| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Sparti" | s | the sown men; the armed men who sprang from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus, and were believed to be the ancestors of the five oldest families at Thebes. |
"Staphylus" | Greek | A son of Dionysus and Ariadne, or of Theseus and Ariadne, was one of the Argonauts (Apollodorus i). By Chrysothemis he became the father of three daughters, Molpadia, Rhoeo, and Parthenos. Rhoeo was beloved by Apollo, and Staphylus, believing that she was with child by some one else, locked her up in a chest and threw her into the sea. Greek |
| Goddess name "Syamatara" | Buddhist | Goddess, believed to be incarnated as the Nepali princess. Buddhist |
"Tacita" | Greek | the silent, one of the Camenae, whose worship was believed to have been introduced at Rome by Numa. Greek |
| God name "Tajin" | Totonac / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Generic title for a group of Rain gods. Worshiped by a modern tribe and believed to reside in the ruins of El Tajin, a clåśśic Veracruz site whence they control the thunder clouds.See also TLALOC.... |
| Goddess name "Tamti" | Assyrian | Tamtu. The personified sea,the primordial humidity, personified as a goddess equivalent to Belit, the nature Mother. Assyrian |
| Deities name "Tangaroa" | Polynesian / including Maori | Sea and creator god. The deity responsible for the oceans (moana) and the fish (ika) within them. In Hawaiian belief he was the primordial being who took the form of a bird and laid an egg on the surface of the primeval waters which, when it broke, formed the earth and sky. He then engendered the god of light, ATEA (cf. TANE). According to Tahitian legend, he fashioned the world inside a gigantic mussel shell. In a separate tradition Tangaroa went fishing and hauled the Tongan group of islands from the depths of the ocean on a hook and line. He is the progenitor of mankind (as distinct from TUMATAUENGA who has authority over mankind). His son Pili married SINA, the tropic bird and they produced five children from whom the rest of the Polynesian race was born. In Maori culture Tangaroa, 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 "Tapio" | Pre - Christian Finnish | Hunting god. Believed to inhabit Forests and invoked before a hunt.... |
"Targitaus" | Greek | A son of Zeus by a daughter of Borysthenes, was believed to be the ancestor of all the Scythians. Greek |
| 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 "Taurica" | Greece | the Taurian goddess, commonly called Artemis. Her image was believed to have been carried from Tauris by Orestes and Iphigenia, and to have been conveyed to Brauron, Sparta, or Aricia. The worship of this Taurian goddess, who was identified with Artemis and Iphigenia, was carried on with orgiastic rites and human sacrifices, and seems to have been very ancient in Greece. |
"Thallo" | Greek | One of the Attic Home, who was believed to grant prosperity to the young shoots of plants, and was also invoked in the political oath which the citizens of Athens had to take. Greek |
"Thebe" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Prometheus, from whom the Boeotian Thebes was believed to have derived its name. |
| God name "Thero" | Sparta | 1. The nurse of Ares, from whom he was believed to have received the surname of Thereitas, though Pausanias thinks that this name arose from the fierceness of the god. A sanctuary of Ares Thereitas stood on the road from Sparta to Therapne, with a statue which the Dioscuri were said to have brought from Colchis. |
"Thessalus" | Greek | 1. A son of Haemon, from whom Thessaly was believed to have received its name. |
| God name "Thoth" | Egypt | Tchehuti or Tehuti. Author of the Book of the Dead was believed by the Egyptians to have been the heart and mind of the Creator, who was in very early times in Egypt called by the natives "Pautti," and by foreigners "Ra." Thoth was also the "tongue" of the Creator, and he at all times voiced the will of the great god, and spoke the words which commanded every being and thing in heaven and in earth to come into existence. His words were almighty and once uttered never remained without effect. |
| Nymph name "Thriae" | Greek | The name of three prophetic nymphs on Mount Parnåśśus, by whom Apollo was reared, and who were believed to have invented the art of prophecy by means of little stones, which were thrown into an urn. Greek |
"Unicorn" | Europian | According to a belief once popular, the unicorn by dipping its horn into a liquid could detect whether or not it contained poison. In the designs for gold and silver plate made for the Emperor Rudolph II. by Ottavio Strada is a cup on which a unicorn stands as if to essay the liquid. |
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