| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| King name "Shun" | China | The last of the Wu-di, the legendary Five kings who ruled ancient China. |
| God name "Silvåñuś" | Roman | A Latin divinity of the fields and Forests, to whom in the very earliest times the Tyrrhenian Pelasgians are said to have dedicated a grove and a festival. He is described as a god watching over the fields and husbandmen, and is also called the protector of the boundaries of fields. |
"Sparta" | Greek | A daughter of Eurotas by Clete, and wife of Lacedaemon, by whom she became the mother of Amyclas and Eurydice. From her the city of Sparta was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
"Sphinx" | Greek | A monstrous being of Greek mythology, is said to have been a daughter of Orthus and Chimaera, born in the country of the Arimi, or of Typhon and Echidna, or lastly of Typhon and Chimaera. Greek |
| Nymph name "Sphragitides" | Greek | A surname of a clåśś of prophetic nymphs on mount Cithaeron in Boeotia, where they had a grotto. Greek |
"Sterope" | Greek | 1. A Pleiad, the wife of Oenomaus, and according to Pausanias a daughter of Atlas. |
| 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 "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.... |
"Taygete" | Greek | A daughter of Atlas and Pleione, one of the Pleiades. By Zeus she became the mother of Lacedaemon and of Eurotas. Mount Taygetus, in Laconia, derived its name from her. Greek |
| God name "Tecciztecatl (conch shell lord)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | moon god. In cosmogony, when on the fifth day of creation the gods sat in judgment to elect the new Sun god, NANAHUATL and Tecciztecatl cremated themselves in the sacred fire. The heart of Nanahuatl ascended to become the new Sun and that of Tecciztecatl became the moon. Tradition suggests that Nanahuatl is diseased and impoverished but of great courage, while Tecciztecatl is wealthy and a coward. Alternatively, the pair are sons of QUETZALCOATL and of TLALOC and were hurled into the fire by their fathers. Also one of the group clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex. NOTE: eventually all the gods sacrificed them selves for mankind.... |
| God name "Teicauhtzin (younger brother)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of war. A patron god of Mexico and one of the group clåśśed as the HUITZILPOCHTLI complex.... |
| Deities name "Tejosnisa (sharp)" | Buddhist | God. Apparently connected with the guardian deities or dikpalas in the southeastern quarter. Color: whitish red. Attribute: Sun disc.... |
"Telamon" | Roman | A surname of Atlas, describing him as the sufferer or bearer of heaven. |
"Telchines" | Greek | A family, a clåśś of people, or a tribe, said to have been descended from Thalåśśa or Poseidon. Greek |
| God name "Telpochtli (male youth)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Omnipotent god. A universal and generally malevolent power. One of the group clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
"Temenus" | Greek | 1. A son of Pelasgus, educated Hera at Stymphalus in Arcadia. |
| God name "Tepeyollotl (hill heart)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic or earth god. One of the group clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex. He was originally an earthquake god, symbolized by the jaguar and later adopted into the Aztec pantheon.... |
| God name "Tepoztecatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility god. One of the group clåśśed as the Ometochtli complex concerned with the maguey plant and the brewing of the alcoholic drink pulque.... |
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