Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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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 "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.... |
Goddess name "Taiaai" | Australian aboriginal | Snake god. His consorts include the snake goddesses Mantya, Tuknampa and Uka. He is revered mainly by tribal groups living on the western seaboard of the Cape York peninsula in northern queensland. Taipan has the typical attributes of many other Australian snake gods, including the Rainbow snake. He exercises judgment over life or death and possesses great wisdom, a universal characteristic of serpents. He is able to kill or cure and is the deity who originally fashioned the blood of living things during the Dreamtime. The imagery of the snake god is closely linked with aboriginal shamanism and with the healing rituals of shamans.... |
God name "Taijn" | Mexico | Name for a group of Rain gods, still worshipped and presumed to live in ruins of El Tajin(Veracruz) Mexico(Totonac) |
God name "Taijn/ Tlaloc" | Totonac / Mexico | The name for a group of Rain gods, still worshipped & presumed to live in ruins of El Tajin Veracruz |
God name "Tajin" | Totonac / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Generic title for a group of Rain gods. Worshiped by a modern tribe and believed to reside in the ruins of El Tajin, a clåśśic Veracruz site whence they control the thunder clouds.See also TLALOC.... |
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 "Tallai" | Syria | Goddess of dew who challenged Shiva to a dancing contest. Syria |
God name "Tam Kung" | Chinese | Local sea god. A deity with control over Rain and water and who extinguishes fires. His worship is restricted to a coastal region between Hong Kong and Macau. According to tradition he was an eight-year-old boy emperor, the last of the Sung Dynasty, who committed suicide by jumping over a cliff in the face of Kublai Khan's advance in AD 1276. His attendant is Ho Wang, who joined him in death. A sanctuary in Coloane Town in Macau, sited at the end of a narrow peninsula, is dedicated to him.... |
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 "Tana'oa" | Marquesas Is | God of wind and sea and patron of fishing. Marquesas Is. |
God name "Tangaroa" | Polynesia | A god of fishing, the ocean & reptiles, the life giver of all |