| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Ta'aroa" | Tahitian | The god who broke out of the darkness within the cosmic egg. Tahitian |
| God name "Ta'xet" | Haida | God of the sky, who receives the souls of those who die by violence. With Tia, he makes up the Dual death God. Haida |
| God name "Ta'xet" | Haida Indian / Queen Charlotte Island, Canada | God of death. The deity responsible for those who die violently.See also TIA.... |
| God name "Taautos" | Phoenicia | God who later devolved into the Egyptian Thoth. Phoenicia |
| Angel name "Tagriel" | Christians | angels of the Mansions of the moon. There are twenty-eight angels, who rule in the twenty-eight mansions of the moon |
| God name "Tahuti" | Egyptian | God of knowledge and education. Egyptian |
"Tai Yi Jiu Ku Tian Cun" | Taoist | Tai Yi Jiu Ku Tian Cun, one of the highest rulers in the 10-stage Taoist Hell. Upon death, all human souls must appear before him to be sentenced. Taoist |
| Deities name "Tangaroa" | Polynesian / including Maori | Sea and creator god. The deity responsible for the oceans (moana) and the fish (ika) within them. In Hawaiian belief he was the primordial being who took the form of a bird and laid an egg on the surface of the primeval waters which, when it broke, formed the earth and sky. He then engendered the god of light, ATEA (cf. TANE). According to Tahitian legend, he fashioned the world inside a gigantic mussel shell. In a separate tradition Tangaroa went fishing and hauled the Tongan group of islands from the depths of the ocean on a hook and line. He is the progenitor of mankind (as distinct from TUMATAUENGA who has authority over mankind). His son Pili married SINA, the tropic bird and they produced five children from whom the rest of the Polynesian race was born. In Maori culture Tangaroa, like all deities, is represented only by inconspicuous, slightly worked stones or pieces of wood and not by the large totems which are depictions of ancestors.... |
"Tantalus" | Greek | Son of Zeus by Pluto, or according to others a son of Tmolus. His wife is called by some Euryanåśśa, by others Taygete or Dione, and by others Clytia or Eupryto. He was the father of Pelops, Broteas, and Niobe. Greek |
| God name "Tapio" | Pre - Christian Finnish | Hunting god. Believed to inhabit Forests and invoked before a hunt.... |
| 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.... |
| 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 "Taurt" | Egypt | Rert or Rertu, hippopotamus goddess mentioned in the Judgment scene from The Egyptian Book of the Dead called the Eater of the Dead - the Devourer of the Unjustified. Egypt |
| God name "Teisbas" | Urartian / Armenia | Tutelary god. Known from inscriptions.... |
| Goddess name "Telesto" | Greek | Goddess of initiations Greek |
"Telete" | Greek | The daughter of Nicaea and Dionysus and regarded as the personification of Initiation into a mystery cult. Greek |
| God name "Teljavelik" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | Creator god. He engendered the Sun god SAULE and is described as the heavenly smith.... |
| Goddess name "Tellus" | Roman | Chthonic primordial earth mother. A corn deity, generally regarded as benevolent, but also a goddess of the dead. Enemy armies were offered to her and cursed in her name. Both she and the corn goddess CERES were propitiated with human sacrifice. Also TERRA MATER.... |
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