Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Chokmah" | Spain | Goddess of order and wisdom Spain |
Goddess name "Chup" | Chumash | Goddess of the wind and Rain Chumash |
Goddess name "Chup Kamui" | Ainu | Goddess of war and the Sun Japan / Ainu |
Goddess name "Cihuacoatl-Quilaztli" | Aztec / Mesomerican / Mexico | Creator goddess. Using a magical vessel, she grinds bone fragments obtained from previous generations of mankind in earlier world ages into a powder. The gods then commit self-sacrifice, allowing their blood to drip into the vessel. From the resulting mix, the human race of the fifth Sun is formed.... |
Spirit name "Cihuateto" | Aztec | These are women that die in childbirth, gain eternal life & become spirits that accompany the Sun |
King name "Cinyras" | Greek | A famous Cyprian hero. According to the common tradition, he was a son of Apollo by Paphos, king of Cyprus, and priest of the Paphian Aphrodite, which latter office remained hereditary in his family, the Cinyradae. Greek |
God name "Cizin (stench)" | Mayan / Yucatec / other tribes, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. The most important death god in the Mayan cultural area. Said to live in Metnal, the Yucatec place of death, and to burn the souls of the dead. He first burns the mouth and åñuś and, when the soul complains, douses it with water. When the soul complains of this treatment, he burns it again until there is nothing left. It then goes to the god Sicunyum who spits on his hands and cleanses it, after which it is free to go where it chooses. Attributes of Cizin include a fleshless nose and lower jaw, or the entire head may be depicted as a skull. Spine and ribs are often showing. He wears a collar with death eyes between lines of hair and a long bone hangs from one earlobe. His body is painted with black and particularly yellow spots (the Mayan color of death).... |
Goddess name "Clementia" | Roman | Minor goddess. Generally invoked to protect the common man against the emperor's absolute use of power. Under Hadrian the term cdementia temporum (mildness of the times) came into common usage.... |
"Clodones" | Greek | There were revels in Parnåśśus, in Phocis, Messenia, Arcadia, even Sparta. The festivals were held on mountains, with blazing torches, in dark Winter nights. The votaries were in large part women, and were known by many names,--Maenads, Thyiads, Clodones, Mimallones, Båśśarides, etc. They were clothed in fawn skins, carried thyrsi and in their ecstasies used to hunt wild animals, tear them in pieces, and sometimes eat them raw. Greek |
Goddess name "Coatrischie" | Cuba / Taino | Goddess of water, winds, and storms. Cuba / Taino |
Goddess name "Cocha" | Peru | Goddess of Rain. Peru |
God name "Cocidius" | Britain | A major cult centre of this Hunter god in Britain was at Bewcastle in Čú𝔪bria, known in Roman times as Fanum Cocidi or 'The Temple of Cocidius'. |
God name "Cocijo" | Mexico | Rain god Zapotec / Mexico |
God name "Cocijo" | Zapotec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Rain god. Known to have been worshiped by the Monte Alban culture of Zapotec-speaking peoples in the Valley of Oaxaca.... |
God name "Col" | Sudan | Rain and thunderstorms god Sudan |
God name "Col (black one)" | Nuer / Sudan | Rain god. He brings Rain and thunderstorms. Souls of people killed by lightning have been described as colwic. Also Chol.... |
God name "Col/ Chol" | Nuer / Sudan | A Rain & thunderstorms god |
"Conisalus" | Greek | A daemon, who together with Orthanes and Tychon appeared in the train of Priapus. Greek |