Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Chih Nii" | China | Goddess of spinning. China |
Goddess name "Chih Nu" | China | Goddess of weaving. China |
Goddess name "Chinnamastaka (decapitated)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Goddess. A headless form of DURGA. Also one of a group of ten MAHAVIDYAS, goddesses of great knowledge personifying the SAKTI of SI IVA. She may be depicted holding her head in her hands. Aspects include VIRARATRI. Attributes: scimitar, skull. Also Chinnamasta.... |
Goddess name "Chulavete" | Mexico | Goddess of the morning star Mexico |
Goddess name "Cihuacoatl" | Aztec | She is a goddess whose roaring signaled war |
Goddess name "Cihuacoatl-Quilaztli" | Aztec | Creator goddess who helped Quetzalcoatl create the current race of humanity by grinding up bones from the previous ages, and mixing it with his blood. Aztec |
Goddess name "Cihuacoatl-Quilaztli" | Aztec / Mesomerican / Mexico | Creator goddess. Using a magical vessel, she grinds bone fragments obtained from previous generations of mankind in earlier world ages into a powder. The gods then commit self-sacrifice, allowing their blood to drip into the vessel. From the resulting mix, the human race of the fifth Sun is formed.... |
Goddess name "Citrasena (having a bright spear)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. The SAKTI of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
Goddess name "Cittavasita (controd of thinking)" | Buddhist | Minor goddess. One of a group of twelve VASITAS personifying the disciplines of spiritual regeneration. Color: white. Attribute: staff.... |
Goddess name "Coca-Mama" | South American Indian / Peru | Goddess of the coca plant. Minor goddess who oversees the harvest of the coca crop. Models of the deity were made from the leaves of the plant and kept for a year before being burned in a ritual to ensure a good coca harvest.... |
Goddess name "Cocidius" | Celtic / British | Hunting goddess. Northern British deity depicted in stone relief at Risingham (Yorkshire).... |
Goddess name "Cocidus" | British | Goddess of hunting British |
Goddess name "Coventina" | Celtic | A goddess of healing & wells |
Goddess name "Coventina" | Celtic | One of the most potent of the Celtic river Goddesses. Most likely Roman in origin. She was also the Goddess of featherless flying creatures. |
Goddess name "Coyolxauhqui (golden bells)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Astral goddess. A deification and incarnation (avatara) of the moon. According to tradition she is the half-sister of the Sun god HUITZILOPOCHTLI. The god sprang, fully armed, from his decapitated mother, COATLICUE, and engaged all his enemies who, by inference, are the 400 astral gods, his half-brothers. He slew his sister and hurled her from the top of a mountain. Alternative tradition suggests his sister was an ally whom he was unable to save, so he decapitated her and threw her head into the sky, where she became the moon. She was represented in the Great Temple at Tenochtitlan, where she was depicted in front of successive Huitzilopochtli pyramids. She is also a hearth deity within the group clåśśed as the XIUHTECUHTLI complex.... |
Goddess name "Crone" | Ireland | Third aspect of the Triple goddess. She signifies old age or death, Winter, the end of all things, the waning moon, post-mentrual phases of women's lives. Ireland |
Goddess name "Cunina" | Roman | Minor goddess of infants. Responsible for guarding the cradle.... |
Goddess name "Dabaiba" | Panama | Mother of Creation and a goddess of thunder and lightning and in whose honour slaves were burnt to death.. Panama |