| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Chang Fei" | Chinese | God of war. The counterpart of the god KUAN TI and often linked iconographically with him and the god LIU PEI, Chang Fei rules over the dark half of the yearautumn and Winter. Like the seasons he represents he is characterized by drunkenness and wildness. According to tradition he was wounded by his subordinates while in a drunken stupor. He is depicted with a black face, a bushy beard and wild staring eyes giving him a ferocious appearance.... |
| God name "Chang Hs'iien" | Chinese | Guardian god of children. According to tradition he was the mortal king of Szechuan killed by the founder of the Sung dynasty. His wife was captured and forced to become a concubine in the imperial palace. She was discovered by the emperor kneeling before a picture of her deceased husband which she identified as a local deity, the immortal Chang who gives children. This triggered the cult which began locally in Szechuan circa AD 100. Chang Hs'ien is depicted holding a bow made of mulberry wood and either aiming an arrow at the star Tien Kou, the socalled celestial dog which threatens the earth, or aiming the empty bow at a rat (see ERH LANG).... |
| God name "Cheng Yuan ho" | China | God of strolling singers China |
| God name "Chio Yuan Tzu" | China | God of the brain. China |
| Goddess name "Chuang Mu" | China | Goddess of the bedroom China |
| Supreme god name "Dievas aka Dievs" | Latvia | The supreme god in the pre-Christian religion of Lithuanians, where Dievas was understood to be the supreme being of the world. Latvia |
| Deity name "Diviriks" | Lithuania | deity of the Rainbow. Lithuania |
| King name "Draught of Thor" | Norse | The ebb of the sea. When Asa Thor visited Jotunheim he was set to drain a bowl of liquor. He took three draughts, but only succeeded in slightly reducing the quantity. On leaving Jotunheim, the king, Giant Skrymir, told him he need not be ashamed of himself, and showed him the sea at low ebb, saying that he had drunk all the rest in his three draughts. We are told it was a quarter of a mile of sea-water that he drank. Norse |
| Goddess name "Druantia" | Celtic | A goddess |
| Goddess name "Duan Luteh" | Ireland | Goddess of the moon Ireland |
| Goddess name "Dugnai" | Lithuania | Goddess of baking and kneading and liquor Lithuania |
| Goddess name "Gabija" | Lithuania | The foster of the Holy Fire, a goddess, a daughter of the God. Lithuania |
| Goddess name "Gabija" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | Fire goddess. She was invoked by tossing salt on to a sacred flame.... |
| Goddess name "Gabjauja" | Lithuania | Goddess of grain and a household feminine spirit of stack-yards and grain who made beer and bread for Gabjauja's feast. Lithuania |
| Goddess name "Gabjauja" | Pre - Christian Lithuanian | corn goddess. She was degraded to an evil demonic presence after Christianization.... |
| Spirit name "Gaila" | Lithuanian | A spirit of night, which obsessed people and animals in dreams. Lithuanian |
| God name "Gainji" | New Guinea | Creator god of the Papuan Keraki people. New Guinea. |
| God name "Ganaskidi (humpback)" | Navaho / USA | God of harvests, plenty and of mists. He is said to live at Depehahatil, a canyon with many ruined cliff dwellings north of San Juan. According to tradition he is the apotheosis of a bighorn sheep. His priest wears a blue mask with no hair fringe but with a spruce crown and collar. He has a black bag on his back, filled out with a twig frame, that appears as a deformity, and he carries a staff.... |
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