Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Supreme god name "Tsohanoai (day bearer)" | Navaho / USA | Sun god. Not regarded as a supreme god, Tsohanoai moves across the sky, invisible, behind the disc of the Sun, sa, which is his shield. His consort is the fertility goddess ESTSANATLEHI and he is the father of the war god NAYENEZGANI. He is also attributed with the creation of all the big game animals. He is thought to walk on a Rainbow and ride a blue steed. He is never depicted in art nor impersonated.... |
Goddess name "Tu" | China | A chthonic earth goddess & fertility spirit |
Goddess name "Tu (1)" | Chinese | Chthonic earth goddess. A fertility spirit also identified as she who was invoked to bring good harvests by phallic-shaped mounds of earth left in the fields.... |
God name "Tu Di Gong" | China | A local earth god worshipped in China. |
God name "Tule Zande" | Sudan | Spider god who brought the seeds of all the plants on earth Sudan |
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).... |
God name "Tvashtri" | Hindu | Twashtri. The Divine artist and carpenter of the gods, father of the gods and of the sacred creative fire. Hindu |
God name "Tvastar (carpenter)" | Hindu / Vedic | Creator god. The divine builder who fashions living creatures on earth. The Hindu equivalent of the Roman god VulcanUS. An ADITYA or Sun god and the father of SARANYU. Attributes: homajakalika (an uncertain fire device), ladle and two lotuses. Also Tastar; Tvashtri; VISVAKARMAN.... |
Monster name "Typhon" | Greek | Typhon a monster of the primitive world, is described sometimes as a destructive hurricane, and sometimes as a fire-breathing giant. According to Homer he was concealed in the country of the Arimi in the earth, which was lashed by Zeus with flashes of lightning. Greek |
Deities name "Tzacol or Tzakol" | Maya | A sky god and one of the creator deities who participated in the last two attempts at creating humanity. Maya |
Deities name "Tzultacah (mountain valley)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Chthonic and thunder gods. A group of deities who combine the features of earth and Rain gods. Although there are considered to be an indefinite number of Tzultacahs, only thirteen are invoked in prayers. They live in, and may personify, springs and rivers, but each is the owner of a specific mountain. They are attended by snakes which are dispatched to punish mankind for wrongdoing. Non-poisonous varieties are sent to discipline against minor offenses, rattlesnakes for more serious depravity.... |
God name "Ubertas" | Roman | Minor god of Agriculture. Known particularly from the reign of Tiberias in the second century BC and åśśociated with prosperity.... |
"Uchtsiti" | Acoma | Your father, Uchtsiti made you, and it is he who has made the world, the Sun which you have seen, the sky, and many other things which you will see. But Uchtsiti says the world is not yet completed, not yet satisfactory, as he wants it. This is the reason he has made you. Uchtsiti first made the world. He threw a clot of his own blood into space and by his power it grew and grew until it became the earth. Then Uchtsiti planted you in this and by it you were nourished as you developed. Acoma |
King name "Ueuecoyotl" | Aztec | old coyote, a renowned trickster fond of promiscuity, wild parties and jolly bonking. Aztec |
God name "Ukko" | Pre - Christian Finnish | Thunder god. Drives a cart which generates flashes of lightning as the horses' hoofs hit stones along the way; the noise of thunder comes from the wheels or from Ukko grinding corn with a big stone. Attributes: ax, blue robe, hammer and sword.... |
Spirit name "Ukur" | Babylon | underworld spirit of earth and water. Babylon |
Spirit name "Ulutuyer Ulu Toyon" | Siberia | Ulu-Toyon. The chief of the 'dark' spirits is Ulutuyer-Ulu-Toyon, 'Onmipotent Lord'. He is always described as living in the western sky, and, in contrast to the inactive Art-Toyon-Aga, he is the personification of action and of the påśśions. Ulu-Toyon is not always harmful to men, for he gives to them one of his souls, sur, and defends them from the attacks of abåśśylar. The Yakut, Siberia |
God name "Umvelinkwangi" | Zulu / South Africa | Creator god. He engendered all plants and animals on earth and is the father of the god UNKULUNKULU, who was born from a reed and engendered mankind.... |