| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Chloris" | Greek | A daughter of the Theban Amphion and Niobe. According to an Argive tradition, her original name was Meliboea, and she and her brother Amyclas were the only children of Niobe that were not killed by Apollo and Artemis. But the terror of Chloris at the death of her brothers and sisters was so great, that she turned perfectly white, and was therefore called Chloris. Greek |
"Christmas Decorations" | Christian | The great feast of Saturn was held in December, when the people decorated the temples with such green things as they could find. The Christian custom is the same but transferred Jesus. The holly or holy-tree is called Christ's-thorn in Germany and Scandinavia, from its use in church decorations and its putting forth its berries about Christmas time. The early Christians gave an emblematic turn to the custom, referring to the "righteous branch," and justifying the custom from Isaiah lx. 13- "The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee; the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary." |
| God name "Chrysaor" | Greek | 1. A son of Poseidon and Medusa, and consequently a brother of Pegasus. When Perseus cut off the head of Medusa, Chrysaor and Pegasus sprang forth from it. Chrysaor became by Callirrhoe the father of the three-headed Geryones and Echidna. ( Theogony of Hesiod 280) 2. The god with the golden sword or arms. In this sense it is used as a surname or attribute of several divinities, such as Apollo, Artemis and Demeter. We find Chrysaoreus as a surname of Zeus with the same meaning, under which he had a temple in Caria, which was a national sanctuary, and the place of meeting for the national åśśembly of the Carians. Greek |
"Chrysothemis" | Greek | There are four mythical females of this name, and one male, a son of Carmanor, the priest of Apollo at Tarrha in Crete. He is said to have been a poet, and to have won the first victory in the Pythian games by a hymn on Apollo. Greek |
| Goddess name "Chthonia" | Greek | May mean the subterraneous, or the goddess of the earth, that is, the protectress of the fields, whence it is used as a surname of infernal divinities, such as Hecate, Nyx and Melinoe, but especially of Demeter. Greek |
| God name "Chul Tatic Chites Vaaneg (holy father, creator of man)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. Thought to be the Mayan name of the Christian god.... |
| God name "Chul Tatic Chites Vaneg" | Maya | A creator god thought by some to be the name of the Christian God |
| Deities name "Cipactonal" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex.... |
| Nymph name "Cirrha" | Greek | A nymph from whom the town of Cirrha in Phocis was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
| God name "Cit Chac Coh" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of war. Identified as a red puma.... |
| King name "Cithaeron" | Greek | A mythical king in Boeotia, from whom mount Cithaeron was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
| Deities name "Citlalatonac (glowing star)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex. His consort is CITLALICUE. Between them they created the stars of the night sky.... |
| Goddess name "Citlalicue (her skirt is a star)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator goddess. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the Ometeotl complex. Her consort is Citlalatonac. Between them they created the stars of the night sky.... |
| 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).... |
"Clanis" | Greek | The name of two mythical beings mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses. (xii) Greek |
"Clarius" | Greek | A surname of Apollo, derived from his temple at Claros in Asia Minor. Greek |
| 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.... |
"Cleolla" | Greek | According to Hesiod, Catalogues of Women, Pleisthenes was a son of Atreus and Aerope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes by Cleolla the daughter of Dias. Greek |
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