| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Demon name "Svyatogor" | Slavic | A hero who fought the demon nightingale, a bird-headed human whose weapons were hurricanes. Slavic |
| God name "Tane aka Tane Mahuta" | Maori | the god of Forests and of birds. Maori |
| 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 "Tango" | Hervey is | A god of virgin birth, kinda |
| King name "Tarchetius" | Roman | A. mythical king of Alba, who in some traditions is connected with the founders of Rome. Once a phallus was seen rising above one of his flocks. In compliance with an oracle he ordered one of his daughters to approach the phallus; but she sent one of her maid servants, who became pregnant, and gave birth to the twins Romulus and Remus. Roman |
| 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.... |
| Goddess name "Taueret" | Egypt | Goddess of fertility, rebirth, justice, pregnancy and childbirth Egypt |
| Goddess name "Taweret" | Egypt | The hippopotamus goddess & protective deity of childbirth |
| Goddess name "Teteoinnan-Toci" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Goddess of midwives. Known locally in the Valley of Mexico and invoked by women in childbirth. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex.... |
| Goddess name "Tezcacoac" | Aztec | She is a birth goddess |
| Goddess name "Tezcacoac Ayopechtli (mirror serpent tortoise bench)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Birth goddess. An aspect of XOCHIQUETZAL. One of the group clåśśed as the TETEOINNAN complex.... |
| Goddess name "Thakur Deo" | Etruscan | Goddess of childbirth Etruscan |
| Goddess name "Thalna" | Etruscan | Goddess of childbirth. Depicted as a youthful woman, often åśśociated with the sky god TIN.... |
| Goddess name "Thesan" | Etruscan | Goddess of the dawn. Also invoked at childbirth, since she brings new life into the world each day with her light.... |
| Goddess name "Thoeris" | Egypt | Goddess and protectress of women in childbirth. Egypt |
| Deities name "Tiki" | Polynesian / including Maori | Creator god. One of the children of RANGINUI and PAPATUANUKU who created mankind. In some Polynesian traditions he is represented as the first man, akin to Adam. The word is also incorporated in tikiwananga or god stick, which describes the wooden or stone images of deities that are usually minimally worked and stand about 19.5 inches tall. Only thirty or so examples of these are known, most having been destroyed by Christian missions. The celebrated large Maori totems are depictions of ancestors who appear as human / bird or reptile hybrids. Also Ki'i (Hawaiian).... |
| Goddess name "Tin" | Etruscan | sky god. His attribute is a bunch of lightning flashes and he may appear in åśśociation with THALNA, goddess of birth. In Roman culture he becomes syncretized with JUPITER.... |
| Goddess name "Touia Fatuna" | Tonga / Polynesia | The earth goddess, the deification of the rock deep in the earth that rumbles & gives birth to new land |
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