ten sons of Brahma, created out of his own body; possibly created by Brahma's son Sunyambhu. Capable of creating men and gods; they did create all of existence. They are Agni, Atri, Brigu, Daksha, Kratu, Mariji, Narada, Pulagen, Pulastya and Vasishta. [3,10]
Rista (Nordic) A Walkyr, one of the cupbearers of Odhin. [3]
Risus (Italian/Roman) "Laughter," worshipped by several of the Italian peoples. [3]
Rixa (Roman) Identical to Eris. [3]
Robigus (Roman) Rural protector god of the fields against fires. [3]
Rohini (Hindu) Wife of Chandra, daughter of Daksha. [3]
Rokumon (Karaibo) The Great Snake. [3]
Roma (Roman) The deified city of Rome, daugher of Mars. Depicted in long robe wearing a helmet. Her throne, and that of the emperor, received godly honours. [2,3]
Romulus (Roman) Quirinus.
Rongala (Caroline Islands) The highest being and god. [3]
Rongo (Polynesian) God of agriculture and peace; one of the Atua. [10]
Rosea (Roman) Has a month from June 13 to July 10. [3]
Rosmerta (Celtic: Gallic) Mother goddess, connected to Mercur. She carries a cornucopia, and is often shown to give Mercur a money bag. She is connected to the earth. [9]
Rosvodiz (Slavic: Wendish) God of honour and strength. Depicted as a youthful warrior, holding a lance in his hand, with a bull's head before his chest and a swan with spread wings on his head. The name means war-leader and counsellor. [3]
Rota 1.) (Nordic) A Walkyr. [3]
2.) (Lapponian) An evil god of Hell, ruler of the place of punishment for miscreants. [3]
Rowana (Nordic) Tree goddess. Patroness of runic knowledge. Her tree (rowan) is holy. Her holy day is July 15. Amulets made from the wood of her tree on this day are especially powerful. Holy places and districts are ordinarily (if material is on hand) encircled in cords of rowan, usually including berries. [3,4]
Rozanicy (Slavic) Birth fairies, divining the fate of the child at the time it is born. [3,10]
Ruau-Moko (Maori) God of earthquakes. [3]
Rubigo (Roman) Identical to Robigus. [3]
Rudra (Hindu) "The Bloody," god of storms. Also dark god of sickness; byname of Shiva as bringer of sorrow. He brings disease or death (or both) by shooting arrows, but he is also a healer and the source of 1000 remedies (see Shankara). He is the father of the Maruts. [2,3,10]
Ruebezahl (Slavic: Silesian/folk myth) A mountain spirit from the Riesengebirge (the Giant Mountains, in today's Czechia and Slowakia), a helpful character character in general, but punisher of the greedy. He can appear almost any way he likes and waylays travellers with heavy fogs and bad weather. The name mentioned is a nickname he does not like at all; he prefers being called the Master of the Mountains. [3,10]
Rugiwit (Slavic: Wendish) War god. His statues in most cities showed him with seven faces on one single head, wearing a swordbelt with seven swords and one more sword drawn and ready. The statues were not to be touched except by swallows, which were allowed to nest on them. There is one depiction of him that makes it plausible that he might be identical to Karewit. [3]
Rukmani (Hindu) The first wife of Krishna. [3]
Rumilia (Roman) Goddess of the mothers who breast-feed their babies, who makes the children take the food easily. She is also said to have cared for Romulus and Remus. [3]
Ruminus (Roman) "Bread-Winner," byname of Iupiter. [3]
Runcina (Roman) Goddess of the mowing of the grains. [3]
Rusor (Roman) "To Whom All Returns," byname of Pluto. [3]
Russalki (Slavic) Water Nymphs of supernatural beauty, with green hair. Who sees one of them will not find any human woman beautiful again. They sometimes kill their victims by [what?!?] laughing at them. [3,10]