| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| Goddess name "Tamti" | Assyrian | Tamtu. The personified sea,the primordial humidity, personified as a goddess equivalent to Belit, the nature Mother. Assyrian |
| God name "Tar" | Tiv / Nigeria, West Africa | Chthonic earth god. Engendered by the creator god AONDO, Tar is depicted as a prostrate figure with his head toward the east, comparable with the Egyptian god GEB.... |
| God name "Tar Tiv" | Nigeria | The chthonic earth god |
| Goddess name "Tara (power of hunger)" | Hindu / Vedic, Epic / Puranic | (1) Goddess. May originally have had astral connotations, since the word can be interpreted as star. One of a group of MAHAVIDYAS personifying the SAKTI of SI IVA. She may also be the consort of CANDRA (SOMA). Aspects include Krodharatri. Attributes: knife, skin, skull, snakes and sword. Three-eyed.(2) Goddess. Buddhist (Mahayana and Vajrayana). An epithet of the mother of the BUDDHA, Maya. Also one of a series of female deities, the DHYANIBUDDHASAKTI considered to be aspects of the Sakti of AVALOKITESVARA or of AMOGASHIDDHI. She may also be the Sakti of ADIBIDDHA and of the various DHYANIBUDDHAS, in which case she is characterized by their colors. These Taras thus become White Tara and so on.See also BHRKUTI, EKAJATA, KURUKULLA, SITATARA and SYAMATARA. In Tibetan Buddhism she is known as sGrol-ma.... |
| Goddess name "Tari Peennu" | Indian / Khond | Chthonic goddess. Created by the sky gods BOORA PENNU and BELLA PENNU so as to conceive the rest of the pantheon. She is identified as a malevolent deity, the subject of regular propitiation human sacrifices in the notorious meriah rituals in Orissa province.... |
| Goddess name "Tari Pennu Khond" | India | A chthonic goddess |
| Goddess name "Tasmetu(m)" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Goddess. The consort of the god NABU.... |
| God name "Tatenen" | Egypt | Chthonic vegetation god, the apotheosis of the Nile silt Egypt |
| God name "Tatenen (exalted earth)" | Egypt | Chthonic god. Originates as a vegetation god from Memphis, the apotheosis of the Nile silt which appears after the inundation has subsided. As a vegetation god, he is depicted anthropomorphically with green face and limbs and wearing a crown with plumes subtended by ram's horns. By the time of the Old kingdom (twenty-seventh to twenty-second centuries BC) he is recognized as an emanation of the god PTAH, involved in the creation process and mentioned on the Shabaka Stone (Memphis), where he is described as father of the gods and is perceived as an androgynous being. He also protects the royal dead.... |
| Goddess name "Tathatavasita (control of the such-ness)" | Buddhist | Minor goddess. One of a group of VASITAS personifying the disciplines of spiritual regeneration. Color: white. Attribute: white lotus.... |
| Spirit name "Tatqa'hicnin (root man)" | Koryak / southeastern Siberia | vegetation spirit. A vaguely defined being who is chthonic and lives under the ground, presumably controlling edible roots and their availability.... |
| God name "Tayau (father sun)" | Huichol Indian / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Sun god. According to tradition, he was created by the ancient shamans, who threw the youthful son of the corn mother TATE OTEGANAKA into an oven in full ceremonial attire. He traveled underground and emerged in the east as the Sun. In late May, the Huichol sacrifice a sheep and a turkey in a ritual fire, after which they sing all night until Sunrise. Also Tau; Taverik.... |
"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 |
"Te" | Po | Polynesian personification of the primordial night being which existed in the chaos prior to light |
"Te Kore" | Polynesia | Primordial void being who was the personification of darkness of chaos prior to light Polynesia |
"Te Kore (the void)" | Polynesian / including Maori | Primordial being. The personification of the darkness of chaos before light came into being. Usually coupled with TE PO, the unknown night.... |
"Te Po" | Polynesian / including Maori | Primordial being. The personification of the night which existed in chaos before the creation of light. Usually coupled with TE KORE, the void.... |
| Goddess name "Tefnut" | Egypt | Primordial goddess of moisture. According to the genealogy laid down by the priests of Heliopolis, Tefnut was created out of the breath or spit of the creator Sun god ATUM. She is the sister of SU, god of the air, and the mother of GEB and NUT. Her main cult sanctuary was at Heliopolis. Tefnut, like Su, can become one of several manifestations of the eye of RE in which case she appears as a lion, or in human form but with a leonine head. According to the Pyramid Texts, she creates pure water from her vag***. In a different context she takes the form of a snake encircling a scepter.... |
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