Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Telesphorus" | Greek | That is, "the completing," is the name of a medical divinity who is mentioned now and then in connection with Asclepius. Greek |
God name "Teliko" | Bambara / Mali, West Africa | God of hot winds. According to tradition the water god FARO challenged him in a primordial struggle and smashed him against a mountain.... |
Goddess name "Temazcalteci" | Aztec | Temaxcaltechi, goddess of bathing and sweatbaths. Aztec |
"Tenan-tomgin" | Chukchee | Creator. 'One who induces things to be created'. Chukchee |
Spirit name "Tenanto'mni" | Chukchee / eastern Siberia | Creator spirit. An indefinite and remote character living somewhere in the zenith of the sky. He created the world which was then transformed into its present state by the raven-like majordomo KU'URKIL.... |
Spirit name "Tenanto'mwan" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | Creator spirit. Identified particularly with the reindeer-hunting Koryak on the Taigonos peninsula. An indefinite and remote character living somewhere in the zenith of the sky. He created the world which was then transformed into its present state by QUIKINNA'QU. Tenanto'mwan is the name always used when addressing the creator in incantations.See also YA'QHICNIN.... |
God name "Tepeyollotl" | Aztec | The god of earthquakes, echoes and jaguars. He is the god of the Eighth Hour of the night, and is depicted as a jaguar leaping towards the Sun. Aztec |
God name "Tepoztecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility god. One of the group clåśśed as the Ometochtli complex concerned with the maguey plant and the brewing of the alcoholic drink pulque.... |
Nymph name "Terambus" | Greek | A son of Euseirus and Eidothea. Once he was tending his flocks on Mount Othrys in Melis, under the protection of the nymphs whom he delighted with his songs, for he was a distinguished musician, and played both the syrinx and the lyre. Greek |
King name "Tereus" | Greek | A son of Ares, a king of the Thracians, in Daulis, afterwards Phocis. Some traditions place Tereus at Pegae, in Megaris. Greek |
"Terminus" | Roman | A Roman divinity presiding over boundaries and frontiers. His worship is said to have been instituted by Numa who ordered that every one should mark the boundaries of his landed property by stones to be consecrated to Jupiter, and at which every year sacrifices were to be offered at the festival of the Terminalia. |
"Terpsachora" | Greek | One of the nine Muses, presided over choral song and dancing. Greek |
Goddess name "Terpsicpéñïś" | Greek | The goddess of dancing. Terpsicpéñïśan, relating to dancing. Dancers are called "the votaries of Terpsicpéñïś." Greek |
God name "Teucer" | Greek | A son of the river-god Scamander by the nymph Idaea, was the first king of Troy. |
Goddess name "Teuhcatl" | Aztec | Hunting and local goddess of war Aztec |
God name "Teuhcatl (he of Teutlan)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Local god of war. Also a hunting god and one of the group clåśśed as the Mixcoatl complex.... |
God name "Teutates" | Roman / Celtic / Gallic | Local tribal deity. Known only from limited inscriptions. Teutates may be less the name of a deity than an epithet meaning great. According to the Roman writer Lucan, he is one of three Celtic gods encountered by Caesar's army in Gaul and the object of savage rites in which victims were drowned in sacrificial lakes. He may equate with a British god, Totatis. He becomes åśśimilated variously to Mercury or MARS. Also Teutatis.... |
God name "Tezcatzoncatl" | Aztec | Minor fertility god involved with the brewing of pulque Aztec |