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Rakh - (probably from "Strakh" = `fear') Slavic God of fear and unreason.

Ran - "The Ravager", Norse Sea Goddess, Goddess of death for those who perish at sea. She collects drowned people in her net. Vana-Goddess; wife of Aegir. She is unpredictable and malicious.

Rati - Hindu goddess of love and wife of Kama, god of love.

Ratri - Hindu Night goddess. She and her sister Usas, the morning goddess, are the Mothers of Heaven. They follow each other across the sky, but their paths never cross.

Re "Sun" The Egyptian creator god of the sun.

Rhiannon - Believed to be the Welsh counterpart of Gaulish horse goddess Epona. Her son, Pryderi, succeeded his father Pwyll as the ruler of Dyfed and of the other world. She is the goddess of Birds, and enchantress whose music makes men forget everything, she is always accompanied by her birds.

Rod - Slavic God of fertility and family, chiefly concerned with continuation of blood lines and the extention and glorification of clans. He has a number of attendants and servitors, collectively called the Rozhenitsy (sing. Rozhenitsa).

Romi Kumu - Brazilian Goddess of Creation and Amazons was affiliated with the Amazon river and through that the snake. Goddess of Willpower.

Rosmerta - A Celtic goddess of fertility and wealth, whose cult was widely spread in Gaul. She is the wife of the god Esus, but also of the Gaulish Mercury. Her attributes are a cornucopia and a stick with two snakes.

Rudra - Hindu storm and wind god.

Rugievit - West Slavonic A local tutelary, a seven-headed warrior God associated with the South Baltic island of Rugen. See also, Svantavit.

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