| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Spirit name "Omuqkatos" | N America | The Great spirit who is the Sun. The Blackfeet, Northern Plains, Canada / United States |
| God name "Opochtli (left)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of lake fishermen and hunters. One of the group clåśśed as the TLALOC complex.... |
| Deities name "Oxiahun Ti Ku" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | sky gods. The collective name for a group of thirteen celestial deities who are probably still invoked by Mesoamerican Indians today.... |
| Goddess name "Paca-Mama (earth mother)" | Inca / pre - Columbian South America / highlands of Peru | Chthonic earth goddess. Worshiped extensively by farmers but now largely syncretized with the Christian Virgin Mary.... |
| God name "Pachacamac (earth creator)" | South American Indian / Lima region of Peru | Creator god. Near the town of Pachacamac is the site of a huge pyramidal sanctuary dedicated to the god. In origin he is pre-Inca but the Inca rulers who took over the region allowed his worship to continue; eventually he became syncretized with the god VAIRACOCHA.... |
| Deities name "Pahteeatl (medicine lord)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor fertility god. One of the group of deities known as the Ometochtli complex and concerned with the brewing of the alcoholic drink pulque from the maguey plant.... |
| Deities name "Painal (hasty)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of war. One of the group of deities known as the HUITZILPOCHTLI complex to whom sacrifice of captured prisoners was regularly offered.... |
| God name "Pariacaca" | Pre - Inca central Andean / South America | weather god. The deity responsible for Rain and thunder, personified by the falcon.... |
| God name "Pitao Cozobi" | Zapotec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Maize god. Worshiped by the Monte Alban culture of Zapotec-speaking peoples in the Valley of Oaxaca. Sculptures were often adorned with casts of maize ears.... |
| God name "Pore" | Guyanan Indian / South America | Creator god. Engendered the earth and all living things. Also Pura.... |
| God name "Poxiom" | Mayan / Tzeltal Indian, Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of disease. Apparently perceived as a star in the sky or a ball of fire. He may also be depicted as a fertility god shelling maize or as a fisherman, doctor, musician or hunter. An image of the god was discovered in the Christian church in Oxchuc, and the Indians were forced to revoke and spit on the icon before it was publicly burnt.... |
"Puck or Robin Goodfellow" | Britain | A fairy and merry wanderer of the night, "rough, knurly-limbed, faun-faced, and shock-pated, a very Shetlander among the gossamer-winged" fairies around him. Britain |
| Deity name "Qoluncotun" | Nativ American | Creator deity of the Sinkaietk who, angered by the ingratitude of their ancestors, hurled a star at the earth, which burst into flames. Southern Okanagon |
"Quaayayp" | Greek | The son of the creator of the world, Niparaya, and the virgin Anayicoyondi. North America |
| Deities name "Quaoar" | Nativ American | Sings and dances the world and other deities into existence. Tongva, Native American |
| God name "Quiahuitl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. The Sun deity representing the third of the five world ages each of which lasted for 2,028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fiftytwo terrestrial years. Assigned to the element fire and presided over by the Rain god TLALOC. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a great fiery Rain. The human population perished and in doing so were transformed into dogs, turkeys and butterflies. Illustrated by the Stone of the Four Suns [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also Quiauhtonatiuh; Tletonatiuh.... |
"Quinanes" | Central America | A race of giants whose traditions were prevalent at the time of the conquest of Central America. |
| God name "Sga'na Haida" | PNW / Pacific Northwest Coast of North America | God of the sea |
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