| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Ch'ih Sung tzu" | China | Lord of the Rain |
| God name "Ch'ing Lung" | China | God of the lungs. China |
| God name "Ch'ung Ling yu" | China | God of the nose. China |
| Ghost name "Chagrin aka Harginn" | Romania | A mischievous ghost that most often takes the form of a large yellow hedgehog, which always foretells some impending disaster. Romania |
| God name "Chaitanya" | Hindu / Puranic | Mendicant god. A deified mortal who became one of the many incarnations of the god VIS NU. Born at Nadiya in AD 1484, he died at Puri in 1527. Chaitanya was a sickly child who, according to legend, was left to his fate, hanging in a tree to die, but was revived by the gods and thus became deified. He was married twice before adopting a strict ascetic existence at the age of twenty-four, from which time he traveled extensively, eventually settling in the holy city of Benares. He is remembered as a great social reformer. His main sanctuary at Nadiya includes a small statue of KRSNA to whom he devoted himself.... |
| Goddess name "Chakwaina Okya" | Zuni | Goddess of childbirth Zuni |
| Deities name "Chalchiuhtlatonal (jade glowing)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of water. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the Tlaloc complex, generally concerned with Rain, Agriculture and fertility.... |
| Goddess name "Chalchiuhtlcue" | Aztec | A goddess Rain & storms, violence, vitality, lakes, whirlpools, rivers, water , love, beauty & youth Don't make this one mad whatever you do. |
| God name "Chalchiutotolin" | Aztec | Penitence god Aztec |
| Deities name "Chalchiutotolin (jade turkey)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of penitence. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
"Chalcon2" | Greek | Of Cyparissus, the shield-bearer of Antilochus. He was in love with the Amazon Penthesileia, but on hastening to her åśśistance he was killed by Achilles, and the Greeks nailed his body to a cross. Greek |
| God name "Chan Hs'ien" | China | Guardian god of children who had been a mortal king China |
| God name "Chang Er" | China | Was the wife of the archer Hou Yi, who received the herb of immortality from the gods after shooting down nine of the ten Suns that were stifling the world with their heat. China |
| God name "Chang Fei" | China | God of war and butchers. China |
| God name "Chang Fei" | Chinese | God of war. The counterpart of the god KUAN TI and often linked iconographically with him and the god LIU PEI, Chang Fei rules over the dark half of the yearautumn and Winter. Like the seasons he represents he is characterized by drunkenness and wildness. According to tradition he was wounded by his subordinates while in a drunken stupor. He is depicted with a black face, a bushy beard and wild staring eyes giving him a ferocious appearance.... |
| God name "Chang Hs'iien" | Chinese | Guardian god of children. According to tradition he was the mortal king of Szechuan killed by the founder of the Sung dynasty. His wife was captured and forced to become a concubine in the imperial palace. She was discovered by the emperor kneeling before a picture of her deceased husband which she identified as a local deity, the immortal Chang who gives children. This triggered the cult which began locally in Szechuan circa AD 100. Chang Hs'ien is depicted holding a bow made of mulberry wood and either aiming an arrow at the star Tien Kou, the socalled celestial dog which threatens the earth, or aiming the empty bow at a rat (see ERH LANG).... |
| God name "Chang Hsien" | China | God of dreams and of pregnancy. China |
| God name "Chang Pan" | China | God of masons. China |
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