Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Citlalicue (her skirt is a star)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator goddess. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the Ometeotl complex. Her consort is Citlalatonac. Between them they created the stars of the night sky.... |
Goddess name "Cittavasita (controd of thinking)" | Buddhist | Minor goddess. One of a group of twelve VASITAS personifying the disciplines of spiritual regeneration. Color: white. Attribute: staff.... |
God name "Cizin (stench)" | Mayan / Yucatec / other tribes, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. The most important death god in the Mayan cultural area. Said to live in Metnal, the Yucatec place of death, and to burn the souls of the dead. He first burns the mouth and åñuś and, when the soul complains, douses it with water. When the soul complains of this treatment, he burns it again until there is nothing left. It then goes to the god Sicunyum who spits on his hands and cleanses it, after which it is free to go where it chooses. Attributes of Cizin include a fleshless nose and lower jaw, or the entire head may be depicted as a skull. Spine and ribs are often showing. He wears a collar with death eyes between lines of hair and a long bone hangs from one earlobe. His body is painted with black and particularly yellow spots (the Mayan color of death).... |
Deities name "Co(co)chimetl (soporific)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of merchants and commerce. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the YACATECUHTLI complex.... |
God name "Col" | Sudan | Rain and thunderstorms god Sudan |
God name "Col (black one)" | Nuer / Sudan | Rain god. He brings Rain and thunderstorms. Souls of people killed by lightning have been described as colwic. Also Chol.... |
God name "Col/ Chol" | Nuer / Sudan | A Rain & thunderstorms god |
Goddess name "Colel Cab" | Mayan | Chthonic goddess of the earth Mayan |
Goddess name "Colel Cab (mistress of the earth)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic earth goddess. This may be another title for the IX ZACAL NOK aspect of the goddess CHIBIRIAS.... |
Goddess name "Colleda" | Serbia | Goddess of the Winter solstice Koliada / Serbia |
God name "Colop U Uichkin" | Mayan | sky god who, with a night avatara of the same name, is the bringer of disease Mayan |
God name "Colop U Uichkin (tears out the eye of the sun)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | sky god. Said to live in the midst of the sky, but with a night avatara of the same name who lives in the underworld land of the dead, Metnal, and who is the bringer of disease.... |
God name "Coyote" | USA | Multifaceted deity. demigod, creator, trickster. In Tongva Mythology Coyote challenges "The River" to a race. Coyote is victorious, but collapses from fatigue. The river laughs at him and takes the name "Hahamongna". USA |
Goddess name "Cunda" | Buddhist / eastern Bengal / Tibet | Goddess. An emanation of Vajrasattva or Vairocana. A female BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate. Also seen separately as a deification of literature, one of a group of twelve DHARANIS. She may stand upon a man. Color: white or green. Very large variety of attributes. Also Aryacunda.... |
"Daiboth" | Japanese | A Japanese idol of colossal size. Each of her hands is full of hands. |
Deities name "Danaparamita" | Buddhist | Philosophical deity. One of twelve PARAMITA deities and a spiritual offspring of RATNASAMBHAVA. Color: reddish white. Attributes: an ear of rice and a banner with pearl.... |
Nymph name "Daphnis" | Greek | A Sicilian hero, to whom the invention of bucolic poetry is ascribed. He is called a son of Hermes by a nymph, or merely the beloved of Hermes. Ovid calls him an Idaean shepherd; but it does not follow from this that Ovid connected him with either the Phrygian or the Cretan Ida, since Ida signifies any woody mountain. Greek |
"Deohako" | Seneca | Collective name of the three daughters of the earth Mother. Seneca |