Bahu
("abundant") The Creative Mother, seen as the constellation
Leo or the star Denebola. |
Bala
A Hindu mother goddess.
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Banka-Mundi
A hunting goddess in India.
Basuli
An aboriginal goddess of Orissa, depicted in the Kandagir caves as standing
on a lotus, nude.
Bera
Pennu
vegetation goddess of the Khond (Bengal) who in the past sacrificed humans
to her.
Bhadra
A Hindu goddess, and attendant of Shiva.
Bhairavi
("the terrible") Goddess of terror
Bharani
Another Hindu goddess of misfortune. The daughter of Daksha and consort
of Chandra.
Bharat
Mata
A modern Hindu mother goddess.
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Bharati
A Hindu goddess of speech. She is occasionally mentioned as the consort
of Ganesha and identified with Parvati. |
Bhatta
A Hindu goddess of sorcery. |
Bhavani
One of the three terrible aspects of Parvati, with Bhowani and Parasu-Pani.
She is the Hindu and Tantric mother goddess known as the Triple Universe.
She is depicted with the sun and the moon at her breasts; or as a young
woman crowned and containing within her body a landscape showing the sea,
the sun and the moon. She is also shown as the dark aspect of Parvati,
with a necklace of skulls. Her festival, Diwali (The Feast of Lamps) is
celebrated on the new moon of Kartik (Oct./Nov.) Items associated with
her are Star sapphire, pearl, cypress, opium poppy, woman, silver, myrrh,
and civet.
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Bhumi
A Hindu earth goddess, conceived as one of seven sisters, following the
Vedic view that there are three heavens, three earths and a fourth earth
which is Bhumi. She is the mother of all living things and of the planet
Mars. Sometimes equated with Privthi, she is associated with Vahara, the
boar avatar of Vishnu. |
Bhumidevi
A Hindu fertility goddess. She is the second wife of Vishnu (or of his
avatara Krishna) and the mother of Naraka.
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Bhutamata
A Hindu demon goddess. She is a form of Parvati.
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Bhuvanesvari
A Hindu goddess, one of the ten mahavidyas.
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Bibi
Miriam
('Lady Mary') In some parts of India the Virgin Mary is included in the
Hindu pantheon. |
Biliku
Creatress of the Earth. Andamanese Islands Goddess. Kindly and fearsome,
She sometimes appeared in a spider's form. She was the first to own fire.
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Bombay
Kamayan
A local goddess of disease of Gaya.
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Brahmani
A Hindu mother goddess. She was considered a Sakti at first, later an
astamatara, or mother.
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Buddhi
A goddess representing the intellect and intuition. She is one of the
wives of Ganesha, the elephant-headed god of good fortune, the other wife
being Siddhi (acheivement). |
Budhi
Pallien
A forest goddess in North India who roamed the jungle in the form of a
tiger.
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