| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Cao Guo-jiu" | Taoist / Chinese | Immortal being. One of the eight immortals of Taoist mythology, he was once a mortal being who achieved immortality through his lifestyle. The tutelary god of actors. Attributes include musical rattles or castanets.See also BA XIAN.... |
"Changeling" | Greek | A child, usually stupid and ugly, supposed to have been left by fairies in exchange for one taken. Sometimes, it is an old fairy or the båśtåřd children of water-nixies and human beings whom they have dragged under the sea. Hartland, Science of Fairy Tales |
| Hero name "Chederles" | Moslem | A hero who saved a virgin being attacked by a huge dragon. Because he drank the water of Immortality he is still living to render aid in war to any who invoke him. Moslem |
| God name "Chhene" | Isoko / southern Nigeria, West Africa | Creator god. An abstract being who is embodied by a mediator in the form of a sacred wooden totem, the Oyise. The god has no temples or priests.... |
| 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.... |
"Chronos" | Greek | The Protogenos of time and the very first being to emerge at creation self-formed. Greek |
"Clanis" | Greek | The name of two mythical beings mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses. (xii) Greek |
| Goddess name "Coca-Mama" | South American Indian / Peru | Goddess of the coca plant. Minor goddess who oversees the harvest of the coca crop. Models of the deity were made from the leaves of the plant and kept for a year before being burned in a ritual to ensure a good coca harvest.... |
| Hero name "Cyamites" | Greek | The hero of beans, a mysterious being, who had a small sanctuary on the road from Athens to Eleusis. Greek |
| King name "Dactyls" | Greek | The Dactyls of mount Ida in Phrygia, fabulous beings to whom the discovery of iron and the art of working it by means of fire was ascribed. Their name Dactyls, that is, Fingers, is accounted for in various ways; by their number being five or ten, or by the fact of their serving Rhea just as the fingers serve the hand, or by the story of their having lived at the foot of mount Ida. Greek |
"Daiomon" | Greek | Good or malevolent supernatural beings. Greek |
| Spirit name "Dakini" | Buddhist | A female being, generally of volatile temperament, who acts as a muse for spiritual practice. Buddhist |
| Demon name "Daktyloi" | Greek | These are the demonic beings discovered the art of working in metal |
| Demon name "Danavas" | India | Danava. An ancient name for demons. Half Divine / half demonic beings. India |
"Daphnaea and Daphnaeus" | Greek | Surnames of Artemis and Apollo respectively, derived from a laurel, which was sacred to Apollo. In the case of Artemis it is uncertain why she bore that surname, and it was perhaps merely an allusion to her statue being made of laurel-wood. Greek |
"Daramulum" | Australia | Lunar being and mediator between the creator and humans. Australia |
| God name "Daramulum" | Australian aboriginal | Creator god. Otherwise known as Gayandi he is the son of BAIAME and BIRRAHGNOOLOO and is worshiped principally by the Wiradyuri and Kamilaroi groups of aborigines in the southeast of Australia, who regard him as an intermediary between his father, the supreme being, and the human race. To an extent this role may have developed through Christian missionary influence.... |
| Demon name "Delhan" | Arabic | An ostrich riding demoniacal being who inhabits the islands of the seas who eats the flesh of shipwrecked seamen. Arabic |
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