Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Totolteactl" | Aztec | Fertility god, concerned with the Maguey plant and the art of growing pulque. Aztec |
God name "Totoltecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Fertility god. One of the group clåśśed as the Ometochtli complex concerned with the maguey plant and the brewing of the alcoholic drink pulque.... |
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.... |
Goddess name "Tripura (lady of the three cities)" | Hindu / Jain | Mother goddess. In Jainism regarded as one of the ASTAMATARAS. In Hinduism the SAKTI of Tripurantaka, an ugra (terrible) representation of the god SIVA, alternatively a form of the goddess PARVATI. The three cities are the cities of gold, silver and iron, one in heaven, one in the air and one on earth, which Siva destroyed in his form as Tripurantaka. Tripura is depicted attended by vultures. Attributes: Book, hook, noose and rosary.... |
"Trolls" | Norse | Dwarfs of Northern mythology, living in hills or mounds; they are represented as stumpy, misshapen, and humpbacked, inclined to thieving, and fond of carrying off children or substituting one of their own offspring for that of a human mother. They are called hill-people, and are especially averse to noise, from a recollection of the time when Thor used to be for ever flinging his hammer after them. Norse |
Angel name "Tsaphiel" | Nazorean | Anangel governing the moon. Early Nazorean |
God name "Tsunigoab (wounded knee)" | Khoi / Namibia, southwestern Africa | Creator god. As his name suggests, he walks with a limp. His injury was sustained in a primordial battle with his arch rival GAUNAB, the god of darkness, who was eventually driven away to live in the black heaven. Tsunigoab used to be invoked at dawn each day.... |
"Tuomas" | Finland | Eternally befuddled. |
Goddess name "Tyche" | Greco - Roman | Goddess of fortune. She appears as a nereid in the Hymn to Demeter (Homer). According to Hesiod's Theogony she is the daughter of OKEANOS. Elsewhere she is identified as the daughter of ZEUS and HERA. She is depicted carrying a rudder or, alternatively, cornucopiae. Also mentioned as Agathe Tyche, the consort of Agathos Daemon. She became widely identified with the Asian mother goddess KYBELE but was replaced, in Roman times, by the goddess FORTUNA and åśśociated symbolically with a wheel device. She retained popularity for a long time. There is a record that the Emperor Julian sacrificed to Tyche at Antioch in AD 361-2 and her temple was still intact during the reign of Theodosius (379-95).... |
God name "Ubelluris" | Hittite | A mountain god who carried the western edge of the sky on his shoulders. Hittite |
God name "Ugar" | Western Semitic / Syrian | vegetation god. Possibly linked with the Canaanite city of Ugarit [Ras Samra].... |
Book name "Ulu'tuyar" | Egyptian | Thou Beautiful Power, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven, Power of heaven, Opener of the Disk, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven From the EgyptianBook of the Dead |
Spirit name "Ulutuyer Ulu Toyon" | Siberia | Ulu-Toyon. The chief of the 'dark' spirits is Ulutuyer-Ulu-Toyon, 'Onmipotent Lord'. He is always described as living in the western sky, and, in contrast to the inactive Art-Toyon-Aga, he is the personification of action and of the påśśions. Ulu-Toyon is not always harmful to men, for he gives to them one of his souls, sur, and defends them from the attacks of abåśśylar. The Yakut, Siberia |
Goddess name "Unxia" | Roman | Minor goddess of marriage, concerned with anointing the bridgegroom's door. Roman |
Goddess name "Unxia" | Roman | Goddess of marriage. Concerned with anointing the bridegroom's door.... |
Book name "Uru'n Ajy Toyo'n" | Egyptian | Thou Beautiful Power, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven, Power of heaven, Opener of the Disk, thou Beautiful Rudder of the Northern heaven Egyptian Book of the Dead |
Deity name "Va'irgin (I exist)" | Chukchee / eastern Siberia | Supreme being. A remote and poorly defined character who lives in the zenith of the sky and who created the world. Comparable with the Koryak deity TENANTO'MWAN.... |
Goddess name "Vac (speech)" | Hindu / Vedic | Goddess of the spoken word. In some texts she is a daughter of DAKSA and consort of KASYAPA. Alternatively she is the daughter of Ambhrna. Also known by the epithet queen of the gods, Vac is the personification of the phenomenon of speech and oral communication. She gives the boon of hearing, speech and sight and she can lead a man to become a Brahman. She also personifies truth and sustains somathe liquid essence of vision and immortality. She is said to have created the four Vedas, the basis of the earliest Hindu mythology.... |