| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Tia" | Haida | God of death by violence. Haida Nation territories |
| God name "Tia/ Ta'xet" | Haida / BC Canada | the god of death, by violence |
| God name "Titlacahuan (we his slaves)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Ominoptent god. A universal and generally malevolent power. One of the group clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex.... |
| Deities name "Tornarssuk (big tornak or shaman)" | Inuit | Supreme being. The master of the tornat, the group of controlling deities. He is essentially benevolent and can be communicated with through the individual tornak of a shaman. His home is in the underworld in the land of souls. He is described as being of vague appearance, possibly in the guise of a huge bear, though in Greenland Inuit tradition he lives in the sea, appearing as a large fat seal with long tentacles (i.e. possibly a cuttlefish). He devours the souls of those he can capture. With the introduction of Christianity he was syncretized with the devil.... |
| God name "Tra (death by violence)" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | God of death. Those who are about to die a violent death are said to hear him groaning about the camp and see him as a headless corpse with blood flowing endlessly from his severed neck. He flies through the air.See also TA'XET.... |
| God name "Tumatauenga" | Polynesian / including Maori | God of war. One of the children of the prime parents RANGINUI and PAPATUANUKU, he proposed the slaughter of his parents when it was decided to separate them as sky and earth. He was subsequently given charge over mankind (tangata), which he imbued with his lust for the warfare and violence that was a characteristic part of Maori culture. Also Kumatauenga (Hawaiian).... |
| Supreme god name "Uanari" | Venezuela | Supreme god and creator who is constantly vying with the malevolent Kahu. Venezuela |
| Goddess name "Ugracandika (violent Canda)" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Distinct form of the goddess DURGA. One of a group of NAVADURGAS, the nine durgas.... |
| Goddess name "Ugratara (violent Tara)" | Hindu / Puranic | Goddess. A terrible deity who carries a cup and a corpse upon her head.... |
| King name "Urgan" | s | A mortal born and christened, but stolen by the king of the fairies and brought up in elf-land. He was sent to Lord Richard, the husband of Alice Brand, to lay on him the "curse of the sleepless eye" for killing his wife's brother Ethert. When Lord Richard saw the hideous dwarf he crossed himself, but the elf said, "I fear not sign made with a bloody hand." Then forward stepped Alice and made the sign, and the dwarf said if any woman would sign his brow thrice with a cross he should recover his mortal form. Alice signed him thrice, and the elf became "the fairest knight in all Scotland, in whom she recognised her brother Ethert." Scotland |
| King name "Utixo" | Khoi | A benevolent deity who lived in the sky, sending Rain for the crops, and speaking with thunder. Khoi |
| Goddess name "Uttarasadha" | Hindu / Epic / Puranic | Minor goddess of fortune. A benevolent NAKSATRA; daughter of DAKSA and wife of CANDRA (SOMA).... |
"Vairgit" | Chukchee | Benevolent supernatural beings. Chukchee |
| God name "Vata" | Hindu / Persian | God of the wind and a deity with a violent personality. Hindu / Persian |
| God name "Vata" | Hindu / Vedic / / Persian / Iran | God of wind. The name appears in the Rg Veda as a deity of violent personality. According to Asvestan tradition the god of victory, VERETHRAGNA, appeared to Zarathustra in the guise of Vata.... |
"Vatapattrasayin (reclining on a fig leaf)" | Hindu / Puranic | Aspect of VISNU. The image is found in clåśśical bronze sculptures and represents either Vis'nu in a violent form, or KRSNA, reposed on a fig leaf that floats upon the primeval ocean of a new cosmos after the previous world order has been destroyed.... |
| God name "Virbius" | Roman | Minor chthonic god. A malevolent underworld deity who was frequently invoked during the worship of Diana in the Arician woodlands surrounding her sanctuary at Nemi. Virbius was reputed to prowl these woods and to be an emanation of Hippolytus, a mortal who had been trampled to death by his horses and made immortal by Aesculapius. For this reason the Arician woods were barred to horses.... |
"Vis" | Greek | The Roman personification of strength, force, vigor, power, energy. Similar to the Greek Bia in regards to hostile strength, force and violence personified. |
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