Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Deities name "Sumiyoshi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Sea gods. A general name for guardian deities of seafarers, including fishermen, they include the three MUNAKATA-NO-KAMI. They are the focus of special worship by the Jingu-Kogo sect, whom they escorted to Korea. They are also patrons of poets and have a purifying role. The main sanctuary is the Sumiyoshi Taisha at Osaka.... |
God name "Susano-Wo" | Japan / Shinto | A god of Agriculture, the ocean & storms |
God name "Susanowo" | Shinto | God of Agriculture, the sea and storms. Shinto |
Goddess name "Sussistanako" | Mexico | Sussistanako "Thinking-Woman" A goddess of creation who thinks things into being. Mexico |
God name "Sutekh" | Hittite / Hurrian | weather god. Of Hurrian origin, but incorporated into the Hittite state pantheon. Identified on the seal of a Hittite / Egyptian treaty between Hattusilis II and Rameses II in 1271 BC. Probably another name for the god TESUB.... |
Goddess name "Syria Dea" | De | the Syrian goddess, a name by which the Syrian Astarte or Aphrodite is sometimes designated. This Astarte was a Syrian divinity, resembling in many points the Greek Aphrodite, and it is not improbable that the latter was originally the Syrian Astarte, the opinions concerning whom were modified after her introduction into Greece; for there can be no doubt that the worship of Aphrodite came from the East to Cyprus, and thence was carried into the south of Greece. Lucian, De Syria Dea |
God name "Ta-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | Agricultural deity. A generic name for several gods of crops and harvests. May also be identified as a mountain KAMI.... |
God name "Taautos" | Phoenicia | God who later devolved into the Egyptian Thoth. Phoenicia |
God name "Taka-Okami-No-Kami" | Japan | God of the Rains in the mountains Japan / Shinto |
God name "Taka-Okami-No-Kami (great producer of rain in the mountains)" | Shinto / Japan | Rain god. Specifically the god of Rain generated in mountains. A god of fierce Rain, also known as the god of the dividing of the waters.See also KURA-OAKMI-NO-KAMI.... |
God name "Take-Mika-Dzuchi-No-Kami" | Japan | God of thunder, Rain, and storms as well as a warrior. One of the Raijin, Japan / Shinto |
Deities name "Take-Mika-Dzuchi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of thunder. One of the RAIJIN gods of thunder, storms and Rain, he is also one of the warrior deities who guarded Prince NINIGI on his descent from heaven to earth. A tutelary god of swordsmen and judoka artists.See also FUTSU-NUSHI-NO-KAMI.... |
God name "Take-Mika-Dzuchi-No-Kami/ Futsu-Nushi-No-Kami" | Japan / Shinto | This god is one of the Raijin, A god of thunder, Rain, & storms as well as a warrior |
Goddess name "Tama-No-Ya" | Shinto / Japan | God of jewelers. The deity who made a complete string of curved jewels nearly three meters long, one of the lures which enticed the Sun goddess AMATERASU from the cave where she hid herself.... |
God name "Tamats Palike Tamoyeke (our eldest brother walking everywhere)," | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of wind and air. The messenger of the gods, he also put the world into its present form and shape.... |
God name "Tamats Palike Tamoyeke Huichol" | Mexico | Tamats Palike Tamoyeke Huichol, God of the wind and of air who was also a messenger of the gods, for an encore, put world into its present form and shape Mexico |
God name "Taoki-Ho-Oi-No-Kami" | Japan | God of carpenters Japan / Shinto |
Goddess name "Taoki-Ho-Oi-No-Kami" | Shinto / Japan | God of carpenters. One of the gods who built the beautiful sacred hall designed, in part, to lure the Sun goddess AMATERASU from the cave in which she hid herself.See also HIKO-SASHIRI-NO-KAMI.... |