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85 relations: Aban, Ahura Mazda, Al-Kutbay, Anahita, Anansi, Anulap, Apollo, Asgard, Athena, Babylonia, Bṛhaspati, Benzaiten, Bochica, Bragi, Brahma, Brigid, Coeus, Dakshinamurthy, Deity, Egeria (mythology), Enki, Fabulinus, Fukurokuju, Gamayun, Ganesha, Gayatri, Gefjon, Guru, Hayagriva, Hecate, Helios, Hephaestus, Hermes, Hittite mythology and religion, Intelligence, Isis, Kamrušepa, Knowledge, Kuebiko, Kvasir, Longevity, Lugh, Manjushri, Mímir, Mergen, Metis (mythology), Minerva, Muses, Mythology, Nabataeans, ..., Nabu, Nauruan indigenous religion, Neith, Nidaba, Odin, Ogham, Ogma, Omoikane (Shinto), Orunmila, Papa Legba, Phoebe (mythology), Prometheus, Providentia, Psychopomp, Sacred grove, Saraswati, Sága and Sökkvabekkr, Serapis, Seshat, Shinto, Shiva, Shukra, Sia (god), Snotra, Sophia (Gnosticism), Sumer, Týr, Tenjin (kami), Thoth, Tir (god), Titan (mythology), Vör, Wenchang Wang, Wisdom, Yggdrasil. Expand index (35 more) »
Aban
Apas (āpas) is the Avestan language term for "the waters", which, in its innumerable aggregate states, is represented by the Apas, the hypostases of the waters.
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Ahura Mazda
Ahura Mazda (also known as Ohrmazd, Ahuramazda, Hourmazd, Hormazd, Harzoo and Hurmuz) is the Avestan name for the creator and sole God of Zoroastrianism, the old Iranian religion that spread across the Middle East, before ultimately being relegated to small minorities after the Muslim conquest of Iran.
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Al-Kutbay
Al-Kutbay (الكتبي) was a Nabataean god of knowledge, commerce, writing, and prophecy.
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Anahita
Anahita is the Old Persian form of the name of an Iranian goddess and appears in complete and earlier form as Aredvi Sura Anahita (Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā), the Avestan name of an Indo-Iranian cosmological figure venerated as the divinity of "the Waters" (Aban) and hence associated with fertility, healing and wisdom.
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Anansi
Anansi is an Akan folktale character.
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Anulap
Anulap is a god of magic and knowledge in the Truk Island mythology of Micronesia (Truk), who teaches these things to humanity.
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Apollo
Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek: Ἀπόλλων, Apollōn (Ἀπόλλωνος); Doric: Ἀπέλλων, Apellōn; Arcadocypriot: Ἀπείλων, Apeilōn; Aeolic: Ἄπλουν, Aploun; Apollō) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology.
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Asgard
In Norse religion, Asgard ("Enclosure of the Æsir") is one of the Nine Worlds and home to the Æsir tribe of gods.
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Athena
Athena; Attic Greek: Ἀθηνᾶ, Athēnā, or Ἀθηναία, Athēnaia; Epic: Ἀθηναίη, Athēnaiē; Doric: Ἀθάνα, Athānā or Athene,; Ionic: Ἀθήνη, Athēnē often given the epithet Pallas,; Παλλὰς is the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare, who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva.
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Babylonia
Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq).
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Bṛhaspati
Bṛhaspati (बृहस्पति, often written as Brihaspati) is an Indian name, and refers to different mythical figures depending on the age of the text.
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Benzaiten
Benzaiten (弁才天, 弁財天) is a Japanese Buddhist goddess, who originated from the Hindu goddess Saraswati.
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Bochica
Bochica (also alluded to as Nemquetaha, Nemqueteba and Sadigua) is a figure in the religion of the Muisca, who inhabited the Altiplano Cundiboyacense during the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the central Andean highlands of present-day Colombia.
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Bragi
Bragi is the skaldic god of poetry in Norse mythology.
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Brahma
Brahma (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मा, IAST: Brahmā) is a creator god in Hinduism.
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Brigid
Brigit, Brigid or Bríg (meaning 'exalted one')Campbell, Mike See also Xavier Delamarre, brigantion / brigant-, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise (Éditions Errance, 2003) pp.
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Coeus
In Greek mythology, Coeus (Κοῖος, Koios, "query, questioning") was one of the Titans, the giant sons and daughters of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth).
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Dakshinamurthy
Dakshinamurthy दक्षिणामूर्ति is an aspect of the Hindu god Shiva as a guru (teacher) of all types of knowledge.
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Deity
A deity is a supernatural being considered divine or sacred.
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Egeria (mythology)
Egeria (Ēgeria) was a nymph attributed a legendary role in the early history of Rome as a divine consort and counselor of Numa Pompilius, the second Sabine king of Rome, to whom she imparted laws and rituals pertaining to ancient Roman religion.
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Enki
Enki (Sumerian: dEN.KI(G)) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), mischief, crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud).
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Fabulinus
In the popular religion of ancient Rome, though not appearing in literary Roman mythology, the god Fabulinus (from fabulari, to speak) taught children to speak.
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Fukurokuju
In Japan, Fukurokuju (福禄寿) (from Japanese fuku, "happiness"; roku, "wealth"; and ju, "longevity") is one of the Seven Lucky Gods in Japanese mythology.
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Gamayun
Gamayun is a prophetic bird of Slavic folklore.
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Ganesha
Ganesha (गणेश), also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Pillaiyar and Binayak, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon.
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Gayatri
Gayatri (Sanskrit: गायत्री, IAST:gāyatrī) is the personified form of popular Gayatri Mantra, a hymn from Vedic texts.
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Gefjon
In Norse mythology, Gefjon (alternatively spelled Gefion or Gefjun) is a goddess associated with ploughing, the Danish island of Zealand, the legendary Swedish king Gylfi, the legendary Danish king Skjöldr, foreknowledge, and virginity.
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Guru
Guru (गुरु, IAST: guru) is a Sanskrit term that connotes someone who is a "teacher, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.
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Hayagriva
Hayagriva, also spelt Hayagreeva (Sanskrit: हयग्रीव, IAST:, literally 'Horse-neck'), is a horse-headed avatar of the Lord Vishnu in Hinduism.
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Hecate
Hecate or Hekate (Ἑκάτη, Hekátē) is a goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, most often shown holding a pair of torches or a keyThe Running Maiden from Eleusis and the Early Classical Image of Hekate by Charles M. Edwards in the American Journal of Archaeology, Vol.
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Helios
Helios (Ἥλιος Hēlios; Latinized as Helius; Ἠέλιος in Homeric Greek) is the god and personification of the Sun in Greek mythology.
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Hephaestus
Hephaestus (eight spellings; Ἥφαιστος Hēphaistos) is the Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking, carpenters, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metallurgy, fire, and volcanoes.
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Hermes
Hermes (Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian god in Greek religion and mythology, the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Maia, and the second youngest of the Olympian gods (Dionysus being the youngest).
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Hittite mythology and religion
Hittite mythology and Hittite religion were the religious beliefs and practices of the Hittites, who created an empire centered in what is now Turkey from c. 1600 BC to 1180 BC.
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Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in many different ways to include the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving.
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Isis
Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.
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Kamrušepa
Kamrusepa is a Hittite goddess of healing, medicine, and magic.
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Knowledge
Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning.
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Kuebiko
is the Shinto kami ("god; deity") of knowledge and agriculture, represented in Japanese mythology as a scarecrow who cannot walk but has comprehensive awareness.
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Kvasir
In Norse mythology, Kvasir was a being born of the saliva of the Æsir and the Vanir, two groups of gods.
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Longevity
The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography.
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Lugh
Lugh or Lug (Modern Irish: Lú) is an important god of Irish mythology.
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Manjushri
Mañjuśrī is a bodhisattva associated with prajñā (insight) in Mahayana Buddhism.
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Mímir
Mímir (Old Norse "The rememberer, the wise one")Simek (2007:216).
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Mergen
Mergen (Turkish: Mergen, Cyrillic: Мерген, Russian: Мэргэн), is a Turkic deity of abundance and wisdom.
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Metis (mythology)
Metis (Greek: Μῆτις - "wisdom," "skill," or "craft"), in ancient Greek religion, was a mythical Titaness belonging to the second generation of Titans.
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Minerva
Minerva (Etruscan: Menrva) was the Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic warfare, although it is noted that the Romans did not stress her relation to battle and warfare as the Greeks would come to, and the sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy.
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Muses
The Muses (/ˈmjuːzɪz/; Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, Moũsai) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts in Greek mythology.
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Mythology
Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths.
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Nabataeans
The Nabataeans, also Nabateans (الأنباط  , compare Ναβαταῖος, Nabataeus), were an Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the Southern Levant.
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Nabu
Nabu (cuneiform: 𒀭𒀝 Nabū ܢܒܘ) is the ancient Mesopotamian patron god of literacy, the rational arts, scribes and wisdom.
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Nauruan indigenous religion
Nauruan indigenous religion is a monotheistic system of belief that includes a female deity called Eijebong and an island of spirits called Buitani.
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Neith
Neith (or; also spelled Nit, Net, or Neit) is an early goddess in ancient Egyptian religion who was said to be the first and the prime creator.
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Nidaba
Nidaba or Nisaba (𒀭𒉀; later 𒀭𒊺𒉀), also known by the epithet Nanibgal (𒀭𒀭𒉀; later 𒀭𒀭𒊺𒉀) was the Sumerian goddess of writing, learning, and the harvest.
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Odin
In Germanic mythology, Odin (from Óðinn /ˈoːðinː/) is a widely revered god.
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Ogham
Ogham (Modern Irish or; ogam) is an Early Medieval alphabet used to write the early Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 1st to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries).
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Ogma
Ogma (modern spelling: Oghma) is a character from Irish mythology and Scottish mythology.
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Omoikane (Shinto)
Omoikane (思兼 or 思金) is a Shinto god of wisdom and intelligence.
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Orunmila
Orunmila (known as Orúnmila, Orunmilá, Orúnla, or Orúla in Nigeria and Latin America) is an Orisha.
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Papa Legba
Papa Legba is a loa in Haitian Vodou, who serves as the intermediary between the loa and humanity.
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Phoebe (mythology)
In ancient Greek religion, Phoebe (Greek: Φοίβη Phoibe, associated with Phoebos or "shining") was one of the first generation of Titans, who were one set of sons and daughters of Uranus and Gaia.
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Prometheus
In Greek mythology, Prometheus (Προμηθεύς,, meaning "forethought") is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure who is credited with the creation of man from clay, and who defies the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity, an act that enabled progress and civilization.
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Providentia
In ancient Roman religion, Providentia is a divine personification of the ability to foresee and make provision.
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Psychopomp
Psychopomps (from the Greek word ψυχοπομπός, psuchopompos, literally meaning the "guide of souls") are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife.
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Sacred grove
A sacred grove or sacred woods are any grove of trees that are of special religious importance to a particular culture.
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Saraswati
Saraswati (सरस्वती) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, wisdom and learning worshipped throughout Nepal and India.
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Sága and Sökkvabekkr
In Norse mythology, Sága (possibly meaning "seeress"Orchard (1997:136).) is a goddess associated with the wisdom Sökkvabekkr ("sunken bank", "sunken bench", or "treasure bank"Orchard (1997:152) and Lindow (2001:265) have "sunken bank". Byock (2005:175) has "sunken bank or bench". Simek (2007:297) has "sunken bank" or "treasure bank.").
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Serapis
Serapis (Σέραπις, later form) or Sarapis (Σάραπις, earlier form, from Userhapi "Osiris-Apis") is a Graeco-Egyptian deity.
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Seshat
Seshat, under various spellings, was the ancient Egyptian goddess of wisdom, knowledge, and writing.
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Shinto
or kami-no-michi (among other names) is the traditional religion of Japan that focuses on ritual practices to be carried out diligently to establish a connection between present-day Japan and its ancient past.
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Shiva
Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव, IAST: Śiva, lit. the auspicious one) is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.
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Shukra
Shukra (Sanskrit: शुक्र, IAST) is a Sanskrit word that means "lucid, clear, bright".
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Sia (god)
Sia or Saa, an ancient Egyptian god, was the deification of perception in the Heliopolitan Ennead cosmogony and is probably equivalent to the intellectual energies of the heart of Ptah in the Memphite cosmogeny.
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Snotra
In Norse mythology, Snotra (Old Norse "clever")Orchard (1997:152).
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Sophia (Gnosticism)
Sophia (Greek Σοφíα, meaning "wisdom," Coptic ⲧⲥⲟⲫⲓⲁ tsophia) is a major theme, along with Knowledge (Greek γνῶσις gnosis, Coptic sooun), among many of the early Christian knowledge-theologies grouped by the heresiologist Irenaeus as gnostikos, "learned." Gnosticism is a 17th-century term expanding the definition of Irenaeus' groups to include other syncretic and mystery religions.
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Sumer
SumerThe name is from Akkadian Šumeru; Sumerian en-ĝir15, approximately "land of the civilized kings" or "native land".
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Týr
Týr (Old Norse: Týr short.
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Tenjin (kami)
In mythology, folklore and the Shinto religion of Japan, is the kami of scholarship and learning.
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Thoth
Thoth (from Greek Θώθ; derived from Egyptian ḏḥw.ty) is one of the deities of the Egyptian pantheon.
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Tir (god)
Tir or Tiur (Տիր) was the god of written language, schooling, rhetoric, wisdom, and the arts worshiped in ancient Armenia.
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Titan (mythology)
In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek: Τιτάν, Titán, Τiτᾶνες, Titânes) and Titanesses (or Titanides; Greek: Τιτανίς, Titanís, Τιτανίδες, Titanídes) were members of the second generation of divine beings, descending from the primordial deities and preceding the Olympians.
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Vör
In Norse mythology, Vör (Old Norse, possibly "the careful one,"Simek (2007:368). or "aware, careful"Orchard (1997:181).) is a goddess associated with wisdom.
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Wenchang Wang
Wenchang Wang, also known as Wenchang Dijun, is a Taoist deity in Chinese Mythology, known as the God of Culture and Literature.
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Wisdom
Wisdom or sapience is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight, especially in a mature or utilitarian manner.
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Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil (or; from Old Norse Yggdrasill, pronounced) is an immense mythical tree that connects the nine worlds in Norse cosmology.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_knowledge_deities
