Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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"Tai Yi" | China | The uncreated Supreme Unity. China |
Planet name "Tai-Sui-Jing" | Chinese | God of temporal time. The apotheosis of the planet Jupiter which orbits the Sun in a twelve-year cycle.... |
Planet name "Tai-Sung-Jing" | China | the god of temporal time, the apotheosis of the planet Jupiter |
King name "Talos" | Greek | A man of bråśś, the work of Hephaestus. This wonderful being was given to Minos by Zeus or Hephaestus, and watched the island of Crete by walking round the island thrice every day. Whenever he saw strangers approaching, he made himself red-hot in fire, and then embraced the strangers when they landed. He had in his body only one vein, which ran from the head to the ankles, and was closed at the top with a nail. When he attempted to keep the Argonauts from Crete by throwing stones at them, Medeia by her magic powers threw him into a state of madness, or, according to others, under the pretence of making him immortal, she took the nail out of his vein and thus caused him to bleed to death. Greek |
God name "Tam Kung" | China | Local sea god of Rain and water able to calm storms by tossing in a handful of peas. China |
God name "Tam Kung" | Chinese | Local sea god. A deity with control over Rain and water and who extinguishes fires. His worship is restricted to a coastal region between Hong Kong and Macau. According to tradition he was an eight-year-old boy emperor, the last of the Sung Dynasty, who committed suicide by jumping over a cliff in the face of Kublai Khan's advance in AD 1276. His attendant is Ho Wang, who joined him in death. A sanctuary in Coloane Town in Macau, sited at the end of a narrow peninsula, is dedicated to him.... |
King name "Tamon-ten" | Buddhist | One of the four heavenly kings and the heavenly king Hearer of Many Teachings. Esoteric Buddhism |
Goddess name "Tang" | China | Goddess of mercy and justice. China |
Deity name "Tao Hua Hsiennui" | China | peach blossom girl. A protector at the time of marriage, and the deity of the second spring month. China |
God name "Tao Kung" | China | God of the diaphragm China |
"Telchines" | Greek | A family, a clåśś of people, or a tribe, said to have been descended from Thalåśśa or Poseidon. Greek |
"Thelxion" | Greek | In conjunction with Telchin, murdered Apis, when he attempted to subjugate Peloponnesus. Greek |
Goddess name "Tien Hou" | China | Goddess of the ocean. China |
Goddess name "Tien Mu" | China | Goddess of lightning. China |
God name "Tien Tsun/ Tian-zhu" | China / Taoist | The generic title of gods given to each of the three holy images in a Taoist temple |
Goddess name "Tin Hau" | China | Goddess of the waters. China |
Goddess name "Tou Mou" | China | Goddess of justice China |
Goddess name "Tou Mou" | Chinese | Goddess of measure. Usually depicted with many arms and with a caste mark on her forehead, suggesting that she derives from the goddess of the aurora, MARICI, in Indian Buddhism. She is considered to live in the constellation of Ursa major and may also be an aspect of the astral goddess TIN HAU.... |