| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Cit Bolon Tum" | Mayan | A boar-headed god of Medicine and healing. Mayan |
| God name "Cit Cac Coh" | Mayan | God of war iconised as a red. Puma Mayan |
| God name "Cit Chac Coh" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of war. Identified as a red puma.... |
| God name "Cizin" | Mayan | God of death Mayan |
| God name "Cizin (stench)" | Mayan / Yucatec / other tribes, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of death. The most important death god in the Mayan cultural area. Said to live in Metnal, the Yucatec place of death, and to burn the souls of the dead. He first burns the mouth and åñuś and, when the soul complains, douses it with water. When the soul complains of this treatment, he burns it again until there is nothing left. It then goes to the god Sicunyum who spits on his hands and cleanses it, after which it is free to go where it chooses. Attributes of Cizin include a fleshless nose and lower jaw, or the entire head may be depicted as a skull. Spine and ribs are often showing. He wears a collar with death eyes between lines of hair and a long bone hangs from one earlobe. His body is painted with black and particularly yellow spots (the Mayan color of death).... |
| Goddess name "Colel Cab" | Mayan | Chthonic goddess of the earth Mayan |
| Goddess name "Colel Cab (mistress of the earth)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic earth goddess. This may be another title for the IX ZACAL NOK aspect of the goddess CHIBIRIAS.... |
| God name "Colop U Uichkin" | Mayan | sky god who, with a night avatara of the same name, is the bringer of disease Mayan |
| God name "Colop U Uichkin (tears out the eye of the sun)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | sky god. Said to live in the midst of the sky, but with a night avatara of the same name who lives in the underworld land of the dead, Metnal, and who is the bringer of disease.... |
| King name "Creiddylad" | Welsh | Originally betrothed to Gwythr ap Greidawl, she is abducted by Gwyn ap Nudd, causing the two rivals to go to war over her. In the early Arthurian tale Culhwch and Olwen, king Arthur settles the feud by arranging for the two to battle every May Day until Doomsday. Welsh |
| Goddess name "Creiddylad aka Creudylad" | Wales | Cordelia. Connected with Beltane and often called the May queen. Goddess of summer flowers. Wales |
| God name "Čú𝔪 Hau" | Maya | A god of death |
| God name "Čú𝔪 Hau" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic god of death. One of several names for a death god listed in the codices.... |
| God name "Čú𝔪hau" | Mayan | God of death. Mayan |
| Goddess name "Cunda" | Buddhist / eastern Bengal / Tibet | Goddess. An emanation of Vajrasattva or Vairocana. A female BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate. Also seen separately as a deification of literature, one of a group of twelve DHARANIS. She may stand upon a man. Color: white or green. Very large variety of attributes. Also Aryacunda.... |
| Supreme god name "Dagan (3)" | Kafir / Afghanistan | Local supreme god. This god bears no relation to the Semitic god Dagan, but is known by several synonyms including Dagon, Doghan and Deogan. He has been identified in several villages in the south of the Kafir region [southern Nuristan]. Dagan may be less a proper name than a title of respect.... |
| God name "Daho" | Pyrenean | A deity that may be a god of war |
| God name "Daikokr" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. One of seven gods of fortune in Shintoism and often linked with the god EBISU. Originally a god of kitchens, he became a deity concerned with happiness. He is depicted as a fat, well-to-do figure seated on two rice bales and carrying a sack on his back. He also holds a hammer in his right hand. In depictions there is often a mouse nibbling at one of the rice bales. Small gold icons of the god may be carried as talismans of wealth. According to tradition, when Daikoku's hammer is shaken, money falls out in great profusion. In western Japan he is also syncretized with the god of rice paddies, TA-NO-KAMI, and thus becomes the god of Agriculture and farmers. He may have developed from the Buddhist god MAHAKALA.... |
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