| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Tana" | Italy | Star goddess who rules over all. Italy |
| God name "Tana'ao" | Polynesian / Marquesas Islands | weather and sea god. A local variation on the Polynesian god TANGAROA, known as a god of winds and a tutelary deity of fishermen.... |
| God name "Tana'oa" | Marquesas Is | God of wind and sea and patron of fishing. Marquesas Is. |
| Goddess name "Tanaquil" | Roman | Goddess of justice Roman |
| Spirit name "Tanara" | Yakut / Siberia | The apotheosis of the sky, a sky spirit |
| Spirit name "Tanara" | Yakut / central Siberia | sky spirit. The apotheosis of the sky.... |
| Spirit name "Tanara Yakut" | Siberia | Apotheosis of the sky, a sky spirit Siberia |
| God name "Tane" | Maori / New Zealand | A god of the woodlands |
| God name "Tane aka Tane Mahuta" | Maori | the god of Forests and of birds. Maori |
| Goddess name "Tane(mahuta)" | Polynesian / including Maori | God of light. One of the children of the prime parents RANGINUI and PAPATUANUKU. Also god of trees, Forests and boat-builders, his consort is the goddess HINEAHU-ONE and he is the father of HINE-ATA-UIRA who descended to the underworld to become the goddess of death, HINE-NUI-TE-PO. In other traditions he is the consort of Hine-Nui-Te-Po, whom he joins each evening when he descends to the underworld. It was he who proposed that his parents should be pushed apart rather than slaughtered. In Maori culture Tanemahuta, like all deities, is represented only by inconspicuous, slightly worked stones or pieces of wood and not by the large totems, which are depictions of ancestors. Also KANE (Hawaiian).... |
| God name "Tane[mahuta]" | Polynesian | A god of light, fertility & the sky |
| Goddess name "Tang" | China | Goddess of mercy and justice. China |
| Deity name "Tanga-tango" | Peruvian | An ancient deity who existed before anything else. Peruvian |
| God name "Tangaroa" | Polynesia | A god of fishing, the ocean & reptiles, the life giver of all |
| Goddess name "Tangaroa" | Polynesia | One of the great gods, the god of the sea. He is a son of Rangi and Papa, sky and earth. His wife, Faumea, was an ocean goddess. Man-killing eels dwelled in her vag***, but she taught Tangaroa how to safely lure them out. Polynesia |
| Deities name "Tangaroa" | Polynesian / including Maori | Sea and creator god. The deity responsible for the oceans (moana) and the fish (ika) within them. In Hawaiian belief he was the primordial being who took the form of a bird and laid an egg on the surface of the primeval waters which, when it broke, formed the earth and sky. He then engendered the god of light, ATEA (cf. TANE). According to Tahitian legend, he fashioned the world inside a gigantic mussel shell. In a separate tradition Tangaroa went fishing and hauled the Tongan group of islands from the depths of the ocean on a hook and line. He is the progenitor of mankind (as distinct from TUMATAUENGA who has authority over mankind). His son Pili married SINA, the tropic bird and they produced five children from whom the rest of the Polynesian race was born. In Maori culture Tangaroa, like all deities, is represented only by inconspicuous, slightly worked stones or pieces of wood and not by the large totems which are depictions of ancestors.... |
| Goddess name "Tangba" | Lobi | earth goddess. Lobi |
"Tangie" | Danish | The water sprite of the Orkneys; from Danish tang (sea-weed), with which it is covered. The tangie sometimes appears in a human form, and sometimes as a little apple-green horse. |
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