Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Chalmecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
God name "Chamer" | Mayan | A god of death, particularly popular in Guatemala. He was married to Ixtab. Mayan |
God name "Chamer" | Mayan / Chorti, Mesoamerican / eastern Guatemala | God of death. Appears as a skeleton dressed in white. His consort is Xtabai. Attributes include a scythe with a bone blade, probably copied from the traditions of Christian immigrants.... |
Goddess name "Chantico (in the house)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hearth goddess. A household guardian deity personi fied by hearth fires. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
God name "Chaob (carrying off)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | wind god(s). They live in the four cardinal directions and, according to tradition, will bring about the end of the current world with earthquakes and tempests when the last of the Lacandon people dies. They will blow so hard that they blast the monkeys out of the trees. The names of two are identified, Hunaunic in the east and Chikinkuh in the West.... |
"Charis" | Greek | The personification of Grace and beauty, which the Roman poets translate by Gratia and we after them by Grace. Homer, without giving her any other name, describes a Charis as the wife of Hephaestus. Greek |
Goddess name "Charis" | Greek | Minor goddess. The consort of HEPHAIS TOS. Later the name becomes more familiar as the GRATIAE or Graces (Aglaia, Euphrosine and Thalea) who then become the Charites in the Roman pantheon.... |
King name "Charopus" | Greek | Or Charops, bright-eyed or joyful-looking, a surname of Heracles, under which he had a statue near mount Laphystion on the spot where he was believed to have brought forth Cerberus from the lower world. Greek |
King name "Charybdis and Scylla" | Greek | The names of two rocks between Italy and Sicily, and only a short distance from one another. In the midst of the one of these rocks which was nearest to Italy, there dwelt, according to Homer, Scylla, a daughter of Crataeis, a fearful monster, barking like a dog, with twelve feet, six long necks and mouths, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Greek |
Deities name "Chiccan" | Mayan / Chorti, Mesoamerican / eastern Guatemala | Rain gods. Giant reptilian deities whose blood is cold and who evolved from snakes. They form a quartet, each living at the bottom of a deep lake situated in the four cardinal directions. They are believed to churn the waters which rise as clouds. The AH PATNAR UINICOB gods then beat the Rain from the clouds with stone axes.... |
Goddess name "Chicomecohuati" | Aztec / post Mesoamerican | Maize goddess. [Mexico]. Her festival was held in September when a young girl was sacrificed having taken on the role of the deity for a period of time during the celebrations. She was decapitated on a heap of maize fruits and her blood was collected in a large bowl before being poured over a wooden figurine of the goddess. Finally the victim's skin was flayed off and worn by a dancing priest.See also XILONEN.... |
God name "Chicomexochiti" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of painters. Also described as a god of solar pleasure.... |
Goddess name "Chiconahui" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hearth goddess. A household guardian deity personified by hearth fires. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
God name "Chiconahui Itzcuintii-Chantico" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of lapidiaries. Chikara... |
Deities name "Chiconahuiehecati" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the QUETZALCOATL complex.... |
"Chinta-mani aka Divya-ratna" | Hindu | The wish-gem a jewel, said to have belonged to Brahma, which has the power to grant all desires. It is who himself is called by this name. |
"Chione" | Greek | A daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia, and sister of Cleopatra, Zetes, and Calais. She became by Poseidon the mother of Eumolpus, and in order to conceal the event, she threw the boy into the sea; but the child was saved by Poseidon. Greek |
Goddess name "Chlaus Haistic" | Ireland | Ancient Goddess of unknown function who came down to earth as a powerful witch. Ireland |