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Deities name "Acolmiztli (shoulder-lion)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
Deities name "Acolnahuacatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
Deities name "Amimiti" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of lakes and fish hunters. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MIXCOATLCAMAXTLI complex.... |
Deities name "Ce Acati" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the QUETZALCOATL complex. Also (1) Acatl.... |
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.... |
Deities name "Chalchiutotolin (jade turkey)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of penitence. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
Goddess name "Chalmecacihuilt (chalman lady)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld goddess. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
Deities name "Chalmecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
Goddess name "Chantico (in the house)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hearth goddess. A household guardian deity personi fied by hearth fires. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
Goddess name "Chiconahui" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Hearth goddess. A household guardian deity personified by hearth fires. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
Deities name "Chiconahuiehecati" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the QUETZALCOATL complex.... |
Deities name "Cipactonal" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex.... |
Deities name "Citlalatonac (glowing star)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex. His consort is CITLALICUE. Between them they created the stars of the night sky.... |
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.... |
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 "Huitznahua" | Aztec | Collectively, the remaining brothers of God of war who were defeated. Aztec |
Goddess name "Keawe" | Hawaiian | Creator god. An androgynous though apparently male principle or monad, he lived once in the dark empty abyss of Po. There, Keawe transformed primordial chaos into an orderly cosmos. He fashioned the sky from the lid of his calabash (a water-carrying gourd) and the Sun from an orange disc formerly kept inside the calabash. Keawe's first son was KANE, the god of light, and his daughter was Na Wahine, both created through his own powers of conception. He subsequently entered into an incestuous relationship with Na Wahine to father the chief pantheon of Hawaiian gods and goddesses, including most notably KU, LONO and Kanaloa, who became known, collectively, as the tripartite god.... |
Goddess name "Matara" | Hindu | Mother goddess. Applied collectively to groups of deities, the Divine mothers, also more specifically to the consort of the god KASYAPA. As Divine mothers they are also regarded as SAKTIS. The numbers vary according to separate traditions and they are therefore identified as the SAPTAMATARAS (seven), ASTAMATARAS (eight) and NAVASAKTIS (nine). Less commonly there may be up to fifty mataras in a group. Their images are normally carved in stone (very few exist in metal) and they are depicted seated, often upon a corpse, and may be of terrifying appearance.... |
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