| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Chang Fei" | Chinese | God of war. The counterpart of the god KUAN TI and often linked iconographically with him and the god LIU PEI, Chang Fei rules over the dark half of the yearautumn and Winter. Like the seasons he represents he is characterized by drunkenness and wildness. According to tradition he was wounded by his subordinates while in a drunken stupor. He is depicted with a black face, a bushy beard and wild staring eyes giving him a ferocious appearance.... |
| God name "Chang Hsien" | China | God of dreams and of pregnancy. China |
| God name "Chang Pan" | China | God of masons. China |
| Spirit name "Chang Tao Ling" | Taoist / Chinese | God of the afterlife. The head of the heavenly Ministry of Exorcism, and allegedly the first head of the Taoist church. By tradition he vanquished the five poisonous ani malsthe centipede, scorpion, snake, spider and toadplacing their venom in a flask in which he concocted the elixir of life. Having drunk the contents at the age of 123, he ascended to heaven. He is depicted riding upon a tiger and brandishing a sword. Before the communist takeover of China, the gods of exorcism lived in a sanctuary on the dragon Tiger mountain in Kiangsi province. Exorcised spirits were trapped in jars which were stored in the cellars.... |
| Goddess name "Chang Xi" | China | Goddess of the moon. China |
| Goddess name "Chang Yong" | China | Goddess of justice. China |
| God name "Chao T'eng k'ang" | China | God of the bowels China |
| Goddess name "Chao san Niang" | China | Goddess of wig salesmen China |
| God name "Chaob (carrying off)" | Mayan / Lacandon, Mesoamerican / Mexico | wind god(s). They live in the four cardinal directions and, according to tradition, will bring about the end of the current world with earthquakes and tempests when the last of the Lacandon people dies. They will blow so hard that they blast the monkeys out of the trees. The names of two are identified, Hunaunic in the east and Chikinkuh in the West.... |
| God name "Chen Kao" | China | God of the ears China |
| God name "Cheng San Kung" | China | God of fishing China |
| God name "Cheng Yuan ho" | China | God of strolling singers China |
| Angel name "Cherubim" | Pan-cultural | The second mightiest order of angels. They have four wings and four heads to point out in the four cardinal directions. Pan-cultural |
| God name "Chhih of warg tzu" | China | A god of Rain |
| God name "Chi Po" | China | God of the winds. China |
| God name "Chi Sung Tzu" | China | Rain god. China |
| Goddess name "Chiang" | China | Goddess of Agriculture. China |
| Deities name "Chiccan" | Mayan / Chorti, Mesoamerican / eastern Guatemala | Rain gods. Giant reptilian deities whose blood is cold and who evolved from snakes. They form a quartet, each living at the bottom of a deep lake situated in the four cardinal directions. They are believed to churn the waters which rise as clouds. The AH PATNAR UINICOB gods then beat the Rain from the clouds with stone axes.... |
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