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Black God (other) , a 1978 Nigerian-Brazilian drama film by Ola Balogun
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Black God may refer to: * ''Black God'' (manga), a seinen manga written by Lim Dall-young *Black God (Navajo mythology), the Navajo god of fire and creator of the stars *Chernobog, the Slavic god of bad fate *Krishna or Shyam ( in Sanskrit), a Hindu god *Kali or Shyama (), a Hindu goddess *Karuppu Sami (), regional Hindu god See also *Shyama (other) *Shyam, an Indian male given name *Krishna (other) *Kali (other) *Black Goddess ''Black Goddess'' () is a 1978 Nigerian-Brazilian film written and directed by Ola Balogun. It stars a largely Brazilian cast that include Sonya Santos, Zózimo Bulbul, Léa Garcia, and Jorge Coutinho. The film is set in both the eighteenth ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black God (manga)
is a Japanese-Korean manga series written by Dall-Young Lim and illustrated by Park Sung-woo. Square Enix published the manga in Japan's bi-monthly seinen magazine ''Young Gangan''. The story is initially set in modern-day Tokyo, then changes to the island of Okinawa in the middle of the story. The word "Black" in the title refers to the character , as it means black in Japanese. "God" in the title refers to the fact that Kuro is a superhuman, or "Tera Guardian". In France and other French-speaking countries and territories, the manga goes under the name ''Kurokami: Black God''. The manga is created entirely by a Korean manhwa team led by both Lim and Park. They would occasionally make fun of the fact that none of them were fluent in Japanese in omake segments drawn at the end of each manga volume. ''Black God'' was among four manga titles licensed by Yen Press along with ''Zombie-Loan'', ''Alice on Deadlines'' and ''Spiral: The Bonds of Reasoning'' when it was announced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black God (Navajo Mythology)
{{short description, God in Navajo mythology According to one version of the Navajo creation story, Black God is first encountered by First Man and First Woman on the Yellow (third) world."Navajo Creation Story." Navajo Legends. Web. . Black God is, first and foremost, a fire god. He is the inventor of the fire drill and was the first being to discover the means by which to generate fire.Washington, Matthews. The Night Chant, A Navaho Ceremony. New York: American Musiem, 1902. Print. He is also attributed to the practice of witchcraft.Levy, Jerrold. In the Beginning: The Navajo Genesis. U of California, 1998. 79-93. Print. Black God is not portrayed in the admirable, heroic fashion of other Navajo Gods. Instead, he is imagined as old, slow and apparently helpless. Other times he is imagined as a “a moody, humorless trickster” who “passes himself off as poor so that people will be generous to him.” Appearance Black God has a crescent moon on his forehead, a fullmoon for a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chernobog
Chernobog ( "Black God") and Belobog ( "White God") are an alleged pair of Polabian deities. Chernobog appears in Helmold's ''Chronicle'' as a god of misfortune worshipped by the Wagri and Obodrites, while Belobog is not mentioned – he was constructed in opposition to Chernobog. Both gods also appear in later sources, but they are not considered reliable. Researchers do not agree on the status of Chernobog and Belobog: many scholars recognize the authenticity of these theonyms and explain them, for example, as gods of good and evil; on the other hand, many scholars believe that they are pseudo-deities, and Chernobog may have originally meant "bad fate", and was later associated with the Christian devil. Sources In Latin records, this theonym is noted as and . The 12th-century German monk and chronicler Helmold, who accompanied the Christianization missions to the Elbe Slavs, describes in his '' Chronicle of the Slavs'' the cult of Chernobog: Belobog does not appear i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishna
Krishna (; Sanskrit language, Sanskrit: कृष्ण, ) is a major deity in Hinduism. He is worshipped as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and also as the Supreme God (Hinduism), Supreme God in his own right. He is the god of protection, compassion, tenderness, and love; and is widely revered among Hindu divinities. Krishna's birthday is celebrated every year by Hindus on Krishna Janmashtami according to the lunisolar calendar, lunisolar Hindu calendar, which falls in late August or early September of the Gregorian calendar. The anecdotes and narratives of Krishna's life are generally titled as ''Krishna Līlā''. He is a central figure in the ''Mahabharata'', the ''Bhagavata Purana'', the ''Brahma Vaivarta Purana,'' and the ''Bhagavad Gita'', and is mentioned in many Hindu philosophy, Hindu philosophical, Hindu theology, theological, and Hindu mythology, mythological texts. They portray him in various perspectives: as a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali
Kali (; , ), also called Kalika, is a major goddess in Hinduism, primarily associated with time, death and destruction. Kali is also connected with transcendental knowledge and is the first of the ten Mahavidyas, a group of goddesses who provide liberating knowledge. Of the numerous Hindu goddesses, Kali is held as the most famous. She is the preeminent deity in the Hindu tantric and the Kalikula worship traditions, and is a central figure in the goddess-centric sects of Hinduism as well as in Shaivism. Kali is chiefly worshipped as the Divine Mother, Mother of the Universe, and Divine feminine energy. The origins of Kali can be traced to the pre-Vedic and Vedic era goddess worship traditions in the Indian subcontinent. Etymologically, the term ''Kali'' refers to one who governs time or is black. The first major appearance of Kali in the Sanskrit literature was in the sixth-century CE text '' Devi Mahatmya''. Kali appears in many stories, with the most popular one bein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karuppu Sami
Karuppusamy, also known as Karuppu or Karuppannaswamy(Tamil: கருப்பண்ணசுவாமி Malayalam: കറുപ്പണ്ണസാമി ),() is a folk God in Tamil Nadu, popular among the social groups of Tamil Nadu and Kerala and also Sri Lanka. He is one of 21 guardian deities of Ayyanar Aiyanar (, ) is a Village deities of South India, Tamil folk deity venerated in South India and Sri Lanka. His worship is prevalent amongst rural Tamils, Tamil people. Some studies suggest that Ayyanar may have also been worshipped in Southeast ..., and is one of 21 guardian deities in Dravidian folk religion. Temples of Karuppaswamy Karuppu Samy temples are found in outside of villages. Whole villages contribute to maintenance of Hindu temple, temples. These temples do not have gopurams and have large statues of Hindu deities, deities with large eyes, holding weapons like Bow and arrow, bows and arrows, swords, sickles and other weapons. There are statues of eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shyama (other)
Shyama may refer to: * Shyama or Kali, the Hindu goddess * Shyam, an epithet of the Hindu god Krishna * Shyama (Jain monk) ( 247 BC–151 BC), Jain monk * Shyama (Hindi actress) (1935–2017), Indian actress in Hindi films * Shyama (Malayalam actress) (?–1996), Indian actress in Malayalam and Tamil films * Shama Dulari ( 1940s–1950s), Indian actress and dancer, often confused with the above Hindi actress * ''Shyama'' (film), a 1986 Indian Malayalam-language film See also *Sham (other) Sham may refer to: Arabic use * Al-Sham or Shām (شام), the Arabic term for the Greater Syria region, known in English as the Levant or the eastern Mediterranean, which includes the modern countries of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Cyprus ... * Shaam (other) * Shama (other) * Shyam, an Indian male given name * Black God (other), literal translation of Shyama and Shyam {{hndis, Shyama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shyam
Shyam is a name of Krishna and an Indian masculine given name and surname. Notable people with this name include: ;Shyam *Shyam (actor) (1920–1951), Indian Hindi film actor *Shyam (composer) (born 1937), an Indian music composer from Kerala *Shyam Benegal (1934–2024), Indian film director *Shyam Satardekar (born 1966), Indian politician *Karam Shyam (born 1962), Indian politician ;Syam *Syam Pushkaran (born 1984), Indian scriptwriter *Syam Sudhakar (born 1983), Malayalam-language poet See also * Shyam (film) ''Shyam'' (''Black'') is a 2016 Indian Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry ( ..., 2016 Indian Malayalam-language film * Sam (given name) * {{given name, type=both Indian given names Surnames of Indian origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishna (other)
Krishna is a Hindu deity. Krishna may also refer to: Hinduism The name comes from a Sanskrit word (कृष्ण, ''kṛṣṇa'') that means 'black' or 'dark blue'. Certain other figures within Hinduism also have names transliterated as Krishna. These include (with added phonetic spellings); * Vyasa - (the dark one born on an island) * Draupadi - , कृष्णा, Krishnaa (the dark one the princess of Panchala, feminine form) * Arjuna - he is called Kṛṣṇa in one instance toward the end of his life * Durga - she is called in the Virataparva (feminine form) * Krishnaism Related * Krishna Janmashtami, a Hindu festival. * Krishna Yajurveda (Black Yajurveda), one of the two ''samhitas'' (collections) of Yajurveda, Hindu religious text * ''Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead'', also known as '' book'' * The Krishnas, International Society for Krishna Consciousness (popularly called the "Hare Krishnas"), a Gaudiya Vaishnava religious movement ** Hare Krishna (m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kali (other)
Kali is a Hindu goddess. Kali may also refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Film and television * Kali (2016 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film * Kali (2024 film), an Indian Telugu-language film * "Kali", a two-part episode of ''Sanctuary'' (season 2) * Kali Gaikwad, a fictional arms dealer in the 2023 Indian Hindi-language film ''Jawan'', played by Vijay Sethupathi Radio stations * KALI (AM), a radio station in California, U.S. * KALI-FM, a Vietnamese language radio station in California, U.S. * KMRB, KALI until June 1999, a radio station in California, U.S. Other uses in arts, entertainment and media * Kali (character), in the 1911 novel ''In Desert and Wilderness'' * Kali (chhand), a genre of Punjabi poetry and singing * Kali (poem), a 1990 poem by Rukmini Bhaya Nair * Kali (restaurant), a Michelin-starred restaurant in Hollywood, California * Kali Theatre, a British theatre company * ''Kali'' (Tyeb Mehta), a 1997 painting * Kali, an asteroid in Arthur C. Clar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
