Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Candybus" | Greek | A son of Deucalion, from whom Candyba, a town in Lycia, was believed to have received its name. Greek |
King name "Canens" | Greek | A nymph, wife of Picus, king of the Laurentes. When Circe had changed Picus into a bird, Canens lamented him so greatly that she pined away. Greek |
"Canethus" | Greek | Canethus two mythical personages, one a son of Lycaon, and the second the son of Atlas and father of Canthus in Euboea, from whom a mountain in Euboea near Chalcis derived its name. |
"Canidia" | Greek | A Neapolitan hetaira beloved by Horace but when she deserted him, he revenged himself upon her by holding her up to contempt as an old sorceress. Greek |
"Cankilikkaruppan" | Hindu | His only claims upon the affection of the populace consisted in the prodigal magnificence displayed in the orgies in honour of his brother and himself. These appear to have transcended in fantastic splendour all previous exhibitions. Hindu |
God name "Cankilikkaruppan (the black man of the chain)" | Hindu - Dravidian / Tamil | Local god. Worshiped in southern India.... |
Deities name "Canola" | Ireland | Believed to be one of the oldest of the Ireland deities. Ireland |
Deities name "Canola" | Ireland | One of the oldest of the Irish deities, invented the harp from the sinews of a gutted whale. Ireland |
God name "Canopus" | Egyptian | The Egyptian god of water. The Chaldeans worshipped fire, and sent all the other gods a challenge, which was accepted by a priest of Canopus. The Chaldeans lighted a vast fire round the god Canopus, when the Egyptian deity spouted out torrents of water and quenched the fire, thereby obtaining the triumph of water over fire. |
"Cao Guo Jiu" | Chinese | One of the Chinese Ba Xian, he is also the patron saint of actors and actresses. |
God name "Cao Guo-jiu" | Taoist / Chinese | Immortal being. One of the eight immortals of Taoist mythology, he was once a mortal being who achieved immortality through his lifestyle. The tutelary god of actors. Attributes include musical rattles or castanets.See also BA XIAN.... |
Goddess name "Caolainn" | Origin | Goddess who was the guardian of a magical well in County Roscommon in western Ireland Her myth is the origin of the 'wishing well' |
God name "Capakan" | Maya | The god of earthquakes & mountains |
King name "Capricorn" | Roman | the centaur archer. Capricornus is the tenth, or, strictly speaking, the eleventh sign of the zodiac. (Dec. 21-Jan. 20.) According to clåśśic mythology, Capricorn was Pan, who, from fear of the great Typhon, changed himself into a goat, and was made by Jupiter one of the signs of the zodiac. Roman |
"Caraculiambo" | Spain | The giant that Don Quixote intended should kneel at the feet of Dulcinea. (Cervantes: Don Quixote.) |
Goddess name "Carcika (repetitive chant)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. Color: red. Attributes: cup and knife.... |
Goddess name "Cardea" | Roman | A goddess of door hinges |
Goddess name "Carika" | Buddhist | the deceiver Goddess of the repetitive chant. Buddhist |