Dictionary Of God And Godedesses

Buriyas 57Buluc ChabtanGod of war. Mayan (classical Mesoamerican)[Mexico]. Associated with human sacrifice anddepicted with a characteristic black line encirclingthe eye and extending down the cheek.Also God F.BumbaCreator god. Boshongo (Bantu) [southern Africa].The progenitor of the world out of chaos. Whenhe experienced stomachache he vomited theearth, sun, moon and, finally, all living things,including mankind.BuriArchetypal god. Nordic (Icelandic). According toSnorri, one of two primordial beings. Ymir wasformed from the misty void of Ginnungagap, andBuri emerged from the blocks of salty ice onwhich the cosmic cow Audhumla fed. He had ason, BOR, who engendered the AESIR godsOTHIN, VILI and VE. Also Bori.BuriyasTutelary war god. Kassite [Iran]. He was invokedby the Kassite armies which overthrew Babyloniain the sixteenth century BC.