Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Spirit name "Tcolawitze" | Hopi | Fire spirit Hopi |
Deities name "Tejosnisa (sharp)" | Buddhist | God. Apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the southeastern quarter. Color: whitish red. Attribute: Sun disc.... |
Supreme god name "Tewi'xilak" | Dza'wadeenox Indian / British Columbia, Canada | God of goat-hunters. The eldest son of the supreme god QA'WADILIQALA . Said to kill goats with great ease and feed the tribe. Attributes include a head band of red cedar bark.... |
Deity name "Tezcatlipoca-Itztlacoliuhqui" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Temple deity. One of four described in the codices Borgia, Cospi and Fejervary-Mayer.... |
Deities name "Tezcatlipoca-Iztlacoliuhqui" | Aztec | One of four temple deities Aztec |
God name "Thab-Iha" | Bon / pre - Lamaist / Tibet | Hearth god. Color: red. Attribute: a snake in the form of a noose.... |
"Thebes" | Greek | An ancient city of Egypt of great renown, once capital of Upper Egypt; covered 10 sq. m. of the valley of the Nile on both sides of the river, 300 m. SE. of Cairo; now represented by imposing ruins of temples, palaces, tombs, and statues of colossal size, amid which the humble dwellings of four villages-Luxor, Karnack, Medinet Habu, and Kurna-have been raised. The period of its greatest flourishing extended from about 1600 to 1100 B.C., but some of its ruins have been dated as far back as 2500 B.C. Greek |
God name "Thero" | Sparta | 1. The nurse of Ares, from whom he was believed to have received the surname of Thereitas, though Pausanias thinks that this name arose from the fierceness of the god. A sanctuary of Ares Thereitas stood on the road from Sparta to Therapne, with a statue which the Dioscuri were said to have brought from Colchis. |
Deities name "Tiksnosnisa (hot and sharp)" | Buddhist | God. Apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the northwestern quarter. Color: sky green (possibly meaning overcast). Attributes: Book and sword.... |
God name "Toa'lalit" | Bella Coola Indian / British Columbia, Canada | God of hunters. Oversees the hunting of mountain goats. He is invisible, but great hunters may catch a glimpse of his hat, moccasins or mountain staff moving about. His animals are the lynx and raven.... |
God name "Tonenili" | Navaho / USA | Rain god. The so-called lord of the celestial waters, he controls the Rain from the skies as opposed to that of lakes, rivers and seas. He is said to scatter his waters to the four cardinal points and storm clouds begin to gather. He is also the water-carrier for the other gods in the pantheon. He wears a blue mask with a fringe of hair and a spruce collar, but is otherwise naked save for a scarlet loin-cloth and a leather belt with silver ornamentation and a fox skin dangling at the back. His attributes, in mythology only, are two wicker water-bottles, one blue and one black, whose strings are Rainbows.... |
Deities name "Trailokyavijaya (lord of three worlds)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | God. Seen standing on the Hindu deities Mahesvara (SIVA) and GAURI. Color: blue. Attributes: arrow, bell, bow, club, hook, noose, prayer wheel, staff and sword. Also an alternative name for ACALA.... |
God name "Trayasrinsa" | Hindu / Vedic | The collective name for the group of Deva gods |
Deities name "Trayastrinsa (the thirty-three)" | Hindu / Vedic | Collective name for the group of deva gods. One of the many lists of deities in Hinduism, this one is contained in the Rg Veda and includes thirty-three names divided into three groups of eleven in each of the three worlds. Subsequently, the DEVAS were separated into eight VASUS, twelve ADITYAS, eleven RUDRAS and two ASVINS. In later Hinduism the number thirty-three is increased hyperbolically to 330 million and deva refers to gods excluding the major triad of BRAHMA, V ISNU and SIVA.... |
"Tricolonus" | Greek | Two mythical personages, one a son of Lycaon, and founder of Tricoloni in Arcadia (Pausanias viii), and the other one of the suitors of Hippodameia, who was conquered and killed by Oenomaus. |
Goddess name "Trikantakidevi (goddess of three thorns)" | Hindu | Goddess. Of terrible appearance. Color: part red, part black. Attributes: conch, two lamps, prayer wheel and teeth.... |
"Trimurti" | Hindu | Collective title for the major triad. A three-headed representation of BRAHMA, VISNU and SIVA as one entity. Contested by some authors, who argue that Brahma, who is almost invariably represented with four heads, would be included here with only one.... |
Goddess name "Tripura" | Hindu | One of the group of ten goddesses of Hindu mythology collectively called mahavidyas. |