| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Tate Oteganaka (mother corn)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | corn goddess. The mother of the Sun god TAYAU.... |
| Goddess name "Tate Oteganaka Huichol" | De | Rain and water goddess who is also the patron of Laguna De Magdalena Mexico |
| Goddess name "Tate Rapawiyema (mother south water)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Rain and water goddess. Similar to TATE KYEWIMOKA, but also the patron goddess of Laguna de Magdalena, where she is believed to take the form of a water lizard.... |
| Goddess name "Tate Velika Vimali" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Sun goddess. Perceived as a young girl or as a royal eagle who holds the world in her talons and guards it. In human form the night sky with its stars are her dress.... |
| Goddess name "Tate Velika Vimali Huichol" | Mexico | Goddess of the Sun perceived as either a young girl or a royal eagle who holds the world in her talons, she guards it Mexico |
| God name "Tatenen" | Egypt | Chthonic vegetation god, the apotheosis of the Nile silt Egypt |
| God name "Tatenen (exalted earth)" | Egypt | Chthonic god. Originates as a vegetation god from Memphis, the apotheosis of the Nile silt which appears after the inundation has subsided. As a vegetation god, he is depicted anthropomorphically with green face and limbs and wearing a crown with plumes subtended by ram's horns. By the time of the Old kingdom (twenty-seventh to twenty-second centuries BC) he is recognized as an emanation of the god PTAH, involved in the creation process and mentioned on the Shabaka Stone (Memphis), where he is described as father of the gods and is perceived as an androgynous being. He also protects the royal dead.... |
| God name "Tatevali (our grandfather)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of fire. Also a deity of life and health, perceived as a shaman who prophesies and cures disease. He is the tutelary god of shamans and is said to have built the first Huichol temple with the god TATOSI. His animals include the macaw, royal eagle, cardinal bird, puma and opossum.... |
| God name "Tatevali Huichol" | Mexico | Not only the deity of life and health, Tutelary god of shamans, he is the god of fire Mexico |
| God name "Tatosi (great grandfather deer tail)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of fire. A deity regarded as the son of TATEVALI, having been created from the plumes of his father, but also the chief god of deer. His sacred animal is the white-tailed hawk. Also Mara Kwari.... |
"Taurocephalus" | Greek | A surname of Dionysus in the Orphic mysteries. It also occurs as a surname of rivers and the ocean, who were symbolically represented as bulls, to indicate their fertilising effect upon countries. Greek |
| Goddess name "Taurt" | Egypt | Rert or Rertu, hippopotamus goddess mentioned in the Judgment scene from The Egyptian Book of the Dead called the Eater of the Dead - the Devourer of the Unjustified. Egypt |
"Tawhaki" | Polynesia | A semi-supernatural being åśśociated with lightning and thunder. Polynesia |
| God name "Tawhirimatea" | Maori | God of winds. Maori |
| Deities name "Tawhirimatea" | Polynesian / including Maori | God of winds. One of the children of the prime parents RANGINUI and PAPATUANUKU. He was uniquely opposed to the separation of his mother and father, sky and earth, at the time of the creation of the cosmos, and in consequence spends his time haråśśing and troubling mankind. In Maori culture Papatuanuku, 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.... |
| God name "Tayau (father sun)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Sun god. According to tradition, he was created by the ancient shamans, who threw the youthful son of the corn mother TATE OTEGANAKA into an oven in full ceremonial attire. He traveled underground and emerged in the east as the Sun. In late May, the Huichol sacrifice a sheep and a turkey in a ritual fire, after which they sing all night until Sunrise. Also Tau; Taverik.... |
| God name "Tecciztecatl (conch shell lord)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon god. In cosmogony, when on the fifth day of creation the gods sat in judgment to elect the new Sun god, NANAHUATL and Tecciztecatl cremated themselves in the sacred fire. The heart of Nanahuatl ascended to become the new Sun and that of Tecciztecatl became the moon. Tradition suggests that Nanahuatl is diseased and impoverished but of great courage, while Tecciztecatl is wealthy and a coward. Alternatively, the pair are sons of QUETZALCOATL and of TLALOC and were hurled into the fire by their fathers. Also one of the group clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex. NOTE: eventually all the gods sacrificed them selves for mankind.... |
| Goddess name "Tefnut" | Egypt | Primordial goddess of moisture. According to the genealogy laid down by the priests of Heliopolis, Tefnut was created out of the breath or spit of the creator Sun god ATUM. She is the sister of SU, god of the air, and the mother of GEB and NUT. Her main cult sanctuary was at Heliopolis. Tefnut, like Su, can become one of several manifestations of the eye of RE in which case she appears as a lion, or in human form but with a leonine head. According to the Pyramid Texts, she creates pure water from her vag***. In a different context she takes the form of a snake encircling a scepter.... |
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