| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
"Chang Sien" | Chinese | A divinity worshipped by women desirous of offspring. Chinese |
| Spirit name "Chang Tao Ling" | Taoist / Chinese | God of the afterlife. The head of the heavenly Ministry of Exorcism, and allegedly the first head of the Taoist church. By tradition he vanquished the five poisonous ani malsthe centipede, scorpion, snake, spider and toadplacing their venom in a flask in which he concocted the elixir of life. Having drunk the contents at the age of 123, he ascended to heaven. He is depicted riding upon a tiger and brandishing a sword. Before the communist takeover of China, the gods of exorcism lived in a sanctuary on the dragon Tiger mountain in Kiangsi province. Exorcised spirits were trapped in jars which were stored in the cellars.... |
| Goddess name "Chang Xi" | China | Goddess of the moon. China |
| Goddess name "Chang Yong" | China | Goddess of justice. China |
"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 |
| God name "Chao T'eng k'ang" | China | God of the bowels China |
| Goddess name "Chao san Niang" | China | Goddess of wig salesmen China |
| God name "Chaob (carrying off)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | wind god(s). They live in the four cardinal directions and, according to tradition, will bring about the end of the current world with earthquakes and tempests when the last of the Lacandon people dies. They will blow so hard that they blast the monkeys out of the trees. The names of two are identified, Hunaunic in the east and Chikinkuh in the West.... |
"Cheiron" | Greek | The wisest and justest of all the centaurs. He was the instructor of Achilles, whose father Peleus was a friend and relative of Cheiron, and received at his wedding with Thetis the heavy lance which was subsequently used by Achilles. Greek |
| God name "Chen Kao" | China | God of the ears China |
| God name "Cheng San Kung" | China | God of fishing China |
| God name "Cheng Yuan ho" | China | God of strolling singers China |
| God name "Chhih of warg tzu" | China | A god of Rain |
| God name "Chi Po" | China | God of the winds. China |
| God name "Chi Sung Tzu" | China | Rain god. China |
| God name "Chi Sung Tzu" | Chinese | Rain god. Chibirias... |
| Goddess name "Chia" | Chiboa | Goddess of the moon. Chiboa |
| Goddess name "Chiang" | China | Goddess of Agriculture. China |
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