Deity Post

Here's a small list of the aboriginal spirits worshiped by the ancient Tibetan people.

It is important to remember that, much like other Big-12 religions who demonized (literally) the animist gods of their respective peoples, the spirits on this list under Lamaism and by proxy, Buddhism, became "evil spirits"

Although, it is interesting to note that the word "Sri" in sanskrit denotes Wisdom and is often applied to various deities such as "Sri Durga Ma" in India and Sri Tara in Tibet and Nepal.

dMu

bDud,

Klu,

gNyan,

Sa-bdag,

Sri,

bTsan.

Yeti

Yama

Ch'o-je

gShen-rab

If you are interested in Tibetan Shamanic/Animist practices;
I suggest you start here;

http://bonreligion.tribe.net/thread/770694a8-63c0-4e1b-8223-d7624baf4f11

wow tibetan shamanism. cool thanks

Anytime. Make sure you contribute to the deity post too :)

will do!

HYPNOS (or Hypnus) was the god or spirit (daimon) of sleep. He resided in Erebos, the land of eternal darkness, beyond the gates of the rising sun. From there he rose into the sky each night in the train of his mother Nyx (Night). Hypnos was often paired with his twin brother Thanatos (Peaceful Death), and the Oneiroi (Dreams) were his brothers or sons.
Hypnos was depicted as a young man with wings on his shoulders or brow. His attributes included either a horn of sleep-inducing opium, a poppy-stem, a branch dripping water from the river Lethe (Forgetfulness), or an inverted torch.
His Roman equivalent was Somnus or Sopor.

THANATOS (or Thanatus) was the god or daimon of non-violent death. His touch was gentle, likened to that of his twin brother Hypnos (Sleep). Violent death was the domain of Thanatos' blood-craving sisters, the Keres, spirits of slaughter and disease.
Thanatos plays a prominent role in two myths. Once when he was sent to fetch Alkestis to the underworld, he was driven off by Herakles in a fight. Another time he was captured by the criminal Sisyphos who trapped him in a sack so as to avoid death.
In Greek vase painting Thanatos was depicted as a winged, bearded older man, or more rarely as a beardless youth. He often appears in a scene from the Iliad, opposite his brother Hypnos (Sleep) carrying off the body of Sarpedon. In Roman sculptural reliefs he was portrayed as a youth holding a down-turned torch and wreath or butterfly (symbolsing the soul of the dead).

NYX was the goddess of the night, one of the ancient Protogenoi (first-born elemental gods). In the cosmogony of Hesiod she was born of Air (Khaos), and breeding with Darkness (Erebos) produced Light (Aither) and Day (Hemera), first components of the primeval universe. Alone, she spawned a brood of dark spirits, including the three Fates, Sleep, Death, Strife and Pain.
Nyx was a primeval goddess usually represented as simply the substance of night: a veil of dark veil of mist drawn forth from the underworld which blotted out the light of Aither (shining upper atmosphere). Her opposite number was Hemera (Day), who scattered the mists of night, or Eos, the goddess of the dawn.
In ancient art Nyx was portrayed as a either a winged goddess or charioteer, sometimes crowned with an aureole of dark mist.

ahhh not contributing!! sorry

its ok just make up for it! ^^

.... one day...

ill be less busy next year, can you wait till then??? :P

i think so

sweetness