| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| 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.... |
| God name "Svantevit" | Pre - Christian Latvian | God of war. Mentioned by the author Saxo Grammaticus as riding upon a white horse and holding a cornucopia, he is known locally from the island of Rugen. Also a guardian deity of crops.... |
| God name "T'rmi Tsui (heavenly and honored)" | Taoist / Chinese | Generic title of gods. The name given to each of the three holy images in a Taoist temple: the perfect holy one, the highest holy one and the greatest holy one. Also Tian-zhu.... |
| God name "Ta'aroa" | Tahitian | The god who broke out of the darkness within the cosmic egg. Tahitian |
| God name "Taautos" | Phoenicia | God who later devolved into the Egyptian Thoth. Phoenicia |
| God name "Tahuti" | Egyptian | God of knowledge and education. Egyptian |
| Deities name "Tangaroa" | Polynesian / including Maori | Sea and creator god. The deity responsible for the oceans (moana) and the fish (ika) within them. In Hawaiian belief he was the primordial being who took the form of a bird and laid an egg on the surface of the primeval waters which, when it broke, formed the earth and sky. He then engendered the god of light, ATEA (cf. TANE). According to Tahitian legend, he fashioned the world inside a gigantic mussel shell. In a separate tradition Tangaroa went fishing and hauled the Tongan group of islands from the depths of the ocean on a hook and line. He is the progenitor of mankind (as distinct from TUMATAUENGA who has authority over mankind). His son Pili married SINA, the tropic bird and they produced five children from whom the rest of the Polynesian race was born. In Maori culture Tangaroa, like all deities, is represented only by inconspicuous, slightly worked stones or pieces of wood and not by the large totems which are depictions of ancestors.... |
| God name "Tapio" | Pre - Christian Finnish | Hunting god. Believed to inhabit Forests and invoked before a hunt.... |
| God name "Tar" | Tiv / Nigeria, West Africa | Chthonic earth god. Engendered by the creator god AONDO, Tar is depicted as a prostrate figure with his head toward the east, comparable with the Egyptian god GEB.... |
| Goddess name "Taurt" | Egypt | Rert or Rertu, hippopotamus goddess mentioned in the Judgment scene from The Egyptian Book of the Dead called the Eater of the Dead - the Devourer of the Unjustified. Egypt |
| God name "Teisbas" | Urartian / Armenia | Tutelary god. Known from inscriptions.... |
| God name "Teljavelik" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | Creator god. He engendered the Sun god SAULE and is described as the heavenly smith.... |
| Deities name "The Ennead" | Egyptian | Consists of a grouping of nine deities, most often appearing in the context of Egyptian mythology. As a three of threes, the number nine became åśśociated with great carnal power, and ancient peoples considered groupings of nine Gods very important. |
| God name "Theban Triad" | Egypt | The three Egyptian gods that were the most powerful in the area of Thebes, in Egypt. The gods are Amun, his consort Mut and their son Khonsu. |
| Goddess name "Thermuthis" | Egyptian | Egyptian fertility and harvest goddess. |
| God name "Thoth" | Egypt | Tchehuti or Tehuti. Author of the Book of the Dead was believed by the Egyptians to have been the heart and mind of the Creator, who was in very early times in Egypt called by the natives "Pautti," and by foreigners "Ra." Thoth was also the "tongue" of the Creator, and he at all times voiced the will of the great god, and spoke the words which commanded every being and thing in heaven and in earth to come into existence. His words were almighty and once uttered never remained without effect. |
| Goddess name "Thouris" | Egyptian | Egyptian fertility goddess. |
| God name "Thraetaona" | Avestian | The Avestan fire god. |
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