*Uba - Uba ("old woman, wet nurse") is the spirit of the pine tree in Japan. She and her husband Jo ("love") symbolize marital love and fidelity.

*Ueuecoyotl - The Aztec god of sex and irresponsible gaiety. His name means "Old, Old Coyote".

*Uga-Jin - The Japanese serpent-god of the waters, and god of the fertility of the earth.

*Uga-no-Mitama - The Japanese goddess of agriculture.

*Ujigami - Japanese ancestral spirits and the patrons of families (uji "family lineage"). Living relatives may ask their house-god for an oracle in case of illness.

*Ukemachi - Japanese goddess who created the earth from her body.

*Ukko - Finnish god of the sky, provided help with the impossible or hopeless.

*Ukobach or Urobach (Unk) - a fire demon.

*Ull - In old Scandinavian myth, Ull ("glory") is the god of justice and dueling, as well as the patron god of agriculture. He excels in archery and in skiing and lives in his hall Ydalir ("yew dales"). He is regarded as the son of Sif and the stepson of Thor.

*Uller - Norse (Scandinavian) God whose name meant "the brilliant one". Symbolizes oaths, pacts, duels, hunting, winter, and glory.

*Ulupi - Hindu. A Serpent Goddess, one of the Nagis, dwelling in Patala, the lowest level of the Underworld.

*Uma - In India, she is the personification of light and beauty, also venerated under the name of Gauri. She is the Devi (goddess) allotted to Shiva, and, such can turn into Durgha or Parvati. The main center of her cult is in Bengal. In Hindu myth, Uma is one of the appellations of the goddess Parvati as “light” or “splendor,” embodying great beauty and divine wisdom.

*Umbria - Italian goddess of shadows and things which are hidden or secret.

*Umunmutamkag - Another Babylonian deity who presents the offerings to the gods after they have been made by humans.

*Umunmutamku - The Babylonian deity who presents the offerings to the gods after they have been made by humans.

*Uneg - An Egyptian plant-god.

*Uni - Italian goddess of witchcraft. ,p> *Uni - The supreme goddess of the Etruscan pantheon. She is the goddess of the cosmos, and the city goddess of Perugia. Together with her husband Tinia and the goddess Menrva she forms a triad. Her son is the hero Hercle (clearly Hercules / Heracles). Uni is identical to the Greek Hera and the Roman Juno.

*Unsere (Unk) - goddess of sorcery and fertility.

*Unut - An Egyptian hare-goddess.

*Uphir (Unk) the head demon physician in the palace of hell.

*Upuat - "He Who Opens the Way", jackal or wolf-headed Egyptian god of the dead.

*Urania - The Greek Muse of astronomy and astrology. She is occasionally mentioned as the mother of Linus by Apollo. She is represented with a globe in her left hand and a peg in her right hand. Urania is dressed in a cloak embroidered with stars and she keeps her eyes towards the sky.

*Uranus - In Greek mythology, Uranus (Ouranos) is the personification of the sky and the son and mate of Gaia. Their children are the Hecatonchires (Centimani), the Cyclopes and the Titans. Uranus was jealous of the future power of his children and feared he would lose his rulership to them. He threw his children in the underworld to prevent this. At the instigation of Gaia, her son Cronus castrated his father and dethroned him. When Uranus' blood fell upon the Earth (Gaia), the Erinyes (the goddesses of vengeance) and the Gigantes (giants) sprang forth, among many other divinities.

*Urvasi - The Hindu goddess of success in love affairs; an apsara, or heavenly nymph.

*Ushas - The goddess of the dawn in Hindu myth, and the breath of life in the Vedas.

*Uso Dori - Japanese goddess of singing.

*Uttu - The Sumerian spider goddess of weaving and of clothing. She is a daughter of Enki and Nindurra.

*Utu - An ancient Sumerian sun-god, god of fertility, judgment and law-giving. He corresponds to the Babylonian Shamash. Utu was created by the sky-god Enlil.

*Uwolowu - African (Akpossa of Togo) sky god and creator of everything including the minor gods. He is invoked for agriculture/harvest, spring, birth, rain, and sun. Gave mankind fire. He is seen as generally beneficant.

*Uzume - The Japanese Shinto goddess of joy and happiness, called the Daughter of Heaven and Heaven's Forthright Female. Her name means "whirling". She is also the goddess of good health, which people obtain from drinking the blessed water of her stream. When the sun goddess Amaterasu had hidden herself in a cave, thus covering the earth in darkness and infertility, it was Uzume who brought her back. With her provoking and curlew dances she managed to make the gods laugh so hard, that Amaterasu left the cave intrigued. Her emerging brought light and life back to earth. Her brother Ninigi married Uzume to the deity who guards the Floating Bridge to Heaven. The dances of Uzume (Ama-no-uzume) are found in folk rites, such as the one to wake the dead, the Kagura (dance-mime), and another one which symbolizes the planting of seeds.

*Vach - "Speech". The Hindu goddess of speech and eloquence, and the mother of the Vedas. Later she was identified with Sarasvati.

*Vacuna - Roman goddess of agriculture and leisure.

*Vadatajs - Demons who are responsible for making people lose their way in forests. They also send a traveler in the wrong direction on cross-roads, so that this person's soul loses its way as well. The Vadatajs ("leading to nowhere") often assume the shape of an animal, but also that of a human being. They belong to the same lower level of deities as Dievini, Pukis and Ragana.

*Valafar (Unk) - another grand duke of hell.

*Vanadevatas - Vedic tree spirits.

*Vanth - The Etruscan female demon of death who lives in the underworld. With the eyes on her wings she sees all and is omni-present. She is a herald of death and can assist a sick person on his deathbed. Her attributes are a snake, torch and key.

*Var - Norse (Scandinavian) goddess of contracts and agreements. She gets revenge against those who break oaths. No secret can be kept from Var. She is best invoked when one is signing an agreement, contract, pact, or oath. She is also good to invoke if an oath or promise to you was broken, especially in marriage. Also symbolizes love. Also known as Vor.

*Varuna - one of the most important of the Vedic gods. In pre-Vedic times, he was the supreme lord of the cosmos, the keeper of divine order, the bringer of rain, the enforcer of contracts. He is called omnipotent and omniscient; he is responsible for the sun to move in the sky, for day and night to stay separate, and for the earth to keep its form; he watches the flight of every bird, is present at every gathering, and knows every thought. His name means "he who covers", and this probably refers to the sky. Varuna is the keeper of the cosmic order, a force called rta. It is rta which keeps everything working as it should, and Varuna's role as the one who governs rta makes him very important indeed. He is very closely linked to the god Mitra. Varuna is one of the Adityas and considered to be an asura, when those beings were still god-like and had not yet degenerated into demons. He is also associated with the moon and Soma, in Soma's incarnation as the drink of the gods. Varuna is seen as a white man in golden armor riding a Makara (a sea monster), holding a noose or lasso made from a snake. Varuna is the keeper of the celestial waters, those which flow from the openings in the sky in the form of rain. He was worshiped with veneration and a healthy amount of fear, for as an asura Varuna did have his sinister aspects and was known to punish mortals who did not keep their word. He was the cosmic hangman and his usual method of punishment was to capture the offender with his noose. He was also a lord of the dead, a position he shared with Yama, and could confer immortality if he so chose.

*Vata - The ancient Persian god of the wind and one of the Yazatas. The twentieth day of the month is dedicated to him.

*Vayu - "The One who Moves Through The Sky". Hindu air and wind god who was an ally of the storm gods who were known as the Maruts ("crushers"). Accompanies Indra, the storm god.

*Ve - one of ancient Scandinavian gods and, together with Odin and Vili, the son of the primordial pair of giants Bor and Bestla. The three brothers created heaven and earth from the slain body of the primeval being Ymir and built the twelve realms. They also created Ask and Embla, the first pair of humans.

*Veiovis - (Vediovis) is one of the oldest of the Roman gods. He is a god of healing, and was later associated with the Greek Asclepius. He was mostly worshipped in Rome and Bovillae in Latium. On the Capitoline Hill and on the Tiber Island temples were erected in his honor. In spring, goats were sacrificed to avert plagues. Veiovis is portrayed as a young man, holding a bunch of arrows (or lightning bolts) in his hand, and is accompanied by a goat. He is probably based on the Etruscan god Veive.

*Veive - The Etruscan god of revenge. He is portrayed as a young man wearing a laurel wreath and holding arrows in his hand. A goat stands next to him.

*Veltis (Babylonian) - Evil spirit who assaulted St. Margaret.

*Velu mate - ("mother of veli") is the goddess of death and ruler of the realm of the dead. She receives the dead, but the living always try to deceive her - to remain in this world longer . The veli are supposed to be her children, although they are more likely the souls of the dead. She might be taken as a synonym to the Sun in this world (the parallels are between “si saule” 'this sun, this world' and “vinsaule” or “aizsaule” 'that world, the world behind', which is the realm of Velu Mate).

*Venus - The Roman goddess of love and beauty, but originally a vegetation goddess and patroness of gardens and vineyards.

*Verbeia - The Celtic goddess of the river Wharfe (North Yorkshire, England).

*Vercvactor - The Roman god of the first ploughing.

*Verdelet (Unk) - Verdelet was something of a cross between a maitre d' and a transportation coordinator. He was master of ceremonies in Hell, and also shouldered the responsibility of making sure witches on Earth got to their sabbats safely and on time. Demon of the second order.

*Verethragna - The Persian god of victory and the personification of aggressive triumph. God of Vrahran Fire, the most sacred of all fires. It is a combination of 16 fires, most of which belong to those in the metal-working trades. He punishes the evil done by man and demon. Verethragna appears in many shapes: bear, bird of prey, bull, camel, youth, warrior with a golden sword, wind, etc. His appearance as a bird and bear were especially popular. The twentieth day of the month is dedicated to him.

*Verin (Unk) - the demon of impatience.

*Veritas - ("truth") is the Roman goddess of truth. She is a daughter of Saturn.

*Verminus - ("worm-god") is the Roman god of the worms in cattle.

*Verrier - tempts men to disobey by making their necks too stiff to bow to the yoke of obedience. His adversary in Heaven is Saint Bernard.

*Vertumnus - The Roman divinity of seasons, changes and ripening of plant life. He is the patron of gardens and fruit trees. He has the power to change himself into various forms, and used this to gain the favor of the goddess Pomona. Vertumnus' cult was introduced in Rome around 300 BC and a temple was built on the Aventine Hill in 264 BC. The Vertumnalias, observed on August 13, is his festival. A statue of Vertumnus stood at the Vicus Tuscus.

*Vesta - "The Shining One", Roman goddess of the household, the hearth, and domestic matters. She was served by the Vestal Virgins. To be a Vestal virgin was a high honor offered only to those of nobility. Vestal Virgins were imposed with a strict vow of chastity. Should they lose their virginity and break this vow, they would be walled up alive. Only 20 incidents of this punishment actually occuring within over a thousand years were recorded.

*Vetis (Unk) - the temptor of the holy.

*Vica Pota - An ancient Roman goddess of victory. She had a temple located at the base of the Velia.

*Victoria - The Roman personification of Victory, worshipped as a goddess, especially by triumphant generals returning from battle. She was held in higher regard by the Romans then her counterpart Nike by the Greeks and when in 382 AD her statue was removed by the emperor Gratianus there was much resistance in the heathen reactionary circles.

*Vidar - Norse (Scandinavian) god of silence and vengeance. He is the second strongest in his pantheon. At the destruction of the world, Odin will be killed by the wolf Fenrir, and Vidar will avenge his father by killing the wolf with his bare hands. He will press one foot on Fenrir's bottom jaw, and will take hold of his other jaw and tear the wolf apart. He is one of the gods that will rule the new world when it is created. His hall in Asgard is Vidi.

*Viduus - ("divider") is the Roman deity who separates soul from the dead body.

*Vili - In Scandinavian myth, one of the primordial gods, brother of Odin and Ve. The three of them were responsible for the creation of the cosmos, as well as the first humans.

*Vilkacis - (to be translated literally as "wolf's eyes", ‘werewolf’) is usually a malicious creature; a scary being people can turn into. There are particular ways how the people with this curse turn into the wolves and then get back their human appearance. There are particular places, where this is said to have happened. Although mostly malevolent, on occasion it would bring treasures. It belongs to the same lower level of mythological beings as Dievini, Ragana, Pukis and Vadatajs.

*Vinc - Veguaniel, Leontophoron. "Foe of Emmanuel." Appears as a lion or other monster. Can tell true names of other sorcerers & witches. Causes destruction. 3rd hour of the day. Rules 20 chiefs & 200 subalterns. "Ruler of Legions."

*Virbius - Italian god of outlaws and outcasts; the guardian of sanctuaries.

*Viriplaca - The Roman goddess to whom spouses made offering when they had domestic problems.

*Virtus - Roman deification of the virtues. Two temples were erected to the Virtus. The first was Virtue and the second was Honor. They were designed so that you had to first pass through Virtue before you could reach Honor. The pivotal virtues were prudence, temperment, justive, courage, mercy, health, tranquility, devotion, liberty, gaiety, honesty, and modesty.

*Vishnu - a major god in Hinduism and Indian mythology. He is thought as the preserver of the universe while two other major Hindu gods Brahma and Shiva, are regarded respectively, as the creator and destroyer of the universe. The original worship of Vishnu, by the Aryan conquerors of India or the original Dravidian inhabitants is not definitely known. In the ancient Vedas, the body of literature known as the Veda, and sacred literature of the Aryan conquerors, Vishnu is ranked among the lesser gods and is usually associated with the major Vedic god Indra who in the epics and Puranas fights against dragons and demonic forces.

*Visvakarma - The Hindu divine artificer, craftsman and smith.

*Vitumnus - The Roman god who gave life to the child in the mother's womb.

*Vivasvat - The Hindu god of the sun as divinity, also regarded as the architect who built the cities of the gods. His consort is Saranya, and his children are Yama, Yami, Manu, and the Asvins. Visvakarma is another form of Vivasvat.

*Vohu Manah - ("good thought") is one of the Amesha Spentas, and the personification of wisdom. He is the protector of the animal world and is on earth represented by beneficial animals, especially the cow. He takes the souls of the just to Paradise. The eleventh month is dedicated to him. His eternal opponent is the archdemon Aka Manah.

*Voltan - A Mayan god of the earth.

*Voltumna - also known as Veltha, is a chthonic god of the Etruscans, later elevated to the status of supreme god. He is also the patron god of the federation of twelve Etruscan city states. The center of his cult was in Volsini. The Romans named him Vertumnus.

*Volturnus - A river deity associated with the river Volturnus in Campania (Italy), but it could also be an ancient name for the Tiber. The Volturnalia was observed on August 27.

*Volumna - The Roman protective goddess of the nursery.

*Vor - In Norse mythology, the goddess of marriage and contracts from whom nothing could be hidden because she was so wise. She was the goddess of faithfulness between man and woman.

*Vosegus - The Gaulish god of the Vosges Forest in France.

*Vrihaspati - The preceptor of the gods in Hindu myth. He is the guardian of hymns and prayers.

*Vucub Caquix - A Mayan demon of the underworld. He was the father of the giant demons Kabrakan and Zipakna. He considered himself to be the sun, the moon, and the light. For this reckless thought, and for the part he played in the death or their father, the twins Hunahpu and Ixbalangue descended to the underworld and killed him.

*Vulcan - The Roman god of fire, especially destructive fire, and craftsmanship. His forge is located beneath Mount Etna. It is here that he, together with his helpers, forges weapons for gods and heroes. Vulcanus is closely associated with Bona Dea with whom he shared the Volcanalia, observed on August 23. This festival took place during the height of the Mediterranean drought and the period of highest risk of fire. On the banks of the river Tiber, fires were lighted on which living fish were sacrificed. His temples were usually located outside the cities, due to the dangerous nature of fire. In 215 BC his temple on the Circus Flaminius was inaugurated. In Ostia he was the chief god as the protector against fire in the grain storages. He is identified with the Greek Hephaestus.

*Vulturnus - The Roman god of the East Wind, equal to the Greek Eurus.

*Wak - African (Ethiopian) god who dwelled in the clouds. He was supreme and a benefactor god. He kept the heavens at a distance from the earth and ornamented it with stars. When the earth was flat, Wak asked man to build himself a coffin. Man did so and Wak shut him up in it and buried it. For seven years he made fire rain down. This is how the mountains were formed. Wak then danced upon the place where the coffin was buried and man sprang forth, alive. He was sure he had slept for a brief moment only and was shocked to find it had been so long and earth had changed so much; this is why man is awake for most of the day. Eventually man grew tired of living alone. Knowing of man's loneliness, Wak took some of his blood and after four days, the blood turning into a woman whom the man married. Man and woman had 30 children, but man was so ashamed at having had so many that he hid fifteen of them away. Wak was angry at this, and as a result, the children man hid away were turned into animals and demons.

*Wakahiru-me - The Japanese goddess of the rising sun.

*Wang Mu niang-niang - A Chinese goddess, keeper of the peaches of immortality. Her husband is the great god Yu-huang and together they have nine daughters, one in each of the nine heavens, among which the goddess Xi Wang-mu.

*Wata-tsu-mi - A Japanese god of the sea.

*Wei Cheng - The Chinese deity who guards the back door of domestic dwellings and public buildings. A former minister of emperor Tang Tai-zong, Wei Cheng is far less popular as a guardian of doorways then the Men-shen.

*Weland - Norse (Scandinavian) god of smiths and metalworkers. His element is fire.

*Wen-chang - The popular Chinese Taoist god of literature and writing, invoked by scholars to assist them in their labors. He is especially venerated by people who require help with their entrance examinations for an official career. Wen-chang is believed to be the author of extensive literary works, which were revealed to man in various, miraculous ways. In reality, Wen-chang is a constellation of six stars in the vicinity of the Great Bear. It is said that when these stars are bright, literature flourishes. He visits the Earth frequently in human shape. Taoists texts mention seventeen separate existences of the stellar deity on Earth He is represented dressed as a mandarin, holding a wish-fulfilling scepter (ru-yi) in his hand. His companions are Kui-xing and Zhu-yi, the Red Robed One.

*Wepwawet - The ancient Egyptian jackal god of war and the funerary cult. He was a cemetary god at Asyut (Siut). His name means "opener of the ways"; he opened the ways for the armies of the Pharaos and for the spirits of the dead. He was depicted on the shedshed, the standard which led the armies to the battlefields. Wepwawet originated in Upper Egypt, but symbolized the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. He was worshipped as the god of death in Abydos, where he led the processions at the feasts of Osiris. His Greek name is Ophois.

*Were - African creator god, give of life and cause of death. Like Zeus in the mythology of Greece, he punishes evildoers with lightning bolts.

*White Lady - Celtic goddess of death.

*Woden - Germanic war god, a version of the Norse (Scandinavian) Odin but much gentler. Human sacrifices, stabbed to death and then burned, were made in his honor. See also ODIN.

*Wosyet - The Egyptian protector goddess of the young.

*Wu Guan - The king of the fourth Chinese hell, the hell of the Lake of Blood. Here the counterfeiters and cheats are punished. His day is the 18th of the Second Moon.

*Wuni - African creator god and shaper of destiny.