| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| 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.... |
"Charis" | Greek | The personification of Grace and beauty, which the Roman poets translate by Gratia and we after them by Grace. Homer, without giving her any other name, describes a Charis as the wife of Hephaestus. Greek |
| Goddess name "Charis" | Greek | Minor goddess. The consort of HEPHAIS TOS. Later the name becomes more familiar as the GRATIAE or Graces (Aglaia, Euphrosine and Thalea) who then become the Charites in the Roman pantheon.... |
| King name "Charopus" | Greek | Or Charops, bright-eyed or joyful-looking, a surname of Heracles, under which he had a statue near mount Laphystion on the spot where he was believed to have brought forth Cerberus from the lower world. Greek |
| King name "Charybdis and Scylla" | Greek | The names of two rocks between Italy and Sicily, and only a short distance from one another. In the midst of the one of these rocks which was nearest to Italy, there dwelt, according to Homer, Scylla, a daughter of Crataeis, a fearful monster, barking like a dog, with twelve feet, six long necks and mouths, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Greek |
"Chinta-mani aka Divya-ratna" | Hindu | The wish-gem a jewel, said to have belonged to Brahma, which has the power to grant all desires. It is who himself is called by this name. |
"Chloris" | Greek | A daughter of the Theban Amphion and Niobe. According to an Argive tradition, her original name was Meliboea, and she and her brother Amyclas were the only children of Niobe that were not killed by Apollo and Artemis. But the terror of Chloris at the death of her brothers and sisters was so great, that she turned perfectly white, and was therefore called Chloris. Greek |
| God name "Chrysaor" | Greek | 1. A son of Poseidon and Medusa, and consequently a brother of Pegasus. When Perseus cut off the head of Medusa, Chrysaor and Pegasus sprang forth from it. Chrysaor became by Callirrhoe the father of the three-headed Geryones and Echidna. ( Theogony of Hesiod 280) 2. The god with the golden sword or arms. In this sense it is used as a surname or attribute of several divinities, such as Apollo, Artemis and Demeter. We find Chrysaoreus as a surname of Zeus with the same meaning, under which he had a temple in Caria, which was a national sanctuary, and the place of meeting for the national åśśembly of the Carians. Greek |
"Chrysothemis" | Greek | There are four mythical females of this name, and one male, a son of Carmanor, the priest of Apollo at Tarrha in Crete. He is said to have been a poet, and to have won the first victory in the Pythian games by a hymn on Apollo. Greek |
| Goddess name "Chthonia" | Greek | May mean the subterraneous, or the goddess of the earth, that is, the protectress of the fields, whence it is used as a surname of infernal divinities, such as Hecate, Nyx and Melinoe, but especially of Demeter. Greek |
| God name "Chul Tatic Chites Vaaneg (holy father, creator of man)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Creator god. Thought to be the Mayan name of the Christian god.... |
| God name "Chul Tatic Chites Vaneg" | Maya | A creator god thought by some to be the name of the Christian God |
| Nymph name "Cirrha" | Greek | A nymph from whom the town of Cirrha in Phocis was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
| King name "Cithaeron" | Greek | A mythical king in Boeotia, from whom mount Cithaeron was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
"Clanis" | Greek | The name of two mythical beings mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses. (xii) Greek |
"Clarius" | Greek | A surname of Apollo, derived from his temple at Claros in Asia Minor. Greek |
| Goddess name "Cleone" | Greek | Goddess of water. One of the daughters of Asopus, from whom the town of Cleonae in Peloponnesus was believed to have derived its name. Greek |
"Cleopatra" | Greek | 1. A daughter of Idas and Marpessa, and wife of Meleager, is said to have hanged herself after her husband's death, or to have died of grief. Her real name was Alcyone. 2. A Danaid, who was betrothed to Etelces or Agenor. There are two other mythical personages of this name in Apollodorus iii. Greek |
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